TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System Platform: Ubuntu LTS, Redhat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Debian Linux, Fedora, FreeBSD, Windows Server (2003/2008)

Office Suites: Microsoft Office, Open Office, Wordperfect, Office365

Networking / Telecomm: TCP/IP, LAN/WAN, SNMP, VoIP, Wireless, Mailflow, 10g network integration. Cisco, Juniper

Database / WWW Resources: MySQL, Microsoft SQL, Apache, Sendmail, Postfix, Qmail, Spam - Assassin, Vmware, Xen, KVM, LiteHTTP, DNS/Bind, nginx, uwsgi, FTPd, MooseFS, MongoDB

Management / Security: Sonicwall, Microsoft (DHCP, AD), Solarwinds Orion, Nagios, MTRG, Webalizer, IPSwitch, Cacti, vFoglight, vRanger, PFSense, Splunk, iCinga , Salt, Chef, Ansible, LDAP, OpenVPN, HAProxy

Hardware: Servers (HP, Dell PowerEdge, Supermicro), Dell iSCSI Storage Array, Wiring (cat5/6e,, Fiber Optic), Laptops (IBM, DELL, Acer), DA/Smartphone/tablet (iOS, Winmobile, Android)

Application Software: Docker, rsync, SugarCRM, BOMGAR, Remote Desktop Manager

Scripting/Markup Languages: Perl, PHP, python, Bash, docker-compose

Certifications: Brainbench Certified Redhat Administrator Transcript ID 6778903

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Systems/Devops Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Setup, deployed and managed Splunk On-Prem
• Managed Full-Stack applications in AWS
• Managed SALT deployments
• Setup and Managed System alerts with Nagios
• Provisioned new virtual linux farms for application deployment
• Break fix on dropwiz application containers
• Managed Docker builds and repositories
• Managed Jenkins and workers for CI
• Configured Load-balancers for Application routing
• Maintained Security Standards
• Automated Repetative tasks
• Managed upgrades for Opswise reporting and other Analytics
• Created a KB Wiki and migrated from Confluence to help Off-shore Contractors
• Created SoP for production Deployments and multi dev environment workflows
• Enacted cost saving consolidations in AWS platforms
• Proactively created scripts to handle common errors and optimized downtime.
• Managed Bitbucket ar Organizational Level for all employees
• Handled onborading and offboarding and archives for employees and contractors

Confidential

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Setup, deployed and managed Splunk On-Prem/Splunk Cloud
• Setup and managed Automation Emails
• Managed SALT deployments
• Assisted in monitoring System alerts/Pagerduty
• Provisioned new virtual linux (CentOS) farms for application deployment
• Break fix on Tomcat/apache application level
• Configured Juniper Netscalers for Loadbalancing
• Wrote bash and chef cookbooks for monitoring and automation
• Wrote netscaler toggle scripts to assist in A/B deployments for 100% uptime.
• Took ownership of Dev application deployments from first cycle to Live deployments
• Worked with other teams to facilitate backup schedules and reporting
• Created scripts/Frame work to automated application self-heals/recovery
• Created AD accounts for contractors and Employees to access internal Tools
• Assisted in QA of product deployments
• Maintained QA, DEV, and Production linux(CentOS) systems for Trueup in multiple Datacenters
• Managed Kafka and Zookeeper clusters
• Used Salt to maintain and update 700+ server farm in multiple data centers for production and development

Confidential

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Setup, deployed and managed Splunk
• Setup and Configured F5 and HAProxy Load Balancers for API Servers and media
• Implemented and deployed iCinga/Nagios systems monitoring and configuration
• Re-factored SALT deployment setups for server types
• Managed Jenkins Deployments for codebase to API Servers and WebFrontends
• Managed LDAP and OpenVPN accounts
• Created s3 backup solutions for all facets of management tools and databases
• Responded to development MySQL/MongoDB requests
• Upgraded and maintained MooseFS storage array
• Deployed KVM/Agile Openstack virtual machines
• Handled hardware replacement and troubleshooting at Datacenter/NY Office
• Setup and maintained local packages repository
• Implemented and deployed iCinga monitoring service with PagerDuty
• Managed 400+ servers in 2 datacenters with Salt

Confidential

Operations

Responsibilities:

• Setup, deployed and managed Splunk distributed search peers and deployment servers
• Implemented and deployed iCinga/Nagios systems monitoring and configuration
• Responded to Akamai cache and varnish cache maintenance
• Setup, maintained and created ansible playbook library and playbooks
• Managed and monitored Large Scale high traffic website confidential
• Managed and built ansible framework for AWS Virtualized Server deployments
• Responded to development MySQL requests
• Monitored availability of web servers in both apache and nginx
• Created development server setup scripts
• Managed Jenkins Jobs for Web deployment
• Manager 300+ servers with Ansible
• Created wiki pages for associated tasks (ansible, nagios/icinga and splunk deployments)

Confidential

Systems Administrator/Engineer

Responsibilities:

• TAG Provides analysis web-based tools for market executions to many major firms and Venues.
• Deploy and upgrade Linux CentOS environment
• Configured VPN Tunnels between Office Locations
• Setup and implemented VMWare ESX Infrastructure (5 hosts 1 cluster and 15 Guests)
• Maintain NFS and iSCSI mounts and disc arrays with Dell MD3200i's
• Setup and configure archiving machines and LVM raid arrays
• Maintain Exchange 2007 and AD Shares across network and locations
• Troubleshoot custom applications and resolve library issues
• Resolve day-to-day Windows and Linux Desktops issues
• Deploy and Troubleshoot PostgreSQL issues
• Administered Citrix XEN VM's and Hypervisor