In Quants team, I transform the requirements in technical solution and perform the
implementation.
Duties:
Linux L3 support for Linux CentOS Stream servers running RStudio(now Posit).
Created Vmware template for Red Hat 9.2.
Created on prem full Lab Test platform environment : Windows Active Directory, Windows Certificates
Services, Windows Active Directory Federation Services, Windows SQL Server, Linux Centos Servers
and configured Linux Centos AD authentication using SSSD stack and installed target applications :
RStudio Workbench, Rstudio Connect and Rstudio Package Manager.
RStudio Connect application authentication configuration using SSO with SAML protocol, on prem
using Microsoft ADFS.
Reconfiguration of RStudio Connect application authentication using SSO (Single Sign-On) and SAML
within Microsoft Azure AD.
Full platform install and configuration of RStudio(now Posit) softwares: Workbench, Connect and
Package manager on Red Hat 9.2.
Architecture design proposal for intensive computations on Prem or Azure.
Ansible playbooks creation and update
RedHat 9 security hardening : CIS benchmarks and Selinux
Duties:
Linux L3 support for 1000+ Red Hat and Oracle Enterprise Linux systems in EMEA
Created python scripts and Saltstack states to ensure Linux systems met standard operations
specifications in EMEA, APAC, LATAM, NORAM datacenters
Created multiples saltstack modules for automatic software deployment
Implementation of global IT transformations projects within global architects team
Transferred knowledge and documentation to L2 support teams in APAC
Daily short meeting with EMEA and APAC teams to ensure alignment with projects goals
Key Project on-premise:
Implemented CI/CD pipeline using Gitea, Jenkins, Nexus and Saltstack
Developed saltstack modules for automatic deployment and configuration of multiple products:
Saltstack minions, Centrify, Apache, WildFly, OpenJDK, ForgeRock OpenAm, Odsee LDAP, Voltage,
Ondot, Ping Directory
Developed and added functions to existing python module in order to ensure that Linux VMs builds
meet standard specifications
Designed multi Saltstack instances servers for multiple teams across multiple regions
Cloudify POC : created yaml templates for provisioning automatically AWS EC2 instances
Key Achievement:
Improved software delivery time by removing manuals configuration tasks
Improved quality of deliverables using code management tools and strong testing process
Reduced operation costs using automation
Duties:
Linux Redhat 6/7, Aix 6/7 system administrator
Oracle 11g, 12c database administrator
Oracle DB migration form AIX to Exadata X6
Key Projects:
Industrialization of IT operations
Ensure that infrastructure hosted in 2 sites run efficiently and reliably
Duties:
Provided Linux Ubuntu support for developers team
Key Projects:
Implemented an ELK v5.4.1 stack solution (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, FileBeat) on virtual Ubuntu
servers hosted on Microsoft Azure cloud. The solution is designed to process 1 to 1.5M streams per
day.
Audited and improved global IT infrastructure
Key Projects:
Installed and configured HFT grid farms
Migrated Linux infrastructure services from Debian and Gentoo to Linux Centos 7
Duties:
Managed global IT Linux infrastructure over Asia, America and Europe sites
Key Projects:
Log management: created functional design and technical implementation of Splunk Entreprise for
1000+ Linux Red Hat systems. Splunk indexers are hosted as SaaS on Amazon. I configured and
deployed the client side only (splunkforwarder).
Configuration management: created and updated Puppet modules
Monitoring: developed Nagios scripts and updated Python modules for Ganglia
KPIs dashboards: updated and modified PHP scripts
Documentation: created and updated operation manuals
Key Achievement:
Creating a central log server using Splunk v6.4 was a mandatory project in my basket and I met the
target. It helped us to fetch logs quickly and detect and solve problems easily.
Duties:
Coordinated with offshore and nearshore IBM teams in India, Poland and Czech Republic
Executed IT transformation projects whilst providing Linux support, studying Perl scripts, and
preparing and managing IT changes
Key Projects:
SAN to NAS migration: preparing the action plan for data migration from EMC to NetApp bays
Virtualisation: assembling and wiring servers farms into 2 data center, including SAN and Ethernet
cables
Technology refresh: migrating W2003 physical cluster to W2008R2 using VMWare + HA features
Axway Transfer CFT upgrade: from v2 to v3 on Windows 2008R2 servers and AIX 6.1 servers
CFT Encryption: encrypted all communications with SSL and files with GnuPG
DR exercises: Prepared and executed a BCP (Business Continuity Plan) procedures for Klovis platform
and CFT platform
Key Achievement:
CFT upgrade and encryption were mission critical projects for the Bank. I led all technical teams,
stakeholders and completed rollout to production on time and reduced support costs.
Duties:
Implemented GPFS, an IBM distributed filesystem on AIX and Linux hosting Oracle and SAP, including
studying the impact of the OS upgrade from AIX v5.3 to 6.1, and RedHat from v5.7 to v6.2
Upgraded GPFS from v3.3 to v3.4, created a GPFS filesystem for both operating systems, updated
operating scripts, and developed alert scripts for Patrol and backup and restore scripts for RedHat VM
Optimised shell scripts, and created virtual servers for test environment, developing and upgrading
operation manuals and software installation and configuration documentation whilst delivering level
3 operation support
Knowledge transfer and training
Key Achievement:
Substantially reduced maintenance and operating costs.
Duties:
Acted as Storage SAN-NAS Administrator, working with the BAU team dealing with all storage
infrastructure issues, and solving incidents on all SAN devices, such as HBA, Switch, Federator, Router,
DWDM and NetApp, IBM and Hitachi storage arrays
Provided technical support for the project team, planned and executed maintenance optimisation, as
well as raise technical issues to vendors as required
Duties:
Migrated operating system from XP to Windows7
Configured virtual machine (VirtualBox) under Windows7 using XP OS in order to maintain
backward compatibility with CRM Software
Implemented and configured firewall and Squid proxy server