Pragmatic person, with good organizational and communication skills.
I am a highly technical person with a background in the Operations side of IT, currently focusing on the DevOps methodology and tools.
July 2023 - Present
Blockchain monitoring & observability
May 2021 - Present
Cloud Infrastructure:
- Management of AWS multi-account services: EC2, VPC, Aurora DB, EKS, S3, Route53, IAM, AWS ALB&NLB, API Gateway
Containers & Orchestration:
- Docker, Jib, Kubernetes
- Kubernetes multi-cluster management, cluster and components updates, troubleshooting complex issues
Infrastructure as code:
- Terraform Enterprise, support migration to Terraform Cloud
- Write and improve Terraform code and proprietary modules
- Support multiple Terraform version upgrades
Configuration Management:
- Ansible playbooks integrated into our pipelines
Secret Management:
- Hashicorp Vault, configuration and troubleshooting
Monitoring:
- Prometheus & Grafana
- Support migration to Thanos and Grafana Enterprise
CI/CD:
- Cloudbees Jenkins, Github, Jfrog Artifactory
- Creation and improvement of multi-branch scripted pipelines
- Github repositories administration and configuration
February 2016 - May 2021
VMware ESXi 5,6,6.5,6.7 - Resource administration & prediction together with provider
- Redhat Linux 6,7,8 , Windows Server 2008-2019, pfSense VMs administration and provisioning
- Automation : PXE Boot with Kickstart files over multiple VLANs, Ansible for post installation configuration
- Database Administration for various projects: PostgreSQL, MSSQL
- Web servers & Application servers administration: Apache HTTPD, JBoss, Tomcat
- Datastore, VLAN, ESXi Host, DRS, vMotion, firewall rules orders at provider
- DNS, DHCP, WSUS server administration & configuration
CI/CD Infrastructure & Containerization
- Jenkins Enterprise, Maven, Jfrog Artifactory Pro, SonarQube, Bitbucket, Fisheye, Crucible - installation, configuration and management including OS and Web servers/ Application Servers
- Source code management: GIT(Bitbucket), SVN(Subversion Edge), CVS
- Some docker-based applications and also some Openshift ones - administration & monitoring
- LifeCycle management
Monitoring:
- Splunk, Dynatrace & Icinga
PEGA COC Operations:
- Part of the PEGA Application Operations team, responsible for deployments
- RHEL & JBoss administration
- Communication with provider regarding change requests, firewall orders, various package deployments, platform restarts
April 2015 - February 2016
Server administration, monitoring, back-up and configuration of both Windows Servers and Linux(CentOS/RHEL).
- DNS & DHCP configuration.
- Server virtualization, VDR backup - VMware vSphere.
- Apache HTTPD - server configurations, redirects, reverse proxies.
Responsible for administering both Integration and MiddleWare Build Environments.
- Build automation & Continuous integration tools: Maven & Jenkins.
- Code quality tools: SonarQube.
- Project hosting & version control: Gforge.
- Versioning control : Subversion Edge.
- Installation, upgrade and backup of Jenkins, SonarQube, Subversion Edge.
- Versioning system – repository configuration, migration, conversion – CVS and SVN.
Daily / Weekly / Monthly health checks of systems to ensure services with minimum downtime.
December 2018 - November 2019
National group consisting of Sysadmins, Network engineers and Developers focused on improving Cyber Security knowledge by going through the Offensive Security Certified Professional curriculum so that at the end of the program, professionals could be a part of DigitalNation Cybersecurity projects.
Topics covered with hands-on practice:
- Passive Information Gathering
- Active Information Gathering
- Vulnerability Scanning
- Introduction to Buffer Overflows
- Privilege Escalation
- Password Attacks
- The Metasploit Framework
- Identifying and exploiting XSS, SQL injection, file inclusion vulnerabilities in web applications
Weekly meetings and individual projects to work on.
Capture the flag events.
April 2013 - February 2014
Desktop systems -Troubleshooting and technical support.
Analysis of the company's infrastructure .
Structured cabling.
2011 - 2015
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
2006 - 2010
Gheorghe Sincai High School Cluj-Napoca
Bilingual Romanian-English program