Devin Black has over 10 years of experience as a Linux/Unix Systems Administrator and Sr. Linux Administrator. He has extensive experience installing, configuring, and managing Linux/Unix servers, applications, and systems. He has worked with technologies such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Puppet, Ansible, Chef, MySQL, Apache, Jenkins, Splunk, and more. Currently he is a Sr. Linux Administrator at the United States Department of Agriculture where he performs tasks like systems tuning, log monitoring, implementing requirements, and server hardening.

1. Devin Black DevinJBlack@iCLOUD.COM
7533 Courtney pl. BLACKD1027@STUDENTS.BOWIESTATE.EDU
Landover, MD 20785 202-826-5026
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EDUCATION & TRAINING
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Charles Herbert Flowers High School / 2004-2008 / Graduate / Diploma
Bowie State University / Undergraduate / Business Management
Cameroon University / Tech Solutions: Intense Linux/Unix Administration training courses
Linux Foundation / Linux Tech Training/Unix System Administration Training
During my time as a Linux/Unix Systems Administrator I have conducted and executed task including but not
limited to configuring and building Red Hat Enterprise Linux machines, Deploying and/or Monitoring
applications on Linux /Unix servers. Creating and managing user accounts and file systems. Setting kernel
parameters. Likewise, I have dealt with Hardware/Software Break-Fix, Net Back-Up, Cluster Servers, Patch
Management, Performance Management, and have developed excellent technical and interpersonal skills.
Furthermore, I have deployed, configured, and managed various software and applications including but not
limited to:
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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UNITED STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Sr. Linux Administrator
08/2013 – Present
Job Description:
• Assist with management of Linux server infrastructures (RHEL5, RHEL6 & CentOS6)
• Kernel and network based systems tuning
• Log monitoring processes
• Interface with project champions to gather requirements and be responsible for implementation and post
implementation project support
• Configure systems according to standard systems build practices
• Server Hardening
 Red Hat Enterprise Linux
 Solaris
 VMware ESXI
 OSSEC
 NAGIOS
 Apache
 MySQL
 Splunk
 Jenkins
 KVM (Kernel based virtual machines
 LAMP stack
 Puppet
 Ansible
 Chef
 Drupal
 Vertas
 Varnish
 Nanu
 Remedy
 BNC
 Bash
 Perl
 JavaScript
 Visual Basic
 C/C++
 Ruby
 Ruby on rails

2. • Kernel and network based systems tuning
• Installed and configured Splunk in a test environment
• Manage and administer Puppet
• Create basic Puppet manifest
• Create puppet modules
• Configure Splunk receivers and forwarder
• Patching servers
• Interface with project champions to gather requirements and be responsible for implementation and post
implementation project support
• Monitor, evaluate and solve hardware and/or software-related performance issues
• Performed system and custom Linux kernel installations
• Upgraded hardware, firmware, and system requirements
• Installation of patches and packages.
• Installation and configuration of Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File System.
• Installation and configuration of Veritas Net backup
• Oversee backups, system recovery and maintenance
• Performed system patching, data storage, and server resources management
• Oversee improvements on system reliability, system monitoring, and overall system security
• Performed analysis on system log and operating systems calls in user/kernel space to profile applications
• Improved Linux user/group account management and perform audits of system and installed software
• Assisted with troubleshooting applications written in a variety of languages
• Document Computer/Network, Security Controls and System Architecture
• Performed thorough troubleshooting in a timely fashion and provide top quality user support
• Assisted customers directly as needs arise
• Processed tickets assigned to me and the System Administration team
• Developed tools to assist with job functions
• Test and research software to fill the needs of the company
• Performed other related duties as needed, and as directed by supervisor
• Continually learn to improve the network and systems
BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING, WASHINGTON, DC
Linux Admin/ Engineer
6/2011-8/2013
Job Description:
• Integrated IIS with WebLogic using SSL secure connection.
• Experience with Linux, SUSE
• Experience with Satellite, Puppet and Ansible
• Experience supporting Oracle, JBoss, Tomcat, and the IBM WebSphere.
• Deploy nodes and create profiles in WebSphere environment
• Complete install and configuration of LAMP
• Install and configure MySQL Database
• Install and Configure Puppet/Ansible , Chef.
• Administer Splunk and Hadoop.

3. • Performed kickstart network installation of servers for Linux, Unix, Windows OS.
• Installed and configured packages, patches on Red hat Linux environments.
• Document team standard of operations
• Plan and execute server maintenance
• Troubleshooting application error logs
• Install and configure Net tracker
• Create scripts for Database dumps
• Fixing Vulnerability findings
• Log monitoring (Wintel and Linux servers)
• User account access control
• Installed and configured OSSEC Monitoring software
• Monitor and Investigate Suspicious activity in the Activity Log
• Ticket trafficking through Service Manger (SM)
• Use PCM in scheduled monthly scan on production servers for Security Compliance
• Install and provisioned Linux Redhat Virtual servers
• User account management (Add new IDs, reset passwords)
• Privileged account management (root/Administrator passwords)
• Maintain memberships in critical SU groups
• Responsible for Installation and maintenance of Solaris and Redhat
• Administered accounts for 2,500 individual and corporate users.
• Troubleshoot user logins using telnet and SSH
• Worked in a fast-paced 24x7 production environment.
• Experienced with Remedy for ticket trafficking
• Created mount points for Server directories, and mounted directories on the Servers.
• Create and managed user accounts and permissions
• Configure Drupal on Linux based Servers
• Configure Apache, Varnish and MySQL
• Edit scripts for job scheduling
• Creation of VMs, cloning and migrations of the VMs on VMware vSphere 4.5
• Execute File backups with Rsync
• Set up SUDO access for DBA and application account access
• Update Drupal on production servers
• Coordinate and execute system environment failover
• Perform regular file archival and purge as necessary
• Networking experience DNS, SMTP, SNMP, SSH, SSL, FTP, SCP
AHT INSURANCE, WASHINGTON, DC
LINUX ADMIN / APPLICATION SUPPORT
3/2010 – 6/2011
Job Description:
• Built and configured VM LINUX servers and Hyper V manager
• VMWARE virtualization maintained
• Installed and configured of hardware and OS (Solaris 10 and RHEL 5 and 6) on servers.
• Provision VM servers for customers

4. • Set up AMAZON WEB SERVICES instances
• Managed AWS instance EC2 and storage EBS
• Deployment of applications on Linux / UNIX environments
• Took weekly calls, checked server uptime, troubleshoot errors and escalated where necessary.
• Installed and Configured Nagios for monitoring
• Post build configurations, checks, updating, security checks, file systems, permissions and packages.
• Daily administration of RHEL which includes installation, testing, tuning, upgrading and loading
patches, troubleshooting server issues.
• Managed and monitored processes
• Coordinate patching of servers and monthly maintenance
• Monitored client disk quota
• configured and installed MySQL databases on Linux servers
• Install and configure JBoss domain controller/environment
• Administer Drupal and Drush
• Experienced with Git hub
• Deployment of War and Ear files
• Experience with SANs, VMware, and networking equipment
• Troubleshoot network failures
• Troubleshoot application Errors from logs
• Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.
• Deploy several nodes into JBoss
• Deploy multiple application into JBoss
• Experienced with AWS and installation of Linux machines on AWS
• Deployment & Configuration Automation Experienced Blade Logic, and Puppet
• Provide on-call second tier support based on a rotating on-call schedule
• Create and manage user accounts in Linux machines
• Create and manage file systems and files permissions
• Server performance monitoring & tuning
• Server provisioning, procure and manage server growth
• Install and configure MySQL servers
• Install and configure tomcat and Nginx
• Install and configure Global file system
• Budget for software and hardware
• Automate backup by Rsync
• Configure MySQL replication between Master and Slave
• Configure Solr replication between Master and slave
• Write and edit multiple scripts
• Review new server technologies for Linux environment
• Work closely with multiple hardware / software vendors
• Experience with strace/gdb/systemTap debugging, custom kernels, firewalls and load balancers, IDS