Eric Martin
Architect & Cloud DevOps Engineer
Professional Status
Employed
Open to opportunities
About Me
Red Hat Certified Architect and AWS/GCP trained
Currently DevOps Engineer at Liberty Global
Highly Skilled IT Professional & Open Source Enthusiast
Worked for large accounts with complex infrastructures (Liberty Global, ABN-AMRO, RBS, Ahold)
Currently DevOps Engineer at Liberty Global
Highly Skilled IT Professional & Open Source Enthusiast
Worked for large accounts with complex infrastructures (Liberty Global, ABN-AMRO, RBS, Ahold)
Experiences
Cloud DevOps Engineer
Liberty Global
Since January 2022
- GitLab Pipeline Development using Terraform/Ansible/Vault/Consul and targeting AWS and GCP
- Product Owner leading a Development team applying Agile Working Principles.
- Member of AI group conducting POCs with GenAI, RAG, Vector DBs, VertexAI
Infrastructure Architect
Liberty Global
January 2019
to December 2022
Full-time
- 2022 Trainings:
- Terraform
- Google Cloud (GCP)
- Terraform
- 2021 Trainings
- CyberArk PAM Training
- AWS Training
- CyberArk PAM Training
- 2020: Red Hat Certified Architect.
5 Red Hat Certified Specialist Exams:
- Ansible Automation (Ansible 2.7)
- Advanced Automation: Ansible Best Practices (ansible 2.8 & Ansible Tower 3.5)
- OpenShift Administration (OpenShift Container Platform 4.2)
- Deployment and Systems Management (Red Hat Satellite 6.6)
- Identity Management (Red Hat Identity Management 4.5)
- Ansible Automation (Ansible 2.7)
- Hybrid Cloud Architecture and Design with Focus on Automation (Ansible) and Linux Authentication Authorization for Public Cloud (AWS, Azure) and On- Premise using AD as central identity store.
POC, Documentation, hand over to Operations. - Multi Datacentre Satellite 6 Design and Implementation + handover to Operations
- Various Infrastructure Designs for different internal projects
Linux & Security Consultant
ITGilde
Since 2015
- 2021: Building the CyberArk Training Environment for ITGilde teams members. Based on Proxmox/ZFS with Unifi Hardware
Infrastructure Architect
Liberty Global
December 2016
to 2018
Freelancer
- OpenShift 3 Architecture Design
- OpenSCAP security hardening using Center for Internet Security (CIS) Baseline
- RHEL7 Technical Designs for the new LGI Private Cloud infrastructure in EdgeConneX Data Center
- Design of various Infrastructure Services (squid proxy, DNS, NTP, ssh jump server) for a Multi-tenant Cloud Environment with Cisco ACI
Infrastructure/Solution Architect
Ahold
May 2012
to October 2016
Amstelveen
Netherlands
- 2016: Technical Solution Architect
- RHEL7/Docker introduction, Cloud OS Provisioning Automation, Testing, Documentation, Handover to Capabilities in India/Bulgaria
- Migration from Tivoli TSM to VEEAM
- Project: Consolidation of over 200 MS-SQL Databases from MS Clusters to VMware
- RHEL7/Docker introduction, Cloud OS Provisioning Automation, Testing, Documentation, Handover to Capabilities in India/Bulgaria
- 2015: Infrastructure lead Architect
Project Global Private Cloud:
Automation of RHEL (Linux) and Windows 2008R2/2012R2 Standard Virtual Services via HP-SA, HP-OO on VMware ESX 5.1 and leveraged Infrastructure for EU and US regions.
Deliverables: Requirements, Architecture Specification, Service Technical Design, Virtualization Platform Architecture Design - 2014: Infrastructure lead Architect
Project Fast Provisioning:
Providing the Customer with 5 predefined stacks that can be delivered 4 times faster than standard delivery and in a predictable way.
End to end responsible for the 2 RHEL stacks, RedHat Linux 5.9, on Virtual Machine, ESX5.1, and on HP Blades.
OS provisioning implemented using HP-SA, 3PAR storage, 10GB network.
Successful project leading to time/costs savings and customer satisfaction. - 2014: Architect
Project: Hosting of Financial Application
Create Design for a new Financial Application running on Windows 2008 R2 with MSSQL as RDBMS. Gathered Vendor requirements, and worked with SMEs to create a Design and Documentation leading to successful implementation. - 2012/2013: Architect.
Various projects:
- Oracle EBS Migration from Solaris to Linux + Upgrade Infra to provide scalability. Worked as lead architect with Oracle, customer and HP internal teams to reach a go live in time.
- RedHat Cluster for Fusion Middleware. Disaster Recovery tests
- Windows Antivirus Server migration
- Application migration (Windows/MSSQL based)
- Oracle EBS Migration from Solaris to Linux + Upgrade Infra to provide scalability. Worked as lead architect with Oracle, customer and HP internal teams to reach a go live in time.
Infrastructure/Solution Architect
Royal Bank of Scotand
June 2006
to April 2012
Amsterdam
Netherlands
- Responsible for detailed designs of Web applications Infrastructure.
Worked on various projects:
- Engineering of WebSphere Application Server: proof of Concept, Infrastructure design, scripting (jacl/jython), packaging software into rpm (RHEL 4) and training Operation team.
- RSA Securid upgrade. Evaluation of RSA Authentication Manager 7.0, development of migration scripts (tcl), writing of installation manuals, migration of RSA clients
- Applications migration from HP-UX and Solaris to Linux (including design of new infrastructure in Linux RHEL cluster environment)
- WebSphere Application Servers consolidation
- Engineering of WebSphere Application Server: proof of Concept, Infrastructure design, scripting (jacl/jython), packaging software into rpm (RHEL 4) and training Operation team.
- 2012: Datacenter migration project (ADCE): Responsible for migration of WebSphere environment, LDAP, RSA, JBoss from Datacenter in NL to Datacenter in UK (New IPs, hostnames)
Unix/WebSphere Administrator
ABN-AMRO Bank (for Vioro Consultancy B.V.)
January 2001
to May 2006
Amsterdam
Netherlands
- Responsible for the implementation of the infrastructure of http://www.gts.abnamro.com in cooperation with HP: Implemented Service Guard clusters under HP-UX in a SAN environment with EMC Storage XP256, middleware’s, especially WebSphere application servers, Oracle Databases, Java applications.
- Installation, test, documentation and administration of Service Guard cluster and Integration of middleware, Databases, Java applications in cluster environment
- SAN and storage administration with XP256 and EMC DMX storage arrays
- Installation, Administration tuning of WebSphere Application servers as well as apache and iplanet web servers
- Installation, Administration of Iplanet directory server (ldap) and MQSeries
- Installation, test, documentation and administration of Service Guard cluster and Integration of middleware, Databases, Java applications in cluster environment
Unix Administrator
ABN-AMRO Bank (for Vioro Consultancy B.V.)
August 1999
to December 2000
Amsterdam
Netherlands
- Responsible for UNIX administration and ETX administration, including reorganising scheduling and implementing a new backup system:
- Unix administration of 30 HP9000 systems with EMC disk arrays
- Solaris administration
- ETX middleware administration (TIBCO)
- Complete reorganisation of scheduling under Maestro (Tivoli)
- Implementation of backup system using EDM (EMC)
- Unix administration of 30 HP9000 systems with EMC disk arrays
Unix and Middleware Administrator
ST Microelectronics
November 1994
to August 1999
Saint Genis Pouilly
France
- Responsible for management of over 100 HP-UX systems, ITO Openview management, the Oracle and Ingres databases, Tuxedo middleware and applications in an English-spoken world wide data centre.
- HP-UX, Oracle, Ingres administration: 25 HP9000 on local site + 3 EMC cabinets
- Computers control implementation with HP Openview IT/Operations
- Installation, configuration, administration and tuning of TUXEDO (80 domains on 80 UNIX systems)
- Maintenance of a ServiceGuard cluster in an High Available environment
- Applications Start-up (intermediate of development teams in India and of the support application teams in France) following the company standards - Trips to India
- Asia/Pac region Support for 1 year, then US support.
- cgi scripts for the Intranet
- HP-UX, Oracle, Ingres administration: 25 HP9000 on local site + 3 EMC cabinets
Education
GCP Official Trainings
Since 2022
GCP Official Trainings:
- Security Learning Path
- Network Learning Path
- Cloud Engineer
CyberArk PAM
Since June 2021
CyberArk Privileged Access Management (PAM) Administration
Red Hat Certified Architect
November 2020
to January 2023
AWS Solution Architect
O'Reailly Training
Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration
November 2020
to November 2023
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.2
Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible best Practices
September 2020
to September 2023
Ansible 2.8, Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.5
Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation
July 2020
to July 2023
Ansible 2.7
Red Hat Certified Specialist in Deployment and Systems Management
Red Hat
March 2020
to March 2023
Red Hat Satellite 6.6
Red Hat Certified Specialist in Identity Management
Red Hat
January 2020
to January 2023
Red Hat Identity Management 4.5
Red Hat Certified Engineer
Red Hat
May 2017
to November 2023
RHEL7
Red Hat Certified System Administrator
Red Hat
February 2017
to November 2023
RHEL7
Engineer - Computer Sciences
Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers
September 1995
to June 1997
Computer Systems Architecture
Databases
Security
Networks
Databases
Security
Networks
Diplome Etudes Superieures Techniques - Computer Sciences
Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers
September 1991
to June 1995
IUT Génie Electrique et Informatique Industrielle
IUT Montpellier
September 1989
to June 1991
Ingres database administration and tuning
Computer Associates
August 2013
HP server administration HP-UX 10.x
HP
August 2013
Oracle administrator and backup
Oracle
August 2013
Tuxedo administrator
BEA Systems
August 2013
Tuxedo development
BEA Systems
August 2013
SAP concepts and architecture
SAP
August 2013
Skills
Linux Related
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Terraform
Expert
-
Ansible
Expert
-
GitLab
Expert
-
Hashicorp Vault/Consul
Expert
-
RHEL 7/8/9
Expert
-
Red Hat IdM (FreeIPA)
Expert
-
Satellite 6
Expert
-
OpenShift 3/4
Expert
-
Docker
Expert
-
Kubernetes
Expert
Cloud/Virtualization
-
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Advanced
-
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Advanced
-
VMWare
Advanced
-
KVM/libvirt
Advanced
-
OpenStack
Good
Security
-
CyberArk
Expert
-
OpenSCAP
Expert
-
CISSP
Advanced
Architecture
-
TOGAF 9.1
Advanced
-
Archimate
Advanced
-
QMS (ISO 9001:2008, CMMI, ITIL)
Advanced
Operating Systems
-
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7, 8
Expert
-
ESX 5.5, 6 VMware (Virtualization)
Expert
-
HP-UX 10.20, 11.31
Advanced
-
Solaris 10, 11
Good
Hardware
-
HPE C7000 Enclosures
Good
-
HPE Blades gen8/9
Good
-
HPE 3Par
Good
-
HPE Storeonce
Good
-
Sun X4100/X4200/X4600
Good
-
EMC XP512
Good
-
Brocade SAN
Good
-
F5 Load Balancer
Good
System Configuration Management
-
Ansible 2.8
Expert
-
Satellite Server 6.6
Expert
-
HP Server Automation (OS Provisioning, Patching)
Advanced
-
HP OpenView suite (Monitoring, perf)
Good
Clustering
-
HP Service Guard
Advanced
-
RedHat Cluster
Advanced
Databases
-
MySQL/MariaDB
Expert
-
Oracle 11g, 12c
Advanced
Programming
-
bash
Expert
-
python (and jython)
Good
-
perl
Good
-
tcl (and jacl)
Intermediate
-
sql
Good
Middleware
-
Web Servers: Apache, IHS, iPlanet, nginx
Expert
-
IBM WebSphere 5.1/6.1/7.0
Advanced
-
JBoss
Good
-
IBM MQSeries
Good
-
LDAP NDS/SunOne/389
Advanced
-
Directory Proxy Server
Good
-
Scheduling: Maestro, Control-M
Good
-
RSA SecurID 6.0/6.1, RSA Authentication Manager 7.1
Advanced
-
SiteMinder
Intermediate
Network
-
CISCO ACI
Good
-
VMware NSX-T
Notions
Interests
Sports
- Running (10 Miles and Half Marathons)
- Ski
- Swimming
- Mountain Bike