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AWS, Kubernetes, many other things

ServiceNow

Greater St. Louis Area

Developing automation to build VMware clouds, deploy new tenants and applications.Configuring RackHD and writing Salt modules and workflows to control RackHD, allowing for automated VM host builds from bare metal.Configuring ManageIQ for form-driven automated builds of new VMware cloud tenants using VMware APIs including provisioning NSX components.Writing code to assist migration from Ubersmith to ServiceNow.Designing automation framework around ServiceNow as source of truth and user interaction point for automated provisioning and updates of hosted customer environments and applications. Key in setting direction for automation efforts.

Webster Groves, Mo

Writing and maintaining code to gather and collect information, make and validate changes and generally automate processes for operations, testing and development.

Greater St. Louis Area

Working with a number of customers including Fortune 500 companies to support their managed hosting environments.Handling incidents and requests related to Linux, Solaris and VMware ESX systems including hardware, OS and application issues.

Greater St. Louis Area

Part of the infrastructure engineering team working on Express Scripts' public/private cloud platform interface.

Senior engineer responsible for design, implementation and support of highly available 24/7 e-mail and web hosting service for all residential and business customers.Primary areas of specialization include 3rd tier support and architecture design for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x and 6.x, , Vmware ESXi 4.1 and 5.0, Solaris 10, Dell R series servers, Sun T2000 and X4xxx servers, Oracle and MySQL databases, Hitachi VSP, USP-V and AMS series storage. Primary area of responsibility also encompasses application support for Parallels Operations Automation, OpenWave Messaging Email Mx (aka IMail), Laszlo Webtop and other related software components.Other responsibilities include 3rd tier support and architecture design for Exchange 2007 and 2010, Windows 2008R2, Juniper switches and routers and Cisco ASA firewalls.Specific tasks fall into the following categories: designing new and improved solutions to provide more reliable and efficient service and to enable new services; creating useful and complete documentation of new and existing solutions and environments; analyzing and tuning performance of applications and operating systems; creating procedures for installation and upgrade of software and hardware; and testing solutions in the lab.

Leading member of the team responsible for operations, support and engineering of a web application delivery environment.Partnering with other teams and departments to define requirements.Providing strong leadership across the organization to guide projects to completion.Deploying and managing a variety of servers, applications, databases, storage arrays, switches, load balancers, firewalls and other components.Analyzing applications and systems for performance, scalability and functional issues.Recommending, testing and implementing solutions to technical issues.Designing environments for new applications, components and performance improvements.Working with RHEL 5.x, VMware ESXi 4.x, MySQL 5.1 and 5.5, Glassfish 2.x and 3.x, Tomcat 6.x, Apache HTTPD, Windows Server 2008, Dell PowerEdge servers (2970, R610, R710, R805, R905, R910, C6100), Dell PowerConnect 6248 and 8024 switches, Dell EqualLogic, AX4-5f and XIO storage arrays, Check Point UTM-1 Edge and Cisco ASA firewalls.

Analyzing customer applications for performance, scalability and functional issues.Providing solutions for customer application issues.Writing findings and recommendations documents. These include a technical overview of the customer application, suggestions for configuration and code changes based on best practices, a test plan and a future scalability plan.Working with any languages, frameworks, databases or tools needed, including J2EE Java, .NET C#, ASP, Perl, PHP, JBoss, Tomcat, BEA WebLogic,Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, JProfiler, Toad, ANTS Profiler and dotTrace.Collaborating with other teams to get a full picture of the application environment and any bottlenecks or issues in that environment, including networking (firewalls, load balancers, routers), storage (NAS and SAN), VM administrators and systems administrators.

Managing Linux systems administration staff and projects. Assigning responsibilities, developing personnel, training and managing situation response. Designing, implementing, testing and supporting production application and corporate IT infrastructure. Working with systems including Dell PowerEdge servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS Linux, EMC Celerra NAS, CLARiiON storage array, Dell AX100 storage array and Sun Netra running Solaris 9. Managing software such as Oracle database, Apache Tomcat application server, Apache httpd web server, JBoss application server, SupplyScape ePedigree, Postfix mail server, ISC BIND DNS server, VMware Server virtual machine layer, CUPS print server, Chameleon HL7 interface, Cloverleaf interface, SugarCRM, Fedora Directory Server (LDAP), OpenVPN and CIPE VPN. Integrating and troubleshooting Cisco 6500 and 3750 series switch/routers, Cisco CSS load balancer and SSL accelerators, PIX firewalls and NetScreen firewall/VPN. Creating disaster recovery plan. Designing and supporting Microsoft Windows systems.

Building and maintaining production server environments, using a variety of software including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, VMware ESX, Solaris, Oracle, Sybase, Informix, Documentum, BEA WebLogic, Tomcat, Apache, Samba, GIM2000, DSTS and Tibco.Supporting an enterprise test lab, which encompasses research, development, integration and user acceptance environments across a wide range of systems and applications. Contributing to the research and design phase of a project to expand the enterprise test lab. Providing support for mission-critical trading system projects, in the form of analysis and troubleshooting. Supporting enterprise storage optimization project by producing storage allocation and system status reports, managing large software deployments and assisting in the troubleshooting of SAN issues. Training and mentoring junior systems administrators and helping to promote enhanced teamwork.

Managing a mixed Linux and Solaris server environment for a medical ASP. Applications include Oracle, Apache, Tomcat, VSI-FAX, CUPS and Java servlets. Performing upgrade/rebuild of environment while maintaining application availability. Designing new network topology and application tier configuration. Installing hardware and developing tools and procedures for automated OS and software installation. Working with developers and QA testers to ensure readiness of new systems. Performing review of systems redundancy and monitoring requirements. Implementing new monitoring system to enhance troubleshooting capabilities and improve uptime. Designing and implementing new e-mail and groupware system to improve collaboration, provide enhanced remote access and augment content filtering capabilities. Assisting with network troubleshooting on Cisco equipment.

Designing, building and managing mission-critical production, staging and development systems in hosted and internal environments utilizing a wide variety of enterprise-class hardware and software from Sun, HP/Compaq, Veritas, SpectraLogic, BEA, Oracle, IBM, Sybase, Microsoft and many other vendors. Assisting with the development and implementation of a formal change management process for managed hosting environments. Training and supervising junior systems engineers and operations personnel. Design, maintenance, performance analysis, tuning and training related to the IP infrastructure services SAVVIS provides to its customers, such as DNS, SMTP and NNTP. This includes writing scripts, working with internal developers, training customer service and NOC personnel, estimating future resource utilization and both designing and redesigning systems to increase performance and availability. Working with storage specialists to design and implement storage solutions for internal and customer use. Creating volumes on EMC Symmetrix and CX arrays and configuring host access to LUNs. Creating fibre channel zones on EMC Connectrix (Brocade) switches. Attaching to LUNs from Linux, Solaris and Windows hosts. Using volume management software to partition space. Creating, growing, shrinking and repairing filesystems on EMC storage. Assisting with EMC hardware failure analysis and vendor management. Designing, testing and implementing solutions to handle a variety of internal communications and network monitoring tasks. Communicating with vendors, obtaining quotes, recommending software, hardware and solutions. Writing purchase requests. Obtaining hardware and software for evaluation. Evaluating server hardware and software as well as network devices including IP load balancers and carrier-grade Ethernet switches. Training and consulting on DNS, UNIX, TCP/IP networking, Windows and a wide variety of software packages.