Senior Systems Engineer Resume
North, CarolinA
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Operating Systems and Software: Oracle Solaris (10/11), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6/7 (Oracle OEL), Satellite 5/6, Microsoft Windows Server 2008/2012, Oracle VM Manager (OVM), Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c, VMware vSphere (vCenter, ESXi), Symantec/InfoScale Veritas Storage Foundation and exposure to numerous other languages and applications.
Hardware: Oracle X series and SPARC T series servers, Oracle Exadata and Database Appliance, HP DL Series and HP Blade Chassis, Cisco UCS servers, Dell PowerEdge servers and exposure to other data center equipment.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, North Carolina
Senior Systems Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Member of Infrastructure Standards team responsible for the following:
- Provide standardization for RHEL 6.8 / 7.2, Windows 2012 and Solaris 11.3 OS images, including file system layout, installed packages, security/bug fixes and hardening.
- Test, verify and roll out new images for both VMs and bare metal devices.
- Verify that new/existing/updated tools are compatible with existing infrastructure.
- Obtain, test and implement new versions of applications.
- Create and maintain validation checklists, and other documentation, used by Planning, Build and Operations groups for quality assurance.
- Maintain Satellite and kickstart servers used for patching and deployments.
Confidential, Charlotte, North Carolina
Data Center Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Data center physical planning: coordinate installation of all data center equipment, power, cooling and cabling.
- Build - out of new high availability data center from the ground up.
- Involved with all aspects of data floor maintenance, including power utilization, vendor management, asset inventory, network cabling requests, IMAC activities and scheduling changes.
- Work with the customer and on-site vendors to troubleshoot, diagnose and resolve all issues.
Confidential, Charlotte, North Carolina
Senior Field Technician
Responsibilities:
- Sun Partner Engineer providing OEM system support, including break/fix and proactive maintenance.
- Install, upgrade, configure and maintain Sun equipment in a multi-customer data center.
- Work with the customer and backline support to troubleshoot, diagnose and resolve all issues.
Confidential, Charlotte, North Carolina
Field Engineer II
Responsibilities:
- Provided hardware support in a multi-system environment, including Sun, HP, Compaq, IBM, Dell and
- Stratus.
- Racked, upgraded and configured servers. This included installing O/S, upgrading/adding parts, and running utilities to verify hardware functionality.
- Worked with help desk, backline support and other groups to troubleshoot, diagnose and resolve all equipment issues.
- Managed parts inventory from third party vendors including ordering of parts, shipping/receiving and maintaining inventory database.
- Member of on-call rotation providing 24x7 support.
Confidential, Charlotte, North Carolina
Systems Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Provided on-site break/fix and hardware support on over 300 Dell servers, storage units and tape libraries. This included diagnosing hardware issues, ordering and shipping parts and replacing hardware.
- Maintained firmware levels on all servers, storage units and tape libraries.
- Worked with client Hardware Services, Customer Representatives and System Administrators to resolve system issues.
- Provided 24/7 on call support.
Confidential, Charlotte, North Carolina
Network Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Added/maintained users, documentation and functionality on a Windows Web Server. This included utilizing FrontPage, Dreamweaver, Visio, Paint Shop Pro and Adobe Acrobat to create/update procedures used by operations and engineers.
- Responsible for adding/deleting users and assigning their levels of authority to access network routers utilizing Tacacs on a UNIX platform.
- Performed Cisco router configuration backups and monthly enable password changes.
- Generated all monthly reports for Charlotte site using JCL programs, TSO and Excel spreadsheets.
- Configured and troubleshot modem dial-up connectivity for customers in the event that their primary circuit was unavailable.
- Scheduled, tested, troubleshot and reported on router and frad dial-up solutions.
- Network Technician
- Identified and resolved network communication problems.
- Monitored, troubleshot and maintained equipment, in multiple environments, including SNA, Frame
- Relay, switched 56, and ISDN.
- Escalated outages to appropriate vendors and tracked the progress of the outage through Vantive TEMS and PTR ticketing systems.
Confidential, Charlotte, North Carolina
Senior Computer Operator
Responsibilities:
- Oversaw operational activities and provided technical leadership to MVS, Batch, TPF and Network
- Operations personnel.
- Ensured that the staff understood and met customer service level agreements.
- Addressed customer problems and needs. Investigated, corrected and reported on issues within
