IT Systems Administrator, SOTI INC
Jan, 2018 - Present
Hired as a full-time internal IT systems analyst and promoted to IT Systems Administrator in 2020. Consistently took on more responsibilities and took initiative to identify gaps and come up with the best solution. Provide Windows/Linux administration, Alerting and Monitoring administration, Hyper-V administration. Also manage Hyper-V servers, AD/DNS, Certificate Authorities, etc. Design and implement new solutions for employers to best fit the business.
Planned, tested, and deployed upgrade to test environment, bringing core infrastructure servers from end of life software(Windows 2008/2012,Exchange 2010) to newest available versions(Windows 2019,Exchange 2010) with zero interruption to any users/machines in the environment
Planned and implemented a new system monitoring tool (Zabbix) to all servers replacing System Center Operations Manager
Deployed Rancher for on premise management of containers and Kubernetes clusters
Designed and implemented a robust, secure VPN infrastructure using IKEv2 with SSTP fallback, providing geo-redundant failover across three global locations.
Automated deployment of Linux VMs in our testing environment, eliminating the need for IT to manually create a VM for each request
Planned and multiple automation scripts including user name change, hyper-v host patching, Office 365 cleanup, etc
Spearheaded the deployment of BookStack as a centralized knowledge base for IT processes, promoting effective documentation and information sharing within the IT team.