Juan José Torres
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Juan José Torres
P. O. BOX 215 302-***-**** (H)
BEAR, DE 19701 ac50vc@r.postjobfree.com 386-***-**** (M)
Professional Objective
A position as an IT Professional that will capitalize on acquired expertise and experience. Desire a position with career incentives and growth potential.
Summary of Qualifications
Dynamic technical professional with 25+ years of experience in network architecture, programming and application development, help desk services, consulting and IT project management with proven success.
Citizenship Clearance Level
U.S. Citizen Public Trust, DoD 8570
Education
Virginia College – Birmingham, AL M.S. Cyber Security, 06/2014
Itt-Tech – Lake Mary, FL B.S. Information Systems Security, 06/2006
Columbia college – Caguas, PR A.S. Business Administration w/Major M.I.S., 08/1995
Huertas Junior College – Caguas, PR A.S. Computer Science, 10/1993
Awards
Virginia College – Birmingham, AL High Honors 4.0 GBP Gamma Beta Phi Honor Society, 06/2014
Itt-Tech – Lake Mary, FL He is a member of the National Honor Society ALPHA BETA KAPPA, 06/2006
Huertas Junior College – Caguas, PR He has been recognized in his honor roll, 10/1993
Professional Certifications
Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA) Sun Certified Network Administrator (SCNA), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA), Citrix Certified Administrator (CCA XP), Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA), Certified Novell Administrator (CNA), Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), MS Certified Professional (MCP), CompTIA (Linux+) Certified, CompTIA (Security+) Certified, IBM Certified Solution Developer – (DB2 9.7 SQL Procedure Developer), Oracle Certified Professional (SCSA10)
Employment Experience
First Data Wilmington, DE 02/2018 – 05/2018
Security Engineer II Industry: Financial
Employment Type: Employee Division: Global Security & Application Support
Responsible for the engineering, installation, and operation of Enterprise firewalls, proxy, IPS, HSM, and VPN access
Provides day to day support for firewall engineering and operations tasks including assisting peers with issues and escalation
Supports the implementation and ongoing operations of network access control devices to include firewalls, web proxies, ips and secure sockets layer virtual private network (SSL VPN) devices
On-site and remote Hardware Security Module (HSM) configuration and support
Work collaboratively across a variety of business units to implement new technology, support existing, and at times do so after normal business hours
Build and configure solutions in the development, test and production environment including documenting the security infrastructure and design.
Manage problems, assist operations with escalation and issue resolution
Facilitate device refresh of network security devices with a focus on capacity, manageability, and security of new and existing security infrastructure
Perform and deliver functions independently
Support enterprise class Check Point and Cisco Firewalls
Troubleshooting to include network protocol and log analysis, raw data captures, and the correlation of disparate events spanning multiple devices and platforms
Leads strategic projects as the subject matter expert. Provides strategic leadership. Coaches and mentors other team members
Works independently works with functional and business units to execute projects
Technologies: Check point fw, Citrix LB, Palo Alto fw, Cisco routers, Vpn F5, BigIQ, Web App FW, Dlp, Nessus, Web Security Service, Ipam(Ip/Dhcp), subnetting, Bluecat(dns), Bluecoat(Web Proxy), Network Automation, DevOps, pki, Certificate, Secret Keys, Hash, Tufin, Bit-Bucket, Source Tree, Salt Stack, CentOS, Oracle Linux, Red hat, Ansible, Python, …
Novartis ( alcon ) Fort Worth, TX 01/2018 – 02/2018
DevOps Architect Industry: Pharmaceuticals
Employment Type: Contract Division: IIS
Create both high-level and detailed technical design documents and facilitate design reviews.
Design, architect, and improve automation tools for systems management, including development of scripts/building tools to help engineering service owners and other fellow members of the group
Continuously improve the infrastructure to easy deploy, scalable, secure and fault-tolerant
Lead efforts of evaluate new tools and technologies and take leading edge techniques and technologies into use in the operational stack
Perform analysis of best practices and emerging concepts in devops, infrastructure, Automation and system security
Deploy automation of installation and configuration of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) products ofr health care at os level or the application for non-production and production systems.
Technologies: Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu, Windows Servers, VMware, vCloud Director, Git, KitchenCI, Chef Analytics, Chef Compliance/Inspec, Puppet, ansible, Jenkins, Maven, Swarm, Docker, Ansible, Test-Kitchen, Python, Ruby, BaSH, AWS, CodeDeploy, IAM, S3, EC2, SNS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, RDS, EBS, VPC, Route53, Network ACL, AZs
Raytheon Aurora,CO 07/2017 – 11/2017
Sr. SME Automation/CHEF Consultant Industry: DoD
Employment Type: Contract Division: GPS-OCX
Create both high-level and detailed technical design documents and facilitate design reviews
Provide technical services to support Raytheon IIS programs (IFDC, GPS-OCX), in the areas of infrastructure build automation and security compliance using primarily the Chef suite of tools.
Development and modification of Chef Automate recipes and cookbooks to deploy systems configured with specific infrastructure and Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) / Free Open Source Software (Foos) services as specified by Raytheon supplied design artifacts.
Support infrastructure security compliance audits via the use of Chef Inspec and/or other tools for reporting and development of Chef Automate recipes to automate system hardening as mandated by Government standards.
Development and modification of Chef Inspec profiles and resources to automate configuration audits
Provide Chef recipes and cookbooks, security compliance, audit reports, and automation documentation
Testing utilizing Chef Inspec for functional and security test/audits
Chef recipe and cookbook development, automation control and distribution of builds and Security patching
Mentor junior Chef developers in use of Chef Automate components Chef Server, Chef Client, as well as Chef Inspec. Provide tutoring in best practices for developing automation recipes and cookbooks.
Training Skills:
• SSOSCHEFA01ITENUS - Working with Chef: Fundamentals
Completed on Aug 9, 2017
• SSOSCHADA01ITENUS - Working with Chef Analytics
Completed on Aug 10, 2017
• SSOSCHADA02ITENUS - Chef Advanced Administration
Completed on Aug 11, 2017
• SSPGRUBYA01ITENUS - Getting Started with Ruby
Completed on Aug 14, 2017
• SSPGRUBYA02ITENUS - Working with Ruby
Completed on Aug 16, 2017
• SSPGRUBYA03ITENUS - Advanced Ruby Features
Completed on Aug 17, 2017
• SSSPGRUBRA02ITENUS - Ruby on Rails - Database Fundamentals
Completed on Aug 22, 2017
• SSOSDOCKA03ITENUS - Using Docker: Customizing and Clustering
Completed on Aug 22, 2017
• SSPGRUBRA01ITENUS - Ruby on Rails - Fundamentals
Completed on Aug 24, 2017
• SSOSDOCKA01ITENUS - Using Docker: Benefits and Installation
Completed on Aug 25, 2017
• SSOSDOADA01ITENUS - Docker Configuration and Management
Completed on Aug 29, 2017
• SSOSDOADA02ITENUS - Working with Docker Machine, Security and APIs
Completed on Sep 1, 2017
• SSOSDOCKA03ITENUS - Using Docker: Customizing and Clustering
Completed on Sep 22, 2017
• SSOSDOCKA02ITENUS - Using Docker: Dockerizing Applications
Completed on Sep 26, 2017
• SSCLACDAA01ITENUS - Getting Started with Amazon Web Services
Completed on Sep 28, 2017
• SSCLAWSEA07ITENUS - Other AWS Services
Completed on Oct 4, 2017
• SSCLACDAA03ITENUS - AWS Infrastructure Services
Completed on Oct 11, 2017
• SSCLACSAA01ITENUS - AWS SysOps Associate: Monitoring Metrics Analysis and Deployment
Completed on Oct 13, 2017
• SSCLACSAA02ITENUS - AWS SysOps Associate: High Availability and Data Management
Completed on Oct 16, 2017
• SSCLACSAA03ITENUS - AWS SysOps Associate: Security and Networking
Completed on Oct 18, 2017
• SSCLDAWSA02ITENUS - Deployment and Delivery on AWS
Completed on Oct 20, 2017
• SSCLDAWSA04ITENUS - Using AWS Code Deploy
Completed on Oct 24, 2017
Technologies: Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu, Windows Servers, VMware, vCloud Director, RuboCop, Foodcritic, GitLab, KitchenCI, ChefDK, Chef Analytics, Chef Compliance/Inspec, Chef, Habitat, Chef Infrastucture, Jenkins, Maven, Foreman, Vagrant, Swarm, Docker, Test-Kitchen, Ansible, Python, Ruby, BaSH, Perl, Tripwire
Training Technologies: AWS, CodeDeploy, IAM, S3, EC2, SNS, SQS, SWS, SMF, Elastic BeanStalk, BeanStalk, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, RDS, EBS, VPC, Route53, Network ACL, CloudFormation, AZs
Apple, Inc. Newark, CA 01/2017 – 05/2017
IT Consultant Industry: Retail/Others
Employment Type: Contract Division: Global Datacenter Automation
Technical design, implementation, configuration, development/customization, delivery, and support of reliable application environments consisting of complex IT infrastructure.
Design and implement tools for management of application environments including task like development, configuration, gathering metrics, logging, monitoring and maintenance.
Apply sound release management and configuration management principles to ensure the stability of the production environments.
Diagnose issues in production, identify root cause and implement fixes
Deftness to handle multiple simultaneous competing priorities and deliver solutions in a timely manner
Develop and execute resiliency test to troubleshoot problems and enhance monitoring metrics
Organize work, task assignment and lead x-functional technical task force for resolving complex performance and infrastructure issues
Develop automation to streamline operational process and issue resolution
Optimize backend performance to maximize speed and scale
Provide input on application architecture strategies, standards, and technology decisions
Capability to easily change priorities as the business dictates
A strong sense of focus and excellent attention to detail while working in a very fast-paced environment
Ability to learn new technologies in a short time
Administer, Engineering, Architecture non-production and production environments for a myriad of apps
Provide training, support and guidance to end users, other administrators, and technical support teams
Respond to escalated support request via a ticketing system
Create and maintain accurate, up-to-date documentation
Evaluate new vendors patches, releases and products
Provide input to improve the stability, security, efficiency and scalability of systems
Administer and ensure the proper execution of automated task jobs
Provide 24x7 on-call support to handle urgent escalations
Ability to perform multiple roles as part of a small IT team including: systems, applications and database administration, project management, business technology consultant, automation engineer and more
Proficiency knowledge of multi-tier apps & their dependencies including load balancing and web services
Hands on operating systems deployment to provisioning and managing defaults installations
Collaborate with development teams to discuss, analyze, or resolve usability or to assist with engineering projects
Integrates new DevOps tools, incorporate new features and service level improvement
Develop scripts to automate data center automations functions such as source code checking with continuous integration & configuration management
Strong collaboration and partnership skills to work with infrastructure, operations, enterprise & architecture
Technologies: Red Hat, CentOS, Oracle Linux, Ubuntu, Darwin, Nutanix, Windows Servers, Cloudera Hadoop, HDFS, Yarn, HBase, Zookeeper, Softwae Management Control (GIT), Atlassian Confluence, Apple Directory, Service-Now, Jenkins, Maven, Foreman, Puppet, Vagrant, Docker, Kitchen, Ansible, KVM, Virsh, oVirt, SiteScope, Brocade, Switches, Firewall, JumpHosts, BastionHosts, F5, MySQL Oracle DB, Java, Bond/LACP, Vlan, NetApp, Python, Ruby, BaSH, HTML, HttpWatch, HttpFox, Nagios, HP/Dell Blade Servers, Console, LDAPS/SFTP, DNS/BIND, DHCP, TFTP, NFS, PXE.
Sephora US, Inc. San Francisco, CA 06/2016 – 12/2016
Sr. Linux Engineer / DevOps Industry: Cosmetology
Employment Type: Contract Division: Enterprise Engineering
Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
Monitor overall site performance, stability, and health, including being on call for site issues such as alert handling. Provide support to deployment and production issues during and off regular office hours.
Strong systems software, automation techniques, Network Protocols, Web services, Operating System internals, clustering, failover, virtualization skills and knowledge.
Server-side development experience in highly concurrent systems
configuring a production and non-production servers using a configuration management tool.
facility to correlate data to resolve root cause issues, architect and implement enterprise solutions.
analytical and problem-solving provider
Conduct/participate in meetings with other teams/work groups to establish/validate project timelines
build servers/ troubleshoot when required
Technologies: Red Hat, CentOS, Oracle Linux, Open SUSE, Ubuntu Windows Servers, Cloudera Haddop, HDFS, Yarn, HBase, Zookeeper, Softwae Management Control (GIT), Atlassian Confluence, Service-Now, Maven, Foreman, Chef, Vagrant, Docker, Kitchen, Ansible, VMware, MySQL, Oracle DB, Java, Bond/LACP, Vlan, NetApp, Python, Ruby, BaSH, HTML, HttpWatch, HttpFox, Nagios, HP/Dell Blade Servers, Console, LDAPS/SFTP, DNS/BIND, DHCP, TFTP, NFS, PXE
UCSF Benioff Children 's Hospital Oakland, CA 03/2016 – 05/2016
Sr. Server Engineer (Security) Industry: Healthcare
Employment Type: Contract Division: HIS / EPIC
• Responsibilities
- Architecture security solutions to the Healthcare infrastructure.
- Synchronization for heterogeneous Authentication.
- dual authentication methods.
- Monitoring, Detects, Scan, Track and managing Network packet traffic.
• Accomplishments
- Implement Identity Management using IdM / IPA
- Hardening Operating Systems (Linux/Windows)
- Vulnerability Assessments
- implement Configuration management (cm) deployments
- Operating Systems patch management
• Skills Used
- RHEL 7.2, Windows R2 2012, CentOS 7.2, SUSE 11.x
- Kerberos(KDC), Certification authority (CA/PKI), LDAP(S), Active Directory(AD), DNSSEC, DHCP, HBAC,
RBAC, NTP, SNTP, SMTP, SUDO, SELinux, Bash, Python
- Solar-winds, Nessus, IPS, Linux Domain Controller, puppet, foreman
Sysomos US Inc Sunnyvale, CA 01/2015 – 02/2016
Sr. System Engineer/DevOps Industry: Social Intelligence Media
Employment Type: Employee Division: GRID Applications
• Administer, develop, implement and maintain the development of internal policies and best practices ensuring the goals of security, reliability and customer experience excellence
• Assist with monitoring, tuning and troubleshooting of server, network issues, database issues and application performance irregularities
• Perform ongoing maintenance, upgrade and installation of systems, software stacks and applications
• Investigate system issues to determine root cause, possible solutions and plans of remediation
• Work with the team towards the delivery of a Test Driven, Continuous Integration and Delivery Production Environment
• Utilize logging and monitoring to identify trends, abuses, bottlenecks, deficiencies and provide input on solutions
• Provide input into solutions, policies and best practices
• Codify day to day and common solution procedures into a run-book for first level support
• Ensure documentation exists for all procedures, licensing and data/application flow where applicable
• Document solutions to issues for future reference and auditing
• Work with the developers to solve issues and provide solutions to issues they confront
• Assist team members with day to day operational tasks
• Rotating on-call duty with other System engineers
• work after hours on maintenance and other tasks periodically
• Assist in the training of new staff when hired
Technologies: CentOS, Cloudera hadoop, HDFS, Yarn, HBase, Kafka, Solr, Zookeeper, Software Management Control (GIT HUB), Atlassian Jira/Confluence, Maven, Cobbler, Foreman, Puppet, Facter, MCollective, Ansible, VMWare, VM Workstation, Load Balancers, Switches, Firewall, Router, HA proxy,VPN, MySQL, Tomcat, Java, Garbage Collector, JVM, JMX, JBDC, Python, Ruby, Perl, BaSH, HTML, HttpWatch, HttpFox, Nagios, Graphite, Ganglia, ELK, Nexus, IDS/IPS, IBM/DELL Servers, Console, DNS/BIND, DHCP, TFTP.
Informatica Redwood City, CA 12/2013 – 12/2014
Sr. System Engineer Industry: Data Integration Software
Employment Type: Contract To Hire Division: Operations
Troubleshooting, upgrading, patching systems such as UNIX/Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, Red Hat, SuSE, AIX
Troubleshoot Application issues such as Oracle, DB2, MySQL, Java, Web technologies
Rock-solid UNIX/Linux system administration, engineering, automatic scheduling, system configuration, tuning and optimizations, performance analysis, backups and recovery
Kickstart, Cobbler, Jumpstart deployments
NIC Teaming configuration (IPMP, Sun Trunking, VLAN Tag, BOND, APA, Ether Channel)
Console Admin (OA, RSC, MP LAN,, dRAC, iLO, RS-232), minicom, tip hardwire, putty, any serial console
Virtualization deployments VMware and Solaris Zones
Domain administering support in NIS, X-Windows, BIND, DNS, LDAP
Provide 24x7 on call support for production lights out data center. Perform DR drills
Create technical documentation, resolve support tickets and meet Businesses' SLAs
Strong team player providing support across the IT organization to train and assist others
Work with a diverse team across global time zones ( i.e. USA, EMEA, JPA ) to effectively complete tasks and objectives
Support LAN/SAN/NAS technologies
Volume Management (VxVM, VxFS, ODS, UFS, NFS, CIFS, LVM, SDS)
Big Data administering Hadoop, HDFS, YARN, HIVE, ZOOKEEPER, HBASE, KERBEROS
Networking monitoring, routing, load balancing, firewalls
Shell Scripting, BASH KORN SHELL PERL PHYTON
Package deployment ( RPMs, tar's ball, .pkg, .depot, .bff, .motif)
Scripting automation using OPSCODE (Chef) / C2C
Verizon Business Sunnyvale, CA 08/2013 – 12/2013
Sr. Software System Engineer Industry: Communications
Employment Type: Contract Division: ACE Operation
Troubleshoot system and application issues
Provide 24x7 on call support
Networking architecture and troubleshooting, operations management
Business functions and the impact of technical decisions on business results
Support customers in the cloud. (i.e. Juniper Networks)
Ability to understand business requirements for technical needs and utilize the business requirements information to prioritize work, develop solutions, and set urgency for others
Exceptional analytical and problem solving skills, with logical problem solving using Layer [ 1 – 7 ] of the OSI model
Ability to work in a team environment that requires a great deal of independent thinking and work execution
Providing customer-focused quality service.
Documentation & Designing support.
Work well under pressure.
Follow policies and procedures that dictate minimum standards for ticket handling, such as customer communications, status updates, timelines for escalation, management commination status updates, etc.
Technologies: CaaS, VMWare, VitualBox, RHEL, Solaris, Oracle, MySQL, Tungsten, Active MQ, HP Openview, Server Automation, Stingray Traffic Manager, Remedy, LAMP, Apache, Tomcat, JBOSS, DNS/BIND, Script Language.
International Game Technology San Francisco, CA 02/2012 – 07/2013
Sr. Systems & Applications Administrator IV Industry: Casino
Employment Type: Employee Division: Tech Operation
Troubleshoot system and application issues
Provide 24x7 on call support
Manage standard UNIX services within a centralized infrastructure built on CFEngine / Puppet
Installation of OS’s with kickstart/jumptstart on both real and virtual machines
Manage Load balancer F5/Foundry and SAN hardware HP EVA / NetApp.
Support Oracle/MySQL/SQL Servers; Nagios monitoring, administration and scripting
Support Dev/QA with production deployments/releases
Design/Improve automated deployment process for new/existing products
Setup system firmware, packages, drivers, and patches for the servers and network appliances
Solaris/VMware/Linux system administrator in the gaming production environments
Web/App Servers Administration (LDAP, DNS, Weblogic, Apache, Tomcat) JAVA containers support
Net Backup Server Administration & Networking (Switches/Router/Firewalls)
NIC Teaming configuration (IPMP/BOND) and Console Admin (Cyclades/iLO)
Build, rack and load servers, assist in the maintenance and upgrade of server OS/software/hardware
Scripting / programming, development/engineering to automate process (Ruby, PHP, Perl, BASH)
Manage end user accounts, permissions, and access rights and File System and Network Security.
Participate with business analysts and application architects in planning upgrades and expanding application functionality
Technologies: RHEL 6.2, CentOS 5.9, Solaris 10, MS Windows 2008/7, VMware Server/Workstation, Cloudera haddop, Flume, NFS/Samba Netbackup, Bash, HTML, Flash, CSS, Java, Shell, Perl, Brocade, Oracle, MySQL
GE Transportation System Global Signaling, LLC Melbourne, FL 05/2011 – 01/2012
Solaris System Administrator Industry: Transportation
Employment Type: Contract Division: Rail Road
UNIX/VMware/Linux/Windows system administrator in production environments
Jumpstart Solaris, Cobbler/Kickstart/Satellite RHEL automation and installation for operating systems
Implement system firmware, packages, drivers, and patches for the servers
Net Backup Server support, Networking (Switches), database connectivity/configuration/management
NIC Teaming configuration (IPMP, Sun Trunking, VLAN Tag, BOND) and Console Admin (RSC, ALOM, iLO)
Hardening OS & Hardening Database Design, Proficiency with management, performance and monitoring tools
Documenting system configurations and drawings and documentation processes for system administration.
Scripting / programming, development/engineering to automate process
Manage end user accounts, permissions, and access rights and File System Security.
Lead, Mentor, develop and assist member staff.
Handle Tier 3 support across multiple locations and troubleshoot complex HW/SW issues to resolution
Perform; moves - adds - changes - upgrades
Ability to provide consistent customer service levels as defined by client assignment specifications
Flexibility and adaptability to adjust to changing requirements, schedules, and priorities
The ability to socialize ideas, make recommendations and gather team consensus to move forward
Technologies: RHEL5.6, Satellite, Solaris 10, MS Windows 2008/7, VERITAS Cluster, VMware Server/Workstation, DNS, NIS, DHCP, TFTP, NFS/Samba Netbackup, Bash, HTML, CSS, Java, CShell, Shell, Perl, Hitachi, Brocade, iptables, Oracle
South Florida Water Management District West Palm Beach, FL 11/2010 – 02/2011
Senior Application System Administrator Industry: Public
Employment Type: Contract Division: Government
Support the Hydrologic Environmental System Modeling for SFWMD.gov
Support the CERP & IMC programs for US Army Corp of Engineers.
Participate in and support capacity planning and the development of long-term strategic goals for systems and software in conjunction with end-users and department managers.
Coordinate with network engineering, business application, and database administration functions to implement desktop and server systems that utilize industry best practices to meet corporate objectives.
Deploy workstations, servers, encryption systems, and all host security systems.
Ensure the integrity and security of enterprise data on host computers, multiple databases, and during data transfer in accordance to business needs and industry best practices regarding privacy, security, and regulatory compliance.
Manage end user accounts, permissions, access rights, and storage allocations in accordance with best practices regarding privacy, security, and regulatory compliance.
Anticipate, mitigate, identify, troubleshoot, and resolve hardware and software problems on servers, and workstations.
Support application development teams throughout project lifecycles.
Develop, document, and maintain policies, procedures and associated training plans for system administration and appropriate use.
Technologies: RHEL6, Solaris 10, Sun Grid, MS Cluster, Linux Cluster, VERITAS Cluster, VMware Server/Workstation, DNS, NIS, ANSI, DHCP, TFTP, Kick Start, Jumpstart, Bash, CShell, Shell, Perl, ANSYS, GAMBIT.
Disney LAND North Hollywood, CA 08/2010 – 09/2010
System Engineer Industry: Entertainment
Employment Type: Contract To Hire Division: E-commerce DIMG-FAM
Windows and Linux server systems, Web server (IIS, Apache) and application server (Tomcat, WAS) capacity planning, installation, configuration, administration, troubleshooting, performance tuning, preventative maintenance, monitoring, and security procedures
Content management systems and publishing systems
Database Administration setup, configuration and database troubleshooting skills
Manage Network communication packet structure protocol analyzers
Experience with load balancing equipment, switches, routers, and network troubleshooting
Hardware systems design and implementation, cluster management, implementing redundancy and testing failover
Scripting / programming languages (Perl, JavaScript, Python, C, Java, Bash) development/engineering automate process
Experience to use of monitoring and troubleshooting utilities to effectively diagnose problems
Storage SAN
Security Visa CISP & PCI experience
Cabelas Sidney, Nebraska 07/2009 – 08/2010
Sr. UNIX System Engineer Industry: Outdoor Sports
Employment Type: Employee Division: E-commerce
E-commerce and web site administration and management
UNIX system administrator in production environments
Building server from scratch using Jumpstart Solaris and Kickstart Linux operating systems
Service Outage On call support
Manage and maintain site-monitoring systems (Nagios / Tivoli / Tripwire)
Assist developers in implementing change in non-production environments
Perform production code releases and Perform regular system security audits
Document all Operations processes, procedures and maintain disaster site readiness.
Perform system backups and contingency planning
Implement system security and problem patches
Perform load capacity and penetration testing.
Networking principles (Firewall / Switches)
Shell scripting languages
Monitoring systems and requirements
Applications: Apache, Tomcat, JBoss, Send mail, SCP, SFTP, SSH, MySQL, Bind, Oracle DB, ATG Dynamo
Technologies: SAN, RAID, NFS, Clustering, DNS, VPN, LDAP, CVS, Java, RDMA, Infiniband
E-commerce application middleware, web services, access control, and security
Walt Disney World (IBM) Lake Buena Vista, FL-USA 05/2008 – 05/2009
UNIX Engineer Industry: Entertainment
Employment Type: Contract Division: UNIX Data Center
Support different flavors of UNIX (SOLARIS, AIX, HP-UX, TRU64, RED HAT) infrastructure 3k+ servers.
Focal for Remediation Outage Windows
Optimizing System Performance
Service Outage On call support
Building servers using remote installation technologies
Tivoli / Tripwire / Net backup and other client management
Software package, Patch installations, &User Administration
NIC Teaming configuration (Ethernet channel, IPMP, APA, BOND)
NFS & HD Mirroring Administration
Fiber Channel / SAN configuration
Cluster auditioning, Scripting
QIP Administration (IP/DNS)
Console Admin (RSC, ALOM, SC, SSC1, MP, GSP, HMC, DIGI, Cyclades, AVOCENT, Web Consoles)
T-Rex Corporation –Washington, D.C.-USA Employment Type: Contract 03/2007 – 02/2008
Sr. Network System Administrator (Biometrics) Industry: Federal Government Contracts
LOCKHEED-MARTIN ORLANDO – FL-USA Division: Transportation Security Solutions
Support different flavors of Windows / UNIX (HP-UX, SUN 10, RED HAT ES/AS) which are part of CUSTOMER’S production environment with an infrastructure of 400+ servers.
Install, support, and maintain servers/network and other system devices.
Building server from scratch (CD media, Jumpstart, Kickstart, Ignite, Ghost & Rapid Deployment Pack)
Plan for and responding to service outages and other problems.
Scripting or light programming
Maintenance NIS/Windows Domain, Virtualization and Cluster environment
Consultant for computer enigma beyond knowledge of technical support staff
On call to problem, solve when any system goes down or malfunctions.
Deploy software patches to prevent break-ins and other software failures.
Maintain network infrastructure such as switches, routers, firewall, and VPN to diagnose problems with these or with the behavior of network-attached computers using HP ProCurve Monitoring, Tivoli Alert Manager, and Tripwire.
Backup tapes (encrypted) and replace failed drives in a RAID array.
Access to sensitive data at different levels
Document the configurations of the system. System performance tuning Utmost goal is to keep network up and running at all times.
Northrop Grumman – Apopka, FL 08/2004 – 03/2007
System Administrator Employment Type: Employee Industry: Department System