Relevant Experiences
- .Net skillset.
creating new product deployment utilities for MS
packaging new product for automation in MS
creating domain migration utilities for RBS
creating Addin for MS Excel
creating user AD migration utilities for ICAP
Windows Server Admin
over 10 years as a Level3/4 Sysadmin
includes liaising with 3rd party vendors on product issues
rollout of new domains, servers, products
using SCCM/WSUS/GPOs to rollout windows patching following the patch-Tuesday cycle
creation/management of the PKI infrastructure to rollout domain certificates to ad joined servers
VCA certification and extensive experience managing VMWare platform (including writing PowerCLI)
creation of Quest FogLight dashboards to monitor virtualised platform resource utilization
Network Admin
1st Class degree in Computer Networks
Network Admin including configuring Cisco switch/router and CheckPoint firewalls (upgrading)
Management of Riverbed WAN acceleration devices
management of SolarWinds/SNMP TrafficGrapher using SNMP to review switchport statistics
Non Essential Experience:
- TeamCity
build configuration
build steps, release, package, publish
build triggers
build parameters
build agents
- Azure DevOps
Boards to manage work items (replicate JIRA)
repos - to pull in code from GitHub, GitLab, Atlassian Git
pipeline - to create CI/CD
test plan -
artefacts - to store binaries (NuGet, maven, PyPI)
- Creating NuGet packages (only thing that can be installed in production system)
with the help of cookbooks which must have a test unit before it can be uploaded into Bamboo
- Experience with Git
used on a daily basis
uses GitFlow to define main branches where work can reside
uses hook to enforce conditions for PR/merges
- previously developed excel add-ins, created a utility to facilitate ad migration and more recently build a utility to securely rotate service account password across 1700 servers
- use PowerShell on a day to day basis
- experience using JIRA boards Kanban and weekly scrum to manage user requests/issues
- experience using chef (cookbooks unit tests using ChefSpec/InSpec), Puppet
- cloud experience using AWS/Azure (also have certification in both)
- familiar with Linux environment
- ITIL certification and usage of various IT Service Management software (Remedy/ServiceNow)