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Consultant - Devops Engineer Resume

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Boston, MA

SUMMARY

  • Over fifteen years experience in the field of Information Technology in roles all across the field, systems architecture, software development, release engineering, continuous integration, systems and network management and engineering.
  • Expertise with Amazon Web Services, Intel based hardware, Linux & Windows Operating Systems, Java, Python, Ruby & PHP Software Engineering.
  • Exceptional troubleshooting, training and documentation skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Environments: Linux (RHEL / CentOS / Debian / Ubuntu), All Windows OS and Active Directory, Mac OS X, Cisco IOS, VMware ESX, Citrix Xen. Also familiar with MacOS/9, IBM Z/OS, Sun OS 4, Solaris 6,7,8,9 Free BSD, AIX

Hardware: Dell PowerEdge Servers, HP Proliant Servers, Cisco PIX / ASA, Cisco Catalyst Core Switches, SonicWall Firewalls, Juniper Redline Loadballancers, Juniper Netscreen Firewalls, workstation class hardware from Dell, HP, NEC, IBM.

Cloud Experience: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Rackspace Cloud

Container technology: Docker, Amazon Web Services ECS

Datastores: MongoDB, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle 8i & 9i, 11g and Access Also familiar with Postgres

Other Software: SolarWinds IP Monitor and Orion, Servers Alive, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Hadoop (MapR/Cloudera/Apache Classic), Photoshop, Apache Lucene, ElasticSearch, Katta, Emacs, IIS, Apache httpd Server and Tomcat, Installshield, Quickbooks, Gomez web performance tools, FreeRadius, ISC BIND, ProBIND, Wireshark & tcpdump / pcap library, nmap, rsynch, Exchange / 2007, eRoom, SalesLogix, BlackBerry Enterprise Svr, Symantec Enterprise Vault, Symantec Anti - Virus, Sophos Anti-virus, Nagios, curl, wget, winexe Also familiar with memcached, Zabbix, Cacti, Load Runner

SDLC Experience: Jenkins, Git, Github, Stash, SVN, Capistrano

Protocols: TCP/IP, SSH, DNS, SNMP, DHCP, WINS, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP3, SSL/TLS, IPSEC

Programming Languages: Ruby, Java, Python, PHP, C#.Net, JavaScript (with JQuery), HTML, JSP, ASP classic Also familiar with C++, VBA, Basic, Visual Basic, C.

Programming IDEs/Tools: Visual Studio, Eclipse, gcc, gdb, emacs, Dreamweaver, Homesite, TextPad, JBuilder, firebug

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Boston, MA

Consultant - DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

  • Moved all Ops scripts to git and set standards and trained the team on how to commit, pull request and review
  • Set up system and application monitoring for newrelic
  • Introduced Vagrant for testing, trained staff
  • Introduced Ansible for orchistration and trained staff
  • Converted manual tasks to both Chef and Ansible
  • Creating backlog stories / project plans for the re-architecture of services and applications running on bare metal to the cloud.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Consultant - DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

  • Swept 6 environments fixing various puppet errors and imperfections
  • Re-architecture of application stack for moves from bare metal to the cloud
  • Helping Developers create and troubleshoot Jenkins jobs
  • Planning and re-architecture of puppet environment to utilize hiera, facts, and continuous integration testing and deployment
  • Spearheading the Ops team to work with branching, pull requests and code reviews
  • Writing deployment and orchestration scripts in Ansible
  • Monitoring with Icinga, AppNeta, and Ganglia

Confidential, Boston, MA

Consultant - Software Engineer, DevOps

Responsibilities:

  • Redesigned Puppet architecture to for hiera and catalog delivery based on Facter custom facts
  • Built unit tests and integration tests in Vagrant run as Jenkins jobs for testing puppet changes
  • Writing deployment scripts in bash and ruby utilizing aws cli and ruby aws-sdk and fog
  • Application stack and AWS instance troubleshooting
  • Monitorring with Zabbix, AppDynamics and Cloudwatch

Confidential, Boston, MA

Consultant - Linux / Tools / Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

  • Constructed Database Schema (MySQL) to store information for over 1000 servers spread across 3 datacenters, populated and updated primarily by automated scripts.
  • Architected Chef Server, wrote cookbooks and recipes for Operational Linux configuration.
  • Set up Cobbler for automated Linux kickstart build automation.
  • Worked with Security Architect to implement a company wide standard for Red Hat Linux 6 hardening. Wrote Chef cookbooks/recipes to implement hardening on production machines.
  • Worked closely with development team in an agile / DevOps environment
  • Trained Senior and Junior engineers in Linux concepts such as troubleshooting, best practices.
  • Assisted and Trained junior engineers with quick and dirty tasks, scripting, SQL queries

Confidential, Bedford, NH

Consultant - Production EngineerT

Responsibilities:

  • Team member involved with migration from a 100+ Linux node of Apache Hadoop indexed by Katta Lucene to a 100+ Linux node MapR Hadoop indexed by Elastic Search
  • Set up monitoring systems for the Buzz product with Nagios and monit.
  • Worked with remote hands datacenter personal to provide support for hardware level alerts and maintenances.
  • Proactively and reactively monitored the product for health and availability.
  • MySQL tuning, SQL query tuning, Linux OS tuning
  • Wrote puppet recipes for config management
  • Set standards on operational documentation for the Buzz product.
  • Led the search and hiring of a full-time Operations team lead in the NH office

Confidential, Cambridge, MA

Consultant - Lab Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

  • Built custom alerting software in C# to extend the capabilities of the existing shrink-wrapped solution
  • Architected Linux “jump” server to connect to each scientific Linux workstation
  • Lab IT representative for company wide Centrify deployment project tasked with deployment, user training, and automated installation of Centrify client to scientific Linux workstations and servers.
  • Architected 3-step database backed method to change UID ownership of over 1,000,000 inodes across 8 storage devices using PHP-cli and MySQL.

Confidential, Burlington, MA

Consultant - Linux Engineer

Responsibilities:

  • Writing and Deploying Puppet recipes to automate administration tasks across multiple machines
  • Writing and Deploying custom nagios checks to alert on known problems.
  • Supporting multiple product environments working directly with software engineers with release engineering and application support.
  • Using monitoring and trending tools such as Nagios, Munin, Ganglia, and Cloudera
  • Providing Tier 3 support working with teams in India and England.

Confidential, Lexington, MA

Engineer, Network Operations

Responsibilities:

  • Writing, debugging and assisting other engineers with “quick and dirty” scripts in vbs, perl, bash, powershell and Windows batch
  • Primary Systems Engineer for all Linux related tickets and projects.
  • Tool Development to automate administrative tasks in Java and PHP
  • Assisting and mentoring Windows Engineers and junior engineers with Linux tasks
  • Primary Engineer involved in migration of Linux/ISC BIND DNS to InfoBlox devices.
  • Working with technologies: Cisco 5510 Firewalls, HP Proliant Servers, RHEL 4.x, 5.x; Windows Server family, Clustered SQL Servers 2005, IIS, Apache HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat, VMware ESX 2.x, 3.x, Workstation, Server, Citrix XenServer 5.5
  • Responsible for maintenance, monitoring, reporting, software engineering and task automation of customer facing FTP feed system.
  • Assisting Engineering in China office with Cisco firewall deployments and other IT tasks
  • Monitoring software and hardware both proactively and reactively in a complex environment consisting of over 300 co-locations worldwide.
  • Working with network engineers and “remote hands” engineers at co-located sites to troubleshoot equipment and network performance
  • Provide support in Spanish to support in Latin American co-locations

Confidential, Concord, MA

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

  • Consultation of IT expertise to non-technical management.
  • Responsible for the day-to-day computing needs of multiple small businesses.
  • Working with the client company to define IT standards, deal with access control, and introduction to new technologies that would apply to their firm.
  • Researching and working with the latest technologies, such as IP Telephony, Windows 2008, Exchange 2007, Red Hat Enterprise Server 5, Cisco networking solutions

Confidential, Lexington, MA

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

  • Monitoring eCommerce portal and responding to arising problems.
  • Performing system upgrades, and troubleshooting and off-hour maintenance on systems.
  • Active member of the code release process, deploying patches and full releases to the production environment
  • Off hours end user IT support for remote offices in Spain and the Netherlands.
  • Developing tools in Java, PHP and VBS to support IT Systems Administration
  • Developed and managed a DB backed web application (Java/SQL Server) for IT task management and change logs
  • Troubleshooting Exchange 2003 / Blackberry issues

Confidential, Boston, MA

IT Manager / Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

  • Managed Windows 2003 & 2000 Servers including upgrades, backups, break/fix
  • Introduced VMware to the Boston and NY community and pushed it into the development culture, conducted training sessions, built and maintained a library of pre-built VMware workstation environments
  • Upgraded Exchange Email system from and all clients to Outlook 2003
  • Installed SUS management system to ensure all machines were patched up to date
  • Worked with Confidential consultants to come up with creative solutions to meet their IT needs at client sites, including working with a client to establish a site to site VPN
  • Installed Hyperion development environments
  • Responsible for Avaya phone system with Intuity Audix and upgrades such as call forwarding and POP3 Message Manager
  • Architected and set up the IT infrastructure at the new office in New York, NY
  • Created and maintained IT Helpdesk website to answer some basic FAQs, information on development server environment

Confidential, Cambridge MA

PC Support Technician

Responsibilities:

  • Supporting, troubleshooting and maintaining desktop and PC's in a heterogeneous Windows 98/NT/2000/XP environment managed with Active Directory (mixed mode)
  • Installing software, hardware and peripherals on PC’s and laptops
  • Using Symantec Ghost loading Windows Operating system configurations, creation and maintenance of scripts for bootable ghost CD/disks
  • VPN client support including setup and troubleshooting connectivity and permissions issues of 200 off site employees
  • Systems backup, LAN support, printer support
  • Inventory control of all PCs, laptops, peripherals using in-house application created with ASP/SQL Server
  • Documentation contributor of on-going online IT Best Practices manual and Knowledge Base
  • Experience with virus detection, troubleshooting, eliminating and documentation aided by Symantec Anti-Virus Corporate Edition
  • Assisted with IIS web programming writing ASP code front-end to Oracle back-end. sendmail troubleshooting part of team to design and implement an internal application using Java Servlets, JSP, HTML with PL/SQL and Java stored procedures creating a user friendly environment interfacing with 2 different external systems
  • Oracle chief programmer and database administrator for 2 existing internal applications
  • Built and Maintained Installers for new and existing products using Installshield Multiplatform (Java version), and Korn Shell for Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Windows and RedHat Linux
  • Tested product Installations on various platforms and documented recommended adjustments
  • Automated manual FTP and compression procedures for media delivery process and notification using Java
  • Designed a complex user-friendly application in VBA/Access to monitor media shipments, dates, versioning that became a primary tool for development, shipping and finance departments.
  • Researched and tested Java Stored Procedures for Oracle for the company

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