Experience

Datavalet Technologies
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee
• DevOps Engineer

  • Mar 2021 - Present


Railkey Technology, LLC

• DevOps Engineer

  • May 2016 - Mar 2021

  Management, development, monitoring and maintenance of company resources and infrastructure Design, development and maintenance of the deployment processes Creation/maintenance of the build and deployment pipelines and infrastructure-as-code templates/scripts Working in/with development teams using Agile methodologies Main technologies: AWS (EC2, RDS, CloudFront, Route53, VPC, CloudFormation, SQS, SNS, S3, EFS, SSM, CloudWatch, Lambda etc), Linux, Nginx, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Jenkins, Bash, Python, Loggly, NewRelic, DataDog



BMC Software (previously Coradiant)

• Linux System Integrator

  • Jan 2008 - Feb 2016

  Member of platform team responsible for the OS/DB product layers in TrueSight/EUEM appliances Development, maintenance and support of in-house development tools (product build, version control, customer support and other areas) Writing and maintaining internal technical documentation for developed and supported features Performing functional and performance testing of the product Member of product security team Main technologies: Linux, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Bash, Perl, VMWare, Xen, KVM



Amdocs Canada

• Sr. System Administrator

  • Apr 2004 - Jan 2008

  UNIX System Team and SAN Administration Team Provide billing services to Amdocs customers in several lines of business. Prime HP-UX SME in a large 24/7, primarily HP-UX based production environment (~130+ HP-UX servers) spread across 2 to 3 data centers. Responsible for maintaining the HP-UX production, development and test infrastructure consisting of a full range of HP9000 server models (A-Class to Superdomes), running a wide range of Amdocs and third-party applications on top of HP-UX 11i OS with MC/SG clustering software. Backup Solaris SME, supporting about 40 Solaris servers. Perform a wide range of ongoing tasks, including testing and implementing OS patch bundles, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and system hardening. Manage site SAN consisting of EMC (Symmetrix, DMX and CX) storage arrays and Brocade SAN switches. Actively participate in various projects: set up infrastructure to accommodate new customer business initiatives, upgrade existing infrastructure, set up MP LAN, move the DR data center to a new location… Work in close collaboration with software and hardware vendors. Provide off-hour system support on a shift basis. Create and maintain related technical documentation and procedures. Training new team members.



Sanmina-SCI

• UNIX System Administrator

  • Jan 2003 - Jan 2004

  Montreal Production site Responsible for maintaining UNIX (Solaris, AIX and UnixWare) servers and workstations, as well as Windows NT/2000 servers and disk storage system (EMC Clariion). Performed daily administration, provided end-user technical support and configured new hardware and software. Administered NIS, NFS, and Sendmail, supported Oracle RDBMS system, scripting, disk storage administration, troubleshooting, and maintenance. Administered and maintained Backup (Veritas NetBackup and Backup Exec, Oracle, UNIX system and script-based backups) and tape libraries (StorageTek and HP). Implemented server monitoring system (SNMP, Linux, RRDTool, Apache, PHP/Perl).



IBM Global Services

• India
• Consumer Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• UNIX / LINUX System Engineer at Intel CCDi

  • Jan 2000 - Jan 2002

  As a member of Intel CCDi UNIX Engineering Team, supported a heterogeneous computing environment consisting of about 250 UNIX (Solaris, Linux, HP-UX) servers and workstations, and Network Appliance filers with NFS and CIFS access. Administered UNIX systems and provided support to end-users.Carried out NIS, NFS, AFS, CIFS, FlexLM, MySQL, Apache, Sendmail servers' administration.Performed OS installation, upgrades, patching, performance tuning, scripting, and CAD team assistance (wrote and corrected CAD scripts, performed installation and patching of CAD and EDA applications).Administered UNIX security according to Intel’s corporate policies.Evaluated public domain software, performed troubleshooting of software and hardware, including core dump analysis and vendor interaction.Member of the Backup Team (Legato / Exabyte jukeboxes, AFS, UNIX backups).

• AIX System Administrator at Israel Employment Agency

  • Jan 2000 - Jan 2002

  Was responsible for maintaining and improving the Israeli Employment Authority production site, which consisted of HACMP, clustered IBM RS-6000 servers running production Oracle RDBMS on top of the AIX operating system. Assured reliability and consistently high availability of the site.Performed system analysis and configuration of improvements in order to reduce response time. Communicated with system developers in order to better understand the database structure and ensure that required modifications were carried out with minimal impact on customer’s work.



NCR Israel

• System Support Engineer

  • Jan 1998 - Jan 2000

  As part of the UNIX Administration and Support Team, provided NCR customers nationwide (such as financial and government institutions) with UNIX support, including remote system administration. Performed OS installation and patching, upgrades, administration scripting for customers, consulting work, core dump analysis, and disaster recovery on site. Responsible for company’s internal UNIX (Solaris, NCR SVR4 MP-RAS and Linux) and Windows NT servers, including administration of security. Administration of NFS, CIFS, Sendmail, BIND servers, and CISCO router.



HAIFA UNIVERSITY

• Israel
• Business Consulting and Services

• UNIX / PC Support Consultant

  • Jan 1997 - Jan 1998

  Provided Computer Center visitors with UNIX and PC technical support. Provided Computer Center visitors with UNIX and PC technical support.