Architect & DevOps Engineer

The candidate is an experienced network administrator and systems manager who has been in this position for over 24 years in commercial practice. He started as a tester. During his many years of experience, he has become familiar with all aspects of user support and has learned to quickly resolve user issues appropriately. Among his advantages is that he can manage both the HW side of the server (DELL, IBM, Intel) and the servers themselves (SNMP, IPMI, Serial over LAN). He also has advanced knowledge of TCP/IP (and related network services such as DNS, DHCP, DNS or SMTP), routing and firewalling, and various VPN implementations (IPSec - FreeSwan, OpenVPN)He has also completed Red Hat Certified System Administrator (certificate number 120-037-494). He has experience in both teamleader and team member roles, including distributed international teams. She has an excellent level of communication in English. He has actively used agile methodologies in his work, especially Scrum and Kanban.

Jan 2019 - now: Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Responsible for managing infrastructure using Puppet, unattended provisioning and decommissioning of machines, XenServer administration, and daily cooperation with a US-based team. Main technologies used include Centos 6, Oracle Linux7, Puppet, Git, and Jira. (Company name removed)

Nov 2015 - Dec 2018: Senior IT Administrator - Responsible for Active Directory administration, Exchange 2007/2013 administration/maintenance, and serving as the SME for Blackberry infrastructure. Main technologies used include Windows 2008/2012 and Exchange 2007/2013. (Company name removed)

Mar 2015 - Oct 2015: Infrastructure Engineer - Responsible for day-to-day management of infrastructure services for CISCO Web Security product, developing Puppet modules for automation tasks, maintaining infrastructure services of internal lab, and solving customer problems in an ITIL environment. Main technologies used include Redhat Linux, Windows, VMWare ESXi, Puppet, Git, Bind, DHCP, and Nagios. (Company name removed)

Apr 2013 - Feb 2015: IT Specialist - Responsible for building and managing VMWare vCloud environment for IBM customers, participating in AIX L2 support, project delivery for international projects, authoring content for IBM Endpoint Manager, and providing UNIX/Linux bash scripting SME for Mobily Saudi Arabia, Broadridge UK, and Novartis. Main technologies used include AIX, Linux, Windows, VMWare ESXi and vCloud, and IBM Endpoint Manager. (Company name removed)

Sep 2012 - Apr 2013: Validation Engineer - Responsible for creating initial setup and installation of IT lab, participating in validation of EATON's UPS solutions, and creating test plans. Main technologies used include Linux (Redhat, Suse), Windows, and Trac. (Company name removed)

Oct 2011 - Aug 2012: Software Specialist - Responsible for supporting IBM AIX customers in Czech Republic and EMEA region, with a primary focus on AIX and GPFS. Main technologies used include AIX and GPFS. (Company name removed)

Aug 2010 - Oct 2011: Senior Helpdesk Specialist/Helpdesk Administrator - Responsible for supporting Icewarp Mailserver in multiple countries, acting as a team leader for the support team, solving complex issues under tight deadlines and pressure, and focusing on SMTP, POP3, and IMAP4 protocols. Main technologies used include Icewarp Mailserver, MS Windows 2003/2008, MSSQL 2005/2008, MySQL, and RedHat Linux. (Company name removed)

Feb 2008 - Jul 2010: System & Network Administrator - Responsible for administration of Linux and MS Windows servers, implementation of a network monitoring system, and LAN management and user support. (Company name removed)