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Parsippany-Troy Hills, Nj, Us

Morristown, Nj, Us

• Work with all IT and business teams to transition and operates AWS and Azure cloud-based workloads.• Proactively contributes to the architecture/design of enterprise applications and services.• Creates plans to assure effective management, operations, and maintenance of systems and/or networks located within the cloud.• Performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, evaluates alternatives including cost and risk, and supportability.• Perform cost and usage-based analysis to ensure systems perform at optimal levels.• Looks for opportunities to automate cloud-based services and offerings, prioritize based on agreed upon criteria, and lead the automation efforts. • Partners with the leader accountable for Information Security and the Security team to architect and implement security-based initiatives as needed.• Manages the 24x7 Security Operating Center to ensure that it is operating properly and can monitor the environment effectively. • Ensures that penetration testing is conducted and that risks are prioritized and mitigated. • Ensures that cloud and network security risks are assessed and managed across the organization.• Ensures that required security patches are identified, prioritized, tested, and deployed in atimely manner according to risk.• Ensures that backups are performed to support recovery requirements and are tested to ensure that they are effectively taking place and can be recovered. Seeks out opportunities to bring other existing non-cloud based services to AWS (or other cloud based technologies).

Troy Corporation, Florham Park, NJ November 2020 – Present Sr.System Engineer • Provide support of O365 and Azure active directory administrator, on-premise Home Drive migration to O365 One Drive,• Configure, troubleshoot and resolve issue with Mobile Iron, 2MFA Okta and n-central administration• Experience in cloud Networking to build VPN,DNS,AIM Security Groups and Load Balancing.• Administrator of multiple cloud technologies config and support Azure, AWS and private cloud hosting, Configure S3 storage and EC2 servers• Troubleshoot and maintain AWS S3, Veeam and Ave Point backup systems and cloud hosting• Maintain and update all Vmware vSphere 7.0.2 System, NetApp storage and Provide support and administer SQL database configuration, IIS and web services maintain and support for application team• Experience with Vmware horizon 8.4.0 configuration, troubleshoot and maintain for 600+ employee’s. • Troubleshoot, update and maintain in-house Dell and HP hardware until full cloud migration is completed.

New York, New York, Us

- Experience designing and deploying VMware solutions. Spanning Cisco UCS Blades and rack mounted servers.- Strong aptitude with Distributed vSwitches, vMotion/svMotion, SRM, HA, load balancing, and evaluates, researches and strategically improves current DR solutions with recommendations such as Veeam.- Assisting the technology team in developing technical road-maps for future implementations, and analyzes primarily Microsoft Windows system environment, focusing on server storage, virtualization, and network infrastructure.- Assisting in determining performance bottlenecks, application bugs, and opportunities to improve efficiency.- Assess and make recommendations to improve HA/DR configuration of SQL Database and VMware Clusters. - Currently work on application and operating system life-cycle management including upgrades, patching and off-hours maintenance and change control execution.- Configure, troubleshoot and resolve issues in a Windows Server environment.- Work with external vendors/consultants to diagnose complex problems and drive resolution.- Ability to collaborate with other technical teams to facilitate incident resolution.- Monitor, troubleshoot and analyze issues with Servers, Network devices, Applications.- Extensive experience with the storage technologies and protocols: HBAs, SAN, Fibre Channel, NAS, and CIFS/NFS/iSCSI. EMC VNX, NetApp, Unity.- Experience with private cloud computing and Data Center virtualization using VMware ESXi.- Experience with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2012 and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2012.- Experience with PowerShell Scripting

New York, Ny, Us

- Operating systems configuration experience with Microsoft, Virtualization, and Linux installation.- Experience with Virtualization platforms such as VMware, Hyper-V, OpenStack and Citrix- Expert with Cisco UCS Chassis, FI and UCS Director in multi service environment- Experience with load balancing on Citrix NetScaler services, policy, content switching.- EMC VNX Arrays Architecture, Administration and Troubleshooting- Solid understanding of fundamental technologies like TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, LDAP- SQL database, SQL reporting and querying skills- Experience with installing and configuring LogStash, Ossec and MySQL database server.- Skilled in the development or re-engineering of systems and processes- Knowledge and experience with SharePoint.- Microsoft IIS architecture, deployment, logging and fine-tuning- System Infrastructure (Cisco Nexus/MDS, Cisco UCS)- Network communication protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL/TLS, RMI, RPC, etc.)- Storage Infrastructures (EMC VNX/VNXe series and Netapp)- Monitoring Management (Extrahop, AlertFox, Monitis, WhatsUP Gold, New Relic, Solar Winds).

New York, Ny, Us

- Knowledge of various versions Microsoft Windows OS including both workstation and server versions Microsoft Office power user, Experience with Microsoft Office 365 administration- Working knowledge of TCP/IP and general networking principles, Experience with industry standard backup procedures- Aptitude to be the first point of contact for corporate IT help desk and Network Team- Ability to independently research a problem using available resources, such as manuals, training materials and the Internet- Experience in following aspects Microsoft Exchange 2007, Quick Book, Familiarity with Symantec Backup Exec and corporate anti-virus packages, Familiarity with Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Visio and Project CentOS / Redhat Linux, MS VPN- Install, configure and harden new and existing Windows servers and desktops along with other supporting Microsoft products / technologies and related third party applications.- Perform system replications/cloning, system migrations, systems upgrade planning, implementation of change management procedures.- Apply patches to the windows servers (physical/virtual) on regular basis.- Configure system security including Group Policies, virus management, and enforcement of system access policies.

- Maintaining, updating and troubleshooting all systems within the business unit including, but not limited to LAN/WAN, desktop - PCs, Aperio slide scanning/Imaging systems, telecom, and field supported applications.- Voice & data cabling experience, LAN/WAN/server administration skills, Active Directory, terminal server configuration skills,- support ticket management software experience. - Manage the development and implementation of standards, processes, and systems required to deliver high quality and consistent IT - Help Desk support services, Desktop & network troubleshooting skills.- Manage the implementation of methodologies that will continuously improve first call resolution, manage customer perceptions, and build strong client relationships.- Recognize, seek out, and evaluate technical issues and present proactive recommendations to prevent recurrence of those business Interruptions.- Small project management skills