Period : 01/2018 ? now
Company : M-Team (Anderlecht)
Sector : Health Insurance
Job content : Linux System Administrator.
Description : Linux System Administration.
- Solving incidents and implementing changes on Redhat Linux 5, 6 and 7.
- Installation of new systems.
- Most systems are virtual servers on IBM iPower Hardware (P8). Some systems on VMWare.
- Writing and maintaining shell scripts.
- Writing and maintaining Ansible scripts / Jenkins Jobs.
- Web Server admin tasks.
Period : 06/2017 ? 12/2017
Company : Rewe (Köln, Germany)
Sector : Retail
Job content : Linux System Administrator.
Description : Linux System Administration.
- Solving incidents and implementing changes on Redhat Linux 6.6 and 7.4.
- Installation of new systems.
- Most systems are virtual servers on vmware.
- +/- 5000 servers, most of them in Köln, some locally over whole Germany.
Period : 12/2016 ? 05/2017
Company : BNPParibasFortis
Sector : Finance.
Job content : Operational Support Engineer.
Description : Unix/Linux Sys Admin, Change and Deployment Coordinator.
- Provide Support on Unix Systems (AIX, Solaris and mostly Red Hat Linux).
- o AIX V 6
- o Red Hat V6.4 and V6.6
- Linux machines are physical servers, virtual machines via KVM or virtual machines via VMWare. Support includes basic operations on KVM Manager / VMWare Client.
- Perform deployments via Ansible scripts, maintaining and developing Ansible scripts.
- Bash / Phyton scripts.
- Backup support using Comvault.
- Basic Administration of Netapp Storage.
Period : 2015 - Ongoing
Company : ING
Sector : Finance.
Job content : Operational Support Engineer.
Description :
- Provide L1/L2 Support on Unix Systems (AIX, SUN and Linux).
- Provide L1 Support on Windows Systems.
- Provide L1 Support on Network Devices : Process network alarms, logon to routers and switches, analyse status, check line status and routing protocol. If problem cannot be solved, create incident and escalate to L2 support or line supplier.
- Provide L1 support on mainframe : Monitor processes and process problems found, analyse, restart processes. If problem cannot be solved, create incident and escalate to L2 support
- Provide L1 Support on applications.
- Large environment : +/- 2000 Windows servers, 1500 Unix servers (Linux, AIX, SUN) + network devices.
- Applications supported : Homebanking on IPP, Oracle, SWIFT financial applications, Websphere MQ.
- Tools used : IBM Tivoli for monitoring, HP Service Center for ITIL, Stonebranch Automation Center for scheduling.
- Follow up of existing incidents, escalate if necessary.
Period : 2014 - 2015
Company : Praxair
Sector : Industrial Services
Job content : Unix / Backup / Application Administration.
Description :
- Maintain some older HPUX systems on level Hardware / OS / Backup / Applications (Parttime position, after initial audit and corrections, support on on-call basis, partly remote).
Period : 2014 - 2015
Company : HP Germany (Dortmund), ERP Factory
Sector : IT Services
Job content : Backup.
Description :
- Provide backups for ERP systems running on HPUX, AIX, SLES and Windows, using HP Data Protector.
- DB?s used : Oracle and SAPDB.
- Provide backup specifications depending on OS, DB used and size of SAP system (between 20 GB and +/- 8TB).
- Write scripts to automate the complete process as much as possible, since it is a very large environment.
- The environment consists of 2 datacenters with a large number of hosts. The data protector environment has 6 Cell Managers and 2 MoMs.
- Write technical documentation.
Period : 2008 - 2013
Company : Rainbow ICT / Cegeka
( Rainbow = IT for Dexia Insurance, P&V, Delta Lloyd Life Belgium,
In 2010 project for Delta Lloyd taken over by Cegeka.)
Sector : Insurance / Finance.
Job content : Unix / Storage Engineer.
Description :
- HPUX +AIX + SLES + Red Hat System Admin.
- Follow up of security threats on Unix Systems + Analysis and patching.
- 2nd level support on Windows (Server and Client, different versions).
- AIX System Admin, LPAR definition and changes, IBM hardware maintenance.
- Migration of applications from HPUX to AIX. Focus on this activity from 12/2011 onwards. VIOS setup and maintenance. LPAR setup via HMC.
- AIX Release 6.1
- Hardware : IBM Bladecenter PS700 and and P720 Power.
- Follow up of security threats on Unix Systems + Analysis and patching.
- Nim server setup and maintenance.
- Experience with VMWare (User level).
- Applications supported : Oracle, SSH, Weblogic, Documentum, Apache Tomcat, High Quality (of company Human Interference), Graphtalk.
- LVM.
- Data Backup, system backup on HPUX with Ignite, on IBM AIX with images and nim-server.
- Ignite-UX : Implement backup plan, plan images and test/document restore procedure.
- Hardware and software partitioning (nPar?s and vPar?s) on rp84xx (PA Risc based servers).
- MC Serviceguard : Creation and maintenance of new/existing clusters and packages.
- Daily Admin and maintenance of storage (HP EVA).
- Deploy websites in Weblogic.
- Write technical documentation.
Period : 2008 - 2008
Company : ING
Sector : Finance.
Job content : Unix Change Request Engineer.
Description :
- Perform Change Requests on Unix Systems (SUN and AIX) and Oracle DB?s.
- Perform planned maintenance on Unix Systems.
- Provide support for hardware interventions on Unix Systems.
Period : 2007 - 2008
Company : Swift
Sector : Banking
Job content : Testlab Engineer.
Description :
- Set up testlab consisting of Unix (AIX and Solaris) and Windows (Windows 2003 Server) systems
- Make customized Windows install pack with nLite (www.nliteos.com).
- Install and configure NIM server to install new AIX servers and backup the existing ones.
- Install and configure Jumpstart server to install Solaris servers and backup the existing ones.
- Install and Document new systems.
- Migrate existing systems.
- Write documentation.
Period : 2006 - 2007
Company : Electrabel
Sector : Utilities
Job content : Unix Design Engineer.
Description :
- HPUX System Admin.
- Applications supported : Oracle, SAP, Samba (CIFS), SSH, Apache Web Server, ?
- LVM, Ignite-UX.
- Hardware and software partitioning (nPar?s and vPar?s) on rx84xx and rx74xx (Itanium based servers).
- MC Serviceguard.
- Evaluation of HPUX Virtual Machine.
- Install and Document new systems.
- Migrate existing systems.
- Write procedures for the daily maintenance team.
Period : 2005 - 2006
Company : Johnson and Johnson
Sector : Pharma
Job content : Unix and Application Administration and support.
Replacing a collegue on sick-leave.
Description :
- HPUX System Admin.
- Applications supported : SAP, Oracle, Samba (CIFS), SSH, ?
- LVM, Ignite-UX.
- Unix scripting : design and implementation of housekeeping scripts.
- Preparing servers for and collecting data for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX-) security audit.
Period : 2005
Company : MSD (Merck Sharp and Dohme)
Sector : Pharma
Job content : Unix and Application Administration and support.
Description :
- HPUX11i and SUSE Linux System Admin (SLES 8 and 9) : daily maintenance and monitoring, scheduled maintenance, installation of patches, installation of hardware and software, installation of new systems, troubleshooting ?
- Hardware and software partitioning (nPar?s and vPar?s) on rp84xx and rp74xx.
- Applications supported : Oracle, Samba (CIFS), SSH, Apache Web Server, ?.
- LVM, Ignite-UX.
- Unix scripting.
- Coordination of planned maintenance activities and outages.
Period : 2004
Company : DHL (Prague)
Sector : Logistics.
Job content : Data and Application Migration.
Migration project of 5 months.
Description :
- Migrate data and applications to DHL?s new data center in Prague.
- If source system is on older HPUX version, upgrade to HPUX 11i.
- The work includes the technical work on Unix-level as well as the coordination with the users and other DHL departments.
- Applications migrated : Oracle, Informix, Maestro (Tivoli Workload Scheduler), Unibol, Uniface and a lot of DHL specific applications.
- LVM, VXVM, Ignite-UX, Troika Disaster Recovery (www.troikanetworks.com), FASTCopy (www.softlink.com), DNS Domain Administration.
- Junior Oracle DBA tasks :
- o Installing Oracle using OUI.
- o DB creation / modification using DBCA.
Hardware/Software used :
- HPUX servers.
- HPUX 10.20, 11.00 and 11i.
- Oracle.
- Informix.
Period : 2004
Company : Amec Spie TS.
Sector : Industrial Contracting.
Job content : ICT Engineer.
Description :
- Install, configure, integrate and maintain HP Proliant servers, PC?s and Linux Servers, providing documentation and procedures.
- System Maintenance and Performance Analysis.
- Configure High Availability systems (Disk Mirroring).
- Network Design and configuration of Cisco routers.
Hardware/Software used :
- HP Proliant servers, HP workstations.
- Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server.
- HP Smartstart 5.50 and 6.40.
- HP Insight Manager for hardware / software monitoring.
- Hard Disk backup and PC Cloning via Symantec Ghost 7.0.
- Oracle 8 and 9 Installation. Using TOAD to edit Oracle databases and enter data.
- Red Hat Linux 9, Mandrake Linux 8.1, Mandrake Linux Firewall.
- Building networks using hubs, switches and routers, including shared mail- and internet-access (proxy or NAT), and DHCP, DNS, printer sharing.
- Cisco IOS 11 and 12.
- TCP/IP Networking, including analysis using Network Ass. Sniffer Pro and Fluke Nettool (Cable and Protocol Analyser).
Period : 2001 - 2004
Company : Tein Telecom
Sector : Network Integrator
Job content : HP-UX expert
Description :
- Install, configure, integrate and maintain HP-servers and -workstations.
- System Maintenance and Performance Analysis for HP-servers and ?workstations.
- Configure High Availability systems (Disk Mirroring / MC Serviceguard).
- Migration from HP-UX 10.20 to 11.
- Network Design and configuration of Cisco routers.
- 2nd line support for colleagues
- Developing Unix- en Perl-scripts.
- Support for Bugzilla error reporting tool.
- Write and execute test procedures.
- Coordinating and keeping track of test schedules.
- Mission-critical environment, participation in 24h on call service.
- Installation, Commissioning and 3th line technical support for SDH Optical Transmission Systems (GPT/Marconi and Siemens) : SLT, SMA, EMOS, MV36.
Hardware/Software used :
- HP-UX workstations en servers.
- HP-UX : 10.20 en 11, LVM, MC/Serviceguard, Ignite-UX, GlancePlus, PERL.
- Cisco IOS.
- Red Hat Linux 8, SuSe Linux 8.1.
- TCP/IP en OSI CLNS Networking.
Period : 2000 - 2001
Company : Siemens Atea
Sector : Telecom
Job Content : Field Service Engineer
Description :
- Install, configure, integrate and maintain servers with Windows NT.
- System Maintenance and Performance Analysis on servers with Windows NT.
- (Limited) experience with Checkpoint Firewall.
- Compose and execute test procedures.
Hardware/Software used :
Period : 1996 - 2000
Company : Siemens Atea
Sector : Telecom
Job Content : Field Service Engineer
Description :
- Install, configure, integrate and maintain HP-servers and -workstations.
- System Maintenance and Performance Analysis for HP-servers and ?workstations.
- Integration of HP-Workstations with RAID Metastore systems (High Availability).
- 2nd line support for colleagues
- Developing Unix-scripts.
- Install, configure, integrate and maintain SUN-workstations.
- Compose and update operational procedures.
- Write and execute test procedures.
- Coordinating and keeping track of test schedules.
- Installation, Commissioning and 3th line technical support for SDH Optical Transmission Systems (GPT/Marconi and Siemens) : SLT, SMA, EMOS, MV36.
- Mission-critical environment, participation in 24h on call service.
Hardware/Software used :
- HP-UX workstations en servers.
- HP-UX : 9.05 en 10.20, LVM, Ignite-UX.
- TCP/IP en OSI CLNS Networking.
Period : 1991 - 1996
Company : Siemens Atea
Sector : Telecom
Job Content : Software-development
Description :
- Compose specifications, analysis and design for billing software of GSM-switch.
- Test software.
- Projectcoordination.
- Software maintenance : search for errors and solve via patch.
Hardware/Software used :