Virgil S.

Linux Administrator

Bucharest, Romania

Experience

Nov 2022 - Present
3 years 1 month
Bucharest, Romania
Hybrid

Linux Administrator

Be Shaping the Future

  • Participated in elaborating infosec policies, documents and procedures in IT security within internal organization of customer (Unicredit Bank Romania).

  • Managed the backup policy of all data from internal server’s center of customer.

  • Installed, configured and administered the company's internal network servers using RedHat OS distributions.

  • Installed and maintained the computers network.

  • Administered the branch servers of customer.

Apr 2022 - Nov 2022
8 months
Bucharest, Romania
Remote

CACTI Skill Center Technical Expert

Orange Services Romania

  • Collected data around CACTI infrastructures deployed on RedHat OS distributions.

  • Developed industrialized and standardized CACTI packages.

  • Maintained and supported CACTI packages.

  • Designed and updated a generic technical architecture folder for the Cacti normalized solution.

  • Supported L1 French teams for deployment and usage of the CACTI normalized solution.

  • Provided support for CACTI users.

  • Wrote technical documentation.

Aug 2021 - Apr 2022
9 months
Bucharest, Romania
Hybrid

Technical Authority Expert (Video System Engineer)

Ericsson Romania

  • Provided 2nd line support for broadcast and video platforms in partnership with Liberty Global.

  • Managed end-to-end operations for all types of Linux-based video platforms.

  • Resolved customer complaints by troubleshooting or reproducing issues across Ireland, UK, Netherlands, Poland, Austria, Switzerland and Belgium.

  • Collaborated with CRM, 3rd line support, Development, DataOps and CDN teams to resolve incidents.

  • Provided solutions to enhance monitoring systems based on Nagios, Seyren, Prometheus, Grafana and ELK.

  • Verified integrity and availability of server resources, reviewed system and application logs, and confirmed completion of scheduled jobs.

  • Supported on-call teams for operational issues and performance degradation.

  • Improved network and server host performance through periodic capacity assessments and traffic analysis using Kibana (ELK), Grafana, Dynatrace, Extrahop, Icinga and in-house Python/Bash scripts.

  • Troubleshot streaming protocol issues (HLS, HSS, VOD, RTSP) and transcoder hosts.

  • Worked with Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket.

  • Troubleshot Kubernetes-based microservices on hosts and via Kibana; used Postman for API testing.

  • Collaborated with digital security vendors like Irdeto and Nagra.

Jan 2013 - Aug 2021
8 years 8 months
Bucharest, Romania
On-site

AIX/Linux Specialist

ECTA 74 Software SRL

  • Maintained and developed network infrastructure for IBM Romania based on Power systems using AIX, RedHat and SUSE.

  • Member of IGEL, AS400 and Ro Monitoring teams.

  • Managed events, incidents and problems by analyzing alerts and logs; performed root cause analysis.

  • Installed and supported IBM Power 5 to Power 9 servers, PowerVM and firmware upgrades.

  • Installed and supported server operating systems, system management software and utilities including upgrades.

  • Conducted performance and availability analysis.

  • Promoted and maintained server patch management practices and performed security updates to ensure compliance with security guidelines.

  • Troubleshot performance issues, OS configuration and hardware failures and applied fixes.

  • Created and implemented change requests for incidents/problems.

  • Managed access in Linux environments and provisioned new LPARs and VIOS.

  • Performed periodical maintenance and support according to project specifications; checked tickets from 1st level team and provided on-call support for patching and scheduled changes.

  • Monitored client infrastructure using Nagios and Icinga.

  • Conducted daily checks per procedures and client agreements; escalated issues to 2nd level as needed.

  • Provided on-site support for customers in the ECuRep project.

  • Resolved and documented incidents, requests and changes via ticketing and monitoring systems.

Apr 2010 - Jan 2013
2 years 10 months
Bucharest, Romania
On-site

IT Administrator

Economic College "Virgil Madgearu"

  • Acted as network administrator and computer teacher.

  • Created and defined user groups and organizational units; allocated local network IP addresses.

  • Determined naming conventions for servers, workstations and other network equipment.

  • Managed network and copy equipment, printers and internal surveillance video system.

  • Installed Windows Server 2003 R2; configured DNS, Active Directory, DHCP, group policies and backup jobs.

  • Added stations, renamed fields per defined format and migrated local user profiles to domain users.

  • Created shared resources and allocated rights to user groups.

  • Ensured network and computer security; performed data recovery and backups.

Jan 2005 - Dec 2006
2 years
Bucharest, Romania

IT Specialist

TiCris Software Company

  • Member of packaging team: captured software (registry entries, files, running processes, ODBC resources), edited packages, created custom actions (Visual Basic scripts), compiled MSI databases, validated installations and managed conflicts; performed final unit testing.

  • Member of HR Access team: analyzed and adapted client tasks for HR Access 5.1 and 3c; modified treatments, created populations, generated registers and layouts using DB2/UNIX for IBM headquarters in Paris, France.

  • Developed COBOL programs in I-series environment using CL, DDS, SEU, SDA, RLU, PDM, SQL, SQL Query Manager and DB2 for migration projects from mainframe /370 to AS400.

  • Analyzed and converted COBOL programs, performed manual and automatic conversions, unit tests and integration tests.

Jan 1991 - Dec 1999
9 years
Bucharest, Romania

Teacher of Computer Science

General School No. 3 "N. Titulescu"

  • Taught computer science classes.

  • Established and developed IT lab.

  • Provided technical, logistic, human resource and financial support.

Languages

Romanian
Native
English
Advanced
French
Elementary

Education

Oct 2010 - Jun 2012

Technical University of Civil Engineering

Postgraduate Specialization in Informatics · Informatics · Bucharest, Romania

Oct 2008 - Jun 2010

Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Pitesti

Postgraduate degree in Management and Business Administration · Management and Business Administration · Pitești, Romania

Oct 1995 - Jun 1999

Faculty of Commerce and Tourism Management, University “Dimitrie Cantemir”

Bachelor's degree in Tourism Management · Tourism Management · Bucharest, Romania

Certifications & licenses

CCNA 3 - Routing & Switching

CCNA 1, 2 - Routing & Switching

DB2 9.7 Academic Workshop – IBM Romania

IBM Romania

Linux Essentials Certification

Installing And Configuring Windows Server 2012

ITIL Foundation

Cisco Instructor Course - IT Essentials: PC Hardware And Software Module

Computer Network Administrator Course

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