Skills

Vast experience installing & managing many distributions, including Debian based (Ubuntu, Proxmox VE, Smoothwall) and Arch based (Manjaro)

Installed and managed Proxmox VE (KVM) and Microsoft Hyper-V in a corporate environment, including virtualising Smoothwall and PfSense firewall appliances

Built many computers from scratch using separate components and have often upgraded desktops and laptops to improve performance

Can automate a variety of tasks using Group Policy, Batch, VBS and PowerShell scripts on Windows, and Bash shell scripts and Ansible playbooks on Linux & macOS

Utilised a variety of tools (BackupAssist, Veeam, Proxmox Backup Server) along with bash scripting to ensure critical services are regularly backed up

Worked with all workstation versions and Server 2008 to 2019, including managing AD, AD FS, DNS, DHCP, MDT

Provisioned many Docker and LXC based containers for services including Apache Guacamole, BitWarden, PostgreSQL & Xibo. Also experimented with Kubernetes both directly and via Rancher

Can configure and manage a variety of network sizes from a small network (around 30 devices) to a large network (around 300 devices) by employing network management tools such as Quality of Service and content filtering

Very familiar with both NGINX and Apache, including setting up reverse proxies to securely access backend services externally

Can create simple databases and manipulate data, including backing up and restoring to other servers