Senior DevOps Engineer

• May 2021 - Present

Senior IT Specialist

• Feb 2021 - May 2021

Sr. Storage admin manage, configure and troubleshoot IBM Flash 9100 SAN infrastructure configure, maintain and troubleshoot RemoteCopy and FlashCopy services capacity planning for storage infrastructure troubleshoot performance issues on storage disk arrays and SAN Sr. Storage admin manage, configure and troubleshoot IBM Flash 9100 SAN infrastructure configure, maintain and troubleshoot RemoteCopy and FlashCopy services capacity planning for storage infrastructure troubleshoot performance issues on storage disk arrays and SAN

Senior System Engineer/Administrator

• 2012 - Feb 2021

Infrastructure:support 900+ virtual servers environmentplan and support product migration to Azure and AWS clouddesign, plan and support production environment in multiple data centres locationsdesign IT infrastructure (systems, data centres and cloud requirements)plan, implement and support vSphere production environmentsplan, implement, upgrade and support QA/DEV/staging infrastructureplan, implement and upgrade Kubernetes clustersplan, implement and maintain internal Openstack cloudact as 3rd level support for customer problems (on-call after hours)perform scheduled/emergency systems maintenances, firmware upgradesadminister Linux systems (RHEL/CentOS Linux, Debian)manage SAN/NAS/iSCSI storage IBM v7000/v5000/v3700manage SAN infrastructure (Brocade)Security:implement and automate Spacewalk for patch and errata management RHEL/CentOSsecurity hardening with CIS Benchmarks using ansibleconduct information security risk and threat assessmentsprepare and perform security auditswrite and update internal security policiesDevOPS:design and implement patch management policy, automate security patching with Rundeckautomate and standardize VM deployment and configuration with ansible and puppetsetup and update git repositories, deploy gitlab-runners for CI/CD integrationplan and lead Backup as a Service (BaaS) platform in Azure cloudBackup/DR:lead TSM/SP migration to Azure cloud and Azure Blob object storageinfrastructure disaster recovery planning, ITSCM managementTeam:lead projects and IT initiativeslead change management process and procedures implementationrepresent the department or company in internal and external projects providing technical guidance and expertiseprovide specialized system expertise and in-depth knowledge of virtualization, operating system, servers, disk arrays, LAN/WANprepare and conduct team trainingwrite and maintain internal department documentation Show less

Team Lead Design & Security

• Dec 2006 - 2012

support 350+ servers environment (IBM pSeries & xSeries, Dell, HP)support multiple data centres locations (USA, Canada, Netherlands, Montenegro, India)act as third level support for customer problems (on call after hours)perform scheduled/emergency systems maintenances, firmware upgradesplan, setup, and implement monitoring systems for errors or performance problemsplan, implement and upgrade HA AIX/Linux systemsadminister UNIX systems (AIX, Solaris)administer Linux systems (SuSE, RHEL Linux, Debian)performance management of Linux, AIX and BSD systemsimplement and manage High Availability TLD DNS nodesmaintain HACMP AIX clusters, LPARs and HMCsmanage SAN/NAS storage (IBM DS8300/DS8100/DS6800/DS4700/DS4400, EMC)manage SAN infrastructure (McData, Brocade SAN switches)manage clustered PostgreSQL databaseslead backup projects planning and implementation (TSM 5.5)perform daily routine administration for TSM infrastructureplan and implement Tivoli Storage Manager v5 and v6provision storage disk arrays and tape libraries to handle TSM backups in multiple locations setup remote backups to DR sitessetup TSM client nodes, scheduled backups and monitoring of the backupsimplement SQL queries for TSM to perform daily backup checksinfrastructure disaster recovery planning represent the department or company in internal and external projects providing technical guidance and expertisesupervise and review the work of other System Administrators and provide weekly status updates to Operations Manager about project and ongoing workprovide specialized system expertise and in-depth knowledge of operating system, servers, disk arrays, LAN/WAN technologydesign IT infrastructure (systems and data centers requirements)budget IT projectsnegotiate hardware/software maintenance renewal contractsupdate internal security policiesconduct information security risk and threat assessmentsprepare and perform internal and external security audits Show less

CAD/UNIX Administrator

• 2003 - 2006

administered AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux and Widows servers supported ORACLE database negotiated hardware/software renewal contracts provided customer support for multiple locations initiated and implemented disaster recovery plan performed data backups and recoveries installed and upgraded UNIX and PC hardware performed network upgrades and troubleshooting managed data storage (NetApp, NFS, CIFS, Samba) performed applications installs and upgrades performed servers and firmware level upgrades Show less

Tivoli Specialist

• 2001 - 2002

installed and managed Windows, Linux and AIX server installed IBM Tivoli software on Windows, Linux, AIX platforms installed TSM v5 on AIX and Windows performed backups and restores of data on AIX, Solaris and Linux servers performed servers and PCs troubleshooting managed asset database for internal IBM Tivoli LAB performed network troubleshooting installed and managed Windows, Linux and AIX server installed IBM Tivoli software on Windows, Linux, AIX platforms installed TSM v5 on AIX and Windows performed backups and restores of data on AIX, Solaris and Linux servers performed servers and PCs troubleshooting managed asset database for internal IBM Tivoli LAB performed network troubleshooting