I am an experienced Linux Systems Administrator with a background in web/Email/DNS, Linux and virtualised hosting environments. I have been responsible for the management of customer systems and support and the 24/7/365 management of a Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD datacentre environment with around 500 Linux virtual machines, a number of Windows servers and all of the attendant UPS/power management/monitoring requirements.

I have a particularly good grasp of network topologies, services, protocols, implementation and have experience with routing, switching and firewalls.

I have excellent written and oral communication skills and am experienced in the writing and delivery of technical training, technical systems proposals and customer facing sales meetings.

Specialities

• Linux: Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, server and OS builds manual or automated
• Windows: Server, Exchange, 2000/XP/Vista/7
• Other: Mac OS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD
• Hosting: Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, BIND DNS, SSL certificates, domain registrations
• Email:  Exim, Postfix, Sendmail, spam/virus filtering (spamassassin, AV engines, RBLs and greylisting)
• Virtualisation: Xen, KVM, VMware ESX, Virtualbox
• Monitoring: SNMP, Nagios, Cacti, MRTG
• Remote Management: IPMI, SSH, RDP
• Firewalls: IP Tables, PF, Sonicwall, other

CV and salary expectations on request to adamsweet at gmail dot com.

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