DevOps Engineer - Openstack/AWS

Objectives

Available in Toronto or Montreal. Open to senior DevOps and Information Technology Management opportunities which can leverage 14 years of bilingual ( English / French ) technical consultancy experience. As a DevOps Engineer I am committed to changing the world for the better by bridging the gap between complex ideas and their practical applications. I enjoy and support work behind innovative open source projects, operating systems and open infrastructure platforms. Using a framework of new ideas and technical possibilities, I offer a refreshingly honest consultancy approach. In teamwork, I am not afraid to point out elephant in the room, making issues safely approachable, and allowing others to be a part of an open conversation. In leadership roles, I contribute mentoring, encouragement and work with team members to work towards contributing their best effort, understanding that human potential is the real key to innovation. Specialties: DevOps, Cloud Technologies, Linux System Administration, Root Cause Analysis, Problem Resolution, Professional Progression, Coaching & Mentoring, Knowledge Cultivation, Public Speaking Recruiters: Currently open to senior full-time/permanent roles, $160k/year and above only. Work History

[2013-2015] DevOps Engineer / Consultant in IT Infrastructure & Security

-Clients include Air Canada, Aeroplan, Fairmont, Mercedes Benz, Government of Canada.

-Developer Operations Consulting specializing in providing service / infrastructure automation, server deployment, configuration, security, performance optimization, backup and restore.

-Cloud Solution Provider using AWS (EC2, EBS, S3, VPC, ELB), OpenStack, Eucalyptus.

-Server Configuration Management, Automation and Orchestration using Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Juju, Cobbler, Kickstart, SaltStack, Vagrant, AWS CloudFormations, AWS OpsWorks.

-Server Management using Spacewalk, Landscape, Heartbeat, Munin, Nagios, AWS CloudWatch.

-Source Code Version Control Systems using Git, Perforce, Mercurial.

-Continuous Integration(CI) Build Management using Jenkins CI, Bamboo, AWS CodeDeploy.

-Package Management using dnf, yum, rpm, apt, dpkg.

-Web Server and Application Administration using Apache, Nginx, Tomcat.

-Database management using MySQL, MariaDB, AWS RDS, NoSQL / Hadoop, AWS DynamoDB.

-High Availability Load Balancing using HAproxy and AWS ELB.

[2007-2013] Engineer, Canonical

-Clients include multiple Fortune 500 companies including Google, Dell, JP Morgan Chase, Vodaphone, Gendarmerie Francaise, NASA JPL, WikiMedia, Rackspace, Oracle, Giga-Byte.

-Enterprise Consulting, Engineering and Support Services for Ubuntu Linux platform.

-Service Level Agreements (SLA) consistently met by providing consistent customer satisfaction resulting in increased service contract renewal and positive feedback regularly received from clients.

-Software Development Life Cycle, including project management, QA and documentation.

-Linux, OpenStack and AWS Administration, server and cloud service administration.

-Globally Distributed Work Environment, effective communication in a global company.

-Deployment Automation using Cobbler, Kickstart, Puppet, Chef, Juju, Bash shell scripting.

-Virtualization using KVM, Xen, EMC VMWare ESX/ESXi, vSphere, Oracle VirtualBox, virt-manager.

-Scripting and Programming methodologies using Bash shell scripting, Python, Java, Ruby.

-Source Code Version Control Systems using Git, SVN, bzr.

-Continuous Integration(CI) Build Management using Hudson / Jenkins CI.

-Project Tracking using Salesforce, Redmine, Trac, Google Code, RT, Bugzilla, JIRA, Launchpad.

-User Management using passwd/shaddow, LDAP, Likewise-Open (AD Integration).

-Network Load Balancing and Proxy using HAproxy (High Availability Proxy), Squid.

-Central Server Management using Landscape.

-Web Server and Application Administration using Apache, Nginx, Tomcat.

-Database Administration using MySQL, PostgreSQL.

-System Logging using syslog, logrotate.

David Bensimon DevOps - Cloud Computing - Openstack/AWS Telephone: 514-***-**** E-mail: *********@*****.*** Web: http://komputes.com LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/dbensimon

[2005-2007] Technical Support, Fairmont / EY

-Clients include over 50 hotels, and 200,000 accountants and legal professionals.

-Technical Support - User, Application, System, and Network Administration.

-Windows Server and Workstation, setup and configuration automation.

-Windows Server Administration using Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, IIS, Lotus Notes.

-Server Monitoring and alert configuration using SolarWinds.

-Issue Tracking using BMC Remedy.

-Remote Assistance using Citrix, NetMeeting, Windows Remote Desktop.

-Automation using DOS/Windows batch scripting.

Training

[2009-2012] LPIC Certifications, Linux Professional Institute LPIC Certifications validate knowledge of Linux system and network administrators.

[2002-2004] B.A. Information Technology and Media, Seneca at York University Industry training in hardware, networks, software/web development, and media production. Services Offered

Network Administration - TCP/IP, SAN, NAS, VPN, DNS, DHCP, LDAP, Proxy, Nagios, Wireshark Server Administration - Linux, Windows, LDAP/Active Directory, SSH, Apache, nginx, MySQL Software Engineering - Git, SVN, Shell Scripting, Python, Java, Jenkins, JIRA, Agile Methodology Technical Support / Customer Service - Bilingual Communication, Remedy, Salesforce, ITIL Virtualization / Cloud - OpenStack, Eucalyptus, AWS, EC2, S3, ELB, Puppet, Chef, Ansible Web - HTML5, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, XML, API, REST, Node.js References

“David is quality and detail oriented, professional and patient with customers, even under pressure. He understands the importance of technical work and customer facing communication. He shows a good sense of initiative and time management. His communication is transparent and clear. He collaborates on a regular basis with quality assurance and engineering efforts, contributing to customer projects and improving Canonical’s infrastructure.” -Ezio de Mauro

“David is motivated by being part of something greater. Throughout his time at Canonical, he showed passion and initiative for Ubuntu by contributing to our team efforts.” -Marc Tardif

"David regularly goes beyond his duties by actively engaging his peers. He is determined, detail- oriented, thorough, always looking at tough problems from angles most people wouldn’t. David does not stand around, he makes things happen.” -Fabian Rodriguez

“David is not afraid to take initiative, contribute to community efforts and make things happen. He is the kind of individual who goes above and beyond.” -Mathieu Trudel

"David is a hard-working team player and an exceptional engineer with considerable skill who would make a tremendous addition to any technical team.” -Torsten Spindler

“David is a role model to his peers at Seneca. Motivated and willing to take initiative, David has what it takes to succeed in the fast paced, highly competitive IT industry. He is bound for recognition and distinction in this field.” -Suzanne Price

David Bensimon DevOps - Cloud Computing - Openstack/AWS Telephone: 514-***-**** E-mail: *********@*****.*** Web: http://komputes.com LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/dbensimon

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