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Resume

Gabriel Elijah Hamontree

E-mail: gabe.hamontree@live.com Phone: (+1) 435-553-5736

Summary

I have been working in the IT field for many years now starting from the most humble beginnings as a Comcast business technical support representative to Linux administrator for one of the largest defense contractors in the USA. How did I get here? Lots of missing out and taking the harder and often times not so fun route in my early twenties. Spending long nights on homework or doing off hours development and research for the benefit of cause. I wouldn't change any of it for the world though.

Experience

Principal Linux Administrator, (Salt Lake City, Utah)

May, 2023 - Present

  • RHEL 7 migrations to RHEL 8 / Rocky 8.
  • Ansible development.
  • Python and Bash scripting.
  • Systems patching via Foreman.
  • Virtual machine management with vCenter.
  • LDAP / AD administration.
  • Linux server provisioning.
  • General networking with Cisco equipment.
  • General Linux related troubleshooting.

Junior Linux Administrator, Interface Security Systems (Salt Lake City, Utah)

May, 2020 - May, 2023

  • Maintained all hardware in our Salt Lake, Atlanta and Chicago data centers including replacing drives, provisioning new servers, making and running fiber/copper cable and decommissioning old hardware securely.
  • Check automated alerting systems and correct issues as needed.
  • Use Ansible to patch security vulnerabilities and do basic maintenance.
  • Helped with annual PCI evaluations including scanning and providing reports as needed.
  • Document all hardware and software processes on an internal wiki.
  • Managing Ovirt cluster including updating and supporting issues related to virtual machines.
  • Managing ELK stack issues including patching security vulnerabilities and adding removing nodes from the cluster
  • Configure log rotation and syslog for use with ELK cluster.
  • Provision servers with varying network configurations including bonding.
  • Basic Ansible and Python scripting as needed.

Dedicated Server Engineer, 100TB (Logan, Utah)

August, 2016 - September, 2017

  • Diagnosed server load issues and helped find users or scripts responsible.
  • Used IPERF and MTR to diagnose network latency or speed issues.
  • Provisioned new servers with Linux, *BSD, Windows OS and configured the network for clients.
  • Helped configure bonding and VLAN tagging on servers that required it.
  • Experience with Cisco phone hardware and software troubleshooting.

L1 Support Technician, WestHost (Logan, Utah)

March, 2015 - August, 2016

  • Read Apache logs to help diagnose website errors.
  • Use SSH to connect to client accounts and correct issues with cloud and shared server accounts.
  • Use SSH to restore and manage backups for clients.
  • Install and manage server software including cPanel, Site Manager, Chi, MySQL, PhpMyAdmin, PHP, Perl, Python, ETC
  • Trained new employees on using Linux commands to navigate and manager servers.

Education

AAS CSIS, Salt Lake Community College (Salt Lake City, Utah)

January, 2019 - January, 2021

  • 3.3 GPA
  • Linux Systems Administration Certificate
  • Software Development Certificate
  • Information Security Certificate

Skills

  • Linux Administration
  • Python
  • Ansible

Certifications

  • Security Pro, TestOut, September 2019 - September 2023

References

Available on request.