Rawiri Blundell

System Engineer at Radium
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Wellington Region, New Zealand, NZ
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Tibor Incze

Rawiri's a detail oriented person who's not daunted by large or complex tasks. He's also very knowledgable and seeks out solutions to problems that others often give up on. Tibor

Edmund Hintz

Rawiri consistently performed to a very high standard at eSG, regularly and routinely performing many tasks one would normally expect from more senior staff. He displayed a particularly good ability to find excellent technical solutions for the varying problems of the organization, quite often very cost effective compared to more mainstream options. This made him a very valuable asset to the IT team, and will no doubt serve him well in new positions.

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Credentials

  • RHCSA (RHEL7)
    Red Hat
    Nov, 2015
    - Nov, 2024
  • Master Installer - Structured Cabling
    ADC Krone
    Apr, 2011
    - Nov, 2024

Experience

  • Radium
    • New Zealand
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • System Engineer
      • Jul 2021 - Present

      Responsible for maintaining and enhancing existing systems, as well as being deeply involved in a cloud migration project (AWS). Survived a DDOS and improved security practices across the business. MS365/AAD On-prem AD VMWare 6.7 and 7 Windows 2012, 2016, 2019 Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, 20.04 System patching and migration away from EOL versions Amazon Linux 2, Amazon Linux 2023 Synology NAS Lenovo SAN Veeam B&R S3 and B2 cloud storage Fortigate firewalls Atlassian stack - Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket Some support of Dev systems including Jenkins, Nexus and Artifactory Thales Payshield HSM appliances Introduced Yubikeys Introduced Tailscale Show less

  • REANNZ Ltd.
    • New Zealand
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Systems Engineer/Linux Systems Administrator
      • Dec 2019 - Jul 2021

      Responsible for first tier upwards support, systems stability and improvements. Picked up and delivered on backburner projects and undertook proactive improvements such as * Build, documentation and deployment of on-prem Zoom meeting connector appliances * Deployment of new backup servers with no impact to service * VMWare vSphere and ESXi upgrades * Ubuntu OS upgrades across the server fleet (hardware, VM, LXC containers) to ensure everything is within support windows * Patch management on external facing OpenBSD hosts * Configuration of new Dell EMC SAN infrastructure * Reconfigured Salesforce for SSO authentication * Contributions towards git codebase, both for Ansible and shell scripts * Overhaul of onboarding process including scripting of Macbook setups * Completely replaced manual VPN setup process with scripted process * Proposed and implemented improvements to security standards * Contributed to solution discussions * Contributed to documentation upkeep Gained experience in * MacOS and iOS support, managed via Meraki MDM. * box.com administration * Google workspaces administration * Zoom administration * Yubikey management Show less

  • Datacom
    • New Zealand
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Site Reliability Engineer
      • Jul 2019 - Dec 2019

      Acting as a bridge between automation technologies and traditional customer support teams. Taking customer requirements and business information and (re)designing complex automation solutions. Commitment to Agile delivery with a focus on automation toolsets and DevOps approach.

    • Unix Systems Administrator
      • Jul 2011 - Dec 2019

      Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, 6 and 7, Ubuntu LTS Server, Oracle Linux and Solaris 8, 9 and 10.Exposure to AWS and Azure cloud environments.Ansible + git based configuration management and orchestration.Attained RHCSA (RHEL7) certification with a 300/300 grade (Nov 2015). Have since completed multiple RedHat Ansible and RedHat Automation training courses, as well as Datacom internal training.Administration of HP Blade based hardware, Sun E15K, E25K, M4000 and a range of V* and T* Sunfire equipment.Early adopter/advocate/evangelist for Ansible, first working with it as a POC in September 2012. Aided colleagues with up-skilling, worked proactively across silos to reduce duplication of effort, and to collaborate on aligning strategies and standards.Exposure to administrating Control-M orchestration.Engaged in service improvements on own initiative.Developed and managed 20% time initiative within my immediate team for service improvements, resulting in reduced overheads, increased customer satisfaction and increased job performance.Managed reactive response to security flaws such as POODLE, Heartbleed etc and proactively went above and beyond by managing threat mitigation for BEAST, FREAK and CRIME vulnerabilities, and others.Managed RHEL patching and played a lead role in implementation of configuration management and standardisation.Created Shell Scripting Guideline best practice document, championed the use of git and gitlab, and took a lead development role for an in-house config auditing tool.Developed and documented a suite of checks to supplement Datacom's monitoring platform. Built Ansible role for deploying and managing the configuration of this suite.Led ELK v Graylog proof of concept project.Participated in on-call roster and out-of-hours changes/projects. Routinely volunteered for after-hours work.Working in environments requiring national security clearance and background checks. Show less

  • Ministry of Health New Zealand
    • New Zealand
    • Government Administration
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • IT Contractor
      • Apr 2011 - Jul 2011

      Short term contract work aiding with an organisation wide SOE/Hardware refresh project. Experience gained with Lotus Notes and asset management, as well as brushing up on Windows based scripting skills. Short term contract work aiding with an organisation wide SOE/Hardware refresh project. Experience gained with Lotus Notes and asset management, as well as brushing up on Windows based scripting skills.

  • Hutt Valley DHB
    • Hospitals and Health Care
    • 400 - 500 Employee
    • Server Engineer [linux/unix]
      • Apr 2010 - Apr 2011

      *Primarily BAU log parsing and break-fix *IBA Patient Management administration running on Informix / HP-UX *Red Hat, SUSE, Solaris and Novell OES Server Administration + Support *VMware, ESX, GSX and VirtualCentre monitoring *1st through 3rd level support system Improved server room efficiency by championing the install of a strip curtain to provide a physical barrier between hot and cold rows. This led to an immediate 14kWh power consumption drop, i.e. a third of the cooling bill. Oversaw the upgrade of the dual redundant UPSes for both the primary and secondary server rooms. Oversaw the installation of ASCO Switches to give transformer level power redundancy. Responsibility for getting all UPSes networked and configured for alerting. Took a leading role in the design of a new primary server room, with a mind to pending OSH standards and futureproofing for growth while maintaining the core concepts of efficiency and subsequent low operating cost. Grew professionally, honing bash/ksh/sh scripting abilities, often to work around areas where HP-UX was lacking. Show less

  • Araneo Wireless
    • Wellington, New Zealand
    • Linux Administrator
      • Oct 2009 - Apr 2010

      6 Month contract. Responsibility for migrating legacy hardware to a Xen environment, moving authentication to an LDAP directory (using 389 Directory), improving monitoring systems, upkeep of backup systems, and performance tuning of primarily PostGres databases with a couple of MySQL databases as well. Primarily a Debian Linux environment with one CentOS Server running Zimbra mail services. Kept systems up to date with kernel/distro updates, managed the Zimbra based mail system, as well as gaining exposure to Mikrotik and Harris Stratex equipment. On self initiative, documentation was created to fill in documentation gaps left by the previous Systems Administrator. Spent 3 months focused on the critical task of overhauling a faulty, yet crucial, SMS paging system, making it robust and failover capable. Show less

  • eServGlobal
    • France
    • Telecommunications
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Systems Administrator
      • Apr 2007 - Sep 2009

      Responsible for building/supporting Solaris development platforms (incl Jumpstart), and mostly Debian based infrastructure. Desktop support for a mix of Windows, OSX, *buntu and Fedora workstations. International platforms support, i.e. remotely monitoring and resolving faults with equipment based in overseas offices. Responsible for the Media Team's publishing software 'Author-IT.' Windows Server 2k, SQL Server 2k, an upgrade to SQL Server 2k5, database backups and vendor supplied upgrades. Responsible for longer term projects, incl a VoIP rollout (including the design and build of a dual VLAN PoE network), MPLS, global systems standardisation and ongoing consolodation/improvements to end-user platforms. Proactively researched and gained experience with alternative platforms/systems such as o3spaces, dimdim and zimbra. Oversaw the recommendation, installation and configuration of Google Mini and KBOX appliances. Strongly recommended a decentralised Google Search Appliance architecture. On own initiative, developed an Enterprise Search platform based on Sphinx and OpenWebSpider. On own initiative, undertook a project to overhaul a very messy datacentre in order to improve network and power platforms, simplifying management, and with the ultimate goals of reducing overhead and ultimately dropping the running costs. This included recabling and hand terminating a few hundred Cyclades console connections, rebuilding the datacentre network; replacing multiple 3com switch models (connected in serial) with an HP Procurve based gigabit network (star config), utilising trunking and VLAN's, and the initial stages of migrating to an APC Infrastruxure environment. This project took a lot of logistical planning and out of hours work. Experience gained in managing 3com switches, Cisco switches, routers (2500 ITP's, 1841's, ASA) and access points (1252), HP Procurve switches and Juniper routers. Show less

  • Gen-i
    • Wellington, New Zealand
    • Technical Analyst
      • 2005 - 2007

      Primarily after-hours support for approximately 200 clients, with a focus on 20 SLA-covered clients. This involved some datacentre work - rebooting servers, backup tapes etc, as well as handling any after-hours faults, job assignment etc while maintaining customer expectations vs SLA's. Became a utility figure; able to step into any business hours team (e.g. to cover staff sickness) and immediately provide support for their clients. Proactively resolved office OSH issues. On self initiative, standardised and documented the customer support tools used, using a replicated network share and scripts. Designed, maintained and documented a workstation SOE image using sysprep and post-sysprep scripts. Created scripts for user profile backup and restores to/from their network home drives to allow some level of roaming. Essentially, any team member could sit at any workstation and immediately have a baseline standard desktop with the standard customer support tools they required. If other custom resources were required, these could very quickly be restored from the team member's network home drive. The platform that was built to support all of this catered for our dual-city setup; replicating between two servers and cross-referencing for redundant DR. Unsuccessfully championed the application of wiki platforms, and worked alongside Service Engineers and SDM's to improve support processes for a several major clients. Tools/platforms used at levels 1-3 (varying per customer) included amongst others; Citrix, Dameware, RDP, PC-Anywhere, VNC, as well as basic operations level work on AIX and AS/400 based systems. Plenty of Active Directory administration, as well as Exchange, Mailmarshal, Lotus Notes and Domino. NT4, Windows Server 2000 and 2003. Cisco and Checkpoint VPN client maintenance. Show less

  • Computerland
    • Wellington, New Zealand
    • Technical Analyst
      • 2004 - 2005

      Please see the above entry for Computerland NZ. Please see the above entry for Computerland NZ.

  • Computerland NZ
    • Wellington, New Zealand
    • Technical Analyst
      • 2004 - 2005

      Primarily after-hours support for approximately 200 clients, with a focus on 20 SLA-covered clients. This involved some datacentre work - rebooting servers, backup tapes etc, as well as handling any after-hours faults, job assignment etc while maintaining customer expectations vs SLA's. Became a utility figure; able to step into any business hours team (e.g. to cover staff sickness) and immediately provide support for their clients. This role was absorbed into Gen-i when Telecom NZ purchased Computerland and merged it with its earlier acquisition of Gen-i. Show less

  • Wellington Institute of Technology (WelTec)
    • Petone, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
    • Tutorial Assistant
      • Jul 2002 - Feb 2004

      Ref: https://goo.gl/0iEABc Specialising in the delivery of education on the “Computing Made Easy” (CME) course. CME delivers a free, self paced course for computer beginners to build up experience and confidence with computers, touch-typing, Microsoft Windows, Office, and the MYOB suite. Internet, Email and Printing are also covered. Responsibility of catering for student comfort and safety, distribution of course content, assisting students, and providing a professional “frontline” for WelTec. Show less

Education

  • Wellington Institute of Technology (WelTec)
    Bachelor of IT, Information Technology
    2001 - 2005

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