Systems Engineer
Wynn Resorts / Las Vegas
July 2014 - October 2017
- Maintained the health of all Wynn/Encore/Boston physical and virtual system infrastructure consisting of over 4000 servers supporting 10,000+ business users
- Responsible for weekly rotation of 24/7 on-call Engineering support
- Managed VMware 5.5 & 6.0 VMs and ESXi hosts ensuring stability and availability
- Worked closely with Networking Engineering confirming correct ports are opened for network communication/protocols for east-west traffic
- Responsible for administering HPE 3PAR & Dell Compellent SAN storage architecture (Physical Drive Health, Firmware, LUN Free Space, etc)
- Configuring backend storage profiles/LUNs (CPGs, Virutal Volumes, etc.)
- Install, configure, monitor and tune Windows & Linux (RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu) server operating systems
- Tech Center maintenance and decommissioned hardware cable cleanup
- Investigate and troubleshoot any large impact system issues and provide support for system outages
- Created Zones and Aliases on the storage fabric switches (Brocade SAN Director) mapped to physical hardware via WWN
- Deploy and build virtual machines or physical servers (HPE ProLiant DL, BL) as required
- Configured and utilize BFS for ESXi OS boot
- Installation, configuration and monitoring of MS Active Directory
- Group Policy management and troubleshooting
- AD Sites and Services configuration
- Utilized Infobox as our DDI System
- Deployed entire dev environments utilizing vCloud Director's multitenancy capabilities serving QA, Software Development teams, etc.
- Install, configure and manage physical blade server infrastructure using HPE OneView
- Set server profiles in HPE OneView assigned to enclosure bays configured for boot-from-san for hardware anonymity
- Responsible with working with vendors to ensure the latest firmware/patches are applied on all physical hardware (HPE c7000 Enclosures, BL & DL Series, 3PAR, etc.)
- Compliance log reports of tech center authorized and non-authorized access
