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Automating application security testing, open source scanning, reporting, and dashboarding results.

* Automated production failover to disaster recovery site of hundreds of applications and thousands of linux servers, maintaining strict Recovery Time Objectives.* Monitored and maintained uptime of production site during trading hours, investigating customer reported issues, and assisting NOC with daily troubleshooting.* Worked with Hadoop and Elastic/Logstash/Kibana stack, automating log backups and archives, and scripting and dashboarding against millions of log messages per day to make relevant info easy to find.

* Handled NOC escalations, deep diving into production impacting issues.* Automated NOC functions and added new monitoring.* Performed disaster recovery site failovers, minimizing downtime and improving success rate.

* Monitored and maintained uptime of the production brokerage and banking website, all trading tools, and internal customer service utilities.* Applied nightly patches to linux and solaris systems and a wide variety of open source and in-house applications while maintaining uptime and SLAs.* Performed site-wide upgrades bi-weekly, rolling forward over 100 applications in a night across thousands of linux and solaris systems.* Built Control-M jobs using an in-house framework to manage restarts and upgrades of full stacks.* Deployed servers to the floor with fresh installations of CentOS and fully configured application suites.* Performed tape backup and restoration using Netbackup to comply with business, legal, and regulatory requirements.* Configured and built load-balanced virtual IPs on netscalers with regular SSL/TLS certificate renewal.* Worked with developers, engineers, project managers, internal and external business partners, and customer service to accommodate the daily needs of the site and our clients.* Performed failover testing of Veritas cluster systems and responded to faulted clusters as they arose in production.