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Marc Pascual

Marc Pascual

Cloud Engineer


Background


About

About

IT professional with 18 years of experience across multiple roles. Background ranging from infrastructure management and automation, systems integration, cost reduction and complex/hybrid solutioning. Strong advocacy for infrastructure as code and devops culture

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Linux Engineer

    Oct, 2022 - Present

    • primary support for all linux systems running trading and research applications

    • administration and management of multi-petabyte scale enterprise storage systems of various flavors

    • engineering and administration of cloud-based archival solutions

  • Head of Cloud & Site Reliability Engineering

    Sep, 2019 - Oct, 20223 years

    • built and led the high-performing Cloud & Site reliability Engineering team, and recently the End User Computing team supporting Asia and Africa regions

    • facilitated growth in cloud consumption by 4x (2019 to 2021) compared to on-premise (footprint reduction), through high levels of automation, reliability, repeatability and observability

    • drove competitive Infrastructure total cost of ownership (TCO) via lower human capital, pay-as-you-consume model, and scale on demand

    • implemented solutions and workflows to reduce IT cloud spending from 5% to 20% (target), via multi-year reservations and snooze for non-production / non-critical systems

    • planned and managed internal and vendor-awarded projects from the design, POV, implementation and retrospective phases

    • established and nurtured relationships with technology and security management and business unit CITOs

  • Senior Automation Engineer

    Jan, 2017 - Sep, 20192 years 8 months

    • wrote Terraform modules, Ansible playbooks, Jenkins pipelines, Packer configurations, and glue scripts to construct Prudential's cloud foundation codebase

    • wrote CI & CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments running on OpenShift and virtual machines

    • wrote scripts to manage log rotation across all infrastructure assets, standardize the capture of memory dump data, automated encryption of local disks containing sensitive data with LUKS

    • established a fully automated workflow building entire business unit environments from scratch - with compliance, monitoring, and standards built-in

    • started the infrastructure-as-code practice across the regional infrastructure department

  • Senior Devops Engineer

    Apr, 2016 - Jan, 20178 months

    • handled all aspects of automation for the Devops team - automated RHEL builds, orchestration of the CICD software installation and configuration, license tracking and renewals, automated plugins configuration and management

    • wrote glue scripts in lambda to manage the daily and weekly lifecycle of AWS resources for cost savings

    • worked with security and compliance to bring a regional CI/CD (Vx) platform to production in AWS

  • Trading and Clearing Technology Support Enigneer

    Apr, 2014 - Apr, 20162 years

    • lead support for clearing operations applications and its platforms

    • automated the weekend production software releases with Ansible + inhouse bootstrap helper tools

    • automated parts of disaster recovry testing for clearing applications

  • Senior Unix Administrator

    Apr, 2011 - Apr, 20142 years 11 months

    • automated server builds and post-build configuration with Puppet

    • automated BIOS and iLO patching / firmware updates for HP Proliant servers

    • wrote scripts for HP OpenView monitoring, authored various utility scripts for the unix team

    • automated filesystem encryption/decryption of servers shipped to customer sites using LUKS and puppet

  • Unix Administrator

    Nov, 2007 - Apr, 20113 years 4 months

    • administation and maintenance of 1500 equities and market-data physical unix servers in the Americas

    • set up clustering using VCS (Veritas Cluster Server)

    • set up of Nagios and Icinga for equities server monitoring

Skills

Skills

  • Platforms and tools

    Kubernetes

    OpenShift

    Docker

    ArgoCD

    Jenkins

    Bamboo

    BitBucket

    Artifactory

    Hashicorp Vault

    Packer

    RedHat Satellite

    Ansible Tower

  • Automation

    Python

    Perl

    Groovy

    Shell

    Ansible

    Puppet

    Terraform

  • Cloud Service Providers

    Microsoft Azure

    Google Cloud Platform

    AWS

Education

Education

  • Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelors, Adamson University

    Jun, 2000 - Mar, 2005