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Rockville, MD, US

Rockville, MD, US

Rockville, MD, US

• Development of new position description documentation for Senior Linux Admins
• Hiring manager for Linux system positions. Lots of interviewing experience and dealing with contractor issues.
• Lead project to field new earth stations based on RHEL6 and Cisco network core to facilities covering CONUS and APAC regions
• Represent operational teams in development of new project initiatives for US and foreign governments
• Plan and run DoD mandated HBSS fielding project

• Participate in contract renegotiation with GSA including BME development, CTP submission, estimated burn-rate calculations, project planning and schedule development
• Represent Network group at bi-weekly government customer CCB meeting
• Develop full inventory of all fielded Government Furnished Equipment under CMDC control, helping the new contract office renew all necessary hardware and software.
• Demo new technologies for CMDC use and develop budgetary proposals for said technologies
• Maintain hands-on technical work sustaining fielded tactical system and supporting corporate initiatives

• Support tactical tracking systems for US Army customer, maintaining 99.99% uptime
• Improve security posture by introducing Nessus vulnerability and STIG compliance scanning regimen to monthly patching cycle
• Implement secure guest wireless for visiting customers in the Germantown facility
• Lead network team in preparation for and conduction of re-accreditation initiative for fielded tracking system. Learn and operate the DoD 8500.2 & AR-25-2 policies under DIACAP processes
• Manual completion of ATO ERR and POA&M processes along with STIG checklists
• Optimize DMVPN cloud

New York, NY, US

• Responsible for the migration of all legacy ISS and RMG DEV, QA, and PROD systems into the MSCI datacenter model. This included LAN/WAN design inclusive of switching, security, remote access, load balancing, etc.
• Stepped back into legacy ISS SysAdmin shoes to assist with implantation of ISS applications on Oracle Enterprise Linux. This involved recompilation of modules, code edits/additions with testing, MySQL schema changes.
• Setup over 300 new Load Balancing VServers on Citrix NetScalers with corresponding serviceGroups, many of which required custom session persistence and SSL offload.
• Maintained legacy global WAN and LAN elements during the 1yr+ cutover activities. This included legacy datacenters, offices, WAN accelerators, Firewalls, VPN devices, etc.
• Trained engineers in Budapest and Mumbai offices on legacy technologies and procedures. Assigned and transferred roles to them and later acted as an escalation point.

• Responsible for Integration of ISS and RMG LAN and WAN networks consisting of 23 sites spanning the globe.
• Planned and implemented multiple data center migrations while assuring minimum downtime for business applications and services.
• Maintained 99.999% uptime of both global WAN infrastructure as well as the LAN environments across all RMG offices to meet company SLA agreements.
• Coordinated and provided a 24/7 Support environment escalation point.
• Implemented a global WAN Acceleration infrastructure based upon Expand appliances. Utilized route mapping and RIP route injection as necessary to statically and/or dynamically route traffic across the acceleration.
• Trained RMG Linux Engineers to deploy, troubleshoot, maintain legacy ISS Linux applications and platforms.

Rockville, MD, US

• Network administrator responsible for maintaining a global network for Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS).
• Assured business continuity by maintaining and optimizing network continuity.
• Personally responsible for upgrading the core Linux OS in use from RHAS2.1 to RHEL/RHAS 4. This included an all new PXE kickstart build system as well as custom ISS specific code spun into custom RPMs via RPMBuild..
• Assisted in the development and implementation of global Dell OpenManage server management as well as Nagios based alerting with paging system for escalation.
• Participated in the creation of new ISS applications from the concept phase all the way through implementation working closely with the project’s manager, developers, qa staff, and IT management to scale infrastructure.
• Planned and implemented the relocation of ISS DEV & QA environments from headquarters LAN into the datacenter.