
Unix Systems Administration Engineer at VeriSign
Geneva Area, Switzerland

Unix Systems Administration Engineer at VeriSign
Geneva Area, Switzerland
Installation, management and tuning of UNIX servers.
Experienced on Linux (mainly RedHat and SuSE) and AIX 4.3/5.3 and with some exposure to Solaris 8 and 10. Technical support on implementing security policies, hardening, patching, backup and restore procedures. Clustering, storage systems, dbms administration, problem solving and programming (shell, perl, python). Service monitoring 24x7 for business critical environments. Virtualization on power5 with HMC, dynamic logical partitioning and virtual I/O servers.
Clusters installation
Security on UNIX
DBMS management
Change Management Processes
Architecture Integration
Capacity Planning
Virtualization
Performance Monitoring
Tuning
Scripting
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; VRSN; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2007 — Present (1 year 4 months)
Naming Operations - Production Services. Main activities:
- build, configuration, support of the VeriSign CORE Naming (.com/.net) Disaster Recovery Data Center.
- installation, configuration and maintenance of IBM AIX 5.3 with HACMP clustering and RedHat Linux servers.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CATP; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2006 — June 2007 (8 months)
Amdocs Billing Environment Administrator for Quality Assurance Department at Orange Communications SA Switzerland. Main activities:
- management, customization and tuning of sets of multiple Amdocs Ensemble environments, a billing software architecture based on Oracle dbms and Bea Tuxedo middleware on HP-UX.
- environments upgrade, troubleshooting of issues and integration with third party applications.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2002 — November 2006 (4 years 2 months)
Unix "pd03" office. Main activities:
- Installation, management and troubleshooting of servers IBM AIX, SuSE Linux and Sun Solaris in test and production environment. Security policy implementation, hardening and patching, backup and restore, services monitoring.
- Security technical support and analysis. Implementation of rules established by the Security Officer.
- Responsible for change management operations and software/hardware migrations.
- Capacity planning, configuration of power5 with HMC and dynamic logical partitioning.
- Installation and management of software products in AIX systems: Apache, Websphere, DB2 and Oracle, HACMP, Tivoli Storage Manager, Swiftnet Alliance Gateway, Business Objects, Hyperion System 9.
- Database administration and tuning of IBM DB2 instances. Installation and troubleshooting of J2EE software in IBM Websphere. Integration with SAN systems EMC² Symmetrix and IBM TotalStorage.
- Scripting: shell (bash, ksh), perl, python.
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
November 2000 — October 2002 (2 years)
- Installation and administration of servers Redhat Linux in testing and production environments.
- LAN administration. Activation and administration of services: mail, file and print server, http server, cvs, firewalling, ipsec, dns, dhcp, ppp on demand.
- MySQL and Apache administration.
- Installation and tuning of the Netsaint/Nagios monitoring system.
- Software development using java, perl, c.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2000 — November 2000 (3 months)
Master of Science, Computer Science, 1991 — 2000
Thesis: “Coordination of XML Active Documents: a stock exchange application”. Integration of three different distributed programming paradigms (client/server, mobile agents, tuple spaces) in the development of an online trading simulator software architecture.
Supervisor: prof. Paolo Ciancarini
Computer Science 1986 — 1990
linux, opensource, wine tasting, cooking, basket, volley, jogging, snorkeling.