Ken Salinas

Experience

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  IBM

  Jun 2016 - Sept 2017

  - Served as L1/L2 support for both dedicated and shared dev/test and pre-prod Unix and RHEL servers, resolving both customer and system generated tickets, providing troubleshooting and administration support for OS, hardware, as well as middleware and database applications- Handled installation and configuration for newly deployed environments- Handled upgrades as deemed needed by clients which includes OS patching during APAR fixes and health checks- Provided solutions to clients for the enhancement of their working environments Show less - Served as L1/L2 support for cloud based Windows Server and RHEL platforms and middleware requests and issues- Handled provisioning/decommissioning support and process for both cloud and bare metal server related requests- Devised hardware inventories for a succinct summary of supported devices- Provided immediate support in planned and unplanned data center outages- Handled vulnerability patching thru Windows Update and YUM for all cloud deployments which includes OS health checks Show less

  • Technical Team Lead

    Feb 2017 - Sept 2017

  • Infrastructure Specialist - System Administrator (Unix, Linux, Middleware)

    Jul 2013 - Sept 2017

  • Data Center/Cloud Administrator

    Jun 2016 - Feb 2017
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  Optum

  Sept 2017 - Sept 2022

  - SME for the design, deployment, management and support of the Red Hat Satellite and Capsule infrastructure which hosts approximately 37,000 RHEL physical and VMs within our organization, covering the overall lifecycle requirements of these client machines.- Spearheaded the Capsule load balancing and integration of an F5 Virtual IP and HAProxy with the current Red Hat Satellite and Capsule architecture, which provided 98% CDN access to RHEL clients during Red Hat Satellite and Capsule patching window.- SME for the Safeguard Authentication Services package builds and deployments which enabled syatems to grant privileged access in different enclaves across the organization. Show less

  • Systems Management Consultant

    Mar 2022 - Sept 2022

  • Senior System Analyst

    Sept 2017 - Mar 2022
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  Seven Seven

  Sept 2022 - now

  Senior Linux System Administrator