Senior Platform Consultant Resume

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Platform Consultant

Responsibilities:

Routinely assess, design, and implement Red Hat's core offerings, including Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and Red Hat Ansible.
Be the subject matter expert at the client site, addressing the technical, developmental, or strategic IT needs.
Assist customer in automating and improving the monitoring of their enterprise with Nagios XI.
Manage problem identification, system architecture definition, software specification and design, testing, and deployment of complex open source solutions.
Assist customers in designing, developing, and managing their system provisioning strategy.
Respond to incidents, escalations, and exceptions in a professional manner.
Integrate third - party applications to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), including monitoring and system performance tools, as well as backup and restore agents.
Apply knowledge of and experience with Linux kernel internals, including performance tuning, troubleshooting, bug fix updates, and core builds.
Learn independently, as well as quickly pick up new technologies and best practices.
Communicate with customers in a professional manner, give presentations, as well as work one-on-one with customers.

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

Built, maintained, and troubleshooted Linux, Windows, and Solaris physical and virtual servers.
Performed continuous analysis of Linux, Windows, and Solaris systems and made recommendations to improve security, scalability, performance, and availability.
Created alerts in Nagios for monitored physical and virtual datacenter infrastructure and applications.
Maintained a Windows-based network infrastructure including VMware, Active Directory, Exchange, Citrix, WSUS, and RIS.
Responded to business-critical emergencies both during and after business hours for trade floor environment, custom production trading systems, back office, and development staff.
Planned and implemented solutions in a production environment.
Administered and maintained SAN and NAS storage infrastructure.
Performed system backups and recovery using EMC NetWorker.

Confidential

Senior Linux System Administrator/Engineer

Responsibilities:

Installed and configured physical and virtual Linux and Solaris servers and their operating systems using RHN Satellite and HP Opsware.
Zoned SAN and create 3PAR virtual volumes for Linux and Solaris servers.
Allocated SAN storage to Linux and Solaris systems with LVM and Veritas Storage Foundation.
Deployed and administered high availability and contingency solutions.
Supported Markets applications testing, deployments, and problem resolution.
Administered enterprise monitoring of server performance, availability, and security.
Administered system backup and recovery solutions with Symantec NetBackup.
Participated in Markets project teams and provided technical expertise/guidance to the Markets business teams.
Interacted with Bank ISF and Audit teams to ensure that the Markets systems are properly maintained, administered, secured, and to engineer corrective solutions if needed.

Confidential

Senior Associate System Administrator

Responsibilities:

Installed, configured, and tuned Solaris, Windows, and Linux physical and virtual servers in accordance with Confidential ’s standard build procedures.
Performed the installation, maintenance, and problem resolution for Solaris, Windows, and Linux based enterprise system software, enterprise server hardware, and SAN storage (disk & tape) products in support of the client's business requirements.
Analyzed, troubleshooted, and resolved Solaris, Windows, Linux, and VMware trouble tickets in a timely and accurate manner.
Created and modified UCS server profiles to the customer’s specifications.
Assisted Oracle DBAs with the installation, support, and performance tuning of Oracle.
Provided 1st and 2nd level support of the NetBackup environment.
Assisted in the maintenance of the NetBackup environment.
Maintained knowledge of new hardware and software developments; evaluated alternative approaches and recommended new software or modifications to enhance operations.
Maintained and supported the Disaster Recovery environment.
Provided on-call 24X7 support.