Amjad Hussain
About Amjad Hussain
Amjad Hussain is a Linux System Administrator at TD Ameritrade with extensive experience in automation, server management, and cloud services.
Title
Amjad Hussain holds the position of Linux System Administrator. He is currently employed at TD Ameritrade, where he has been working since 2018. He manages a robust server infrastructure and handles a variety of system administration tasks.
Company
Amjad Hussain is currently working at TD Ameritrade in Jersey City, NJ. His role as a Linux System Administrator involves managing and maintaining a large-scale virtualized server environment running on VMware ESXi with High Availability.
Education and Expertise
Amjad Hussain holds a Bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems from CUNY York College. His expertise includes using Ansible for automation, administering over 1000 virtualized servers, and working with Amazon AWS cloud services. He has a strong background in system monitoring and performance optimization, as well as experience with ITSM Ticketing systems.
Professional Background
Before his current role at TD Ameritrade, Amjad Hussain gained substantial experience working as a Linux System Administrator at Dow Chemical CO. from 2016 to 2018 in Midland, MI. Prior to that, he worked for S&P Global as a Linux Technician in New York, NY, from 2015 to 2016.
Technical Skills and Experience
Amjad Hussain is skilled in utilizing Ansible for automation tasks, including writing playbooks and deploying applications with Ansible Tower. He also has experience with Amazon AWS cloud services, such as EC2, S3 bucket, and IAM. His responsibilities include creating high-level design documentation for Ansible infrastructure, managing DNS records with Infoblox, and monitoring system activities. He is proficient in modifying kernel parameters to enhance server performance and advocates for innovative, automated approaches to system administration tasks.