Serhat Bicat

International project for setting up an infrastructure composed of 500 servers and implementing Thales video surveillance & analysis solutions.

Project for setting up an infrastructure composed of 50 servers and implementing Thales video surveillance & facial recognition solutions.

IT platform audit project for relocation to a new Thales site.

Writing Low Level Design Documents (LLD).

Writing and contributing to High Level Design Documents (HLD).

Demonstration of implemented solutions to the client at the end of each sprint via Teams meetings.

Creation of cabling matrices (350 network links and 85 equipment), racking plans, Net/IP Plan, and naming conventions.

Creation of network path diagrams for IT platforms using Visio.

Writing documentation and incident resolution procedures.

Network, system level 2 and 3 incident and problem management, contact via DELL support.

Maintaining operational readiness of servers, business applications, network, and support for IVVQ integrator teams, processing JIRA tickets according to priorities.

System, network audits and restoration of semi-functional systems.

Deployment of Active Directory and organizational unit structure via PowerShell on Core Server, creation of GPOs, AD objects, user management, user groups, DNS entries, NTP source.

Creation of RHEL8 hardening Kickstart files, integration of Kickstart into Packer and creation of RHEL8 templates in VMware format.

Provisioning of Windows VMs & Linux VMs via Terraform.

Configuration of LVM-FS, NTP Chrony, SNMPv3, Firewalld Roles, Yum Repo, Routes, Linux client users via Ansible roles.

Deployment and upgrade of servers to VMware ESX 7 and vCenter VCSA 7.

Configuration of LAG uplinks via vDS, HA, vMotion, iSCSI initiators, Datastores, vSAN and LUNs for RDM.

VM restoration via Veeam for redeploying platforms and Bare-Metal server restoration via Veeam Recovery Media.

Setup and management of DELL EMC PowerVault 40TB SAN server, configuration of disk groups, volume groups, iSCSI target initiators, configuration of LUN mapping to ESX hosts.

Management of a DELL EMC VNX 5300 50TB SAN server, creation of storage pools, LUNs, host groups, and distribution through iSCSI initiators.

Project for setting up an Eyes of Network (Nagios) monitoring tool and adding assets and services to monitor (servers, switches), adding services, creating, adapting plugins, monitoring Windows & Linux filesystems.

Creation and management of VLANs, VRFs, SVIs, TRUNKS, LACP (BAGG), OSPF on CISCO, DELL, and HP equipment.

Creation and management of objects, inter-context rules, and Failover on CISCO ASA firewalls.

Creation and management of objects, policies on Fortinet FortiGate firewalls.

Project for deploying OneAccess & CISCO 4G routers for video surveillance across 12 sites.

Patching of network racks at various sites.

Configuration of CISCO switches and routers.

Level 3 network support.

Troubleshooting OSPF MAN links on CISCO routers.

Troubleshooting network conflict issues.

HUTCHINSON Research & Innovation Center Professional Experiences:

• Study of specifications

• L1, L2 Support

• Configuration of network tools

• Full site coverage with wireless connection to the LAN and guest network

• Taking charge and deployment of the network monitoring tool

• Create, configure, and manage monitoring of network resource usage, alerts, logs

• Advice and analysis of needs and proposal of an architecture solution based on migration needs

• Taking charge and monitoring of Xen to VMware migration work

• Configuration of remote storage for VMware farm on DataCore iSCSI SAN support

• Design of architecture diagrams

• Setup and configuration of an MDT image deployment solution

• Setup and configuration of the Office Deployment Tool 365 solution

• Administration of Windows Server 2008/2012 R2 systems (AD, GPO, WSUS, MDT)

• Configuration of backup tasks for virtual servers and NAS

• Writing documents and populating the knowledge base Environment: VMware vSphere 6, Xen, Veeam, CISCO, Synology DSM, Debian, Windows Server 2008/2012 R2 (120 Servers including 100 VMs - 80% Windows Server / 20% Linux)