Robert Hurley Email & Phone Number

Limerick, Ie

Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland

County Limerick, Ireland

Senior member of Application Engineering team providing support for Immediate Payments SaaS platforms in EMEA region.Full stack architecting and deployment from back-end ‘UPF’ systems, various middleware components and client front-end.Completed successful go-live of new platform providing access to EBA & TIPS payment clearing for EU customers.Ongoing operational support and improvements of existing platforms providing FPS clearing for UK customers.Provide SME level support for platforms to ensure availability SLAs meet and exceed contractually obliged targets.Adoption of dev-ops principles to provide more agile deployment methodologies.Development of Ansible Playbooks and Roles in-line with an ‘automate first’ principle to support IaC deployments of core products.Jenkins build server administration for creation of Projects and Tasks to support both ad-hoc jobs and pipeline creation.Active contributor to application engineering Git code base to ensure controlled and audited management of infrastructure codebase.JBoss EAP administration and management supporting client-based web-apps. IBM MQ Series installation, queue creation & management. Configuration of HAProxy & Keepalived clusters to ensure high availability and fault tolerance of application components.Zabbix based monitoring design, implementation and tuning to ensure a clear picture of the overall health of SaaS platforms is available as well as appropriate escalation paths for incident management.

Shannon, Clare, Ireland

Member of IT Operations team providing global support to various e-commerce platforms deployed throughout the company. Provide level 2 support in escalation process troubleshooting, fault detection, isolation, resolution, and root cause analysis. Collaborate with cross-functional teams on various continuous improvement projects.Linux host management, troubleshooting and performance analysis. Focusing on RHEL variants Scientific Linux & CentOS.Apache webserver & Tomcat deployment, configuration, virtual host creation, redirect management and monitoring.VMWare VSphere cluster configuration, node administration, update management & hardware maintenance. VM template creation & configuration and host deployment through vRealize Automation.Configuration Management tools administration for infrastructure deployment standardization with Chef cookbook creation & maintenance and ansible playbooks maintenance.Containerised infrastructure deployments with docker image Dockerfile authoring & container life cycle management, swarm mode orchestration etc.SOA service deployments using F5 load balancing technologies. GTM & LTM configuration, Wide IP, Virtual IP, pool config, iRule creation. DNS administration and management of records in master zones using Men & Mice and third party DNS providers.Bash shell, Python & Perl scripting of standard operating procedures, troubleshooting and utility tasks scheduled through workflow automation.Monitoring systems configuration and deployment employing zabbix server / proxy / web stack. Analyzing and optimizing platform performance to improve efficiency.Completion of various IT operations to ensure PCI Compliance.Establishing and documenting operations policies and procedures for installing, configuring, and maintaining production systems.

Shannon, Munster, Ireland

In depth experience in server systems OS installations, patching, software deployment.Datacentre on-site operations, hardware maintenance, new systems deployment & configuration.Focusing on support of Sun Solaris enterprise systems M4000/M5000, x4100 & Blade Centre administration. These systems providing the backbone of various platforms.Configuration & administration of Solaris zones container technology.Carry out platform bulletproofing – deployment of systems to multi datacenter locations in an active / active configuration.Legacy e-commerce platform support.

Cabinteely, Co Dublin, Ireland

Responsible for management of Remedy ARS system from creation of workflow rules which underpinned business processes such as Change Management, Service Desk, Mainframe job scheduling to providing high availability and fault tolerance of full application stack.Sybase ASE database system administration, maintenance, upgrades & performance tuning.Administration of IBM AIX server clusters carrying out upgrades, package administration, LVM configuration etc.Experience in Perl scripting automation of various administration tasks using published APIs.Remedy ARS workflow design using ITIL process standards

Clonskea, Co Dublin, Ireland

Administration of mobile network performance monitoring tools used by engineers in network planning & performance improvement.Solaris server management, upgrades, patching, backup scheduling etc.Deployment of NAS technology for NFS shared storage.NIS server and map administration. C shell scripting for backup administration & configuration of user environments in login scripts.New server deployment, ranging from single host webservers to enterprise systems.Metrica NPR administration, development & engineering.

Master Of Science - Ms, Cloud Computing, First Class Honours

Thesis: Auto-Scaling Functionality and Performance in The Public Cloud Subjects covered include: Computing Research & Practice Scalable.

Bachelor’S Degree, Information Technology And Telecommunications, First Class Honours

Thesis: The use of Java Programming Language for Networked Applications Subjects covered include: UNIX System Administration Database.