Nichita Sandru

Email: adlnw6@r.postjobfree.com, Phone: +1-908-***-****

SUMMARY: DevOps Engineer Automation Expert Senior Linux Engineer Electrical Engineer

Technical skills include:

Engineering: Design and build infrastructure.

Automation & Scripting: Terraform, Jenkins, Bash, Perl, AWK, C, Python.

DevOps: Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Jenkins, Git, SVN, Terraform, Packer.

Cloud: Amazon AWS, Linode, Digital Ocean, OpenStack.

Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes and Solaris Zones.

Virtualization: VM templates for VMware, Xen and Azure.

CI/CD: Jenkins, Git and SVN.

Big Data: Hadoop, Application Mgmt, GlusterFS, Apache Storm, Kafka.

Operating Systems: Linux (CentOS, RHEL, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Oracle EL), UNIX (Solaris).

Security: Linux IPTABLES firewall, LDAP, SASL, Kerberos.

Monitoring & Logs: Nagios, Ganglia, syslog-ng, Circonus, Sumologic, Datadog.

Databases: MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase.

Hardware: Dell PowerEdge, HP Proliant, Sun Microsytems. Rack & cabling.

Networking: LAN switches (Cisco and NetGate), routers, firewalls, load balancers, VPN, DNS (bind9, dnsmasq), DHCP (ISC, dnsmasq), NFS, Samba

Services: Apache, LAMP stacks, Nginx, Postfix, Sendmail, Cyrus IMAP, WordPress hosting

EXPERIENCE

Managed Hosting Services

2007 – present

Provided web hosting (LAMP) until 2017

E-mail service

Domain registration and DNS

Mailserver protection utilities – see https://github.com/nsandru/mailfilter

VPN services

WordPress blog hosting

Private Git and Docker container repositories

Build and CI/CD environments based on Jenkins

High availability configurations

OpenStack cloud system builds

Server builds for specific infrastructure elements: email (Postfix, Cirrus IMAP), web (Apache2, Nginx, lighttpd), DNS (bind9, dnsmasq), CI/CD (complete Jenkins systems), software repositories (Git) etc, built as hosts (physical and virtual), Docker containers and Kubernetes pods.

BURST.COM, Boston, MA (remote)

January 2020 – April 2020

DevOps Engineer (contract)

JIRA – Git integration

SVN Git migration

WordPress upgrade and migration to Docker containers

DRIVEWEALTH LLC, Chatham, NJ

December 2018 – February 2019

DevOps Engineer (contract)

Managed AWS Infrastructure

Chef library maintenance

AWS Systems Manager configuration

AWS CloudFormation templates for integration with AWS Systems Manager

BACKTRACE I/O, New York, NY

July 2017 - September 2018

DevOps Sr. Infrastructure Engineer

Automated the product release processes

Automated synchronizing of software packages with the git repository

Created Server migration scripts

Managed infrastructure, both physical and virtual

Built up the automated deployment system, including server provisioning and software releases

Maintained the backup and monitoring systems

Wrote Puppet classes for renewal of SSL certificates and reloading applications

Created Jenkins workflow to automatically update the Puppet master

Created scripts for mirroring and backup

XAXIS, New York, NY

June 2015 - June 2017

DevOps Sr. Linux System Admin Big Data Application Management

Managed 1000+ servers distributed globally

Performed automated server builds and updates

Managed clusters of servers in the Hadoop ecosystem, including Kafka and Storm

Trained new hires

Relocated a fleet of ESXi servers with over 150 guests to new data center

BARNES & NOBLES - NOOK, New York, NY

January 2014 - June 2015

Linux System Administrator

Created automated process to update Linux systems

Enhanced the Puppet configuration management system

Performed Linux server builds & created software repositories

Created virtual host templates (VMware, Xen, Azure)

Introduced the Docker containers system

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, NY

May 2013 - January 2014

Linux and UNIX System Engineer (contractor)

Responsibilities included maintaining the UNIX and Linux servers at Columbia University and long term projects such as the implementation of a Puppet configuration management system.

ADVANCE DIGITAL, Jersey City, NJ

Sept 2012 - Febuary 2013

Linux System Administrator

Managed LDAP, websites and Puppet library

WhipTail Technologies Inc., Whippany, NJ

April 2012 - June 2012

Linux System engineer (contract)

Developed scripts for SSD storage arrays

The Associated Press, Cranbury, NJ

January 2008 to April 2012

Linux System engineer

Managed Solaris and Linux systems

Worked with a hardware services provider to maintain and repair the servers

Provisioning with Kickstart and Jumpstart

Patching Linux system with tools such as Red Hat Satellite

Introduced the Puppet configuration management system

Trained new hires

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