Marc Pascual

Cloud Engineer

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Personal Info

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

E-mailmarcmpascual@gmail.com
AddressSingapore, Singapore
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Work Experience

Jane Street Singapore Pte LtdPresent
Linux Engineer
  • 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
Prudential Services Singpore Pte Ltd
Head of Cloud & Site Reliability Engineering
  • 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
Prudential Services Singpore Pte Ltd
Senior Automation Engineer
  • 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
Standard Chartered Bank Singapore
Senior Devops Engineer
  • 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
CME Group, Inc
Trading and Clearing Technology Support Enigneer
  • 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
Blackrock, Inc
Senior Unix Administrator
  • 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
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Unix Administrator
  • 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

Education

Electronics and Communications Engineering
Adamson UniversityBachelors

Skills

Platforms and tools
KubernetesOpenShiftDockerArgoCDJenkinsBambooBitBucketArtifactoryHashicorp VaultPackerRedHat SatelliteAnsible Tower
Automation
PythonPerlGroovyShellAnsiblePuppetTerraform
Cloud Service Providers
Microsoft AzureGoogle Cloud PlatformAWS