Skills

Qualifications and Certifications
Cisco CCNA Routing and Switching
VMware vSphere VCP 6.0
BSc Applied Networking Technologies, University of Dundee

Cloud Solutions
Amazon AWS
Microsoft Azure

Networking
Cisco Firewalls 55xx-X models
Cisco Firewall IPS Modules
Cisco Firewall SourceFire/FirePower IPS Modules
Cisco 2900 Routers
Cisco Nexus 3500 Switches
Cisco Catalyst Switches
DELL PowerConnect 2900 Switches
DELL Module I/O Cards
Brocade 300 Switches (Fibre Channel)
Juniper Router
Juniper Firewall SRX
Juniper Firewall SSG 140

Storage
DELL PowerVault MD3200/1200 Series
DELL Equallogic PS4100
EMC VNX3300e
FusionIO Cards

Servers
Dell (Blade Center M1000e, Servers R/M Series)
HP (ProLiant DL Gen 8/9 Servers)

IPS/IDS
SourceFire
Snort/Barnyard2/Snorby
PFsense/Snort

Security
SElinux
OSSec

Secrets Management
Vault/Consul
Keycloak

Virtualization
VMware vSphere 5.0/6.X
Hyper-V

Containerization
Docker
Kubernetes
OpenShift

Service Mesh
Istio

Backups
Symantec BackupExec 2012
EMC Avamar
Asigra
Veeam Backups

EMAIL
Exchange2013
Postfix/Sendmail/Dovecat

Databases
MSSQL Clustering/Mirroring (with Encryption)/SQL AlwaysON
MySQL (with Cascading Replication)
Oracle - Basics

Web Servers
IIS
Apache
NGINX
Tomcat

Load Balancing
HAproxy
Riverbed/Brocade Virtual Traffic Manager
Linux LVS
F5

Operating Systems
Windows Server 2008/2012
RedHat (RHEL HA Cluster) / CentOS
Debian / Ubuntu
SUSE / SLES
BackTrack/Kali
FreeBSD/OpenBSD

Protocols
Networking/Routing Protocols (BGP/OSPF/RIP/HSRP/VRRP/VTP/vPC/vLT/VPN etc)
Operating System Protocols (AD, DynamicDNS, DNS, DHCP, AD, LDAP, DFS etc)

Automation and Provisioning
Cobbler
Ansible
SaltStack
Terraform

CICD
Jenkins
Bamboo/Bitbucket
Gitlab
SonarQube

Monitoring
Nagios/Check_MK
Graphite/Grafana
Prometheus/Grafana
Datadog

Logging / Analytics
ELK - Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana
OpenTelemetry/Jaeger

Multi Factor Authentication
EMC RSA SecurID

Server Migrations - P2V/V2V
VMware Converter
Acronis
DoubleTake

Disaster Recovery
Veeam Replication
vSphere Replication
SRM
RecoverPoint for VM's
Zerto
SAN to SAN replication

General Skills
Infrastructure Platform Planning and Implementing
DR Solutions Planning and Implementing
Migrations Planning and Implementing
Hybrid / Private Cloud and Complex Solutions

Programming / Scripting Languages
BASH
Python/Flask
HTML5/CSS3
jQuery/JavaScript

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