Senior Systems Engineer Resume
San Diego, CA
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Infrastructure services: Active Directory, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, DFS, MFA, PKI, etc.
Automation and development: PowerShell, Windows and UNIX scripting, Visual Basic, C++, VBScript/ASP, SQL, HTML.
Cloud computing: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Configuration Management: Chef, Puppet, Ansible
Confidential infrastructure: XenApp, Presentation Server, MetaFrame, XenDesktop, XenServer, PVS, RES Workspace Manager, NetScaler and related technologies.
Network infrastructure: Confidential NetScaler, Cisco routers, switches, access points, VPN concentrators, ASA appliances.
Virtualization: VMware ESX, vSphere, Confidential XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V.
Network security and information assurance: hardware and software firewalls, intrusion detection systems, patch management and antivirus systems. Penetration testing and vulnerability analysis.
Messaging: Office 365, Microsoft Exchange 5.5, 2003, 2007, 2010, Blackberry Enterprise Server.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential - San Diego, CA
Senior Systems Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Architected, designed, built and managed a multi-datacenter, highly-available Confidential XenApp environment. Virtualized on VMware vSphere, front-ended by a highly-available NetScaler setup, PVS-provisioned, serving over 10000 concurrent users all around the world.
- Involved in a project to transition the environment and related infrastructure to be hosted in AWS (Amazon Web Services).
- Leveraged PowerShell scripting to automate multiple labor-intensive and error-prone processes and workflows.
- Built customized monitoring and reporting solutions and dashboards to keep business partners and stakeholders informed on the status and performance of the farm and underlying subsystems.
- Developed custom tools to help conclusively pinpoint the source of most performance problems and rule out the Confidential environment as the cause, resulting in drastic reduction of support calls.
- Provided custom tools and training to Service Desk personnel to handle some of the lower level Confidential -related support calls, freeing up the Engineering team’s time.
- Migrated from the legacy PS 4.5 environment to XenApp 6.5 and then to XenApp 7.
- Security hardening of the environment, including MFA (Duo) implementation, patch management, participation in audits, etc.
- All customers and business partners reported a vast increase of satisfaction with the performance and stability of the Confidential environment.
Confidential
Systems Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Planned and participatd in a migration of Confidential applications from Presentation Server 4.5 to XenApp 6.5.
- Automated processes and workflows using PowerShell scripting.
- Analyzed and improved the performance of various applications running on the Confidential XenApp platform.
- Optimized Confidential and Windows policies and Group Policies to improve Farm performance.
Confidential, San Diego, California
Systems Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Designed, installed, configured, administered, secured and supported all aspects of a 24x7 service delivery and information security infrastructure for remote and local users.
- Subject matter expert for Confidential products and underlying platforms and technologies.
- Implemented a thin client infrastructure utilizing Confidential XenApp to deliver applications and desktops to all call center workers, resulting in significant power and management time savings and increased user satisfaction.
- Developed custom software for monitoring and alerting of XenApp sessions’ performance and user experience.
- Consolidated physical servers into Confidential XenServer and VMware ESX-based virtual hosts.
- Optimized, load balanced, and controlled access to Confidential and other applications using Confidential NetScaler appliances.
- Ensured security and healthcare regulations compliance, utilizing technologies including Cisco VPN concentrators and ASA devices, RSA SecurID for MFA, Confidential Secure Gateway and Confidential application servers.
- Performed data backup and offsite data storage duties.
- Participated in business continuity and disaster recovery planning and implementation activities.
- Improved service delivery processes by implementing ITIL principles.