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Daily activities include:Working closely with DevOps Dev team. Creation of DevOps CI/CD pipelines. Release approvals to PROD & UAT environments.Deployments to WebSphere, TSM activities, TWS admin, server updates, space management, deployment of jar/war files, creation of shell scripts for automation and production processes, internal & external customer support, upgrades and installation of new packages according to Change control, following the development lifecycle.I have developed my skills to include HMC, TWS, TSM, TEC, DB2 9.5, PGP/GPG, WebSphere, Sunopsis, VMWare/ESXi, AIX 5.3, RedHat ES4/5/6, Debian, Nimsoft, Zabbix and ksh/bash shell scripting.Formulation of various reports detailing system state.Key Achievements to date:Short notice adoption, followed by support and maintenance of several pharmaceutical, Debian based, Amazon EC2 LAMP and RDS instances. Migration of instances from ephemeral to EBS storage. Creation of Zabbix instance in EU Region. Migration of AIX TWS 8.2 to 8.5.1 – including deployment of several RHEL 5/6 FTA’s providing dynamic scheduling capability.Implementation of control groups in a clustered environment.Implementation and deployment of Nimsoft monitoring robots and probes. Creation and customisation of dashboards and probes.Working as part of a small team on an aggressive datacenter co-location project.Hot and cold Virtualisation of desktops and servers using vmWare and vSphere client.Evaluation and installation of Christie of bare metal recovery software.Assisted in creation Drupal based knowledge base to assist our off-shore Global Service Centre.Installation, configuration and optimisation of RHEL ES 5 squid proxy VM.

Listed skills include Db2, Unix, Sql, Etl, and 16 others.