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Valere Fotso

@valerefotso

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Seasoned systems administrator with expertise in Unix/Linux/Windows environments.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I am looking for a role that offers opportunities for growth, innovation, and collaboration in a dynamic environment.

I am a seasoned systems administrator with over 9 years of experience in fast-paced Unix, Linux, and Windows environments. My expertise spans various flavors of Linux, including Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu, and Solaris, as well as Windows Server versions 2008, 2012, and 2016. I excel in installation, configuration, maintenance, and user administration, ensuring optimal system performance and user satisfaction.

Throughout my career, I have driven improvements in production support, system monitoring, and diagnostic processes, significantly enhancing customer satisfaction. My role as a Sr. System Engineer at CareFirst BCBS has allowed me to automate application installations and configurations, troubleshoot incidents, and implement disaster recovery strategies. I am passionate about leveraging my skills in cloud technologies, particularly with Azure, AWS, and GCP, to deliver robust infrastructure solutions.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Sr System Engineer

Current

CareFirst BCBS

May 2022 - Present (3 years 4 months)

Installs, tunes, upgrades, troubleshoots, and maintains all computer systems relevant to the supported applications including all necessary tasks to perform operating system administration, user account management, disaster recovery strategy and networking configuration. Develop and implement techniques to prevent system problems, troubleshoots incidents to recover services and supports root cause

VMWare Active Directory Infrastructure Design Troubleshooting System Administration Networking Disaster Recovery Account Management

AZURE VM SUPPORT ENGINEER

Insight Global Contract, MICROSOFT

Nov 2020 - Present (4 years 10 months)

Accountable for providing an outstanding technical Support experience to Microsoft Business Customers. Own and Manage cases over the phone and web from problem Identification to full resolution. Support Azure Virtual Machines (IaaS), VMware, Hyper-V.

PowerShell JSON CLI Troubleshooting Customer Support Virtualization

Linux/Windows system Administrator

Cognizant Technology Solutions, 3M

Dec 2019 - Present (5 years 9 months)

Created automation to assist in infrastructure provisioning, L3 support and capacity management. Implemented Server setup, configuration & administration for Windows 2012, 2016 Servers build, migrations and patching. Built more than 100+ ESXi Servers as well as 1500 plus VM’s Windows servers mainly 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 and 2016 Servers.

VMWare Windows Server Automation capacity management Agile Scrum Docker Kubernetes Puppet

UNIX SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR

Cognizant Technology Solutions, CVS PHARMACY

Sep 2019 - Present (6 years)

Oversaw and managed installation of software tools providing systems level monitoring using Splunk. Developed system administration operations documentation. Gained hands-on experience in Azure Architect Design like Identify Design, Audit and monitor Azure environment.

Splunk Python Azure VMWare Ansible SCCM CI CD DNS Load Balancing SSL TCP IP

UNIX/Linux System Administrator

Trinitech Consulting, Inc

Jan 2016 - Present (9 years 8 months)

Implemented enterprise Windows Patching Management solution for the organization of 400+ servers using WSUS. Managed and installed patches for all Windows servers and desktops within the enterprise environment. Diagnosed and resolved problems associated with DNS, DHCP, NFS and Apache.

SCCM WSUS DNS DHCP NFS Apache KVM Ansible Puppet AWS Python

System Administrator

Mobile Telephone Network Consulting, Inc

Jan 2013 - Present (12 years 8 months)

Provided 24/7 support in Production Testing and Development environments. Installed and configured samba server on Solaris 10 and mapping to windows 2008 server. Maintained Windows Servers 2008, 2008 R2 administration and created User Accounts and Groups in Active Directory (AD).