Harry Hodge's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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System administrator of Linux (SLES, CentOS) servers as well as some Windows Server. Always happy automating infrastructure, software and configuration with Puppet/Ansible. Love to monitor everything in Graphite/Statsd, or ship to Elasticsearch cluster Love a good performance graph and data driven decision making. Routinely writing Python/Bash scripts for server administration or manipulating data. Currently enjoying Docker and Go. Operating Systems: Strong experience with CentOS/Redhat, Debian/Ubuntu and SLES Linux. Good knowledge of Windows Server. Virtualisation: VMWare, KVM and Docker. Automation: Puppet, Ansible Web: nginx, HAProxy, Apache, XMPP Monitoring: Nagios, Opsview, Elasticsearch, Graphite and Statsd. Cloud: Amazon (Route53, S3, CloudFront, EC2, ELB), Google App Engine and Digital Ocean Databases: MySQL, MS SQL Server. Working knowledge of MongoDB, Postgres. Networks: DHCP, PXE, DNS, VPNs, Samba/NFS, SSH/SFTP/SCP and OSI Model - Have completed Cisco CCNA Routing and Switching course, finding time to complete the exam. Programming: Python, Bash, Puppet, PowershellIT Systems Analyst @ Adminstering Linux (SLES, CentOS) servers for high performance, low latency trading system. Using Puppet and Ansible and Git to manage configuration, server and application development and deployment across large virtual infrastructure (VMware) Look after entire monitoring stack including Nagios/Opsview, Graphite, Statsd, Elasticsearch/Kibana for trading systems and web services. Decreasing time spent troubleshooting and spotting trends, has allowed for more informed decisions based on data and metrics. Lots of scripting and coding in Python, Bash and a bit of Powershell. Picking up bits of Golang as another powerful, cross-platform language. Look after highly-available web services using haproxy, keepalived for redundant web-based trading platform. Using devops methodologies to close gap between operations and development, decrease time to test and deploy software. From March 2013 to Present (2 years 9 months) London, United KingdomIT Support Engineer @ Day to day management of business networks, applications and IT infrastructure. Linux server (Ubuntu, CentOS) administration and set up of redundant storage (ZFS) for business critical information. Managing and deployment of virtual servers into ESXi hypervisor, and consolidation of physical servers into virtual environment. Installing and running Apache and Nginx web servers in commercial environment. Network design and installation of servers (Dell Poweredge), routers (Cisco) and switches (Netgear) for airport FID Systems. Provide support for application users remotely. Deployment of a dedicated software firewall (pfsense) for office network. From June 2011 to March 2013 (1 year 10 months) Project Support Assistant @ I was involved in the day-to-day management of a number of projects whilst also studying for my degree and MSc. I communicated and met frequently with on-site officials to coordinate project implementation with sub-contractors and suppliers. I was also required to assist with in-office tasks such as editing technical drawings (using AutoCAD software suite), customer liaison and IT support. I was responsible for the redesign and optimisation of the company website using HTML, CSS and Javascript, and the subsequent marketing and search engine optimisation campaign. From June 2009 to May 2011 (2 years) Master of Science (MSc), Neuroscience @ Kings College London From 2010 to 2011 Bachelor of Science (BSc), Psychology @ Royal Holloway, University of London From 2007 to 2010 Harry Hodge is skilled in: Linux Server, Puppet, Python, Linux, Automated deployment, Server Administration, Virtualization, Red Hat Linux, haproxy, DNS, VPN, Shell Scripting, Web Servers, Amazon Web Services (AWS), MySQL, Load Balancing, ElasticSearch, Graphite