Lawrence Okpoho

Over 15 years of experience in IT Infrastructure and extensive experience in System and Cloud Administration, Server builds, Installations, Upgrades. Migration, Troubleshooting, System Security, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Maintaining user account, Maintenance of Samba, Apache Tomact, Performance Monitoring and Fine tunning on Red Hat Linux, Suse, Centos and Ubutun platforms

December 2015–Present

Linux Administrator

TotalEnergies,

• Work as Team Lead in IT Data center infrastructure environment providing server administration, application administration and automation solutions to support business objectives
• Installation. Configuration and Upgrade of RedHat running on HP and IBM servers.
• Managing system processes and scheduling processes with the cron utility
• Perforn software troubleshooting and resolve NFS,DNS and TCP/IP network issues. Setup and deploy NetBackup policies troubleshoot network connectivity ossue

December 2005–November 2015

Senior IT Engineer

CGG Nigeria Limited

• Experienced in managing,supporting, troubleshooting,securing RedHat Linux servers for large enterprise network users
• Installation, configuration and administration on Redhat cluster server, Provided user management and support, user permissions and SELINUX
• Installation, configuration Tivoli Storage Manage and Veritas NetBackup 6.5 on Redhat servers, creating policies, scheduling jobs
• Implement advance disk configuration such RAID 5 using linuix software RAID program install new servers using kickstart installation and configuration method

June 1998–November 2005

Linux Support Engineer

21st Century Technology Limited

• Worked with hardware alerting/monitoring system and troubleshoot the faulty hardware in NOC and remotely utilizing the remote hand service
• Build, installed, configure RedHat linux servers in a data center environment
• Administered local and remotely servers on daily basis providing weekly status reports to management supporting data management through on-site and off-site storage and retrieval services
• Performed troubleshooting with network tools likes ping,netstat,traceroute,mtr,nslookup
• Performed systems log management, data backup and restoration with UNIX ntive toos(tar/dd)

University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Bachelor of Mathematics/Computer Sc,