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Mohamed Sammoon

Mohamed Sammoon

Summary

Results-driven professional with over 5 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, and cloud platforms, specializing in Linux system administration. Expertise in designing, deploying, and managing cloud-native applications on AWS, along with building robust CI/CD pipelines and DevOps workflows. Proven ability to maintain production, staging, and development environments with 24/7 uptime, consistently meeting SLA/SLO requirements. Strong foundation in Unix/Linux systems, network services, and security, complemented by a commitment to delivering scalable and secure cloud infrastructure solutions.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

IT Engineer

Sunshine Sales & Marketing Pte Ltd
06.2013 - Current
  • Managed Linux Infrastructure servers running network services and business critical.
  • Applications including Apache, DNS(Bind), DHCP, FTP, NFS, Samba, Nagios and MySQL.
  • Migrated physical machines to Virtual Machines running business critical applications.
  • Storage provisioning and extending existing volumes using AWS EBS
  • Taking the corrective actions based on the cloud watch Alarms.
  • Wrote scripts to automate scheduled system patching, Saved 4 hours/week.
  • Provided end-to-end infrastructure support for application and project implementation.
  • Built documentation, standardization, and process.

Linux/IT Consultant

India and Seychelles
09.2009 - 05.2013
  • Set up a local Centos Linux network for a small medical business with multiple printers and computers, including remote access for employees and patients.
  • Designed and set up a Centos Linux network for a small insurance sales business.
  • Completed job 10% under budget and before deadline.
  • Managed WHM, cPanel, MySQL administration, and WordPress configuration and optimization.
  • Performed capacity and resource planning to evaluate existing network systems to recommend resources and maintain or expand as necessary.
  • Together with a team of three provided consulting services to a real estate firm which led to a 13% increase in leasing.

System Administrator

Descon Engineering ltd
11.2008 - 07.2009
  • Installing, Configuring & Administering Red hat Linux and MS-Windows servers.
  • Maintained 350+ Windows computers, including configuring and monitoring.
  • Worked with vendors to cut equipment costs 20%.
  • Identified new parts-ordering solution which led to a user wait time reduction of 17% and an increase in user satisfaction by 39%.
  • Improved network performance 20% through monitoring and software prioritization.

Education

Bachelor of Commerce

Bharathidasan University
Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu -INDIA
06-2007

Skills

  • Operating Systems: Linux (Red Hat, Ubuntu, Alpine), Windows
  • Cloud: AWS, Huawei Cloud
  • CI/CD: Jenkins, Ansible
  • Infrastructure: Terraform
  • Containers: Docker, Kubernetes
  • Scripting: Python, Bash
  • Web Servers: Nginx, Apache
  • Version Control: Git
  • Databases: MySQL, Elasticsearch
  • Monitoring: Grafana, Nagios, CloudWatch, Datadog, ELK, New Relic
  • Communication: Slack, Teams, Skype, Zoom
  • Ticketing: Jira

Certification

  • AWS Cloud Technical Essentials – https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/certificate/0851JMC7SKC2


Timeline

IT Engineer

Sunshine Sales & Marketing Pte Ltd
06.2013 - Current

Linux/IT Consultant

India and Seychelles
09.2009 - 05.2013

System Administrator

Descon Engineering ltd
11.2008 - 07.2009

Bachelor of Commerce

Bharathidasan University
Mohamed Sammoon