Deliver exceptional leadership and guidance to a team of 4 SRE’s in 2 offshore locations to ensure continuous performance improvement, while reporting to director of DevOps and SRE. Administer and maintain 2 hosting locations, and oversee hardware/firmware of servers (Cisco UCS, Dell, HP) and storage units (EMC Isilon, Netapp) by collaborating with data center team, external providers and engineering team. Oversee Arista switches, troubleshoot errors, and resolve problems, while installing and configuring Arista CloudVision Portal to ensure seamless operations. Supervise and maintain Linux Ubuntu (12, 14, and 16) VM’s, small portion of Windows servers, virtualized server farm (VMWare 5.x and 6.5, KVM), while delivering ongoing upgrades to latest versions.Key Achievements:● Spearheaded major project to migrate production environment from colocation to cloud, while conductingdaily tasks on various AWS services - EC2, ASG, Direct Connect, EFS, and SES, as well as operating in alarge scale AWS environment.● Led effective management and maintenance of F5 Viprion, including load balancers and firewalls, whileresolving and escalating networking/application issues raising from client and internal issues.● Ensured effective task prioritization by formulating work schedules and delivering software upgrades.

Steered effective administration/maintenance of Cisco network infrastructure (ASA firewalls and switches),Kemp and F5 load balancers (migration project from Kemp to F5), and virtualized server farm (VMWare 5.x and 6.5), while reporting to the AVP of IT and WebOps. Conducted comprehensive analysis and planning ofconfiguration management system (Chef), while migrating manual tasks to Chef to save time and cost. Directed project to upgrade Windows 2008 servers to Windows 2016 servers using Chef, while managing andmaintaining Windows (2008, 2012, and 2016) and Linux (CentOS 7).Key Achievements:● Maintained uptime by overseeing monitoring systems (Zabbix, PagerDuty, Pingdom) and LMS (syslog,SumoLogic).● Ensured PCI compliant environment, while monitoring Qualys internal/external scanner, and deliveringticket management and mitigation plan

Maintained physical and virtual server hardware and operating systems to ensure reliability of serverapplications. Supported the development and QA teams with application configuration. Configured, maintained,and upgraded all computers and servers for staff to ensure smooth running of technical operations. Examined system performance and managed Cisco UCS servers’ farm (145 servers), EMC VMAX, VNX storage, Cisco network infrastructure including Nexus 7K, 5K, ASA-SSP40 FW’s, and Citrix NetScaler SDX/MPX balancers.Key Achievements:● Guaranteed 99.999% uptime by developing site through configuration/installation of OS/applications andplanning /purchasing equipment, while establishing 2 hosting locations (1 in VA and 1 in AZ).● Achieved set performance goals by leading and overseeing 2 engineers, while reporting to VP ofEngineering.

Provided effective leadership and guidance to the IT team of 2 systems engineers to streamline Traiana’sinfrastructure. Confirmed seamless network operations by managing/maintaining Traiana’s network and servers systems, while devising and deploying system upgrades.Key Achievements:● Developed high-performing teams by leading the first round of interviewing for new hires andrecommending to IT manager.● Improved overall performance by delivering proactive support to the team in conducting day to dayprocesses and training new engineers, while reporting to the IT manager