nishad k, system administrator

nishad k

system administrator

National Institute Of Technology

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Technology and Computer Science
Experience
5 years, 7 Months

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Total years of experience :5 years, 7 Months

system administrator at National Institute Of Technology
  • India - Kerala
  • August 2012 to January 2018

WINDOWS/LINUX/UNIX, Systems Administration
• CentOS / Redhat / Ubuntu OS
• Email hosting
• Website & Mail Server (POP3) Management
• Web Hosting/Server & website migration
• Active Directory/DNS/DHCP/ NFS/ FTP/SMTP/APACHE/OPENLDAP/
• Securing and configuring Web servers and Databases
• Bash (UNIX Shell) Coder
• Server Migration & Upgrading Apache/PHP/MySQL/


• Managing various applications including, Windows/Linux Server Environment of 10+ Servers located across multiple locations in the Institute.
• Managing Active directory(Linux/Windows)/ DHCP/ DNS/ Group Policies/ NTFS/FORTINET firewall/ SAN storage
• Technical support for Decision Support Systems (MIS) of the institute.
• Managing centralized authentication using Open LDAP protocol.
• Installation, Configuration & troubleshooting of VMware Vsphere suite 5.5
• Responsible for the regular backup and restoration of all critical assets.
• Managing DC/ File Servers/ Print Server/ Wireless access point/

Achievements at work so far:
• Setup and configure an Ubuntu 14.04 LDAP Server for Linux clients and thus solving a discrepancy in client authentication.
• Setup and configure an Ubuntu 16.04 DHCP server/ Web server(APACHE2, TOMCAT) & Print Server
• Configure Storage Area Network(SAN) /DNS (Caching and forwarding, bind9) /FTP /NFS, SERVERS on Ubuntu 16.04
• Successfully migrated from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 R2 Domain without losing user credentials and pr User management/ Group management/ and Quota management system.

system administrator (Windows/Linux) at National Institute of Technology Calicut
  • India - Chennai
  • July 2012 to February 2016

I have started my career at National Institute of Technology - Calicut since July 2012 as System Administrator. I was part of a team handling System administration (Servers, Desktop/windows Linux) duties of the Institute’s dept. offices, Central Computer Centre & Labs.

Primary work responsibilities:

• Managing various applications including, Windows/Linux Server Environment of 10+ Servers located across multiple locations in the Institute
• Managing Active directory(Linux/Windows)/ DHCP/ DNS/ Group Policies/ NTFS/FORTINET firewall, VPN connectivity/ SAN storage
• Monitor the server windows and antivirus update
• Securing and configuring Web servers and Databases
• Technical support for Decision Support Systems (MIS) of the institute.
• Managing centralized authentication using Open LDAP protocol.
• Installation, Configuration & troubleshooting of VMware Vsphere suite 5.5
• Responsible for the regular backup and restoration of all critical assets.
• Managing DC/ File Servers/ Print Server/ Wireless access point
• Maintaining scheduled process through CRON, Maintaining LVM

Achievements at work so far:
• Installation, configuration, Migration & administration of Windows and Linux Servers,
Maintain & Manage various services running in Linux system which include apache web server, proxy server, mail server, network file server, Linux routing, firewall etc.
• Setup and configure an Ubuntu 14.04 LDAP Server for Linux clients and thus solving a discrepancy in client authentication.
• Setup and configure an Ubuntu 16.04 DHCP server/ Web server(APACHE2, TOMCAT) & Print Server
• Configure Storage Area Network(SAN) /DNS (Caching and forwarding, bind9) /FTP /NFS, SERVERS on Ubuntu 16.04
• Successfully migrated from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 R2 Domain without losing user credentials and pr User management/ Group management/ and Quota management system.
• Successfully installed and configure BIND DNS. Domain pointing, forward and reverse
Zone files, recursive, non-recursive and caching name-server

Education

Bachelor's degree, Technology and Computer Science
  • at University of Calicut
  • June 2011
Diploma, Diploma in computer engineering
  • at JDT islam poly technic
  • November 2007

Specialties & Skills

System Migration
Email Hosting
Windows Server Administration
Linux server administration
WINDOWS/LINUX/UNIX, Systems Administration
SAN / NAS storage configuration SWITCHING/ROUTING/FIREWALL configuration
Experience with LAMP/OPENLDAP
WINDOWS/LINUX(HADOOP) Clustering

Languages

English
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