Christopher Malarick Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

• Project lead and solution architect to redesign on-prem Kubernetes solution with VMware vSphere and Kubernetes open source.• Migration of on-prem solution using vSphere with Tanzu and NSX to Kubernetes upstream saving the company $350k of operational expenses• Project lead and solution architect to build out on-prem Kubernetes solution using vSphere with Tanzu• Kubernetes installation, upgrade and maintenance for on-prem solution using Helm charts• Assisted with Observability implementation using Fluentbit, Telegraf, Prometheus, Consul, Grafana, and Elastic• Created and documented solution reference architecture, diagrams, standards and operational processes.• Engineer training in Kubernetes install, upgrade and maintenance• Technical lead modernizing the businesses infrastructure life cycle management process using Terraform, Ansible, vSphere, Hashicorp Vault, GitHub, AWX, and Python• Solution architect designing enterprise data protection using Dell PowerProtect on Data Domain• Work with Architecture, Operations and Application Owners to bring SRE and cloud native principles to the business.

New York, Ny, Us

• Designed, deployed, and implemented Virtual Infrastructure solutions using VMware vSphere, vCenter, vRA, vROPs, Cisco UCS, Dell VxRail, Cohesity, Pure Storage, IBM XiV, Hitachi, and Brocade SAN Switches.• Subject matter expert for VMware vSphere, VMware vCenter, Cisco UCS, Dell VxRail, Ansible, Windows, Linux and backup solutions assisting engineers in day-to-day challenges.• Created configuration management process, using Ansible for Linux systems and business critical Oracle RAC deployments.• Developed and documented infrastructure standards, procedures, processes, and workflows allowing the team to be 20% more efficient in daily tasks.• Provided architecture design advice to application owners during development sprints

New York, Ny, Us

• Technical lead of large data center migration project of 5000+ systems for internal customers• Created and documented national data center intake and management processes• Organized and documented process for applications into the newly used company ITSM CMDB system.• Designed a plan to minimize downtime of applications by working with application owners to understand the business criticality of the application.• Installation, upgrade and management of company wide backup solutions using Symantec Backup Exec.• Documented company backup solution standards and processes

New York, Ny, Us

Mid level engineer responsible for physical and virtual server builds as well as backup operations and application troubleshooting. Data center operations including, rack and stack, cabling, maintenance and monitoring.

Chester Township, Pa, Us

System administrator responsible for monitoring, maintaining, and deploying Windows PCs and servers within a manufacturing setting. Entry level support of the VMware environment assisting the senior manager. Deployed company wide ticketing and monitoring system for all users and infrastructure.