Kiran Chand

Past

LInux Server Admin at Bobcares

Education

University of Calicut

Connections

75 connections

Industry

Computer & Network Security

Websites

Kiran Chand’s Summary

Bobcares (Poornam Info Vision) provides quality services in Internet Server maintenance based on a variety of plans like 'Per Ticket', 'Per Domain’ and 'Per Server' 24/7 support. The services covers Website Publishing, Web Server, Email, Control Panels, Security and Passwords, DNS & Domain Names, FTP & other Data transfer issues, commerce, Microsoft FrontPage, General CGI programming issues, Kernel recompilation, and Linux and Unix. The system administration tasks include server issues, server configuration and optimization, server migration, setting up firewall & IP block procedures, software installations, CGI script debugging, etc.

Kiran Chand’s Specialties:

Linux Debian

Kiran Chand’s Experience

LInux Server Admin

Bobcares

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2007 — June 2009 (1 year 11 months)

o Installation and configuration of Linux servers, packages, security applications, monitoring tools , VPS setup etc.
o Server hardening for both Linux and Windows servers.
o Work with control panels like Cpanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin etc.
o Troubleshoot and solve server problems regarding security, mail, dns, apache, firewall, spamming, spoofing etc
o Support technically and lead the team of frontline 'Customer Support Officers'.
o Attend technical queries from server administrators, domain resellers and sometimes from customers through ticketing system (mails).
o Write/debug shell programs for cron, security checking, backup, etc
o Troubleshooting the general as well as complex hardware/software related problems (Linux).
o Responsible for technical support operations of a Network Operations Center.
o Hands-on experience in hack/spam/phishing investigations.
o Responsible for ensuring the security of web servers by installing security patches, DoS prevention tools, tripwire etc.
o Hands-on experience in Linux server hardening
o Web Server administration: Apache web server configuration and setup. Compiling webserver with php using automated and manual methods. Ensure webserver security.
o Mail Server: Setup and configure exim mail servers. Setup and administer EXIM mail server on cpanel/whm servers. Setup Spamassassin, clamd antivirus scanner for mail server. Prevent mail abuse using antivirus, exim and mailmon monitoring
o Firewall(s/w) and Server Security: Configuring and Administering Iptables (firewall), Tcpwrappers, Apf and Bfd (Brute Force Defender).
o RAID & LVM: Creating and maintaining Raid and Lvm.
o MySQL monitoring and administration.
o Managing and performing installation and support of Linux OS, Linux Kernel compilation, and Software installations (Nagio).