Rustam Tsurik

Linux Systems Administrator
image

10+ years of experience in Linux/UNIX systems administration, including deploying and maintaining various server software, monitoring, automating infrastructure and writing scripts. Excellent communication and problem solving skills. Native Russian/Ukrainian speaker, fluent in English.

Work Experience

Linux Systems Administrator

THG Ingenuity (prev. UK2 Group) | Nov 2012 – Present

Maintain Linux server environment, monitor and manage shared hosting, VPS and dedicated servers. Assist the technical support team with escalated issues. Also, part of an on-call rotation to handle any escalated issues on weekends and after hours.

  • Linux (RHEL/CentOS/CloudLinux, Debian/Ubuntu)
  • High Availability
  • Automation and Orchestration(Ansible, AWX, Puppet)
  • Virtualization (KVM/Libvirt, Xen)
  • Docker and Kubernetes
  • Storage (iSCSI, NFS, Gluster)
  • Databases (MySQL/Galera, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch)
  • DNS (BIND, PowerDNS)
  • Identity Management (FreeIPA/AD, KeyCloak, RADIUS, OAuth)
  • Web Hosting (cPanel, Plesk, OnApp)

Level 3 Support Representative

UK2 Group | Dec 2011 – Nov 2012

Provided technical support to the dedicated, VPS and shared hosting customers. Provided servers monitoring and handling abuses(spam and compromised websites).

  • Linux (RHEL/CentOS/CloudLinux)
  • Web Hosting (cPanel, Virtualization)
  • Monitoring (Nagios, Zabbix)

Systems Administator / Technical Support

MyIdealHost | Feb 2008 – Dec 2011

Provided technical support(L2) to the customers, set up and maintained shared hosting servers(mostly CentOS with cPanel software), servers monitoring, configured monitoring system and backups.

  • Linux, FreeBSD
  • cPanel, DirectAdmin
  • Apache, Nginx
  • MySQL
  • Nagios
  • DNS
  • Backups

Systems Administrator

Home Credit Finance | Oct 2006 – Feb 2008

Managed the company’s head office servers(FreeBSD gateways, mail and file servers, Windows 2003 AD servers, MS-SQL servers and custom in-house server software), managed the network and workstations(over 200 Windows XP machines), provided support to the branch office systems administrators and POS operators.

  • Windows 2003 / XP
  • FreeBSD
  • Mail, SAMBA, FTP, OpenVPN
  • Active Directory
  • Microsoft SQL Server