Systems Administrator Resume

SUMMARY:

To find a challenging yet rewarding position in DevOps which allows me to develop innovating new ways to provide continuous integration through automation frameworks.
Configuration Management using Ansible 2.2+
Continuous Integration with Jenkins
Source Control Management with Git and SVN
Issue Tracking with Remedy, Webtracker, Footprints, and JIRA
Load Balancing with KEMP LoadMaster
System health monitoring with Nagios and Xymon
System Backup with NetVault and EMC Networker
Virtualization with VMware 5.5+
Documentation with SharePoint and Confluence
System administration using Solaris, FreeBSD, CentOS, and Debian Linux
Working knowledge of Apache 2.X and Nginx
Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS (S3 + Glacier)
Shell & Perl scripting(try some python, will make your ansible stronger)

DETAILED EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

Design & implement continuous integration workflows through Jenkins, which saved an average of 20 hours a month on deployment execution and validation
Architect configuration & patch management using Ansible
Major accomplishments include automating the roll out and configuration across two data centers, which saved approximately 100 hours of work
Promote the implementation of stateless app servers by evaluating and migrating critical scheduled jobs into Rundeck as well as spearheading a docker POC in the environment
Increase major application performance up to 20% by identifying expensive queries that were either candidates to be rewritten or opportunities to use indexes based on execution plans
Leverage automation frameworks to dynamically generate SQL for deployments, which were designed using ansible templates and executed through Jenkins(which one?)< - - designed in ansible and deployed through jenkins -->
Implement Frozen Repositories to facilitate controlled updates & patching(why not tagging?)< -- idk tbh...it was basically a political issue at the office (don't ask) -->
Implement SOP for code deployments to reduce the risk of production outages
Coordinate with development and QA to execute code deployments to critical systems
Create source control repositories filled with utilities for a wide range of tasks including code deployments, configuration management, system health reporting scripts, etc.
Maintain and identify opportunities to optimize system performance for critical systems running on Solaris as well as CentOS
Implement open source infrastructure monitoring with Xymon; by designing custom scripts to monitor proprietary applications, risk of downtime went down 40%(saving how much?)< -- it was, at best, $2k a year -->
Consolidate infrastructure health alerts under PagerDuty to increase on-call rotation efficiency up to 60% by ensuring the proper groups were alerted for critical production issues

Confidential

Unix Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

Improved UNIX system performance up to 30% by identifying and rewriting shell scripts on production servers that were utilizing high amounts of memory and causing high load averages
Increased overall productivity up to 40% by writing shell scripts to handle common infrastructure workflows such as fault tolerance for failed jobs
Improved DR practices up to 30% by designing and scheduling regular health checks that would alert when production and DR servers were out of sync
Audited legacy scripts for alerting and update to leverage distribution lists to ensure active personnel were informed when issues arose
Implemented regular self-maintenance workflows on production systems to minimize downtime during times of expected high load
Improved backup efficiency by 60% by performing routine audits to ensure NetVault jobs were not duplicating filesystem backups

Confidential

IT Business Developer

Responsibilities:

Technical lead in my office and region.
Lead in my group for implementing IP-based deployment of point of sale systems to allow more throughput and general reliability over dial-up based predecessors.
Implemented ticketing system and knowledge base for documenting technical issues as well as reducing the need to re-troubleshoot previous issues.

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