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Bucharest, Romania

Bucharest, Romania

• Oversight of the Infrastructure programme (Essential Maintenance) in excess of circa £50-60M to ensure timeline delivery against plan and budget. Full accountable for Governance and Reporting, Resourcing against scope and budget. Accountable for financial and budgetary planning and compliance• Designed the group Multi-year obsolescence framework and full accountable for its Execution, Governance and Reporting to CIOs• Designed the Infrastructure's PAM (Privileged Access Management)… Show more • Oversight of the Infrastructure programme (Essential Maintenance) in excess of circa £50-60M to ensure timeline delivery against plan and budget. Full accountable for Governance and Reporting, Resourcing against scope and budget. Accountable for financial and budgetary planning and compliance• Designed the group Multi-year obsolescence framework and full accountable for its Execution, Governance and Reporting to CIOs• Designed the Infrastructure's PAM (Privileged Access Management) audit self-assessment process to assure the controls are designed and operating effectively for individual Infrastructure services and products• Designing and delivery the de-risking strategy and recommendations to follow in case of potential supply chain exposure and hardware components' supply shortage• Work closely with Cyber Security team and Infrastructure teams to ensure the Cyber asks are delivered within the agreed timelines and ensure the cyber vulnerabilities are remediated within the agreed SLA Show less

Bucharest, Romania

Leading a team dedicated to delivering for the IT Controls (security) programme, which provides engineering and support services for Enterprise, Development and Security toolsets to the organisation.• Manage a multi-disciplined team to deliver across a range of projects.• Use of agile approach to run regular scrums for effective project delivery.• Performance management of my team.• Work closely with group project management to ensure that resourcing profiles are clearly… Show more Leading a team dedicated to delivering for the IT Controls (security) programme, which provides engineering and support services for Enterprise, Development and Security toolsets to the organisation.• Manage a multi-disciplined team to deliver across a range of projects.• Use of agile approach to run regular scrums for effective project delivery.• Performance management of my team.• Work closely with group project management to ensure that resourcing profiles are clearly understood.• Ensuring the project implementation adheres to infrastructure security engineering standards.• Develop cloud architectural designs, manage the implementation and governance processes • Produce risk, audit and compliance documents• Produce Service Level Agreement documents and define the metrics• Produce service Support Models• Change Management adopting best practice from the ITIL framework Show less

Bucharest, Romania

Bucharest, Romania

Leading a team of System Engineers that are responsible for:- Best in delivering stable environment running with Widows and Linux operating systems- Fully managing databases either Oracle, Microsoft or PostgreSQL- Consulting our clients to develop the most efficient infrastructure architecture- Designing backup & restore and disaster recovery concepts thus maximizing the application availability- Proactively monitoring and logging applications’ services to ensure business… Show more Leading a team of System Engineers that are responsible for:- Best in delivering stable environment running with Widows and Linux operating systems- Fully managing databases either Oracle, Microsoft or PostgreSQL- Consulting our clients to develop the most efficient infrastructure architecture- Designing backup & restore and disaster recovery concepts thus maximizing the application availability- Proactively monitoring and logging applications’ services to ensure business continuityIn this role, I have the following duties: - Stakeholder management. Serve as a voice to project the expectations of the stakeholders on new or already existing products- Process responsibility- Team management responsibility. Act as a coach and mentor for the team members. Identify training plans, improvement points, continuously looking on how to improve the overall team, individually.- Manage and develop product backlog, as well as user stories backlog for implementation. - Determine the points that can be automated from day to day work and architect the solution- Concepts writing, presentation and follow-up- KPIs and OKR's Show less

Bucharest, Romania

Continues Integration and Continues Development framework - Jenkins pipeline, git, OpenStack, Rancher/Docker, GrafanaSupport my colleagues for any topic related to Firewalls, Linux , Ansible and Cloud solutions

Bucharest, Romania

- Linux System Administrator with a focus on MySQL, Elastic Search and Play Framework, I am mainly involved in the operation and maintaining/troubleshooting of a large Linux Servers environment (including MySQL Geo Cluster/MariaDB) and Elastic Search Servers in a Social Media Software environment which runs on a VMWare Platform. The Systems are connected to a Microsoft Active Directory Enterprise Environment.- Develop and work with dependency monitors and thresholds in a Nagios/OMD based… Show more - Linux System Administrator with a focus on MySQL, Elastic Search and Play Framework, I am mainly involved in the operation and maintaining/troubleshooting of a large Linux Servers environment (including MySQL Geo Cluster/MariaDB) and Elastic Search Servers in a Social Media Software environment which runs on a VMWare Platform. The Systems are connected to a Microsoft Active Directory Enterprise Environment.- Develop and work with dependency monitors and thresholds in a Nagios/OMD based Monitoring Environment- Logging and monitoring tools such as the ELK stack- Develop and maintain automation scripts using Ansible (Nagios, Docker and Jenkins deployment,Update OS packages, update/install new patches for our Social Media platform, update our Mysql database and table entries, deploy new applications and many other)- Integrate the Ansible scripts into Rundeck web GUI interface to safely deploy applications across environments- QA automation for our Social Media platform using Selenium and Eclipse Show less

Bucharest, Romania

◙ Firewall Activation• Administrate all the CheckPoint country firewalls as well as the department firewalls in METRO Group.• Management of the Active Rule-Base of METRO Group Firewalls• Management applications: SmardDashBoard, SmartView Tracker, SmartView Monitor, Provider-1, Firewall Database Tool from Oracle.◙ Firewall administrator for real,- stores.• Responsible with the Crossbeam firewalls for the following countries: Germany, Romania, Poland, Russia, Hungary and… Show more ◙ Firewall Activation• Administrate all the CheckPoint country firewalls as well as the department firewalls in METRO Group.• Management of the Active Rule-Base of METRO Group Firewalls• Management applications: SmardDashBoard, SmartView Tracker, SmartView Monitor, Provider-1, Firewall Database Tool from Oracle.◙ Firewall administrator for real,- stores.• Responsible with the Crossbeam firewalls for the following countries: Germany, Romania, Poland, Russia, Hungary and Turkey.• Management applications: SmartDashBoard, SmartView Tracker, SmartView Monitor, SmartUpdate, Smart Large Scale Management, SecureShore and CLI on Crossbeam Console Operating System (COS).• Responsible with everything from zero-configuration to troubleshooting in case of failure. Show less

Bucharest, Romania

Monitoring and administration of LAN and WAN connections using internally developed applicationsInstallation and maintenance of Crossbeam Firewalls (COSupdate, QoS implementation, basic troubleshooting),-Communication lines monitoring, anti-virus administration and maintenance-Anti-spam solutions like McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator si TrendMicro Control ManagerAccomplishments:-COS update on 580 firewalls without noticeable downtime,-Policy Update on all Real… Show more Monitoring and administration of LAN and WAN connections using internally developed applicationsInstallation and maintenance of Crossbeam Firewalls (COSupdate, QoS implementation, basic troubleshooting),-Communication lines monitoring, anti-virus administration and maintenance-Anti-spam solutions like McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator si TrendMicro Control ManagerAccomplishments:-COS update on 580 firewalls without noticeable downtime,-Policy Update on all Real supermarkets in Germany Show less

Bucharest

Addressing both phone and field network problems, e-mail boxes