Senior System Engineer - Administrator
Innovation Data Processing
Duties include: * Led the initiative to virtualize our data center, by installing, configuring & maintaining our VMware environment. This allowed our organization to test our software on virtually unlimited configurations. It also increased uptime on production systems considerably, by leveraging high availability & fault tolerance built into VMware vSphere. * Advised management & developer team regarding hardware specifications & OS configurations * Installed & maintained MSSQL, DB2 & Oracle databases for production & test environments * Administered our Jira & Jenkins systems, working closely with our software developer team. * Managed our software & user interface testing environment, working with QA personnel & developers. * Worked with our sales team, Pre & Post sales, providing guidance & best practices for our Enterprise Backup/Recovery suite, FDR/UPSTREAM.* Installed, configured & maintained our Disk arrays, used for VMware Datastores, SMB, NFS and iSCSI* Implemented an AWS Storage Gateway for off-site storage of production backup* Pre Sales Engineer supporting our Sales team* Disaster Recovery specialist* Software Testing* First & Second level technical support for Backup & Recovery software on all open systems