SUMMARY:

Seeking to utilize my skills and experience as a Senior Systems Administrator in a progressive, forward - thinking technologically-oriented organization where I can continue to challenge and develop my skills while working in a team atmosphere.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Carmel, Indiana

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Built a complex infrastructure within AWS comprising of multiple VPCs all connected by IPSec Tunnels.
• Maintained L2TP and openvpn endpoints for developers.
• Built and maintained an OpenDJ LDAP solution.
• Configured Continuous deployment scenarios using Jenkins and Salt.
• Built and maintained Zenoss for monitoring.
• Built and maintained ELK.
• Built and maintained multiple MongoDB Clusters.
• Orchestrated deployments consisting of multiple microservices using springboot.

Confidential, Alpharetta, Georgia

Senior DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as an consultant to ADP.
• Daily duties included creating continuous deployment scripts using Ansible and Jenkins.
• Maintaining and monitoring system health.
• Setting up and configuring MongoDB clusters.
• Configuring microservices with NodeJS.
• Worked with AWS EC2, VPC, Route 53 and S3.
• Worked with VMWare on in house tools.
• Worked on PHP and Wordpress for web presence.
• Maintained developer virtual images.

Confidential, Suwanee, Georgia

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Daily duties included conversing with customers to maintain working environments within our managed solutions, updat ing Bluecat’s DNS products, and Splunk.
• I have created reports inside of Splunk and several dashboards to assist in searching.
• I am part of the UNIX/Linux team assisting in provisioning and supporting RHEL, CentOS, and Ubuntu Servers., installing and configuring LAMP servers, and configuring MySQL and Cassandra servers for managed customers.
• Since QTS does not have any automation tools I have written several bash scripts and with the assistance of the central authentication system which I incorporated (ldap) have been able to push changes to multiple servers.
• I have wrote applications using php and django to assist with daily systems administrative duties.

Confidential, Alpharetta, Georgia

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for over 1000 computers supporting vast array products from insurance to stopping fraud and ensuring regulatory compliance being a part of a team of 8.
• Architected and migrated over 1000 servers from nis to ldap including cli programs to manage ldap.
• Architected patch management including setting up mrepo and configuring spacewalk.
• Architected puppet for configuration management for over 1000 systems.
• Trained the team on how to use ldap, puppet, and spacewalk.

Confidential, Lexington, Massachusetts

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for a team of five to take care of over 400 computers supporting real-time radar operations and analyst support needs.
• Created Group 93 Helpdesk website, co-architected new infrastructure based on Network Appliance Filers and VMware for the classified network, rebuilt Windows Active Directory server after hardware failure, recovered network from catastrophic storage failure, worked on implementing Oracle RAC systems, created kickstart and yum servers to build and maintain our classified Linux computers, researched and recommended hardware and software solutions for both development and operational aspects of Group 93 programs, trained other IT Team members, coordinated server room migration, installed and configured puppet to maintain classified system configurations. Held Secret clearance.

Confidential

Senior Systems Administrator/Trainer

Responsibilities:

• .Installed and maintained Solaris, AIX, HPUX, and Linux servers.
• Traveled worldwide to set up Sun Management Center and provide .
• Supported Development team with products such as BEA Weblogic server, Sun Application Server, NetApp filers, and Sun Directory Server; Gave presentations along with the Sales team to facilitate sales of Confidential products
• Responsible for company's internet and intranet presence.
• Maintained the company's mail, backup, trac, and subversion servers.

Confidential, Fort Knox, Kentucky

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Provided Maintenance to over 300 Solaris, AIX, and HPUX servers.
• Ensured server & web presence availability 24x7x365 even during severe DoS attacks.
• Applications included Sun’s Web Server, Directory Server, Proxy Server, Portal and Application Server.
• Supported BEA’s Weblogic and tuxedo.
• Supported Hyperion servers. (Both Weblogic and Hyperion are now under the Oracle umbrella) Along with Confidential ’s plug-ins, integrated Sun Management Center to monitor the network and systems.
• Adapted CA Unicenter to push out network-wide commands to all of the systems.
• Worked with Akaimai to strengthen goArmy media presence on the internet.
• Mastered Webtrends Analytical server with cooperation from Akaimai.
• Slowly incorporated Linux servers for developer’s workstations at a time when Linux was first being approved for use inside the Confidential .