Senior Linux System Administrator

Michael Trevor Wood

Senior Linux System Administrator

email: *******.******.****@*****.*** 816-***-**** Lee’s Summit, MO. 64083

linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeltrevorwood/

Summary

Dedicated and dynamic System Engineer with multiple years of unix experience in cradle-to-grave system administration, engineering, provisioning, troubleshooting, disaster recovery, and maintenance. Proven track record of proactive and reactive problem resolution and risk management. Experience in designing and instituting secured and resilient backend and cloud-based infrastructure for small to large-scale organizations.

Skills

Operating Systems: Solaris (5.6 to 11.3), Oracle Enterprise Linux, CentOS Linux, IBM AIX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (4 to 9), SUSE Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, UNIX, HP-UX

Scripting and Programming: Shell scripting (sh, tcl, ksh, bash), Perl, Python, Ansible, Git/GitHub, Java/Javascript, PHP, Prompt Engineering, Powershell

Infrastructure and Virtualization: Cisco Unified System (UCS), VMWare, Virtualization, Red Hat Satellite, Veritas Cluster Server, Infoblox, LDAP, Pacemaker, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Sun/Oracle Hardware, TCP/IP Networking, NFS, SMTP, SNMP, SSH/SFTP, Red Hat OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes

Security and Identity: Crowdstrike, Tenable Nessus Professional, NinjaOne, Kerberos, Oracle Identity Management, SUDO management, Delinea Centrify

Cloud Technologies: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Azure, some AWS

Software: Apache, Veritas File System, Veritas Volume Manager, ServiceNow, ITSM, Remedy IT Service Management, Lotus Notes, MySQL, Oracle EBS, Samba installs/administration, Solstice Disksuite, Tivoli Monitoring, TomCat, Veritas Netbackup, HP Operations Manager, Office365, Nagios Monitoring, VSFTP

Processes and Procedures: Disaster Recovery, Backup and Recovery, Change Management, Security Implementation, LAMP, Patch Release Management, Agile Methodologies, ITILv4, Customer Support via phone/email/chat systems. User/Permissions Management

Employment History

VERTEX INC • King of Prussia, United States (Remote) • 08/2023 — 07/2024

Oracle Cloud Migration Engineer

Engineered Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to migrate 12 mission critical on-prem legacy Oracle EBS/Solaris systems to the cloud achieving 100% datacenter closure by deadline.

Researched and recommended innovative procedures for automating Linux Stack deployments on Azure cloud utilizing Git/Ansible/Kubernetes as well as multiple scripting technologies, driving an efficient migration strategy for over 100 CentOS/Red Hat instances.

Cornerstone Building Brands • Austin, United States (Remote) • 01/2023 — 08/2023

Linux Migration Engineer

Divested 3 legacy Oracle EBS enivronments running within Solaris 10 zones and Red Hat Linux Vmware virtual servers to 3rd party tenant LDOM’s and Oracle Cloud creating a like-for-like cloned environment of 8 mission critical applications within a defined project timeline, achieving 100% success of hand off to purchasing company.

WADDELL & REED • Overland Park, United States (Remote) • 01/2022 — 12/2022

Sr. UNIX Migration Administrator

Decommissioned over 100+ Red Hat Linux. Windows, and Solaris physical and VMware virtual servers to support corporate merger requirements of data center closure, including destruction of all physical equipment, achieving 100% success by December 2022 deadline.

Sprint/T-Mobile • Overland Park, United States (Remote) • 04/2016 — 12/2022

Sr. System Engineer

Led the administration of 350 Solaris/Linux/AIX/HP-UX systems running diverse corporate applications as well as rapid deployment and management of new systems using Ansible, with secondary oversight of 1,200+ physical and virtual servers achieving 5-9’s support.

Directed all security-related initiatives, including team coordination and remediation efforts for quarterly Nessus scans and day-zero attacks, safeguarding 4,000+ systems with zero security violations/incidents and 95% compliance with Corporate Security requirements.

Spearheaded the upgrade of Red Hat Satellite infrastructure from version 5 to 6, successfully designing Red Hat Satellite infrastructure while also migrating 2,300+ UNIX systems, establishing a robust release and patch management process becoming intimately familiar with MongoDB and Python during deployment.

Designed and built infrastructure to support corporate-wide Oracle Identity Management solution to replace multiple existing LDAP and SOS solutions including Centrify and homegrown applications achieving 100% success in the consolidation and migration of 14,000 users.

Team ServiceNow representative responsible for merging old Remedy based CMDB “golden source” entries into ServiceNow and truing up all records to achieve 100% SSOT compliance.

Computer Sciences Corporation • Tysons, United States (Remote) • 02/2016 — 04/2016

System Migration Specialist

Led a team of three in a successful migration of over 1,000 physical and virtual systems, including SAN infrastructures, between two data centers—achieved 100% on-time delivery under tight deadlines.

Organized the creation, management, and coordination of all change control requests and tickets, ensuring smooth and efficient data/system migrations with 100% success.

Executed manual remediation, health checks, script development, and pre-migration preparations, along with managing migration triage and back-out strategies.

IBM • Kansas City, United States (Remote) • 01/2015 — 01/2016

Solaris/Linux Security Administration

Solely responsible for the development/creation of Perl/Shell scripts to be used to perform automated remediation/detection on systems for GSD331 audits to achieve ISO 27001 compliance for multiple clients.

Rollout, support, and extensive network troubleshooting on Trend Micro Intrusion Detection for on 800+ IBM Client systems with zero impact to Production.

ERICSSON INC • Overland Park, United States • 08/2013 — 01/2015

Unix System Administrator

Achieved ninety-nine percent compliance with all Corporate Security requirements as lead System Administrator for all security audit and remediation efforts for 1100+ client Red Hat/CentOS/Solaris/AIX/HP-UX systems.

Succeeded in 5-9’s as Tier 3 Solaris/Linux/AIX primary System Administrator on 300+ Red Hat/CentOS/Solaris/AIX/HP-UX unix systems.

IBM • Phoenix, United States (Remote) • 04/2012 – 08/2013

Solaris/Linux Technical Engineer

Migration support specialist performing move-day migrations of physical and virtual systems running Red hat Linux and Solaris within extremely limited time constraints.

Performing triage support during migrations of any issues requiring system administration expertise.

Pre-migration remote support through information gathering, system inventory, validation, preparation, and system administration tasks such as upgrades and backups.

Federal Reserve Bank of KC • Kansas City, MO. USA • 01/2012 – 04/2012

Contractor - Solaris Systems Administrator

Configure/Build Oracle Operations Center Environment for geographic data center consolidation of 500+ Solaris systems through virtualization.

Build out of redirection of all projects involving new systems to Operations Center virtualized infrastructure in addition to the migration of all existing servers.

Extensive planning, integration, management, and design of Solaris Virtual Environment.

UMB Bank • Kansas City, MO. USA • 01/2011 – 12/2011

Unix Specialist

Provide expertise in patching strategies to update 800+ SUSE/Solaris/AIX systems using BMC Bladelogic and manually written scripts.

Daily administration, maintenance, and support including building out of new systems for incoming projects.

Planning, design, and implementation of Red Hat/SUSE roadmap to phase out and replace all existing Solaris/AIX instances within the infrastructure.

Zimmer Holdings, Inc. • Warsaw, IN. USA • 08/2010 – 11/2010

Solaris/Unix/Hardware Specialist

Provide expertise in datacenter consolidation and relocation to develop processes and procedures to assist outsourced resources to consolidate and replace existing Red Hat physical infrastructure on developing VMWare infrastructure.

Provide Solaris expertise to outsource resources to aid in daily administration and to remediation issues within existing infrastructure that would delay consolidation.

Develop and design Solaris container/zone strategy for upgrade and consolidation of physical Solaris infrastructure.

Americo Life • Kansas City, MO. USA • 06/2010 – 08/2010

System Administrator/Network Engineer

Implementation of Apache Tomcat and AWD Netserver – provide Linux expertise, troubleshooting, and training to successfully roll-out mission critical functionality achieving overall completion 2 months ahead of schedule, reducing contract length by half.

Re-engineer and repair of existing Dell m100e/m600 blade architecture to OEM certification level to support the creation of a virtualization environment for physical system reduction.

Hermeris, Inc. • Kansas City, MO. USA • 01/2010 – 04/2010

Network Engineer/System Specialist

Integration, implementation, and roll out of new F5, Switch, and Ell system infrastructure within co-located datacenter to triple existing throughput and capacity of company’s internet presence.

Achieved level of efficiency to a degree to reduce overall contract length from 6 months to 2.

Maryville Technologies • Overland Park, KS. USA • 08/2009 – 10/2009

Hardware Specialist

Integration, implementation, and roll out of multiple Sun Microsystems M6000 rack builds for multiple nationwide sites.

Multiple rack build-out per day, averaging two fully loaded racks each day, from bare rack to site ready configurations.

OS builds using jumpstart and kickstart for site dependent needs of Solaris or Red hat.

Achieve efficiency to such a degree to reduce overall contract length from 3 months to 1.

Mastercard Worldwide • Kansas City, MO. USA • 02/2009 – 08/2009

Network Administrator II

Performed day-to-day system administration through patches, software updates, hardware support and system metric in mixed IBM/Sun/Fujitsu environment running Solaris 8/10 and IBM AIX 5.

Remote ‘hands & eyes’ for offsite Administrators/Team Members in backup redundant datacenter.

Birch Telecom • Kansas City, MO. USA • 12/2007 – 02/2009

Unix Administrator

ISP Mail system cleanup and revitalization.

Perform system consolidation, cleanup, and relocation through application stacking and system virtualization utilizing VMWare, Red Hat, CentOS, FreeBSD, and Solaris 10 on x86 and Sparc hardware.

Implementation, design, and support of Groundworks to replace existing Nagios monitoring solution.

Reduced overall datacenter footprint by two-thirds, consolidating all existing hardware/applications into a single datacenter space.

USDA • Kansas City, MO. USA • 07/2007 – 12/2007

Solaris System Administrator

Provide Solaris hardware/software expertise to stabilize existing production environment and update older technologies with Solaris and non-EOL Sun Microsystems hardware.

Day-to-day system administration, build-out, and project participation planning for future growth.

Liaison between St. Louis and Kansas City Admin and Management teams providing mentoring and expertise for Solaris and Sun Hardware.

Sprint • Overland Park, KS. USA • 12/2001 – 03/2007

Enterprise Network Administrator III

Primary assignment of 65+ enterprise class Sun systems running Solaris 8 to 10, Veritas Cluster, Volume Manger, and Filesystem with secondary assignment on 50+ additional servers.

Support 3rd party applications/databases such as IPlanet, Apache, Oracle and various mission critical internally developed applications.

Apply patches, perform live upgrades, insure daily backups/restoration, project management and participation, server build-out and standardization, security remediation, and on-call rotation participation.

Extensive participation in Sprint-Nextel merger efforts supporting Day-0/1 infrastructure improvements and upgrades to support incoming technologies and users.

DST Systems • Kansas City, MO. USA • 12/1996 – 11/2001

Systems Programmer II

UNIX Systems Administrator and Team Lead managing 300+ Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX servers, responsible for daily administration, backups, system updates, security audits, Y2K project leadership, and documentation automation, including on-call support for the entire UNIX environment.

Micrologic Business Systems • Independence, MO. USA • 06/1995 – 12/1996

Lead Systems Engineer

Lead Engineer providing comprehensive technical support, database and server management, POS networking solutions, hardware expertise, and onsite sales/service for Fortune 500 clients, including managing a national laptop hot-swap program and overseeing installation, repair, and support of OEM and non-OEM hardware.

Training

Google Cybersecurity (Coursera)

Administering Cisco Data Center Unified Computing (DCUCA v1.1, NterOne)

RHCSA Rapid Track for RHEL 7 (RH199, Red Hat)

Professional School of Bartending (PBSA, Kansas City)

TCP/IP Certification (Ericsson, Inc.)

Advanced Sys. Admin. for the Solaris 10 OS (WSB-202-S10)

Intermediate Sys. Admin. for the Solaris 10 OS (CDS-200-S10)

Unix Essentials Featuring the Solaris 10 OS (CDS-100-S10)

Veritas Storage Foundation 4.1 for Solaris (VSF4.1, Maryville Technologies)

Veritas Cluster Server 4.0 for Solaris (VCS4.0S, Maryville Tech.)

Customized Linux Training for Solaris Admins (Maryville Tech.)

Solaris TCP/IP Network Troubleshooting (IN-425, Maryville Tech.)

Solaris Network Intrusion and Detection (SC-360, Maryville Tech.)

Shell Programming for System Administrators (SA-245, Maryville Tech.)

Perl Programming (DTP-250, Maryville Tech.)

Solaris Performance Management (SA-400, Maryville Tech.)

Sun Fire Workgroup/Enterprise Maint & Troubleshooting (SM-340, Maryville Tech.)

Veritas Volume Manager 3.0 for Solaris (VM, Maryville Tech.)

Sun Fire High-End Server Administration (ES-421C, Maryville Tech.)

Solaris 7 System Administration I & II – (PVI Training & Technologies)

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