SUMMARY

• Accomplished systems and network engineer with an emphasis on virtualization, automation and scalable solutions.
• A self - motivated individual with a continuing commitment to learning new technologies and how they can be leveraged to increase efficiency and agility in an evolving market.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Redhat Enterprise Linux
• Ubuntu
• Cisco Unified Computing Systems (UCS)
• Cisco UCS Director
• Agile Project Management Methodologies
• BGP Configuration and Troubleshooting
• VMware
• Nagios
• Cloud Platforms
• Powershell
• Python
• Windows Server
• Juniper Firewalls
• Layer 2 Network Equipment
• PowerCLI
• Storage Configuration

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Systems Engineer III

Responsibilities:

• Maintained a mid-size enterprise VMware-based compute environment built on Cisco UCS spanning several datacenters and over 8,000 virtual machines
• Developed hands-free, fully automated VMware ESXi host provisioning, updating and maintenance using vRealize Operations and Cisco UCS
• Developed a REST API service using Python to receive alerts triggered from vRealize Operations and submit an automated remediation request to the Cisco UCS Director orchestration platform
• Executed a vSphere upgrade project spanning dozens of vCenter environments and hundreds of hosts
• Developed automation to configure VMware Host Profiles using Powershell and the vSphere API
• Worked directly with vendors to ensure best-practice implementation of new products and features
• Developed automation for provisioning VLANs to compute resources on a Cisco UCS and vSphere stack
• Deployed, configured and tuned vRealize Business for Cloud, integrating it with the existing vRealize Operations infrastructure
• Evangelized Agile project management and developed a sprinting framework and training aligned with the organizational goals
• Utilized Git as a platform for coding collaboration
• Developed and maintained a library of custom tools in Powershell used by members of the compute team
• Managed and configured VMware auto-deploy rules, custom ESXi images and host profiles

Confidential

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided network and systems engineering services to customers across a global multitenancy cloud infrastructure with an organizational emphasis on automation, efficiency and DevOps methodologies
• Participated in weekly project sprints with efforts to provide continuous delivery of tools and features from the backlog
• Served as the subject matter expert for all custom network connectivity configurations and options in a cloud environment spanning over a dozen datacenters across the globe
• Developed Python scripts for monitoring and reporting of IDS/IPS logs
• Safely provided stability upgrades for layer 2 network device firmware in production and development environments
• Engineered custom network connectivity solutions including provisioning cross connections, site to site VPN tunnels and MPLS solutions on Juniper SRX hardware
• Provided guided troubleshooting and consulting for customer side network configurations
• Deployed hybrid cloud network solutions between Confidential and other cloud providers(Azure, AWS)
• Developed automation to generate complex firewall configurations quickly and efficiently
• Served as a senior level engineering resource for issue escalation and cross-training
• Defined the processes for importing custom VMware images of customer Windows, Redhat and Debian Linux virtual machines
• Provided disaster recovery testing to validate processes and off-site Veeam backup replication
• Developed automation to deploy virtual appliances and remotely generate base configurations
• Deployed dedicated Citrix Netscaler VPX load balancers and assisted customers with setup and configuration

Confidential

Sr. Monitoring Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with agile development team to engineer infrastructure management solutions
• Integrated cross datacenter monitoring resulting in a globally centralized NOC
• Developed custom monitoring scripts to ensure quick remediation of any application issues

Confidential

Open Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented Nagios monitoring solution targeting a monitoring gap on over 1200 hosts and 4000 services
• Maintained and administered 1000+ guest VMware farm including an upgrade rollout from vSphere 4.1 to 5.0
• Served as primary EMC Avamar administrator supporting database, file system and VMware image level backups
• Supported time sensitive customer go-live projects including an 80+ server datacenter migration in a 72-hour window
• Developed a project to convert physical servers to virtual machines resulting in reduced operational expenditure
• Provided top-level support escalation on Windows and Redhat Linux based servers and clients
• Standardized Windows VMware templates to increase workflow efficiency and accuracy
• Created and maintained monitoring, reporting and deployment scripts written in VBscript, Python and Powershell
• Maintained and configured Xsigo virtual I/O InfiniBand fabric for VMware farm
• Assisted in hosted customer onboarding and upgrade projects including 250+ Windows and Linux server builds
• Managed enterprise wide quarterly patching process using WSUS and Group Policy
• Provided applicant screening and employee training for new infrastructure team members
• Participated in 24/7 engineering on-call rotation for escalation of critical issues
• Successfully recovered off-site customer environments following disaster declarations meeting recovery time objectives
• Provisioned storage from EMC and IBM SANs to VMware and physical hosts