Sr Systems Administrator / Devops Resume
Duluth, GA
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Operating Systems: RHEL, Centos, Fedora, Ubuntu, Windows, Windows Serve: Software Nginx, RabbitMQ, VMware, AD, Hyper V, Checkpoint, Cacti, Nagios, Elasticsearch, ELK Stack, Splunk, Solarwinds, GestioIP, Veeam, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Git
Hardware: Dell PowerEdge, HP Proliant, IBM X - Series, Cisco LAN/WAN hardware, Catalyst switches, Fortinet, Checkpoint, WatchGuard, Nokia, SonicWall
Hosted Services: AWS, Bluelight, Rackspace
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Sr Systems Administrator / DevOps
Confidential, Duluth, Ga
Responsibilities:
- Architected and built out a highly redundant and secure development, test, and production AWS environments for a multimillion dollar auction site that utilized vast amounts of AWS services and offerings.
- Automated server deployments and configuration management
- Transitioned in-house servers and applications to AWS cloud environments.
- Setup / maintain / utilize ELK Stack for centralized logging of AWS and on-prim servers, auction data analytics / metrics, forecasting, and server performance metrics
- Maintain production, development, test, and QA environments in house and in AWS
- Manage corporate network / users and resources
- Worked with casino testing facilities to facilitate software code reviews and certifications
Sr. Server Administrator / DRP Lead
Confidential, Atlanta, Ga
Responsibilities:
- Performed network troubleshooting to isolate, diagnose and resolve common network related issues. Maintained awareness of all outstanding situations and updated management in accordance with departmental guidelines
- Disaster recovery planning, documentation, and execution for geographically redundant operations and data centers
- Communicate and coordinate network outage / upgrade schedules, backups, and downtime to users and appropriate managers at all locations, as applicable
- Network and server security auditing for government NIST compliance
- Install, upgrade and configure network users, user environments, network printing, directory structures, rights security, software and file services.
- Performed regular inventory of IT-related assets across the organization and ensures software license compliance
- Coordinated third-party maintenance for network hardware, software, and telecommunications services
- Developed and maintained network and network related documentation that was accurate and readily available to all IT personnel
Server Engineer
Confidential, Sandy Springs, Ga
Responsibilities:
- Defined, managed and enforced information and network security policies and procedures
- Management of Active Directory, AD scripting, group policy configuration
- Proactively monitor customers’ networks and servers, with Cacti and Nagios, to ensure maximum uptime
- Focus on project management and scope implementation
- Conducted thorough site surveys, provided customers ‘road maps’ to best improve network design and performance
- Remote monitoring of customer Dell / HP equipment located in datacenter
- Troubleshoot and resolve server hardware issues
- Utilized Hyper-V and VMWare to replace aging servers and move clients into a virtual server environment
- Preformed monthly preventive maintenance and patched servers to prevent downtime and provide secure environments
- Setup and deployed new Check Point \ WatchGuard \ SonicWall firewalls and implemented best practice security policies at customer locations
Systems Administrator
Confidential, Atlanta, Ga
Responsibilities:
- Provided IT services and support for corporate office and 44 remote locations
- Upgraded network from Windows NT environment to Server 2003
- Work to ensure servers maintained uptime of 99%
- Follow change management procedures for any hardware / software configuration changes or downtime.
- Implemented new firewall and network security policies
- Worked with vendors to coordinate services / installations when opening new offices
- Setup custom NAS backup solution utilizing an open-source OS and backup application, providing a sizable office with a fast and redundant backup solution
- Setup applications to monitor user activities and limit non-work related internet usage
- Installed Cisco VOIP phone system at corporate office
- Setup and maintain users on Blackberry enterprise server