Location: Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, UK.
Core Roles/Skills: Linux system administration, monitoring (Nagios/SNMP/RRD), VMware ESX VI3 virtualisation, automated infrastructure deployment & consolidation, backend LAMP software development, ad-hoc automation scripting, out of hours on-call cover.
The AVERT (Anti-Virus Emergency Response Team) division of McAfee is the core of McAfee's product development and back-office service delivery. I worked on all back-end services and infrastructure in the ASE (Anti-Spam Engineering) team within AVERT. I designed, implemented and maintained comprehensive monitoring of the ASE & AVERT worldwide infrastructure (>500 hosts, >2000 services) using a distributed 10 node Nagios deployment and a custom installation of my open source RRD monitoring software.
Designed and implemended PXE network boot servers and Kickstart with RHEL & CentOS to standardise rapid server deployment. Played a central role in further consolidating existing physical infrastructure through VMware ESX VI 3.5 cluster and NetApp SAN and NAS storage.