Ken Salinas

Ken Salinas

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Unix/Linux Systems Engineer

  • Education

    • Far Eastern University

      2008 - 2013
      Bachelor's degree Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

      Activities and Societies: Math and Science Organization, Electronics Engineering Students' Society

  • Experience

    • 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
    • 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
    • Seven Seven

      Sept 2022 - now
      Senior Linux System Administrator
  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Ken Salinas
      Manager’s Choice Award - 2017 for the practice "Put the client first" IBM May 2017
    • Awarded to Ken Salinas
      Manager’s Choice Award - 2016 for the practice "United to get it done now" IBM Nov 2016
    • Awarded to Ken Salinas
      IBM Top Talent 2016 Awardee IBM May 2016
    • Awarded to Ken Salinas
      Manager’s Choice Award - 2015 for the practice "Share expertise" IBM Nov 2015
    • Awarded to Ken Salinas
      IBM Top Talent 2015 Awardee IBM Sep 2015
    • Awarded to Ken Salinas
      Manager’s Choice Award - 2015 for the practice "Put the client first" IBM Apr 2015