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Phillip Bruce

Oroville
Phillip Bruce

Summary

Experienced Senior Storage Architect with 15 years of expertise in Unix, Storage, Windows, Cloud, SAN, and NAS Storage. Specializes in designing, planning, implementing, and administering Servers, SAN, and NAS Storage solutions in large data centers. Effective communicator skilled at simplifying complex computer concepts for non-technical users. Strong expertise in storage solutions, adept at managing complex systems for optimal performance and reliability. Collaborative team player known for delivering high-quality results in data management, network storage, and troubleshooting while maintaining reliability and adaptability in dynamic environments.

Overview

18
years of professional experience
1
Certification

Work History

Allegiant Travel (FTE)

Storage Engineer
05.2023 - 05.2025

Job overview

  • Storage Engineer for Allegiant Travel business unit for all their UCS, New Dell Servers, New Cisco MDS switches and Storage environments (NetApp and Pure)
  • Manage Netapp Cluster 2, 4 and 6 nodes clusters FAS series (8060,8200,8040)
  • Manage Netapp Cluster 2, 4 and 6 nodes clusters AFF series (A700s,A300)
  • Managed ONTAP Versions 9.8P12 to 9.8P2
  • Managed Pure Flash arrays (JX50R3, X20R3)
  • Managed Purity Versions 4.8 to 6.2
  • Managed UCS 5108 containing B200, B400 blades hardware Servers
  • Maintained IBM P8 and P8 hardware
  • Migrated Storage to Dell 6800xs servers from UCS
  • Managed Windows 2012R2 to 2022
  • Managed Linux Red Hat 6.7 to 7.9
  • Protocols: NFS v3, v4, TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP, HTTPS, CIFS/SMB 1,2, and 3, DNS, FTP
  • Protocols: TLS1.2, SSL, FCP, SMTP
  • Databases: DB2, MySQL, MSSQL
  • Performed migration from Netapp to Pure using Komprise Servers 4.8.3 to 5.11
  • Setup AWS environment AWS, EC2, FSX ONTAP, FSX OpenZFS, RDS
  • Setup and Config Cisco MDS 9148s an 9132T SAN switches
  • Maintenance NetApp snapmirror, snapvault
  • Setup and configured Pure PODS for replication between sites
  • Setup Pure Plugins to be used to monitor Pure array on Dynatrace Monitor.
  • Manage Nagios, ActiveIQ, OCIUM
  • Wrote automation in Ansible playbooks and Terraform

Nasscom - Contract

Sr. Unix/Storage Consultant
02.2022 - 09.2022

Job overview

  • Storage Consultant for Netapp to support the Verizon VCP business unit for all their Dell Servers and NetApp storage infrastructure over OpenStack and OpenShift in HPC environment over NFS protocols
  • Manage Netapp Cluster 2, 4 and 6 nodes clusters FAS series (9000, 9500)
  • Manage Netapp Cluster 2, 4 and 6 nodes clusters AFF series (A700s,A300)
  • Managed ONTAP Versions 9.8P12 to 9.8P2
  • Managed Dell 620 R720 servers
  • Managed Windows 2012R2 and 2019
  • Managed Linux Red Hat 6.7 to 7.9
  • Managed OpenStack and OpenShift environments
  • Configured Cinder for NFS
  • Protocols: NFS v3, v4, TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP, HTTPS, CIFS/SMB 1,2, and 3, DNS, FTP
  • Protocols: TLS1.2, SSL, FCP, SMTP
  • Databases: Oracle MySQL, MSSQL
  • Performed migration from Netapp to Pure using Komprise Servers 4.8.3 to 5.11
  • Setup AWS environment AWS, EC2, FSX ONTAP, FSX OpenZFS, RDS
  • Setup and Config Cisco MDS 9148s an 9132T SAN switches
  • Maintenance NetApp snapmirror, snapvault
  • Setup and configured Pure PODS for replication between sites
  • Setup Pure Plugins to be used to monitor Pure array on Dynatrace Monitor.

Tailor Management

Sr. Solaris SME
10.2020 - 01.2021

Job overview

  • Sr. Solaris SME for the Anheuser-Busch IT team, supporting HPC production servers and storage infrastructure for Anheuser-Busch. This project is facilitating the transition of Solaris legacy servers to the Solaris LDOM environment.
  • Legacy Server includes V100, V210, V240, V480, V490, T2000, T3-1, M5000.
  • Applications: Webmethods, SAP, Siebel, Avaya, Oracle, iLog, dns, ftp.
  • Managed Architected Solaris LDM solution using 3 x T8 1 SPARC Servers
  • Migrated 45 servers into 3 physical LDOM solution
  • Deploy and Maintained 500 server configuration
  • Install and Setup VCS Clusters
  • Collect inventory of Servers to migrate.
  • Installed and Configured Solaris 11.4 LDOM.
  • Migrated Solaris 10 to LDOM Solaris Branded Zones
  • Configure Control Domain network and SAN connectivity to Pure Storage

Deem, Inc

Sr. System Engineer
12.2019 - 03.2020

Job overview

  • Sr. System Engineer for the Operations IT team and DevOps, supporting production servers and storage infrastructure for Deem environment. This environment of 500 physical servers 1000 virtual servers with 500 TB storage combined between all data centers.
  • Deployed and Managed 500 physical servers using Proxmox virtualizing 1000 servers
  • Setup and configured Proxmox and VMware Virtualization
  • Setup and configure Cloud Management using Terraform, Morpheus.
  • Perform Migration of Servers on-prem to AWS and GCP
  • Perform Security Harden on all servers, network, storage, and firewalls.
  • Performed Daily System checks and update firmware on all servers and storage hardware.
  • Maintained Puppet and Nagios Monitoring environment.
  • Performed server migrations from older version of Proxmox VMs to new one.

Matrix

Sr. Lead Engineer
12.2017 - 10.2019

Job overview

  • Sr. Lead Engineer for the Lattice Semiconductor customer IT team and DevOps, supporting production servers and storage infrastructure for EDA/CAD environment. This HPC environment of 15000 cores servers with 1 PB storage combined between all data centers.
  • Deployed and Managed 500 physical servers and 1000 virtualized environments
  • Setup, and maintained VMware 6.5 to 6.7 Environment.
  • Setup and maintained Ansible for management of sites environment.
  • Setup and Configure VSAN across all VMWare Environment.
  • Build AWS Cloud environment to include ELK.
  • Performed Storage Migration of Isilon to Netapp
  • Install and setup VCS Clusters 5.0 with Storage Foundation Suite
  • Perform Security Harden on all servers, network, storage, and firewalls.

Ryzen Solution

Sr. Lead Engineer
02.2016 - 07.2017

Job overview

  • Sr. Lead Engineer for the Samsung Research America GPU IT team and DevOps, supporting production servers and storage infrastructure for EDA/CAD environment. This HPC environment of 5K to 15K cores servers with 1 PB storage combined between all data centers globally
  • Deployed and Managed 500 physical servers and 1000 virtualized servers
  • 3rd Party Robot Configuration and Maintenance
  • Setup Sparc Solaris 8,9 and 10, Linux Servers 5, 6 and 7
  • Setup and maintained Ansible for management of sites environment.
  • Setup and Configure VSAN across all VMWare Environment.
  • Install and configure VCS Cluster on Sparc and Linux Servers
  • Perform storage migration from on-prem to AWS
  • Performed Daily System checks and update firmware on all servers and storage hardware.
  • Perform Security Harden on all servers, network, storage, and firewalls.
  • Installed and maintained Python 2.7.6 and 3.4.3 code for all developers.
  • Performed Linux kernel patch updates to all physical and virtualized servers.

Gilead Sciences

Sr Unix / SAN
01.2015 - 05.2015

Job overview

  • Managed 20 16 nodes Red Hat Clusters
  • Managed Multiple Sparc Servers V210,V490, T5210 running Solaris 7,8,9
  • Setup and written monitoring for a data center containing over 2 petabytes of NetApp storage.
  • Performed System checks and update firmware on all servers and storage hardware.
  • Perform Security Harden on all servers, network, storage, and firewalls.
  • Performed Linux kernel patch updates to all physical and virtualized servers.
  • Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
  • Worked effectively in fast-paced environments.
  • Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
  • Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.

Internap

Sr. Unix/Storage Engineer
12.2011 - 12.2013

Job overview

  • Tier 3 Support Engineer for Managed Hosting team, supporting Internap customers production server Datacenters and Internap Managed Hosting customers.
  • Servers: Dell R510, R610, R720, R910 running following OS
  • Red Hat 5.8 to 6.8, Centos 5.8 to 6.8, Ubuntu 9, 10, Solaris x86 8,9,10 Windows OS 2003, 2008R2, 2012R2
  • Managed Customer servers varies 250 to 500 physical to 1000 virtualized servers
  • Setup and upgrade SolarWinds Environments
  • Performed Daily System checks and update firmware on all hardware.
  • Perform Security Harden on all servers, network, storage, and firewalls.
  • Performed Linux kernel patch updates to all physical and virtualized servers.
  • Setup proof of concept for storage monitoring using NetApp On Command Insight
  • Setup Jumpstart / Kickstart for automation server build environment.
  • Achieved 30% reduction in protocols.

MindSource

Sr. Unix/Storage Engineer
12.2006 - 11.2011

Job overview

  • Tier 3 Support Engineer for Danger Inc, IT Engineering group, supporting production PMX solutions Datacenters supporting 7 Mobile US and UPC Europe) customers.
  • Setup Solaris M5000 Sparc hardware running Oracle RAC 10g
  • Managed the following OS Solaris 8,9 and Centos 4,5,6
  • Setup Linux VM on ESX 3.0 to include NFS and SAN Storage
  • Performed Daily System checks and update firmware on all server and storage hardware.
  • Setup Jumpstart / Kickstart for automation server build environments.

NetApp

Sr. Storage Engineer
04.2009 - 04.2009

Job overview

  • Tier 3 Support Engineer for NetApp storage team, supporting production servers and storage infrastructure supporting NetApp Internal Business unit customers
  • Supported 10 PB storage combined between all 9 data centers.
  • Servers: Sun Sparc M8000, E250, E450, V440, V880, V890, IBM P5, P6, H21, H22
  • Unix OS Solaris 9, 10 Red Hat 3.0 to 5.0 , AIX 5.1 to 6.0
  • Windows OS 2003, 2008R2
  • Virtualization: VMware ESXi 3.0 to 4.1, Solaris Zone / Containers Clouds: Private
  • Databases: Oracle 8, 9, Postgres, MySQL4.2, MSSQL 2000, 2005
  • Applications: Apache, tomcat, JBOSS
  • Kickstart, Jumpstart, Red Hat Satellite Monitoring: Nagios 3.0
  • Backup: IBM TSM, NetApp Snapmirror and NetApp snapshot Scripting
  • Languages: Bash, Shell, Perl, Python, SQL
  • Setup Solaris Containers on M8000 and T5200 class Sparc hardware
  • Perform Security Harden on all servers, network, storage, and firewalls
  • Setup Linux VM on ESX 3.0 to include NFS and SAN Storage
  • Mainlined Perl code for jumpstart and Kickstart Web server.
  • Compile OpenSource applications using gcc compilers

Education

University of Maryland
Adelphi, MD

Computer Science
05.1991

University Overview

University College, MD

Skills

  • AIX Ansible Apache Apache Tomcat
  • AppDynamics AWS AWS Cloud
  • AWS EC2 Azure Bash Brocade
  • C/C Check Point Cisco Cisco UCS
  • CloudFormation CloudWatch COBIT
  • CommVault Confluence Couchbase
  • Crucible Debian DNS Docker
  • Dynatrace EC2 EDA Elasticsearch
  • ELK Stack EMC ETL FCP FDA
  • Firmware GCC GCP Git GitHub
  • Grafana
  • Data backup and recovery
  • Data migration strategies
  • Cloud storage solutions
  • Flash storage implementation
  • Storage replication technologies
  • Storage security best practices

LANGUAGES

English Advanced

Certification

  • Certified ITIL V3, [] -Pink Elphant [February 2007]

Timeline

Storage Engineer
Allegiant Travel (FTE)
05.2023 - 05.2025
Sr. Unix/Storage Consultant
Nasscom - Contract
02.2022 - 09.2022
Sr. Solaris SME
Tailor Management
10.2020 - 01.2021
Sr. System Engineer
Deem, Inc
12.2019 - 03.2020
Sr. Lead Engineer
Matrix
12.2017 - 10.2019
Sr. Lead Engineer
Ryzen Solution
02.2016 - 07.2017
Sr Unix / SAN
Gilead Sciences
01.2015 - 05.2015
Sr. Unix/Storage Engineer
Internap
12.2011 - 12.2013
Sr. Storage Engineer
NetApp
04.2009 - 04.2009
Sr. Unix/Storage Engineer
MindSource
12.2006 - 11.2011
University of Maryland
Computer Science

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