Eric Martin - Architect & Cloud DevOps Engineer

Experiences

GitLab Pipeline Development using Terraform/Ansible/Vault/Consul and targeting AWS and GCP
Product Owner leading a Development team applying Agile Working Principles.
Member of AI group conducting POCs with GenAI, RAG, Vector DBs, VertexAI

2022 Trainings:
- Terraform
- Google Cloud (GCP)
2021 Trainings
- CyberArk PAM Training
- AWS Training
2020: Red Hat Certified Architect.
5 Red Hat Certified Specialist Exams:
- Ansible Automation (Ansible 2.7)
- Advanced Automation: Ansible Best Practices (ansible 2.8 & Ansible Tower 3.5)
- OpenShift Administration (OpenShift Container Platform 4.2)
- Deployment and Systems Management (Red Hat Satellite 6.6)
- Identity Management (Red Hat Identity Management 4.5)
Hybrid Cloud Architecture and Design with Focus on Automation (Ansible) and Linux Authentication Authorization for Public Cloud (AWS, Azure) and On- Premise using AD as central identity store.
POC, Documentation, hand over to Operations.
Multi Datacentre Satellite 6 Design and Implementation + handover to Operations
Various Infrastructure Designs for different internal projects

2021: Building the CyberArk Training Environment for ITGilde teams members. Based on Proxmox/ZFS with Unifi Hardware

OpenShift 3 Architecture Design
OpenSCAP security hardening using Center for Internet Security (CIS) Baseline
RHEL7 Technical Designs for the new LGI Private Cloud infrastructure in EdgeConneX Data Center
Design of various Infrastructure Services (squid proxy, DNS, NTP, ssh jump server) for a Multi-tenant Cloud Environment with Cisco ACI

2016: Technical Solution Architect
- RHEL7/Docker introduction, Cloud OS Provisioning Automation, Testing, Documentation, Handover to Capabilities in India/Bulgaria
- Migration from Tivoli TSM to VEEAM
- Project: Consolidation of over 200 MS-SQL Databases from MS Clusters to VMware
2015: Infrastructure lead Architect
Project Global Private Cloud:
Automation of RHEL (Linux) and Windows 2008R2/2012R2 Standard Virtual Services via HP-SA, HP-OO on VMware ESX 5.1 and leveraged Infrastructure for EU and US regions.
Deliverables: Requirements, Architecture Specification, Service Technical Design, Virtualization Platform Architecture Design
2014: Infrastructure lead Architect
Project Fast Provisioning:
Providing the Customer with 5 predefined stacks that can be delivered 4 times faster than standard delivery and in a predictable way.
End to end responsible for the 2 RHEL stacks, RedHat Linux 5.9, on Virtual Machine, ESX5.1, and on HP Blades.
OS provisioning implemented using HP-SA, 3PAR storage, 10GB network.
Successful project leading to time/costs savings and customer satisfaction.
2014: Architect
Project: Hosting of Financial Application
Create Design for a new Financial Application running on Windows 2008 R2 with MSSQL as RDBMS. Gathered Vendor requirements, and worked with SMEs to create a Design and Documentation leading to successful implementation.
2012/2013: Architect.
Various projects:
- Oracle EBS Migration from Solaris to Linux + Upgrade Infra to provide scalability. Worked as lead architect with Oracle, customer and HP internal teams to reach a go live in time.
- RedHat Cluster for Fusion Middleware. Disaster Recovery tests
- Windows Antivirus Server migration
- Application migration (Windows/MSSQL based)

Responsible for detailed designs of Web applications Infrastructure.
Worked on various projects:
- Engineering of WebSphere Application Server: proof of Concept, Infrastructure design, scripting (jacl/jython), packaging software into rpm (RHEL 4) and training Operation team.
- RSA Securid upgrade. Evaluation of RSA Authentication Manager 7.0, development of migration scripts (tcl), writing of installation manuals, migration of RSA clients
- Applications migration from HP-UX and Solaris to Linux (including design of new infrastructure in Linux RHEL cluster environment)
- WebSphere Application Servers consolidation
2012: Datacenter migration project (ADCE): Responsible for migration of WebSphere environment, LDAP, RSA, JBoss from Datacenter in NL to Datacenter in UK (New IPs, hostnames)

Responsible for the implementation of the infrastructure of http://www.gts.abnamro.com in cooperation with HP: Implemented Service Guard clusters under HP-UX in a SAN environment with EMC Storage XP256, middleware’s, especially WebSphere application servers, Oracle Databases, Java applications.
- Installation, test, documentation and administration of Service Guard cluster and Integration of middleware, Databases, Java applications in cluster environment
- SAN and storage administration with XP256 and EMC DMX storage arrays
- Installation, Administration tuning of WebSphere Application servers as well as apache and iplanet web servers
- Installation, Administration of Iplanet directory server (ldap) and MQSeries

Responsible for UNIX administration and ETX administration, including reorganising scheduling and implementing a new backup system:
- Unix administration of 30 HP9000 systems with EMC disk arrays
- Solaris administration
- ETX middleware administration (TIBCO)
- Complete reorganisation of scheduling under Maestro (Tivoli)
- Implementation of backup system using EDM (EMC)

Responsible for management of over 100 HP-UX systems, ITO Openview management, the Oracle and Ingres databases, Tuxedo middleware and applications in an English-spoken world wide data centre.
- HP-UX, Oracle, Ingres administration: 25 HP9000 on local site + 3 EMC cabinets
- Computers control implementation with HP Openview IT/Operations
- Installation, configuration, administration and tuning of TUXEDO (80 domains on 80 UNIX systems)
- Maintenance of a ServiceGuard cluster in an High Available environment
- Applications Start-up (intermediate of development teams in India and of the support application teams in France) following the company standards - Trips to India
- Asia/Pac region Support for 1 year, then US support.
- cgi scripts for the Intranet

Education

GCP Official Trainings:

Security Learning Path
Network Learning Path
Cloud Engineer

CyberArk Privileged Access Management (PAM) Administration

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O'Reailly Training

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.2

Ansible 2.8, Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.5

Ansible 2.7

Red Hat Satellite 6.6

Red Hat Identity Management 4.5

RHEL7

Computer Systems Architecture
Databases
Security
Networks

Skills

Terraform

Expert
Ansible

Expert
GitLab

Expert
Hashicorp Vault/Consul

Expert
RHEL 7/8/9

Expert
Red Hat IdM (FreeIPA)

Expert
Satellite 6

Expert
OpenShift 3/4

Expert
Docker

Expert
Kubernetes

Expert

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Advanced
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Advanced
VMWare

Advanced
KVM/libvirt

Advanced
OpenStack

Good

CyberArk

Expert
OpenSCAP

Expert
CISSP

Advanced

TOGAF 9.1

Advanced
Archimate

Advanced
QMS (ISO 9001:2008, CMMI, ITIL)

Advanced

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7, 8

Expert
ESX 5.5, 6 VMware (Virtualization)

Expert
HP-UX 10.20, 11.31

Advanced
Solaris 10, 11

Good

HPE C7000 Enclosures

Good
HPE Blades gen8/9

Good
HPE 3Par

Good
HPE Storeonce

Good
Sun X4100/X4200/X4600

Good
EMC XP512

Good
Brocade SAN

Good
F5 Load Balancer

Good

Ansible 2.8

Expert
Satellite Server 6.6

Expert
HP Server Automation (OS Provisioning, Patching)

Advanced
HP OpenView suite (Monitoring, perf)

Good

HP Service Guard

Advanced
RedHat Cluster

Advanced

MySQL/MariaDB

Expert
Oracle 11g, 12c

Advanced

bash

Expert
python (and jython)

Good
perl

Good
tcl (and jacl)

Intermediate
sql

Good

Web Servers: Apache, IHS, iPlanet, nginx

Expert
IBM WebSphere 5.1/6.1/7.0

Advanced
JBoss

Good
IBM MQSeries

Good
LDAP NDS/SunOne/389

Advanced
Directory Proxy Server

Good
Scheduling: Maestro, Control-M

Good
RSA SecurID 6.0/6.1, RSA Authentication Manager 7.1

Advanced
SiteMinder

Intermediate

CISCO ACI

Good
VMware NSX-T

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