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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Lead on-prem data centre to AWS migration by utilizing Bitbucket CI/CD pipeline andTerraform Cloud, reducing deployment time by 80%.Manage and maintain Linux servers and systems in a heterogeneous environment,ensuring high availability and reliability.Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Terraformand Ansible, resulting in improved scalability and reliability.Implemented monitoring and alerting systems using Prometheus and… Show more Lead on-prem data centre to AWS migration by utilizing Bitbucket CI/CD pipeline andTerraform Cloud, reducing deployment time by 80%.Manage and maintain Linux servers and systems in a heterogeneous environment,ensuring high availability and reliability.Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Terraformand Ansible, resulting in improved scalability and reliability.Implemented monitoring and alerting systems using Prometheus and Grafana,reducing incident response times by 50%. Show less

Toronto, Ontario

Collaborated in creating a solution to migrate Afilias proprietary software to Kubernetescontainer-based orchestration system in Microsoft Azure.Utilized Terraform and Ansible to setup of DR site in different cloud providers.Deployed and maintain Openstack Cloud Software as a private cloud solution forvarious Afilias teams.Managed VMWare infrastructure in multiple on-prem data centres - includingupgrading and applying fixes to resolve vulnerabilities.Maintained IBM… Show more Collaborated in creating a solution to migrate Afilias proprietary software to Kubernetescontainer-based orchestration system in Microsoft Azure.Utilized Terraform and Ansible to setup of DR site in different cloud providers.Deployed and maintain Openstack Cloud Software as a private cloud solution forvarious Afilias teams.Managed VMWare infrastructure in multiple on-prem data centres - includingupgrading and applying fixes to resolve vulnerabilities.Maintained IBM Storwize v3700/v5000 storage solutions, including upgrading firmware,replacing failed drives, and troubleshooting issues.Created Ansible playbooks for automating Linux virtual machine provisioning task. Thisensures that only authorized users have access to the VMs.Implemented policies for hardening Linux virtual machines. This includes enablingSELinux and modifying system kernel attributes. Show less

Toronto, Ontario

Streamlined openLDAP as a data store and Kerberos as a credential store system-wide; retired NFS as an obsolete data and credential store.Maintained production-level applications and services such as LDAP, Kerberos,Puppet, Jabber, Zenoss, Exim, Git, BIND, and Subversion as part of the Operationsteam.Developed Ruby and Python scripts to assist in auxiliary system administration taskssuch as maintaining SVN in LDAP DIT and Sync-ing hot standby services.Assisted… Show more Streamlined openLDAP as a data store and Kerberos as a credential store system-wide; retired NFS as an obsolete data and credential store.Maintained production-level applications and services such as LDAP, Kerberos,Puppet, Jabber, Zenoss, Exim, Git, BIND, and Subversion as part of the Operationsteam.Developed Ruby and Python scripts to assist in auxiliary system administration taskssuch as maintaining SVN in LDAP DIT and Sync-ing hot standby services.Assisted Registry Operation Team in troubleshooting network connectivity and systemissues with Afilias proprietary software.Facilitated in creating Puppet recipes to automate redundant tasks and also createdguidelines for the team on how to create recipes.Trained new team members in standard operating procedures and the technologies inuse. Show less

Toronto, Ontario

Maintained JBoss and WebSphere application server with pertinent hot fixes and theEsprida proprietary application.Performed all UNIX system administration tasks including volume management, kernelupdates, kernel patches, backups, and software updates.Participated in capacity planning and backup and disaster recovery procedures.Centralized all UNIX-based logins using LDAP and RADIUS servers and reducingmaintenance time by a significant margin.Coordinated with DBA in… Show more Maintained JBoss and WebSphere application server with pertinent hot fixes and theEsprida proprietary application.Performed all UNIX system administration tasks including volume management, kernelupdates, kernel patches, backups, and software updates.Participated in capacity planning and backup and disaster recovery procedures.Centralized all UNIX-based logins using LDAP and RADIUS servers and reducingmaintenance time by a significant margin.Coordinated with DBA in optimizing Oracle 10G servers for performance testing.Setup Nagios for network auditing and monitoring critical applications and servers.Provided technical expertise and act as a liaison between the customers and softwaredevelopment team.Developed Perl scripts for automation of administration tasks such as CVS treecheckout, hot backups, cron jobs, software builds, and software packaging.Setup IPtables firewall on all Linux servers exposed on the Wide Area Network.Wrote technical documentation for proprietary software installation and configuration,and as well as for all advanced level system administration tasks. Show less