Position: Network and virtualization engineer
Category: Sysadmin
English level: upper
Years of experience: 10

Setting up and maintaining, including planning and implementing upgrades of hardware and software network and server solutions in a mid-size geographically distributed enterprise with 2000+ employees.
Developing a server farm and network of a company that have resiliency through technologies like vmWare HA, Dell VLT, VRRP, LACP that allow for uninterrupted operations and quick disaster recovery.
Ensuring uninterrupted workflow in a company during COVID-19 epidemic and a war in Ukraine with quick setup of VPN and work-from-home solutions that are secure and effective for employees and allows a company to continue working those difficult times
I have Cisco CCNA certificate (expired 2014)
Network engineer with 10 years of experience in planning, creating and maintaining complex network and server infrastructure, including:
- routing and switching networks with variety of equipment like Cisco, Mikrotik, Dell, D-Link and alike
- in-depth knowledge of TCP/IP networking, advanced routing (OSPF, EIGRP, policy-routing etc) and switching (LACP, STP, VLT, VRRP, hierarchical network design, port security), establishing resiliency through redundancy of network connections and equipment
- establishing firewall rules and NAT using a variety of vendors: Cisco, Mikrotik, Fortinet NGFW
- planning and implementing redundant VPN infrastructure using IPSec, IPSec/L2TP. IPSec/GRE and SSL VPN solutions with dynamic routing for Site-to-Site connections and multi vendor remote access solutions
- building from the ground up network and server monitoring using software like Zabbix, Solarwinds Orion, collecting configuration backups (Ansible, GitLab)
- hands-on experience in deployment, upgrading and maintaining enterprise server equipment from major vendors (Dell, HP, IBM/Lenovo, Cisco)
- storage area network (SAN) with FibreChannel and iSCSI switching and storage arrays, setting up RAID systems
- installing, upgrading and administration of virtualization infrastructure using vmWare ESXi and vCenter, from the start to a fully functional production system with HA clusters
- implementing backup solutions for virtualization environment using Veeam software and NAS servers for backups
- setup and administration of operating systems like Linux (Debian, Fedora, Centos), FreeBSD, Windows Server and Workstation, advanced knowledge in troubleshooting OS and software problems

Also have experience in developing pet-projct-like web applications using TypeScript (Angular), JavaScript (jQuery), HTML5, Python (Django), C#, backed by MySQL and Microsoft SQL databases
I am looking for an interesting projects that would allow me to apply my knowledge and to advance as a professional network and virtualization engineer