Irek Pelech

seniorlinuxadmin.co.uk

Github / LinkedIn


Summary

I am an experienced Senior Technical Architect and Senior DevOps with many years of experience that allowed me to develop a wide range of technical and non-technical skills. I introduced container technology as well as Automation and Infrastructure as Code in my current company which help us with environment build and management. I'm strong Linux sysadmin with broad knowledge of AWS Cloud, VMware, Networking, Security, Automation and Containerization.

In numbers:

• 6 years Technical Architect - including 3 years on Senior position

• 15 years of working with Linux/Unix systems as SysOps & DevOps including Senior positions

• 5 years working with AWS Cloud

• Multiple years of experience with Containers, InC, Automatisation, CI/CD, Monitoring, Networking, Security and Scripting

Employment

Senior Technical Architect

Worldline, UK

• Provide a technical solution and design of infrastructure

• Build relationship with sales/partner leads and technical stakeholders

• Provide a technical guidance and advice to internal and external teams

• Provide High-level and Low-level design

• Migrate from in-house cloud to AWS

• Write Infrastructure as Code for automation (Terraform/Terragrunt/Ansible/CloudInit)

• Design and build containers for Docker Swarm & AWS ECS/Fargate and test Kubernetes

• Create and present Proof of Concept systems and solutions

• Write scripts in Bash and Python

• Help with setup of DevOps & Infrastructure strategy and roadmap

• Provide security guidance for Cloud, Network and Linux systems

• Run and analysing outputs from Security pen tests

• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior engineers

• Provide knowledge transfer to Engineers

Technical Architect

Worldline, UK

• Provide a technical solution and design of infrastructure

• Provide a technical guidance and advice to internal and external teams

• Build relationship with business partners and technical stakeholders

• Provide High-level and Low-level design

• Create and present Proof of Concept systems and solutions

• Write Infrastructure as Code for automation (Terraform/Terragrunt/Ansible/CloudInit)

• Design and build containers for Docker Swarm

• Write scripts in Bash and Python

• Work closely with DevOps and Developers teams

• Provide knowledge transfer to Engineers

Senior Linux Engineer / DevOps

Worldline e-payments company by Atos, UK

• Produce high level design and implementation

• Provide system configurations and deployments

• Build VMware virtual machines and Docker containers

• Write automation code using Bash and Kickstart

• Design and implementing monitoring solution based on Zabbix, Grafana and Prometheus

• Provide knowledge transfer to junior engineers

• Provide out of hours support

Platform Engineer

Symantec – Reading, UK

• Provide high level design

• Provide solution to technical issues

• Create in-house Linux system distribution

• Write system documentation

• Build custom packages and patches

• Provide knowledge transfer to System Engineers and NOC

Senior System Administrator

NICE Systems, UK

• Build and support dev, test and production servers

• Provide application tests and deployment

• Design system and application monitoring

• Coaching, mentoring and provide knowledge transfer to junior engineers

• Provide out of hours support

Service Engineering Specialist

Blackberry (RIM) – Slough, UK

• Build and support production servers

• Write deployment and configuration scripts (Puppet, Bash)

• Provide application tests and deployment

• Design and engineer service and product solutions

• Write system documentation

• Resolve Level 3 issues transferred from NOC

• Provide knowledge transfer to NOC

• Provide out of hours support

• Participate in new employees hiring process

Linux/Network System Administrator

Hostway UK LTD, London, UK

• Build and support hosting hardware infrastructure - VMware platform and networking

• Build and support over 300 Linux systems which provided services for our hosting customers

• Manage over 30 systems responsible for monitoring, authentication and account management

• Design and engineer service and product solutions

• Write system documentation

• Provide out of hours support

• Participate in new employees hiring process

Data & IP – Engineer

KDDI Europe LTD, UK

• Responsible for the entire backbone of the EU KDDI network

• Build and support Linux systems

• Manage Linux systems which monitor KDDI & MOFA network

• Manage VMware ESXi 4.x virtualization cluster

System Administrator

New York Internet, USA


• Build and manage 50+ company Linux / FreeBSD / Windows servers located in two locations (NYC - Manhattan and Los Angeles)

• Build, configure and manage over 2000 dedicated servers located in our data center

• Provide on site support physical (equipment installation, cabling, system configuration, maintenance) for Manhattan Data Center clients

• Provide support for international customer service via telephone and ticket system

• Provide floor and space management at the Data Center

• Acting as Team Lead during weekend shifts

Data Transition - WAN Administrator

Telefonia “Dialog”, Poland

• Build and manage IPS infrastructure (over 300.000 customers)

• Manage internet access systems (ISDN / analog telephony access servers, leased Frame Relay / HDLC access routers)

• Configure and manage hosting servers (mainly Sun Sparc with Solaris Unix and an installed Iplanet / Netscape web server, Netscape LDAP and Messages Netscape)

• Provided third level support for the first level customer service team

LAN Administrator

Computer Systems “Cuprum 2000”, Poland

• Manage internal systems Windows NT servers

• Manage internal email, dns, firewall and telecomunication software

• Manage LAN hardware architecture

• Configure and manage hosting servers (mainly Sun Sparc with Solaris Unix and an installed Iplanet / Netscape web server, Netscape LDAP and Messages Netscape)


In April 2000, “Cuprum 2000” was acquired by Telefonia “Dialog”

Senior Hardware Technician

Computer Systems “Cuprum 2000”, Poland

• Provide technical warranty and post-warranty hardware and system support

• Build customized servers

• Install, configure and tune Windows and Unix systems

• Working with hardware suppliers

Education

Bachelor of Computer Engineering

Zielona Gora University of Science
Zielona Gora, PL

Attended trainings

AWS Well-Architected
Red Hat Delivery Specialist - OpenShift
Cloud Native Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Machine Learning by Stanford University
System Operation on AWS
DevOps Engineering on AWS AMWSDE
AWS Technical Essentials
AWS Security Fundamentals
AWS Technical Professional
Certified White Hat Hacker Level 1 (CWHH Level 1)
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards
Introduction to Project Management (PMI, APM and PRINCE 2)
CompTIA® Cloud Essentials™
Cloudera Administrator Training for Apache Hadoop
Kepner-Tregoe problem solving
RHCSA Fast Track Course (RH199) and System Administration III (RH254)
Puppet Master Training
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
Cisco ASA First Touch
QoS Mechanism in IP Networks
Network management - CISCO WORKS 2000
Cisco Access Servers ISDN & Dial On Demand routing
Building Scalable Cisco Networks (640-503)
Interconnecting Cisco Networks Devices (640-811)

Skills

Systems

• Linux Systems - CentOs/RH, Debian, Ubuntu

• FreeBSD

• Windows


Networking

• Overall networking knowledge - IP, UDP, Subnetting, Switching, Routing, VPN, Tunnelling

• Load Balancing, Reverse Proxies, Firewalls

• AWS SDN - VPC, Transit Gateways, Security Groups, NACL's, Routing ...


DevOps Tools & Automation

• Bash, Python

• Infrastructure as Code - Ansible, Terraform, Terragrunt, Packer, Cloud-init

• Monitoring - Zabbix, Nagios, AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana

• CI/CD - Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Bitbucket CI/CD

• Vagrant & Git (GitLab & Bitbucket)


Collaboration tools

• JIRA, Confluence, Lucidchart


Virtualization

• Amazon AWS, VirtualBox, Vmware


Containerisation

• Docker, Docker Swarm, AWS ECS, AWS Fargate

• Kubernetes (learning)


Security

• Linux & Network Security

• MFA, PKI, Linux authentication over Windows AD & LDAP

• Kali Linux Advanced Penetration Testing Linux


Hardware

• Real hardware servers including blade servers with remore access systems like iDRAC & iLO

• Remote access & management like KVM & Serial Terminal Servers

• Device racking and cabling (inluding cat5/6 cable building)

• Networking equipment like routers, switches and hubs

• Cabinet design


and much much more ...

Languages

• Polish - mother tongue

• English - business professional

Hobbies

Linux & Open Source, Rock & Heavy Metal Music, Syfy & Documentary movies, Arcade games, 8/16 bits Computers (mostly Atari , I use to be coder in assembly language when I was teenager), White Hacking & Travelling.