Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
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Timeline
WINIFRED K. J.

WINIFRED K. J.

Croydon

Summary

Highly motivated and experienced Linux Engineer with a strong passion for DevOps principles and practices. Seeking a challenging position as a DevOps aspirant, where I can utilize my technical expertise in Linux systems and leverage my skills to bridge the gap between development and operations teams, ensuring efficient software delivery and continuous improvement.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Unix System Administrator - Contract

Bart's Health NHS Trust
08.2023 - 04.2024
  • Installed and configured enterprise security solutions (Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Trend Micro Antivirus) on Unix-based systems to ensure robust endpoint protection.
  • Managed system patching and vulnerability remediation processes to maintain compliance and security posture across environments.
  • Performed Linux operating system and kernel upgrades to enhance performance, stability, and security.
  • Provisioned new Linux servers and deployed complete application stacks, enabling scalable and efficient infrastructure setup.

System Operations Engineer - II

New Fold Digital (https://newfold.com)
03.2018 - 01.2023

System Operations Engineer - II


  • Managing and maintaining Linux systems in both on-premisesand cloud environments.
  • Ensures the services on the servers are up and working asexpected.
  • Monitoring the servers using Zabbix and Grafana.
  • Applies security patches to the servers and hardens theservice configurations.
  • Troubleshoot, identify and resolve complex issues in Linuxsystems and applications.
  • Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluatesolutions and make decisions.
  • Increased customer satisfaction by resolving issues.
  • Troubleshoot and fix web server or database resourceutilization issues.
  • Applied scripting methodologies to automate ITadministrative-related tasks.


Senior System Administrator


  • Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluatesolutions and make decisions.
  • Increased customer satisfaction by resolving issues.
  • Troubleshoot and fix web server or database resourceutilization issues.
  • Applied scripting methodologies to automate ITadministrative-related tasks.

Senior Linux Engineer

Blindwink Solutions Pvt Ltd (https://www.blindwink
06.2017 - 02.2018
  • Setup and maintenance of LAMP environment for applicationdeployment.
  • Troubleshooting server-wide security issues like hacking and spamming.
  • Performance tuning of Apache server, MySQL, Exim, PHP, FTP, etc andserver hardening.
  • Migrations, Automation of daily tasks.

Linux System Administrator

Syntrio Technologies Pvt Ltd (https://syntrio.in)
05.2014 - 12.2016
  • Setup and maintenance of LAMP environment for application deployment.
  • Troubleshooting server-wide security issues like hacking and spamming.
  • Performance tuning of Apache server, MySQL, Exim, PHP, FTP, etc and server hardening.
  • Migrations, Automation of daily tasks.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering/Technology - Electronics and Communication

University of Calicut
04-2013

Skills

  • AWS Services - EC2, ECS, RDS, IAM, VPC, EBS, S3, EFS, RDS, ELB, KMS, Cloudwatch, Route53
  • System Administration
  • Automation - Ansible / Configuration Management
  • Containerization - Docker
  • Scripting - Bash / Python
  • Infrastructure as a code - Terraform
  • Version Control - Git
  • Server Monitoring - Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios
  • Operating System - Linux, Unix, Redhat, Centos, Ubuntu, Debian
  • Image Builder - Packer
  • Orchestration - ECS & Docker Swarm

Certification

  • RHCE, 130-141-922
  • RHCSA, 130-141-922

Languages

English

Timeline

Unix System Administrator - Contract - Bart's Health NHS Trust
08.2023 - 04.2024
System Operations Engineer - II - New Fold Digital (https://newfold.com)
03.2018 - 01.2023
Senior Linux Engineer - Blindwink Solutions Pvt Ltd (https://www.blindwink
06.2017 - 02.2018
Linux System Administrator - Syntrio Technologies Pvt Ltd (https://syntrio.in)
05.2014 - 12.2016
University of Calicut - Bachelor of Engineering/Technology, Electronics and Communication
WINIFRED K. J.