Kevin Wells
Linux Systems Administrator
Specializing in AWS Cloud SysOps & DevOps
UK Nationality, Based in London area, Currently Available For Remote/Hybrid Linux Permanent and Contract Assignments in London & Surrounding Regions, Fluent in German
Address: 3 Clock House Mead, Oxshott, KT22 0RW
Email:-Web: https://kevwells.com
Tel: - Skype: kevin.r.wells
IT Skills Core Competencies
Operating Systems: Linux: SUSE, RedHat/RHEL/Fedora, Debian/Ubuntu Unix: AIX, Sun/Solaris
Windows: NT-Server, NT-Workstation
Servers: Apache, Tomcat, Nginx, Squid, WordPress CMS, Postfix, qmail, Sendmail, FlexLM
Clustering: LAM-MPI, Pacemaker, LVS, Ceph, GlusterFS
Databases: MySQL/MariaDB, MongoDB, Oracle Server/Client
Security & Monitoring: IP-Tables Firewalling, UfW, SSL, SSH, Nagios, Incinga, CheckMK
Virtualization & Cloud: VMware/ESXi, AWS VPC, EC2, S3, ELB, RDS, Aurora, CloudWatch, CloudFormation
Storage & Backup: NetApp, EMC SAN, DRBD, TSM, Veeam
Networking: TCP/IP, NFS, Samba/CIFS, iSCSI, DNS, BIND
Principal IT Qualifications
Siemens-Nixdorf Unix Systems-Engineer Diploma
Linux Professional Institute Certified Diplomas LPIC1 & LPIC2
AWS Solutions Architect Associate Diploma (2022)
IT Projects and Employment Roles to Present Day
Freelance IT Consultant 2008 – present
Permanent Employment at TRW Aschaffenburg 2003 – 2008
Freelance IT Consultant 1996 – 2003
Past Contract Assignment Clients Include:
State Government of Baden-Wuerttemberg - Highways Department Stuttgart,
Unilever, 1&1 Internet, Deutsche Bank, ING Bank, Merck Pharmaceuticals, EMBL European Molecular Biology Labs, JD Edwards CRM Software House
Principal Projects & Employment
Current Professional Training
Professional training for AWS Cloud SysOps & DevOps Associate Diploma Exams in
Advanced EC2, S3 Storage, EBS/EFS, RDS/Aurora/DynamoDB, AWS-VPC/Load-Balancing, Route 53 DNS, IAM, Security Groups, CloudWatch/CloudTrail, CloudFormation, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Fargate, ECS
Linux Server SysOps for ISB System House, Karlsruhe, on-site at Regional Government of Federal State Baden-Wuerttemberg, Stuttgart, Department of Highways
(Landesstelle fuer Strassentechnik) (2019 - 2022, 2 renewals)
Successfully operated 80 VMWare ESXi v6.0 Linux servers for mission-critical services
with Oracle Linux, SuSE, and Debian
Managed SAN-Storage QNAP & NetApp, NFS, SAMBA and iSCSI
Supervised Veeam Backup Server operation
Operational network system monitoring and troubleshooting with Nagios and CheckMK
Linux Site ReliabilityEngineer for E-Commerce Web Projects London (2015 - 2019)
Linux website and server reliability operations for multiple clients (global, remote)
Installed a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
Drafting and maintaining of e-commerce website content
Ghostwriting for blogs and digital media and IT technical writing for third-party clients
Linux SysOps Administrator for 1&1 Internet AG, Karlsruhe (2013 - 2015)
Configuring and troubleshooting of high-availability middleware server clusters
running Apache, Tomcat, Nginx
Managing virtual server machines using Puppet, SVC, Git
Setting up firewall security configurations using IT-Tables
Linux Webserver Administrator at Richwell Media, London (2010 - 2013)
Provision of LAMP systems on Linux RedHat, SuSe, Debian/Ubuntu
Configuration and operation of webservers using Apache & Nginx
Unix Server Administrator at ING Bank, Brussels (2008 - 2010, 3 renewals)
Unix/Tivoli System Administrator
Responsible for Unix server operations on Sun Solaris v10, AIX v6, and HP-UX systems
Troubleshooting of TSM & Unix servers, 2nd-level support and 24x7 Team on-call service
Monitoring and maintenance of TSM server backups
Unix/Linux System Administrator at TRW Auto Safety Systems, Aschaffenburg
(2003 - 2008 Permanent Employed)
Managed Unix/Linux server network for automotive engineering Crash-Simulation team:
Successfully installed and upgraded high-performance LAM-MPI-based
Linux Redhat 32-CPU cluster server
Operated SGI IRIX, Sun, SuSe workstation network
Installed and upgraded CAD-Engineering software for users
Wrote comprehensive system documentation in German and English
Linux Email and Web Server Administrator for Flatfox AG, Internet Provider, Frankfurt (2000 - 2001 & 2002 - 2004, 2 renewals)
Set up a full LAMP system comprising Apache, qmail/Postfix email server, MySQL database Extensive operational testing and performance tuning of Apache web servers
Linux Emailserver Administrator for EMBL
European Molecular Biology Labs, Heidelberg (2001 - 2002)
Designed and programmed an email traffic data and log analysis system using Bash Shellscript.
Unix TSM Backup Server Admin for Merck Pharmaceuticals, Darmstadt (1999 - 2000)
Conception and Shell/SQL programming of TSM server monitoring scripts
Performed system upgrades of TSM clients for TSM Backup Server
Unix Network Administrator at Dresdner Bank, Frankfurt (1998 - 1999, 2 renewals)
Oracle Client-Server Bank Information System
Installed in-house Oracle database test environment
Provided user support for in-house Oracle database BIS Training Centre
Drafted documentation for system installation and test network environment
Maintained Unix server system on HP-UX and Sun OS
Windows-NT Administrator at JDE JD Edwards CRM Software House
Frankfurt (1998 - 1999, 2 renewals)
Maintained uptime and updates for Windows-NT Servers and Workstations plus user-support
User Support Team for Windows NT and Unix Networks at Digital Equipment Co (DEC) on-site at Deutsche Unilever, Hamburg (1996 - 1998, 3 renewals)
Windows & Unix/Linux Network AdministratorCoIn Institute for Computer Integrated Systems, University of Potsdam (1993 - 1996 Permanent Employed)
Professional Training & Education
AWS Associate Diploma Solutions Architect (2022)
LPIC3 Diploma Course (LPIC3-306 beta test) in Linux HA-Server Clustering (2021)
covering Pacemaker, Ceph, iSCSi, LVM, DRBD, LVS, GlusterFS
Linux Professional Institute Diplomas LPIC1 & LPIC2
Graduate Training Course Unix Systems Engineer at Siemens-Nixdorf Training Centre, Berlin
Intermediate Diploma in German, Institute of Linguists, London
Bsc. Honours Degree 2.1 in Economics, University of Bath
