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)