Oct 2018 – Mar 2022 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bucharest, Romania

• Worked in Endava Romania, on a FinTech project, part of Worldpay by
• FIS.
• As day to day activities:
• Installation and configuration of different IBM Middleware
• Maintaining the infrastructure up to date using fully automated ansible scripts
• Provide instructions to unix team to run ansible playbooks created
• Fully ansible automation of upgrading middleware used( IBM MQ, IBM Integration
• Bus, SolidDB)
• Fully automation of certificate deployment in entire environment
• All repo's are kept in GitHub repository
• Maintaining the entire configuration updated for all managed servers(DEV, TEST,
• PreProd and PROD)
• Configure applications to connect to AWS rbi databases
• Supporting the Deployments with Dev and Release teams in production
• Creating documentation for different processes across the project
• Plan the Release activities together with Release Management and QA teams
• Participate in meetings with Development teams to analyze specific technical
• requirements
• Working with teams from other applications to on-board and configure our
• applications Continuous Integration Process for Development environments
• Azure course and Azure DevOps using CI/CD
• A contributor for Endava's learning program: School for DevOps.

Dec 2017 – Oct 2018 · 10 mos · Bucharest, Romania

• 1.        Create the best practices in world wide AppOps for performing tasks related to this competency. Installing, configuring, document it, and update it as new technologies or knowledge becomes available.
• 2.        Create and maintain the process documents for the competency.
• 3.        Organize the team documents for the competency.
• 4.        Periodically review the competency assets for reuse contributions (process documents, original training materials, scripts, to name a few possibilities).
• 5.        Assign training and mentoring for new and existing competency members as needed. Develop a training plan for the competency.
• 6.        Identify skill gaps and needs for the competency.
• 7.        Be the go-to person for questions regarding the competency and for representing AppOps's competency in this area to customers.
• 8.        Keep abreast of the state of the art for the technologies involved in the competency. This involves identifying trade conferences of interest and requesting funding.
• 9.        Maintain the competency wiki page.
• 10.  When leaved the position, the final responsibility as a competency leader was to identify and train a new competency leader.

Apr 2016 – Sep 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bucharest, Romania

• System administrator for a worldwide organization that hosts over 10000 servers
• Manage OS: AIX, Linux(RedHat, CentOS, zLinux), Windows Server;
• WebSphere MQ and IBM Integration Bus SME
• Middleware support: IBM WebSphere Application Server ND, IBM WebSphere Liberty, IBM DB2, IBM WebSphere MQ, IBM Integration Bus, IBM HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat, IBM Security Directory Server, IBM Tivoli Directory Server, MongoDB, Cognos, IIS, IBM Mobile First Platform, IBM Worklight, IBM WebSphere Portal, SQL Server
• Provide technical advice on access control, security models, disaster recovery, business continuity.
• Perform major release upgrades or migrations for OS and Middleware
• Virtualization: VMware Administration, IBM Power Systems, KVM; Cloud – SoftLayer, Bluemix
• Making sure that systems are compliant with security standards(OS patching, OS hardening)
• Using IBM specific tools in order to perform health-checks, vulnerability scanning, port scanning(Nessus Scanner)
• Creating baselines(for automated patching process) with IBM Endpoint Manager(IBM BigFix) and applying them by network zones, by applications, deploying various tasks and scripts
• Weekly meetings with team leads to solve any pending issues and discuss any concers and solutions
• Working with Engagement teams and Clients in order to resolve open problems and address pontential vulnerabilties
• Working with Deployment managers in order to implement new customer requirements in terms of architecture
• Ticket dispatching support for DST WW Teams
• Analyzing reports

May 2016 – Oct 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bucharest, Romania

Oct 2013 – Apr 2016 · 2 yrs 6 mos · București, România

Apr 2012 – Oct 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos · București, România