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Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Provisioning and managing cloud services in GCP & Azure with Terraform : GKE • VPC • Storage • IAM • SQL | AD App Registrations • CosmoDB • MS SQL• GitOps using ArgoCD + templating Kustomize manifests with cueLang• Utilizing Azure DevOps for Git + pipelines + project planning• Automating tasks with Bash / Python / Powershell scripting through pipeline jobs• Automating the management of Kubernetes resources lacking GitOps• Working with developers to ensure the deployment process from QA to preprod to prod is flawless • Collecting metrics to use as monitoring (Prometheus & cloud provider provided metrics)

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Managing and troubleshooting: • Apache CloudStack • Citrix Xen Hypervisor. • Block Storage (Pure, Datera, Solidfire) • Object storage (Swift) • Deploying and managing MAAS to automate bare-metal deployments• Automating application deployments through Ansible, chef, Terraform / cloud-init• Building pipeline work flows to test and push changes in GitLab• On-site facility rack planning and installation• Managing internal infrastructure services: • ELK + Logstash, RabbitMQ, MySQL/Postgres, Cloudera, Commvault, HashiCorp’s Consul, Vault & Packer• Creating Grafana (tsdb) & ELK dashboards to simplify monitoring visibility

Montreal, Canada Area

• Using Openstack’s API to deploy and manage instances, images, networks, object & block storage• Troubleshooting a broad range of issues for bare-metal & virtual instances on INAP’s OpenStack• Deploying and managing high availability private cloud infrastructures• Managing and deploying SAN’s• Managing and deploying Cluster solutions.• Managing & deploying Cisco ASA firewalls• Switch port management and debugging: Juniper, Cisco, Dell, top of rack switches• Information gathering during network incidents (MTR, Iperf, Nmap, tcpdump)• Last level of escalation for technical issues and inquiries (+ on call)• Training & coaching System administrators Level 1 & 2• Installing and troubleshooting web, DNS, mail, & database services on Linux and Windows• Contributing to internal knowledge base with articles & procedures• Configuring Nagios monitoring for customer environments• Scripting tasks and processes for the support team• Managing & troubleshooting Hardware and software raid

Montreal

• Deploying and managing ESXI nodes for a variety of shared/managed web hosting solutions• Deploying and troubleshooting Apache + varnish, BIND, SMTP, & MySQL/MS SQL services• Deploying and troubleshooting CMS platforms such as: Wordpress & Magento • Managing Windows services for internal operations (AD/GPO/DNS,SMB & PPTP services)• Configuring and managing PPPOE connections on FreeRADIUS for DSL connectivity

• The ability to identify and troubleshoot hardware and OS problems on workstations• Replacing defective components for Apple devices & workstations• Analyzing system activities with Sysinternals tools to mitigate and eliminate malicious processes• Performed on-site repairs and maintenances on personal / business workstations• Deploying workstations, networking (Pfsense/Linux) & NAS storage for small business offices• Deploying and supporting Linux workstations for small businesses and consumers