• Senior Systems Engineer working within the Automation subgroup of DevOps.• Red Hat Satellite 6.x Administrator. Responsible for Satellite server and capsule upgrades, as well as all aspects of subscription and content management, client registrations and routine maintenance.• Project manager for Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system upgrades for internal and external servers. This includes the creation of customized scripts to backup and restore various server configurations, working with Ansible and Ansible Tower for the provisioning and configuration management components, testing, bug fixes and working closely with the team responsible for rolling it out to hundreds of customer servers.• Liaison with DBAs for Oracle 18c and 19c database installs, upgrades, fixes, and troubleshooting• Extensive use of bash scripting, git, and Linux O/S for general system administration.• Routine Red Hat RPM package builds, maintenance, and updates.• Experience with VMware and virtual machines.• Working knowledge of Atlassian suite; Bitbucket (git projects and repositories), Jira (issue tracking) and Confluence (documentation).• Familiarity with Agile methodology and practices.

• Administered two HP Itanium rx8640 servers running HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23), Glovia (ERP system) and Oracle 10g. Other applications included Data Protector 6.0 and Ignite-UX.• Allocated, maintained and monitored space usage on a NetApp FAS3040 MetroCluster with SnapMirror replication utilizing several terabytes of disk space.• Created, edited and maintained Unix shell scripts for a number of system and cron jobs.• Performed all tasks associated with system administration; kernel, performance, security, patching and upgrades, backups and logs, hardware upgrades, maintenance, etc.• Pursued and implemented Oracle hotbackup functionality with the help of the DBA which increased the uptime of global production database system to 99%. This required creating all associated backup scripts to interface between the NetApp MetroCluster and Unix servers and in-depth knowledge of Snapshots and FlexClones on the SAN.

• Provided remote system administration, application and networking support to external customers using HP 9000 servers and workstations running HP-UX and Compaq Proliant servers running Linux in both Mission Critical and Mission Sensitive environments.• Served as virtual team member for the Network Interconnect Team which provided networking hardware support for customers in multi-vendor networks.• Trained and served as mentor to associate engineers, taught “brown bag” classes and implemented new processes.