Rakan M. Cloud Security Engineer

Experience

Senior Linux System Administrator, Paynovate

09/2020 - Present

Responsibilities:

• Managing Docker container and images.
• CI/CD using Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Jenkins for our Kubernetes cluster for Testing, Staging, and Production deployments.
• Performing daily system checks and monitoring using Zabbix and CloudWatch as well as verifying the integrity of our AWS and Datacenter servers.
• Database administration for our AWS EBS, MongoDB, and MySQL server.

Linux System Administrator, Darts-IP Caselaw

11/2017 - 09/2020
Responsibilities:

• Performing daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems, and key processes for GCP, AWS, Dedicated and in-house servers
• Writing automation scripts using Ansible, Python and Bash/Shell scripts
• CI/CD for all environments from development to production using GitLab Runners, Teamcity and Jenkins
• Administering different types of databases such as PostgreSQL

Senior Linux System Administrator, Blue Kangaroo

04/2015 - 09/2020
Responsibilities:

• Performing daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems, and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.
• Installing web servers such as Nginx and ensuring that all configurations are properly initialized.
• Administering different types of databases, SQL such as PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB.
• Monitoring and configuring different software such as Redis, ElasticSearch, Php-fpm.
• Using development automation tools like Ansible, Capistrano, and Jenkins

Certificates

Linux Foundation Certified SysAdmin (LFCS)
11/2017 - Present