Gdit Systems Engineer Resume
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Washington, DC
SUMMARY
- Builder of Windows Server 2012 R2 and Linux CentOS Physical Servers including ESXi 5.5/6.0 hosts.
- Builder of a vCenter and vSphere client VMs using standardized Windows OS image’s and for Linux VMs leveraged Spacewalk Kickstart profile images and or bootable media via iDRAC/USB. Part of VM Admin group that performed Migration of vCenter clients from 5.5 to 6.0.
- Processed Nessus Security Scans of new server builds. Installed and initialized Enterprise monitoring tools: SolarWinds, SCOM, and Science Logic EM7.
- SolarWinds and SCOM admin, configuring network and server monitoring with advanced alerting that interfaces and creates Service Desk auto - tickets. Creating custom SolarWinds and SCOM dash boards to rollout to Business Application Owners utilizing Active Directory group permissions.
- Managed 3500+ DNS zone files using Linux BIND for external and internal .com/.net/.gci DNS, including F5 Big IP load balancing and Windows DNS tools.
- One of Five MoveIT DMZ Administrators managing the largest application across 103 Properties including vendor facing setup. Highlight: Quarterbacked setup of complex SSH Encrypted transmission from a recent acquisition that included PGP Keys for Authentication for HR/Payroll Data. Created new target hosts and ingestion points, setup user account permissions.
- Netbackup and CommVault Admin of enterprise backups and restores of Windows and Linux servers, Exchange, SQL, VADP snapshots of .vmdk files of VM’s and performing file level and SQL DataBase restores. iSeries AS400 BRMS backups including vaulting to LTO and 3592 media. Backup Exec 2015 configuration including vCenter integration for field sites and site support for backup server, infrastructure support and VM backups.
- Microsoft trained and certified O365 hybrid deployment specialist and active Exchange Online Administrator during and after 36k employee migration to Cloud.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
GDIT Systems Engineer
Confidential, Washington, DC
Responsibilities:
- Managed the HR/Payroll Projection Systems and Emergency Notification Systems for the Confidential Infrastructure Branch.
- As a Systems Engineer maintained both the Hot site and DR Disaster Recovery Site that consisted of Windows 2012 R2/2016 R2 vSphere VM’s for Eleven iiS App servers for Production, Staging, and a Integration Team City Foundation development environment including Six SQL servers with 3 SQL Clusters, Three Automation Servers while managing the F5 AppPools on the IIS Application Servers in addition to Five Apache Tomcat and Java Transport Room Messaging Servers.
- Setup & manage WinSCP & BitVise Application level FTPS connections that fork into MoveIT Enterprise for HR and Contract financial data. Splunk & Zabbix monitoring, trouble shoot application LDAP mail errors.
GDIT Systems Engineer
Confidential, Washington, DC
Responsibilities:
- Deploy Application Code updates, Role Change and Failover of Databases. Orchestrated Disaster Recovery plan with US Courts DBA and Failed over the Development Environment from East -to- West Coast US Courts Data Centers and created SOP for DR test that achieved a recovery window of 15minutes between E/W-App servers, SQL Clusters while maintaining Quorum between E/W SQL Nodes and File Share Witness while managing the F5 load balancer and IIS AppPools and Reverse Proxies.
Confidential, Silver. Spring, MD
Data Center Specialist
Responsibilities:
- Group Managed the Hosting Infrastructure including rack space planning, racking, cabling and labelling of all data center equipment including vertical PDUs and ATS redundant power to Network Gear.
- During daily visual inspections monitored for Audible alarms on CRAC Units and leaks in our Core 10,000 Square foot Data Center (DC). Inspected Servers, Network hardware in racks and diagnosed audible and visual alerts. Applied Firmware and BIOS updates of physical servers as needed and provided VM vCenter support of inaccessible VMs that were hung and or monitors exceeded thresholds for CPU, Memory or Disk. Diagnosed server performance degradation, unexpected shutdowns, and disk failures. Recommend and implement hardware upgrades. Setup RAID, install OS including ESXi on rebuilt host’s.
- Highlights include completed rack space planning of NEW Nexxus 1/10GBASE-T network core upgrade that we centralized in a new data center row that interfaces with an existing/old 6509 Cisco FC and Ethernet MDF system in old COMM room. Installed top of the rack mounted Cisco 93128 FEX’s in every 3rd infrastructure Rack cabinet with 24-fiber strands out of each going back to a centralized ‘patching’ cabinet in new network row kernel upgrades on all Linux systems at or below RHEL kernel version ' 2.6.32-220. el6.x86 64t'. A kernel panic occurs if host is not rebooted within 250 days. Numerous BIOS/LifeCycle controller Firmware updates for Dell 11g, 12g, and 13g Systems
- Microsoft corporately trained and certified hybrid Exchange Online deployment specialist that prepped and assisted with migration of 36k employees from On-Prem Exchange to O365. Active Administrator in O365 Exchange Online through the Exchange admin console (EAC) assisting Exchange Engineers with the initial triage of email disruptions, missing emails, distribution group creation through ADWA/EAC, Active Directory user moves, username changes and ADSI edits. SMTP server implementations for application messaging
- SolarWinds and SCOM admin, configuring network and server monitoring with advanced alerting that interfaces and creates Service Desk auto-tickets. Created custom SolarWinds and SCOM dash boards to rollout to Sys Admins utilizing Active Directory group permissions.
- Managed 3500+ DNS zone files using Linux BIND for USA Today external and internal .com/.net/.gci DNS including F5 Big IP load balancing and Windows DNS tools.
Data Center Specialist
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- One of Five MoveIT DMZ Administrators managing the largest application across the USA Today Network including external vendors. Highlight: Quarterbacked setup of complex SSH Encrypted transmission from a recent acquisition that included PGP Keys for Authentication for HR/Payroll Data. Created new target hosts and ingestion points, user account permissions.
- Builder of Windows and Linux servers both Physical and Virtual Servers in vSphere, Spacewalk Kickstart profiles and bootable media via iDRAC/USB. Migrating vCenter clients from 5.5 to 6.0.
- Builder of Windows Server 2012 R2 and Linux CentOS Physical Servers including ESXi 5.5/6.0 hosts.
Builder of a vCenter and vSphere client VMs using standardized Windows OS image’s and for Linux VMs leveraged Spacewalk Kickstart profile images and or bootable media via iDRAC/USB. Part of VM Admin group that performed Migration of vCenter clients from 5.5 to 6.0.
- Processed Nessus Security Scans of new server builds. Installed and initialized Enterprise monitoring tools: SolarWinds, SCOM, and Science Logic EM7. .
Confidential
Data Center Engineer and Logistics Coordinator
Responsibilities:
- Received server and network equipment in internal Logistics and Asset Management controls and documented. Send out ERF notifications to Work Flow coordinator and Project Managers upon receipt.
- Process Logistics Work Orders which released Hardware to Project Manager to create install work order.
- Supported Cisco environment: Logging into Terminal/Comm Server to troubleshoot ports that are down on server's, report available 1GE and 10GE ports on 2k FEX's and 5k and 7k Nexus Switches to Network Engineers. Verify fiber patching with Visual Fault Locator (VFL)
- Fiber, FCoE & Copper premise wiring and intra cabinet patching. Resolving polarity issues on FCoE Uplinks.
- Trouble shoot and repair audible and visual errors of Data Center equipment and setup RMA warranty returns of replacement parts.