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Principal Infrastructure Architect Resume

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SUMMARY

  • Experience with cloud orchestration using Chef, docker containers and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
  • More than 20 years of IT experience in System engineering with extensive experience in Linux (RHEL 6/5/4), Solaris (10/9/8), SUSE (10.x/9.x/8.x), AIX (5.3) and Windows (2012/2008/2003/2000/ NT) administration.
  • Experience in installing, configuring the Volume/File system management using Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM), Logical Volume Manager (LVM).
  • Extensive experience in installing, configuring and maintaining Application Server like Apache for Windows, IIS for Windows
  • Experience in VMware, LDOMs. Installed and monitored Virtual environments with ESX 3.x/4.x/5.x and Virtual Center 2.x/3.x/4.x.
  • Experience in implementing and monitoring High Availability environment using Veritas Cluster Server, Windows Load Balancing and HP PowerPath.
  • Extensively worked on administering NFS, NIS, NIS+, DNS, DHCP, LDAP, WEP, Mail servers and Samba servers.
  • I installed many Sterling Connect Direct packages. The application was rolled into a custom deployment with a Computer Associates processing tool that the bank uses called Autosys.
  • Occasionally there would be troubleshooting opportunities with the Autosys - CONNECT: Direct load if the installation didn't go well, or the environment needed to be tuned..
  • Installed, implemented and supported Connect Direct for Windows. Authored process scripts for file processing.
  • Installed and deployed Connect Direct File Agent to automate file processing between directories and remote nodes.
  • Experience in User & Security administration, multiple backup & recovery technologies (Snapshots, Disaster Recovery plan) and maintenance of various activities.
  • Expertise in configuring IPMP (IP network MultiPathing), PowerPath, NaviAgent, EMC RAW Devices and Bonding in Linux.
  • Capacity planning and recommending hardware for SAN (Storage Area Network) implementation and replacements.
  • Involved in Data Center Migration for P2P, V2V and P2V environments.
  • Storage experience in managing NAS, EMC storage arrays and Veritas Net Backup administration (VNB).
  • Extensive experience in doing backup to tapes periodically using Crontab.
  • Expertise in monitoring System resources and Kernel parameters to enhance the system performance.
  • Good experience supporting Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) database, which provides highly available database solutions.
  • Extensive experience in Shell (bash, WHS) and knowledge of HTML.
  • Administering operating systems, hardware, and peripheral components, and maintain databases.
  • Expertise in designing and implementing LANs, WAN services and IP Addressing schemes.
  • Ability to work as an individual and as a team member.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

  • Windows NT: 14 years; Windows 2000: 12 years; Windows XP: 10 years; Windows Vista: 4 years; Server NT: 12 years; Server 2000: 8 years; Windows 2003: 5 years, Windows 2008: 4 Years, Windows 2012: 1 year, LAN/WAN: 10+ years, SUSE Enterprise Linux:1 Year, Red Hat Linux:2 Years
  • NetWare 3x/4x/5x: 10 years; Wireless Technology: 5+ years; VMware ESX 3+ years, UNIX: 6+ years; Solaris v6 - 9: 6 years, MPLS, VLAN
  • IBM and HP Blade Technology; 32 and 64 bit, AMD, X86 and RISC based servers;
  • SUN Fire T, V and X Series Servers, SUN Enterprise, 450 and 10000 Servers
  • Laptops, HP 9000, Canon, HP and Lexmark Laser Jet/InkJet printers,
  • Hubs, Switches, Routers, Frame Relay, Modems, Tape Backup Units, ATA Beast
  • HP/Compaq Servers, Dell Servers, IBM Servers, HP EVA SAN, IBM SAN, Hitachi SAN, EMC SAN, Disk Arrays, SAN Fibre switches, Hardware Deployment
  • NFS, NIS, NIS+, DNS
  • Apache For Windows, IIS, Weblogic for Windows, Apache, Tomcat
  • UNIX Shell Scripting, HTML, WSH
  • Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster Service (VCS), Red Hat Cluster Suite, HP Service Guard, Sun Cluster, EMC Storage, VMware ESX, RAID Technologies, Corel Office Suite, DOMINO/LOTUS NOTES, LOTUS cc:Mail, GROUPWISE, MS MAIL, WP MAIL, HP OpenMail, AUTOCAD R10, Cheyenne ArcServe, PROCOMM PLUS, HP Jet Admin, HP OpenView, Veritas Backup Exec, Seagate Backup Exec, Tivoli Storage Manager, QA BACKUP, Norton Antivirus, Norton Internet Security, McAfee VIRUS SCAN, SyGate Firewall, Black Ice Firewall, TripWire IDS, Checkpoint Zone Alarm, Adobe Wireshark, Ghost PE/Enterprise, BMC Monitoring, Vantive (IT Tracking), IBM ManageNOW, BMC/REMEDY, HP Openview, Kubernetes Microservicecs, Tectia Client/Server, Symantect ESM, ITSM
  • Veritas Netbackup 6.x/5.x/4.x, tar, cpio, dd, IBM TSM
  • Oracle 10g/9i/8i, MS SQL Server, IBM solidDB6.5
  • TCP/IP,UDP RIP, FTP, SNMP, OSPF, SMTP, TELNET, DHCP, Ethernet, USB, HTTP, FTP, Token-Ring, Hubs, Switches, Routers, TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, VPN; SNMP, HTTPS, SSH, DNS, SMTP, telnet, NNTP, IGMP, TRACERT, SFTP. Wireless Networking, DSL; Cable, VOIP, ISDN, WEP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Principal Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

  • Align the development of core business capabilities, information assets and technology in response to strategic imperatives
  • Collaborate with the business to evaluate business goals, identify business problems, and propose solutions
  • Drive innovation and proofs of concepts regarding the practical application of next generation technology
  • Leads architecture strategy & planning for large programs - and provides guidance to technical staff across multiple projects
  • Model the enterprise-wide business and technology capabilities to analyze the alignment of business strategies and capabilities with technology strategy and solutions
  • Decompose business strategies and initiatives into actionable multi-year roadmaps, providing clear direction on execution in order to ensure a high return on investment
  • Develop and maintain the centralized repository and artifacts
  • Drive strategic and transitional planning of applications, technology, information and business functions across the enterprise such as cloud, new technology introduction, strategic platform roadmaps, etc.
  • Advised client on the need to implement Access governance, Data Management and Data Lost Prevention policies as a critical part of their architectural solution strategy.
  • Provide direction to internal and external resources during the selection and implementation of business systems
  • Participate in the design of business, information and technology architectures on the basis of cost, functionality and practicality
  • Enable teams to accelerate delivery through adoption of CI tools, best practice coding standards, cloud, etc.
  • Maintain communities of practice surrounding product managers, business analysis and IT architecture
  • Facilitate open communication and fact-based decision making
  • Research, identify, and recommend industry best practices for solving business and technology problems
  • Function with autonomy and demonstrate influence
  • Clarify, define, coordinate and direct the work of others
  • Responsible for Aligning the development of core business capabilities, information assets and technology in response to strategic imperatives
  • Collaborate with the business to evaluate business goals, identify business problems, and propose solutions
  • Drive innovation and proofs of concepts regarding the practical application of next generation technology
  • Provides an application and infrastructure technical perspective per account.
  • Leads architecture strategy & planning for large programs - and provides guidance to technical staff across multiple projects
  • Model the enterprise-wide business and technology capabilities to analyze the alignment of business strategies and capabilities with technology strategy and solutions
  • Decompose business strategies and initiatives into actionable multi-year roadmaps, providing clear direction on execution in order to ensure a high return on investment
  • Develop and maintain the centralized repository and artifacts
  • Drive strategic and transitional planning of applications, technology, information and business functions across the enterprise such as cloud, new technology introduction, strategic platform roadmaps, etc.

ENVIRONMENT: TOGAF, Gartner, Microsoft Technologies, Windows server 200X/2008/2012 R2, ITIL, ITSM, SOX, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Project, MS Visio. Chef, PCI/DSS standards, CIFS, NFS, IBM DS8000 series, EMC frames, NetApp filers, IBM TSM, Veritas technologies, MSSQL workloads, VMWARE, Datacenter architecture.

Confidential

Sr. Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

  • Management of cloud-based server provisioning, microservices implementation
  • Work through design and architecture issues related to the current IT environment.
  • Developed ITSM tactical support documentation for production support teams.
  • Established working relationships with customer, technical staff, and subject matter experts to help create and execute the Midrange, Tools and VMWare roadmap.
  • Data Management, Access Governance and Data Loss Prevention policies included in all Compute Architectural Solution documentation.
  • Required to think strategically about future technology innovations and solutions
  • Responsible for creating designs and build instructions in conjunction with subject matter experts for delivery of typical Midrange and HPC/Midrange servers, monitoring tools deployment and virtualization environment.
  • Provided input into development of business cases and technology estimates.
  • Developed and managed the tasks within the overall work plan
  • Demonstration of in-depth knowledge of business, applications and applied use of technology
  • Excellent written/verbal communication and presentation skills at an executive level
  • Assist with the research and evaluation of new third-party applications, hardware, and services.
  • Responsible for providing hardware/software quotes for all projects.
  • Managed and resolved and designed infrastructure issues.
  • Managed and resolved and designed full stack issues.
  • Performed all work in accordance with established security standards and enforce those established security standards to satisfy compliance requirements (PCI-DSS and Sarbanes-Oxley)

ENVIRONMENT: TOGAF, Zachman, FEA, Gartner, IBM Unified Architecture Method, Microsoft Technologies, Midrange Server migrations, IBM AIX, Red Hat, Kali, Debian, SUSE, Ubuntu, ITIL, ITSM, SOX, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Project, NIS,. Chef, PCI/DSS standards, NAS, Docker, HPC Systems, Sterling Commerce Suite. MSSQL workloads, Oracle environment, SAP HANA Environment, VMWARE, Datacenter architecture, Windows server 200X/2008/2012 R2.

Confidential

Enterprise Automation Consultant

Responsibilities:

  • Application development for integration and connectivity solution for Confidential
  • Developed ITSM tactical support documentation for production support teams.
  • Principal programmer for IBM Sterling Connect Direct Suite
  • Deployment and implementation of Connect Direct for development/SIT, UAT/QA and production lanes
  • Responsible for authoring all scripting for Connect Direct file processing.
  • Responsible for implementing automation of file processing via Connect Direct File Agent.
  • Responsible for designing development, QA and production documentation, illustrating bi-directional data flow and directory structures.
  • Provided input into development of business cases and technology estimates.
  • Developed and managed the tasks within the overall work plan
  • Providing DevOps support with tools such as Subversion, and Git.
  • I demonstrated in-depth knowledge of business, applications and applied use of technology
  • Ability to adhere to Client Project Management governance frame-work.
  • Excellent written/verbal communication and presentation skills at an executive level
  • Perform on-going server and security audits.
  • Assist with the establishment of distributed systems/application security controls to ensure information contained on the organizations Interchange environment is secure and protected.
  • Managed and resolved Enterprise Application issues.
  • Performed all work in accordance with established security standards and enforce those established security standards to satisfy compliance requirements (PCI-DSS and Sarbanes-Oxley)

ENVIRONMENT: Microsoft Technologies, IBM Sterling Connect Direct for Windows, IBM Sterling Connect Direct File Agent, MSSQL workloads, VMWARE, Datacenter architecture, Windows server 200X/2008/2012 R2.ITIL, SOX, IBM ManageNow, MS Visio, MS Excel, MS Project, MS Visio, Project Management, PCI/DSS standards, Git, Subversion

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