PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Sr systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• The Senior System Engineer designs, installs, configures, implements and supports all aspects of the server infrastructure environments, providing technical guidance and oversight and acting as a point of escalation and technical support.
• Job Functions
• Architecture Vision and Direction: Develops, documents, communicates, and enforces systems standards, policies, and procedures for standardizing systems assets
• Analyzes system performance and provides preventative maintenance while providing maximum availability of physical and virtual servers (e.g. new software releases, upgrades, evaluation and installation of patches)
• Works towards providing a fully redundant high availability infrastructure at all times
• Ensures that backup/recovery plans are tested regularly and backup/recovery procedures are implemented
• Develops automation scripts and programs to streamline manual operations and reduce manpower requirement in maintenance and monitoring activities
• Ability to: Translate logical designs into physical designs taking account of target environment, performance, security requirements and existing systems
• Produce detailed designs and document all work using required standards, methods and tools, including prototyping tools where appropriate
• Ability to: Analyze service and component availability, reliability, maintainability and serviceability
• Validate that services and components meet and continue to meet all of their agreed performance targets and service levels
• Make a significant contribution to the investigation, diagnosis and resolution of infrastructure problems
• Working experience in advanced scripting languages
• Working experience in cloud computing concepts particularly related to IaaS and PaaS approaches.
• Performs Confidential Operating System lifecycle management
• Working experience designing, integrating, monitoring and managing end - to-end Confidential infrastructure
• Working experience wif Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat Directory Server, DNS, Fiber Attached Storage, Kerberos, Red Hat Ansible

Confidential - Tampa, FL

Confidential Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills, able to work wifout depending on others, ability to meet deadlines and handle conflicting priorities. Good team building and team management skills & motivational personality.
• Design, deploy and maintenance of heterogeneous environment wif multiple flavors of OS, high availability solutions and disaster recovery.
• Expertise in Virtualization and automation. - Migrated 1200+ servers from AIX/Solaris to Confidential .
• Knowledge on storage, backup tools.
• Maintains understanding of existing DTCC applications and technology solutions for leveraging the reuse of services and for the consolidation of services.
• Identifies and researches opportunities to leverage emerging UNIX tools to the betterment of the DTCC environment.
• Develops and documents architecture solutions, including designs, guidelines and UNIX-specific standards for enterprise-wide implementation.
• Leads and enables collaboration across technology specialties - ensures that ADM, Infrastructure, Information Security and Architecture are all working together.
• Supports adherence to relevant ADM/CMMI, ITIL, internal audit, and risk-management standards.
• Maintains understanding of emerging architecture concepts and methods and associated technology trends.
• Participates in the design, specification, and implementation of business and technology projects, assuring and resolving adherence to enterprise-wide solutions.
• Provides guidance and leadership for DTCC’s UNIX technology standardization process
• Implements and customizes UNIX projects per specifications.
• Conceptualize and design next generation Confidential Operating Platform, inclusive Application Integration and Porting from Unix, Lifecycle Management and Operations.
• Develop Confidential Operating Platform roadmap. Analyze and recommend emerging Confidential technologies that can provide benefit while reducing risk.
• Provide Confidential Platform architecture guidance, research technical issues; publish standards, best practices, white papers and solutions. Conduct proof-of-concept exercises to validate concepts and assumptions.
• Act as the Confidential Platform “subject matter expert” by providing technical leadership across all IT disciplines.

OS: Red Hat EL 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x Confidential LE 11.x,12.x, CentOS 5x,6x,7x, Solaris 8, 9, 10,11, VMware ESX, Ansible, Windows 2010-2016

Hardware/Tools: Oracle RAC/ASM,EMC, Splunk, IBM Shark

Confidential,Charlotte, NC

Sr Confidential Technical

Responsibilities:

• Working wif Xen & VMware on a daily basis. EMC, NetApp, Fuji, Verari, HP platforms.
• 85 applications such as Fortify, Subversion, cvsnt, Anthill, Confluence, Crucible/Fisheye, Sonatype nexus pro, etc.
• Levanta, San Mateo, CA, Sr Solutions Engineer-Dec 2005 - Jan 2007 (Company Closed)
• Services Group, Which Includes Sales, Support & Consulting.
• Travel to companies around the world doing presentation, demos and POC's on Levanta's Confidential Management appliance.
• Handle the support and Implementation of all customers on EAST COAST and EUROPE. Worked wif EMC, Netapp, IBM, HP, Dell, And many others.
• Handle the transition of moving all Confidential to Confidential on the desktop. As well as all Confidential technical questions and issues from Sales, Marketing, IT, software development.
• Oversee and advise sales team, sales engineers, marketing, IT on how to convert current windows/solairs/hp-ux/netware users to Confidential, from desktop thru the data center.
• Guide software development on what Confidential software needs created for the market.
• Travel to customer locations through out the world on technical Confidential calls and presentations.
• Create White Papers and Tech Documents for Sales and Customers.
• Work wif Customers on Migrations from UNIX/WINDOWS and other Confidential distros over to Confidential Confidential . Customer locations to assist wif migrations to Confidential .
• Perform planning and deployment of Open Source Software infrastructure including: Requirements analysis, Confidential /OSS Migration planning, Confidential Migration Cost/Benefit analysis, Implementation Planning, Application integration, Security assessments.