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Educational Qualification:
Bachelors Degree in Information Technology

Technical certification:
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)

Operating Systems:
Red Hat / Fedora / CentOS / Debian Linux Systems, FreeBSD
Expertise in installing, configuring, securing, updating and auditing Red Hat Linux systems.

CPanel Hosting Control Panel:
cPanel/WHM administration through web interface and SSH.
Manage CPanel servers on a daily basis.

Web servers - Apache 1.3.x / Apache 2.x & Lighttpd:
Installation and configuration from source and binary packages
Set up Authentication, Authorization, and Access Control
Monitor, analyze, manage Log Files, Set up Virtual Hosts, SSL, Performance tuning
Secure the web server - directory permissions, SSI, Limiting CGI to special
directories, SUEXEC etc

Database Servers - MySQL / PostgreSQL:
Installation and configuration from source and binary packages
Good experience in Database Administration - creates users, databases, grant
privileges, database backup and restoration, repairing databases etc
Database programming using standard and MySQL specific SQL
Performance tuning the database server
Set up MySQL replication servers

PHP:
Installation and configuration from source and binary packages.
Install as an Apache module or CGI.
Basic programming knowledge in PHP.
Installation and configuration of various CMSs, forum/blog/billing scripts.

Mail Servers:
Set up and configure Sendmail, Exim and Postfix email servers.
Ability to tweak the mail server to detect and prevent Spam
Used tools like SpamAssassin, and ClamAV to filter spam and virus
Set up email forwarders, aliases, email quota etc

Network Services:
Good understanding of DNS, NFS, FTP services

Shell Scripting & Programming:
Sound knowledge in programming the BASH
Experience in text filters like AWK, SED, GREP, TR etc
Basic programming knowledge in Perl, PHP and system programming in C.

Security Tools:
Good conceptual understanding and working knowledge of IPtables firewall.
Set up and configure security software like APF, BFD, CSF, LFD etc.
Server Monitoring Tool:
Nagios - installation, configuration and customization

Software Packaging and Management:
Software package management through rpm, dpkg, yum and apt
Creation of rpm packages from source
Creation and management of yum software repositories

Version Control System:
Experienced in setting up and using Subversion and Trac systems.

Linux Kernel:
Kernel patching and building custom kernels

High Performance Computing:
Load balancer setups for http, https, ftp, mysql etc using LVS
XEN/OpenVZ virtual machine monitor setup, configuration and management

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