Flinks

DevOps Specialist

• DevOps:
  • Implemented and maintained scalable infrastructure to improve uptime
  • Working with developers to ensure the deployment process from QA to preprod to prod is flawless
  • GitOps using ArgoCD + templating Kustomize manifests with CUE to facilitate redeployment
  • Building pipeline templates in various scripting languages to automate workflows and deployments
  • Training and documentation to improve usability of new processes 
  • Taking ownership of reliability and incident resolution
  • Automating management of Kubernetes resources outside GitOps for improved efficiency
  • Exposing metric endpoints or pushing metrics into Prometheus / Thanos to use in AlertManager / Grafana
  • Provisioning and managing cloud resources in GCP & Azure with Terraform
  • Customizing Helm templates for ArgoCD deployments
  • Utilizing Azure DevOps for Git + pipelines + project planning

Cloud.ca

Cloud System Administrator

• Sysadmin/DevOps:
  • Managing and troubleshooting:
    • Apache CloudStack
    • Citrix Xen Hypervisor
    • Block Storage (Pure, Datera, Solidfire) 
    • Object storage (Swift)
  • Deploying and managing Canonical MAAS to automate bare-metal deployments
  • Automating application deployments through Ansible, chef, Terraform / cloud-init
  • Building pipeline work flows to test and push changes in GitLab
  • On-site facility rack planning and installation
  • Managing internal infrastructure services:
  • ELK, RabbitMQ, MySQL/Postgres, Cloudera, Commvault, HashiCorp’s Consul, Vault & Packer
  • Creating Grafana (tsdb) & ELK dashboards to simplify monitoring visibility

iWeb / INAP

Senior System Administrator (Level 1-3)

• Public Cloud:
  • Using Openstack’s API to deploy and manage instances, images, networks, object & block storage
  • Troubleshooting a broad range of issues for bare-metal & virtual instances on INAP’s OpenStack

• Deploying and managing high availability private cloud infrastructures: 
    • Hyper-V Failover Clusters + Hyper-V replication • ESXI + vCenter

• Managing and deploying SAN’s: 
  • Dell: 
    • EqualLogic • PowerVault • Unity 
  • NetApp (ONTAP) 
  • targetcli

• Managing and deploying cluster solutions (using Ansible to automate deployment):
    • MSSQL virtual cluster solutions (Failover Cluster / AG)
    • NFS and MySQL clusters with DRBD & Pacemaker + Corosync
    • IIS + replication (DFS) • MySQL replication
    • Load balancing:  
      • HAProxy / HAPEE 
      • iptables/firewalld nating and routing
      • Keepalived (VRRP / LVS)
      • F5 Load balancing

• Networking:
    • Deploying & managing Cisco ASA firewalls (VPN S2S, L2TP,  Anyconnect, NAT/ACLs, Failover)
    • Switch port management and debugging: Juniper, Cisco, Dell (Q-in-Q, LAG, LACP)
    • Information gathering during incidents (MTR, Iperf, Nmap, tcpdump)

• Other System Administration Tasks:
  • Last level of escalation for technical issues and inquiries (+ on call)
  • Training & coaching system administrators Level 1 & 2
  • Installing and troubleshooting web, DNS, mail, & database services on Linux and Windows
  • Configuring Nagios monitoring for customer environments
  • Scripting tasks and processes for the support team
  • Managing & troubleshooting hardware and software raids

Mustang technologies

System Administrator

• Linux / VMware ESXI / Windows Server / Networking:
  • Deploying and managing ESXI nodes for a variety of shared/managed web hosting solutions
  • Deploying and troubleshooting Apache + varnish, BIND, SMTP, & MySQL/MS SQL services
  • Deploying and troubleshooting CMS platforms such as: Wordpress & Magento 
  • Managing Windows services for internal operations (AD/GPO/DNS,SMB & PPTP services)
  • Configuring and managing PPPOE connections on FreeRADIUS for DSL connectivity

Techspa Inc

IT Technician

• Computer Repairs:
  • Deploying workstations, networking (pfSense/Linux) & NAS storage for small business offices
  • Deploying and supporting Linux workstations for small businesses and consumers
  • Performed on-site repairs and maintenance on personal / business workstations
  • Replacing defective components for Apple devices & workstations
  • Analyzing system activities with Sysinternals tools to mitigate and eliminate malicious processes
  • The ability to identify and troubleshoot hardware and OS problems on workstations