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Infrastructure Engineer, Pirum Ltd London, UK	Jan 2023 - PRESENT 1y 6 months

Infrastructure Engineer, Symplectic Ltd
London, UK

Oct 2016 - Dec 2023
6y 3 months

Part of the hosting/infrastructure team within the client services department, where we offer the hosting and management of the company’s software solutions for our clients.

Responsibilities included:
» Server and infrastructure provisioning, deployment, management, securing and monitoring for internal systems for clients hosted by us.
» Documenting and improving the hosting processes and procedures for our products and services as well as auditing systems for drifts from our conventions so we can maintain high levels of services.
» Testing and assessing new software systems or framework to advise on new team and business requirements. In addition, working with the product and development team to put in place infrastructure and processes to ensure highly reliable infrastructure.

Achievements:
» Migrated internal hypervisor infrastructure from Xen to Proxmox to gain stability and modernise
» Designed and documented processes and procedures including upgrades and disaster recovery to maintain high levels of quality and standardisation
» Put in place backup mechanisms to be able to perform disaster recovery in a timely manner and comply with our SLAs
» Designed architectures to achieve highly available systems
» Configured our monitoring solution to fit our needs

Technology stack:
» Internal servers running on Proxmox virtual environment
  » Xen 6.5 was migrated to Proxmox
  » Docker cluster
» Hosted servers on AWS and bare-mental (Hetzner)
  » Windows: IIS, MSSQL servers, SSRS, SSAS
  » Linux: Ubuntu, Centos, Debian
» Windows FTPs and sFTP servers
» Some of our internal Linux services
  » Apache/Nginx, Bind9 migrated to Technitium, fail2ban, iptables
» Storage server
  » FreeNas, Software based RAIDs (Linux)
» Network and Resource monitoring
  » Zabbix, Elastic stack, Bash and Python scripts
» Hosting framework (Configuration Management)
  » Powershell/DSC, Ansible
» Google API console management
  » Managing API keys for clients requirements
» Working with sales to maintaining and keep demo system to date

Technology Consultant, Marco IT Engineering London, UK	Mar 2014 - PRESENT 10y 4 months

IT Support, The delta group
London, UK

Sept 2010 - Nov 2013
3y 3 months

A visual communications group which specialises in the design, print and fulfilment of promotional marketing materials

Responsibilities included:
» IT Project Manager for new flagship site - successfully implemented the IT infrastructure. This included setting up and managing internal client PCs, laptops, printers, phone systems, mobiles, servers, Windows domain, network, virtualisation, door access control and CCTV security cameras, Lync 2010 and Avaya VoIP phone system administrator, Windows 2003/2008/2012 Server administrator, Exchange 2007/2010, HP Networking administrator, VMware, NetApp, Support for apple devices.
» First point of contact for all IT related queries of site of 150 employees
» Emergency IT support for out of hours issues
» Management of company mobile phones
» Multi-site remote support and travel to Los Angeles, Ireland, Leeds, Edinburgh and London offices.
» Network administrator

Projects:
» Worked with Sales, Marketing and Creative to provide technical expertise and support for client products and development of proof of concepts

Language	ASM (Native), C++ (Native), Python (Native), PHP (Mediocre), SQL (Mediocre)
	Spanish (Native), English (Native)
Softwares	Ansible(Native), Terraform(Native), Gitlab CI/CD(Mediocre), Git(Mediocre)
Platforms	VMWare(Mediocre), qemu(Beginner), ESXi(Native), Proxmox(Native), AWS(Mediocre)

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BE Electronics and Telecommunications, Universitat Politècnica de València	Sept 2007 - June 2010 3 years