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Sr Devops Engineer
Medallies•  March 2018 - Present
-Audit & certify accreditation of cloud workloads to meet industry standards for HIPAA. -Mitigate & resolve HITRUST CSF & RHEL 6/7 CIS Benchmarks Hardening per HIPAA compliance -Build CI/CD bash, Ansible, docker, Jenkins, SonarQube, JFrog, bitbucket, rancher, k8s pipes -Deploy load balanced bash to test/stage/production via F5 BIG-IP with zero downtime (HA) -Generate hosts overview with Ansible-cmdb (Ansible Configuration Management Database) -Monitor by Nagios, CloudWatch & HIPAA log retentions for six years (log rotate & Glacier) -Program & script in languages such as bash/zsh, Bourne shell, Python, Ruby, Java, Perl, C++ -Identify and evaluate new solutions for data centers operations in VMware vCenter 6/6.5 -Write AWS route 53 scripts to add/delete Hosted Zones records for MX lookup and bind -Create cron jobs to check endpoints missing SSL certificates and alert business analyst as fit -Run Linux Patch mgmt via Spacewalk and Linux SME of many Vmware servers and AWS EC2 -Tweak tomcat 7/8/9 performance of single JVM to resolve catalina and java James crashes -Automate & deploy James/Tomcat webapps servers cycle: DEV, QA, Test, Stage, & Prod -Clone or deploy Vmware/AWS servers on demand for sandboxes or QA/Test/Stage/ Prod -Work with DEV/QA/Test/Stage/PRD on daily scrums for new tool/env needs & unblock DEV -Execute cyber security hardening on CVE vulnerabilities & kernel mitigations accordingly -Deploy Ansible to Portal/API by cloning repo then rsync dir. tree to Apache root dir. Jenkins -Update CRM cases & RFC (Salesforce Ranger), JIRA issues, and write many Confluence pages -Script Certificate Authority by renewing expired OpenSSL certificates bash/Perl 5 cron job -Knowledge of TCP/IP, DHCP, VPNs, DNS, bind 9, load balancing & firewalls (Cisco ASA, F5) -Lead effectively across org. & engagements, strong verbal & written comm. skills bilingual -Backup & restore Nakivo (files/dirs) & vCenter snapshots & VMware upgrade 6/6.5/ 6.7
Sr Devops Engineer
Intelligent Microsystems•  December 2015 - March 2018
-Experience in DevOps (Site Reliability E) & Systems Engineering II on several flavors of Linux -Automate deployment of all resources related to Development & Ops as sole RHEL SME -Know Python very well but very passionate about learning new languages (ruby) & tools -Use Ansible to automate on demand day to day system administration of corp. infrastructure -Love researching & implementing monitoring solutions for diverse architectural problems -Manage AWS for the customer projects including configuration & deployment of live tasks -Configure and deploy with most components of AWS console (EC2, EFS, RDS, S3, ROUTE 53) -Acquire ability to deliver sessions and conduct fit workshops on various flavors of technologies -Solve Linux issues with StackOverflow, ServerFault, StackExchange, SuperUser, rhel community -Attend DevOps Days and VelocityConfs to taking major part in active community discussions -Deploy all required infrastructure, administrative tasks, and budgeting & execution of projects
Sr Linux System Admin
OpenText Corporation•  May 2005 - December 2015
-Install Red Hat Satellite 6 & configure katello to facilitate PaaS & SaaS update automatically -Work with teams to resolve tickets on priority through defined process & escalation matrix -Setup new employees (useradd & groupadd) & remove old employees (userdel -r, groupdel) -Create backup & restore tapes using shell (tapes back & forth from data center Iron Mountain) -Provide enterprise-wide intl infrastructure support for very complex systems & technologies -Use NetApp On-command System Manager to allocate NFS for datastores in VMware vCenter -Maintain virtualization, Netbackup, Enterprise Sun LDAP & legacy applications compatibility -Automate root password for more than 2000+ servers in US., CA, EU, Australia & Asia-PAC -Manage quarterly shutdown of 1000+ servers: hardware, patches & updates, then boot up -Deploy several VMware servers on demand & maintain & tweak (disk, mem, cpu: performance) -Automate update of VMware Tools on all servers in Linux & Solaris aer vCenter upgrade -Maintain Prod/QA/Dev backups which included adding/removing clients Legato/Networker -Travel to DC1 (Co-Loc) site for quarterly maintenance hardware: disk, mem, cpu, cpu fans -Use Remedy system to troubleshoot issues on all Linux/Unix servers and storage servers -Write Korn shell & tcl scripts to automate day to day processes, procedures, & escalations -Implement On-Call availability 24/7 one week every month with a group of 4 Sr. Sysadmins -Update SUN Solaris patches & Linux YUM updates on a quarterly basis & Sun Solaris 10 support -Carry into effect scripts for day to day Remedy ticket issues & Veritas Cluster administration
Education
Monmouth University, West Long Branch
Computer Science, BS•  1996 - 1999
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