SUMMARY

• Accomplished senior systems engineer that can manage cloud architectures, server infrastructures and data - center operations across multiple platforms (UNIX, Linux, and Windows). Effectively plan, install, configure and optimize the IT infrastructure to consistently achieve high availability and performance.
• Proven ability to create and deliver solutions tied to business growth, organizational development and systems/network optimization. Have the ability as a skilled problem identifier and troubleshooter. I am very comfortable managing systems within a range of different environments.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Daily utilization of both Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure for all business analytics initiatives.
• Support architected cloud technologies for a global customer base that encompasses 7 Regions and 15 Availability Zones.
• Operational services include but not limited to EBS, EC2, Glacier, RDS, Redshift, S3, Security Groups.
• Completed several customer production environment migrations from their existing physical and virtual architectures onto the cloud without impacts in performance or uptime.
• Administer multiple RHEL 7 and Windows 2016 Enterprise Servers for a complete data delivery pipeline. This includes daily, weekly and monthly data for 12 major airlines. The record sizes for these customers can be well over 180,000,000 rows of readable data.
• Streamline reporting capabilities from an existing Informatica platform to a new architecture.
• Utilize various Powershell scripts to successfully migrate production servers into a different Azure region. This is to allow for continued operations per the Confidential Systems Infrastructure Model.
• Delivered new QlikSense servers for both production and development environments. This addressed security vulnerabilities and offered new capabilities to the end users.
• Build multiple automation scripts within the Micro Focus Unified Functional Testing to assist the QA team with deliverable schedules.
• Work daily with JIRA and Confluence for agile development, task tracking, and keeping current various team knowledge base wiki pages.

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Built out a AWS environment of several EC2 instances, RDS clusters, and S3 buckets.
• Worked with other colleagues located in varous locations utilizing slack.
• Supported the United States Navy utilizing the existing infrastructure as well as migrating each of these components to the cloud.
• Disected and resolved various issues within the application suite in order to allow the customer to continue operations without delays or down time.

Confidential

Senior Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Assigned the team leadership role that includes a junior Linux systems administrator and a senior Windows systems administrator.
• Fully involved in all aspects of an enterprise server environment that consists of over 120 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.11 and 6.7 on both physical as well as virtual systems.
• Manage Multipath configurations utilizing Qlogic HBA connected to EMC XtremIO Solid State and VNX SAN Storage Arrays.
• Upgraded physical Redhat 5.X HP blade chassis to RHEL 6.7 virtual utilizing VMWare 6.x.
• Built Nagios XI Enterprise to monitor both performance and service oriented processes. This included various applications built around an Ellucian product set. The backend products include but not exclusive to Oracle database servers, Tomcat web servers, IBM Cognos. Also utilizing other third party open sourced applications per the demands of the various other developers, DBA’s, and additional requestors.
• I personally built over 40 RHEL 6.7 servers utilizing both manual as well as kickstart processes for automation.
• Prototyped Puppet Enterprise on a RHEL 7.2 server that include Docker and other built in and open source packages.
• Working with the RedHat Network exclusively to register each server and keep each up to utilizing the officially supported yum repositories. I also utilized sourceforge and other open sourced resources for packages not supplied by RedHat natively.
• Update the kernel at various points utilizing mkinitrd, initramfs, and other various command sets.
• Implement a complete enterprise wide redesign of industry standard baselines for each of the system I had inherited. This also includes over 35 separate points of substandard baseline elements from prior systems administrators.
• Available 24/7 365 as the primary point of contact for any and all issues surrounding the enterprise wide Linux environments.
• Daily utilization of a pure dev-ops methodology. Being the go to person who supports and implements the multitude of requests by the various teams to the development, test, and production network environments.

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• A key team member of 15 Senior Systems Engineers supporting a global network of over 5000 Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers. The operating system versions included RHEL 4 through RHEL 7 on both physical as well as virtual systems.
• Selected as the primary representative to be fully involved with Red Hat in their new initiative for the Enterprise Linux 7 global high touch beta test program, which lasted several months in duration. Personally quoted by a Red Hat Executive during the 2014 Red Hat Summit.
• Lead a project that was targeted to a complete revitalization of a standardized formatting of 350 primary wiki pages, which took over several weeks of planning, and several months of implementation. The new standardized wiki page allowed templates of each of the primary application, which in turn allowed links into a workload management tool.
• Attended many Red Hat Taste of Training webinars to increase my knowledge in various areas concerning the operating system as well as other supported areas within the RHEL environment.
• Involved with the IBM GPFS proof of concept from the initial week of training through full enterprise implementation. This involved building out a suite of 3 primary servers as well as 5 other servers in a supporting role. Continued attendance of weekly meetings for a conversion within the complex of 350 servers dedicated to this new initiative.
• Utilized Red Hat Satellite Server 5.7 for keeping baselines of the thousands of servers in sync. This also included creation of specific software channels associated. Built out 240 new pricing servers to assist for the yearly production process increase.
• Assisted with the flex cache filer migration. This involved migrating 14 total flex cache storage arrays over a 4-day period of time.