Mark Christian Taguiad

Ambitious IT professional skilled in both Linux/Unix Administration and DevOps. Experienced with different technologies that involves various systems and development. Maintains a professional attitude while concentrating on developing technical capabilities.

Skills

linux systems administration network administration programming databases devops kubernetes containers webservers git cicd iac proactive monitoring

Programming: Python, Perl, Bash Databases: MySQL, Postgres, sqlite Linux: Alpine, Oracle, Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, OpenSuse DevOps: Ansible, Kubernetes, Podman/Docker, CI/CD, Terraform, IaC

Experience

DevOps Engineer, Samsung R&D Institute Philippines (SRPH)

October 2023 - Present

  • Active monitoring using Prometheus-Grafana Stack.
  • Develop, coordinate and administrate Kubernetes infrastructure.
  • Created CI pipeline for package build, vulnerability scan and code quality scan.
  • Manage and create Virtual Machine in Openstack.
  • Building/creating RPM and QCOW2 images.
  • VM provision in Proxmox using Terraform/Opentofu.
  • Automating server configuration/setup using Ansible.
  • Jira ticket resolution for customer production issues.
  • Migration of in-house application to Docker/Container and Kubernetes.
  • Troubleshooting production environment issues/bugs.
  • Creating PoC on new technology related to container orchestration.
  • Creating alarm and jobs; monitoring in Prometheus and Alertmanager.
  • Linux system administration.
  • Bash/Python scripting.

DevOps Engineer, Quick Suite Trading / Computer Voice Systems

March 2023 - October 2023

  • Active monitoring using Prometheus-Grafana Stack.
  • Develop custom prometheus exporter to monitor database (MariaDB) instances.
  • Develop, coordinate and administrate Kubernetes infrastructure.
  • Administrate and maintian Longhorn block storage for Kubernetes.
  • Automate deployments (ansible, Gitlab CI), infrastructure as code (helm).
  • Assist developers in building and deploying their software to infrastructure (K8S, Docker, Podman).
  • Deploy updates and fixes, and provide Level 2 technical support.
  • Build tools to reduce occurrence of errors and improve customer experience.
  • Administer and maintain private docker registry.
  • Installing, configuring, securing, troubleshooting and maintaining UNIX-like operating systems.
  • Administer and maintain end user accounts, permissions, and access rights.

System Engineer, Amkor Technology

Nov 2021 – Mar 2023

  • Develop, coordinate and administrate Kubernetes infrastructure.
  • Spearheaded the development of CI/CD pipeline of all in-house/opensource projects.
  • Developed, build docker image of ProcessMaker, and deployed in production environment.
  • Setup development and production environment (Docker) for the developer team.
  • Setup, configured, and maintained Zabbix infrastructure monitoring tool (containerized) on multiple sites.
  • Automate most of Zabbix (agent deployment, housekeeping) task using ansible automation.
  • Created scripts (Perl – Zabbix Compatible) for monitoring Software AG webMethods.
  • Migrated GoAnywhere MFT running on Windows Server to run on a Linux Server (Oracle Linux 8).
  • Deployed, configured, and maintained GoAnywhere MFT (SFTP/FTP) and GoAnywhere Gateway (DMZ) on multiple sites.
  • Deployed, configured, and maintained Tibco Spotfire running alongside Apache NIFI on multiple sites.
  • Setup, configured, and maintained Redhat JBOSS in development and production environment.
  • Performed standard administration task such as OS installation, troubleshooting, problem resolution, package installation, software upgrade and system hardening.
  • Automate most of the basic task such as system hardening, backup, housekeeping.
  • Storage management: cleanup, mount, backup and extend.
  • Worked with Developer, DBA, Network Team to resolve their daily issues.
  • Wrote shell/python/perl scripts for various system task such as agent deployment, backup systems, installation, and monitoring.
  • Performed troubleshooting, incident management and resolve day to day problem raised by users and customer.

Network Operations Center Engineer, Amkor Technology

Jul 2021 – Nov 2021

  • Responsible for proactively monitoring server using such tools as Zabbix, Hobbit Xymon, PRTG and Jennifer APM.
  • Responsible for proactively monitoring network devices using SolarWinds.
  • IBM Application System/400; resources, error message and data integrity monitoring.
  • Initiating and resolving incident tickets.
  • Manage daily and weekly database backup.
  • Generate weekly availability reports of servers and network devices.

Education

Mapua University

2012 – 2019

  • Bachelor of Science, Electronics Engineering

Cisco Networking Academy

2018

  • Routing and Switching
  • Security

Licenses & Certifications

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) - Cisco

Issued June 2021 - Expires June 2024

  • CSCO14020527

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