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Design, build, and maintain an internal development framework. Accelerate development teams, improve their experience while encouraging best practices and security.

Design, build and deploy self service platforms that enable clients to improve efficiency and scalability in AWS and private cloud.- Python- Groovy- Jenkins- CDK- Cloudformation- Typescript- React- GraphQLAWS Governance- Okta- IAM- Cloud networking

Deployment, configuration, and troubleshooting large scale container based micro services, and associated infrastructure.Day to day maintenance and troubleshooting of Red Hat Openshift (Kubernetes).Deployments and automation with Ansible.Provisioning, managing, and securing AWS resources.Maintaining a highly available production hybrid cloud spanning private cloud (on-prem) and public (AWS).Maintain version-controlled configuration, and inventory yaml files using git.

Fredericton, Nb

Installing, upgrading, and configuring various Vmware/Cisco UCS products and services, ensuring all products maintain the highest level of security, and bug fixes.Train and assist other team members on the installation, and initial configuration of multiple Vmware products. (vCenter, SRM, vCNS)Created documentation and implemented processes for deploying and configuring products in high availability private cloud environments.Working with analytic software (vCenter… Show more Installing, upgrading, and configuring various Vmware/Cisco UCS products and services, ensuring all products maintain the highest level of security, and bug fixes.Train and assist other team members on the installation, and initial configuration of multiple Vmware products. (vCenter, SRM, vCNS)Created documentation and implemented processes for deploying and configuring products in high availability private cloud environments.Working with analytic software (vCenter, vRealize), for proper capacity planning, controlling VM sprawl, and proper virtual resource allocation.Day to day management of virtual and physical infrastructure for enterprise SaaS in datacenters around the world.Investigating root cause, and resolution of failures with software and hardware vendors.Planning and executing large scale DR scenarios, using EMC SRDF, and Vmware SRM. Created architecture diagrams (MS Visio), providing an overview of processes and solutions.Automation of IT operations, utilizing Powershell, Vmware PowerCLI, and Cisco Powertool, to create solutions to improve efficiency, streamline workflow, and remove human error elements to many facets of day to day tasks and specialized projects. Show less

Fredericton, Nb

Configure, deploy, and administer customized web based SaaS solutions for clients in a private cloud.Escalation point for other team members for advanced troubleshooting, and analysis.Monitoring and outage handling and prevention.Windows Server 2003/08, MS SQL 2000/05/08, SSIS, SSRS, Tomcat, IIS, VmwareWriting SQL queries from small data adjustments, to large scale time savings processes.