CCNA - Cisco Certified Network Associate
RHCE - Red Hat Certified Engineer
Solutions and Automation Architect
Infrastructure Architect
Linux/Unix/Windows
Virtualization
Databases (SQL, NoSQL)
Big Data
Developer (Rails, Ruby, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Javascript)
Veritas Cluster and Linux Cluster
Cloud (Public/Private)
Specialties:
Cloud
Clustering
Web
Unix Services
HA
Network
Technical Director Platform as a Service at Symantec Cloud Platform @ From August 2015 to Present (5 months) Principal Software Engineer - Cloud Platform Engineering @ From August 2014 to Present (1 year 5 months) Founder @ Founder and owner of OpenEscalar Cloud Management open source project, Which it's an cloud framework that will allow you to deploy, control, collect statistics, orchestrate the different sections of cloud computing. At the moment its completely written in ruby and the web interface uses rails, it uses multiple messaging technologies in order to provide a semi distributed framework. From January 2012 to Present (4 years) Founder @ From January 2012 to Present (4 years) Hermosillo Area, MexicoCloud Infrastructure Engineering @ From December 2013 to August 2014 (9 months) United StatesTechnology Lead Systems and Cloud R&D @ Lead systems team through implementations of new technology.
Architect enterprise solutions at a high level.
Provide training, guidance and new procedures for systems, storage and network teams.
Research and design new procedures for fast provisioning and automation of environments.
SME for technologies such as LDAP, DNS, NTP, VPNSSL, MAIL, AWS, Rackspace/HP Cloud, Eucalyptus, OpenStack, CloudStack, Hadoop, Puppet, Chef.
Provide guidance and architectural standards for applications around cloud technology.
Architect and design distributed infrastructure core services through multiple data centers.
Design and architect configuration management system supporting over +10000 nodes.
Architect and design RHEL HA Clusters, HA vpn clusters.
Architect and design shared solutions for application teams.
Architect and design private development clouds based on Eucalyptus, OpenStack and Cloudstack.
Define Linux and hardware server standards for compliance with PCI and non-PCI.
Architect and design a process for provisioning and automating server configuration increasing the capacity from 6 to 200 per admin while reducing the overall install process from 4 hours to 20 mins.
Architect and design a distributed simple object storage based on Eucalyptus Walrus.
Develop modules and plugins for integration of multiple tools like configuration management (puppet,chef), server provisioning and asset management tracking.
Virtualization lead for KVM, VMware and Xen hypervisors providing optimizations at hypervisor and kernel level and network virtualization standards for cloud technologies.
Defin standards to 3rd party hosting in order to make them compliant with our internal policies.
SME support for multiple games across development, test and production environments.
Defined hadoop infrastructure requirements.
Develop automation tools using languages such as Ruby, Python, Perl, HTML, XML, JavaScript, AJAX, Rails, Java and databases such as MySQL, CouchDB, MongoDB, Oracle, PostgreSQL. From May 2010 to December 2013 (3 years 8 months) Cloud Engineer @ Cloud Engineer supporting Rackspace Cloud Sites
Optimize mysql servers and queries.
Manage Web HA Clusters.
Manage Zeus load balancers.
Provide input on infrastructure optimization.
Troubleshoot php, rails and java applications. From February 2010 to May 2010 (4 months) San Antonio, Texas AreaLinux Engineer @ Build and Decomm boxes.
Troubleshoot server escalated issues (OS, Storage, Network related).
Develop and Manage puppet configs.
Develop and Manage cobbler configs.
Design and and suggest new architecture designs.
Deploy and configure servers for game releases
Main SA for game servers including Dragon Age Origins, Tiger Woods Online, NHL 2010,
Fifa 2010, Madden NFL, Need for Speed.
Help troubleshooting RHCS cluster.
Design and architecture openvpn as new vpn client for 3rd party hosting.
Main openvpn admin.
Automation and config deployment through puppet.
Accomplishments
Migrate server deployment from systemimager to cobbler (kickstart) with automation on puppet.
Setup new infrastructure authentication mechanism openssh – ldap – keys.
Develop and design puppet classes, modules and profiles (we called this way so we can
categorize boxes by server function – web, mysql, oracle, application, auth).
Tune up PAM to allow ldap authentication and local authentication.
Roll out openvpn as new vpn solution for 3rd party software (using redundancy).
Created website where we integrate all cobbler servers and puppet reporters using pupeptview.
Setup git to control our pupped code deployment. From June 2009 to December 2009 (7 months) Infrastructure Project Specialist @ Manage multiple web projects and portals for Sprint.
PHP and ActionScript coder.
Manage infrastructure web servers running IIS.
Manage infrastructure mysql databases. From March 2009 to June 2009 (4 months) Hermosillo Area, MexicoInfrastructure Unix/Linux Engineer @ Plan and implement changes for SCS managed servers on GSK infrastructure.
Maintain and troubleshoot IBM and Veritas Clusters in all environments (Prod, Test & Dev).
Management and administration of GSK Linux – Solaris VMware servers (Virtual
Infrastructure 3, ESX Servers 2)
Attend IT incidents (operating system, local storage, alarms, power downs, misc errors) on
2000 GSK servers including Solaris, HPUX, Linux operating systems on blades or VMware.
Coordinate with network-windows-storage teams for fix and implement changes on servers.
Contact vendor (HP, IBM, Red Hat, Sun) to coordinate shutdowns and allow technicians to
replace hardware.
Build scripts to automate installations, configuration checks.
Avoid down times by fixing alarms generated by Patrol.
Accomplishments:
Drive and coordinate teams to allow upgrades, patching and power down entire sites to allow electrical, san, and core network updates.
Take control of all unix/linux virtual infrastructure (vmware) from GSK for IT management, resolve incidents, updates. From September 2007 to September 2008 (1 year 1 month) Monterrey Area, MexicoGE Corporate Senior System Administrator @ In charge coordinating and driving network/servers change implementations on all the GE’s Corporate Infrastructure (Development, Staging and Production).
Provide solutions on network configurations, servers tuning, services configurations to most of the Corporate Application teams.
Manage and suggest improvements for F5 Networks BIGIP and 3DNS load balancers.
Drive and lead support teams and application teams through server outages, applications down
times and help most of the support team to troubleshoot and leading the way on how to fix
issues.
Verify and audit new server installations/de-installs as well check on NAS/SAN/Network
configurations.
Monitor and health checks on around 1000 servers including Windows 2003 Enterprise/
Standard, Solaris 8 and 10, Linux Red Hat Enterprise 3 and 4
Create perl and bash scripts for automation.
Implement own projects and 6 Sigma to improve IT infrastructure on GE example: mass device
migrations, new software implementation.
Submit/Verify/Test request for changes created by application teams and keep them off SLA
violations.
Lead or participate on teams that will implement big projects on all the environments.
On Softtek work as a project leader of my team that gives support and consult to GE Corporate
by using CMMi and Six Sigma Methodologies.
Keep the up the high level quality of the team.
Keep projects under CMMi Level 5
Check alarms of Hobbit, BigBrother monitoring, drive installations of hobbit and bigbrother
monitoring client/server.
Accomplishments:
Drive and implement until now hundred of changes on Network/Servers/Services.
Migrate F5 BIGIP configurations from BIGIP 540 to the new 1500 model
Create auto audit scripts for reducing the audit time from 5 hours to 25 min
Implement new standards on server builds and installations process.
Support Softtek IT department with new Open source implementations and solutions as well migrate from a windows based environment to less expensive solutions. From September 2006 to September 2007 (1 year 1 month) Albany, New York AreaSystem Linux/Windows Administrator @ In charge of network, servers, security configuration, management and administration, including 10 Power Edge Dell Servers, 1 Sun Server, 4 HP Servers located in the corporate building; 25 generic servers around Mexico (1 server per branch office).
In charge of Firewalls (iptables and bsd packet filter "pf"), Postfix mail server, POP mail server with antispam assassin, amavis email antivirus, Apache web server, Squid Proxy server, DNS server, Oracle and MySQL DB server, NTP, SAMBA as PDC, Jabber communication server, Cacti network monitoring server, and a VPN server that makes connection to each branch office and roadwarriors.
In charge of network and security traffic (internal and external), Frame relay (11 connections) and VPNs (14 connections).
In charge of user administration.
Search and implement new open source systems and technology.
Accomplishments:
Installation, configuration (centralized) and management of branch office firewalls.
Installation, configuration (centralized) and management of branch office dhcp and proxy
servers.
Implement of VPN for roadwarriors and replaced vtund connections by VPN Server.
Implement Samba as PDC server and Windows File Server.
Installation, configuration and management of Jabber Server for instant messaging service.
Installation, configuration and management of Cacti Monitoring Service (bandwidth, memory,
HD space)
Installation and configuration of Mambo Content Management System as Corporate Web Portal
providing one kind of access for each user.
Management of bandwidth using advanced routing allowing corporate traffic by one link, and
web, email, traffic by another link.
Changed network design from a C class to a B class using CIDR and VSLM
Installation and configuration of Oracle 10 as database. From August 2005 to August 2006 (1 year 1 month) Hermosillo Area, MexicoSystem Administrator @ In charge of configuration and servers management such as FIREWALLS, MYSQL, POSTGRES, SENDMAIL AND POP MAIL SERVERS, VPN, PROXY, DNS, WEB SERVERS, NFS, GATEWAYS AND NTP SERVERS all under Linux and OpenBSD operating systems.
In charge of network management, configuration and security for 30 nodes.
In charge of giving support for Windows users and Linux users.
Maintain communication with other servers situated in Phoenix AZ.
Administration of Cisco Routers and Switches.
Accomplishments:
Learned to use OpenBSD operating system.
Setup a MIDAS Server for network management.
Controlled 30 workstations from my single computer.
Setup VPNs connection.
Build a new network design including VLANS and Firewalls using Cisco Switches, Routers and Access List. From September 2004 to August 2005 (1 year) Hermosillo Area, Mexico
Tecnológico de Monterrey From 2011 to 2014 VMWare VSphere 4.1 Certification, VMWare VSphere 4.1 @ New Horizons From 2011 to 2011 RHCE, Linux, Red Hat, Engineer @ Red Hat Certified Engineer Course From 2010 to 2010 CCNA, Network Engineer @ Cisco Network Academy From 2005 to 2005 Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Engineering @ Instituto Tecnologico de Hermosillo From 2000 to 2005 Miguel Zuniga is skilled in: Unix Services, Linux, High Availability, Red Hat Linux, Networking, Cluster, Apache, MySQL, Unix, Perl, Cloud Computing, SQL, Solaris, DNS, Virtualization
Websites:
http://www.miguelzuniga.com,
http://www.openescalar.org,
https://plus.google.com/+MiguelZuniga