Yama Nawabi

Sr. Systems Engineer with extensive experience in cloud architecture, POSIX-based systems, SAN/NAS storage, networking, and virtualization. Committed to deploying resilient architecture, providing excellent customer service, and to lifelong learning of technology.

• ›Designed, deployed, and maintained cloud infrastructure for clients utilizing Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. Trained engineering team on AWS and Azure.
• ›Utilized Infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools including Terraform and Ansible.
• ›Developed CI/CD workflows for deploying client infrastructure, and trained engineering team on usage of GitHub, GitHub actions, and Git.
• ›Designed, deployed, and maintained VMware vSphere solutions with vSAN and other block-based storage (Unity, Powerstore, VNX, XtremIO, and NetApp E-Series) and solutions using DellEMC VxRail (hyper converged).
• ›Designed, deployed, and maintained vendor-provided NAS-based storage solutions (DellEMC Isilon/PowerScale, NetApp FAS, Quantum Xcellis DLC).
• ›Designed, deployed, and maintained network solutions and oversaw network cutovers, ensuring proper planning and execution (Arista, Cisco, DellEMC, and Broadcom based switching—Cisco vPC, Arista VxLAN, Arista MLAG, DellEMC ViLT, vPC+HSRP, MLAG+VRRP/VARP for first-hop routing).
• ›Designed, deployed, and maintained Microsoft Active Directory environments, utilizing AD Sites and Services, Group Policy, AD Certificate Services, DHCP and DNS.
• ›Developed advanced Linux solutions for clients (automated SSSD-based domain joining, advanced dnsmasq and systemd-networkd configurations, development of CY2020 VFX image for Marvel, etc).
• ›Deployed and configured hardware and VM-based Palo Alto series firewalls both on-premises and in cloud (Azure multi-virtual network) deployments. Deployed F5 LTM load balancers. Implemented IPsec site-to-site tunnels.
• ›Developed Python scripts to automate manual tasks for storage migrations and other use cases.
• ›Developed clear and concise documentation for project deployment processes and other tasks, growing internal company knowledge-base.
• ›Maintained internal infrastructure at colocation facility and warehouse laboratory environment.
• ›Trained junior engineers quickly across multiple technology sets and in providing quality customer-service.
• ›Provided technical project management and developed Gantt chart templates for common deployments. Trained project management team in use of Smartsheet and use of Gantt charts.

• ›Maintained VMWare vSphere 6 infrastructure on Cisco UCS hardware
• ›Architected and deployed 288 node HPC cluster on UCS B and C-series blades/servers and Fabric Interconnects. Enabled RDMA-based inter-node communication (usNIC vNIC utilizing SRIOV).
• ›Implemented CentOS based node provisioning method via xCAT.
• ›Designed and implemented complete Puppet infrastructure for post-deploy configuration of HPC cluster with Prod/Dev CI environments utilizing internal Gitlab and Puppet R10k.
• ›Configured and maintained NAS (Isilon) and block storage (VNX/XtremIO).
• ›Configured and maintained various Cisco Nexus switches (5548, 9504) for core switching and routing (vPC, HSRP).
• ›Implemented Grid Engine scheduler (SoGE) system with MPI queues.
• ›Designed/implemented Elasticsearch logging and analytics infrastructure with Redis cache layer.
• ›Wrote python and bash scripts to automate workflows.
• ›Accounted for 52% of highly technical service tickets (1834) on a team of three. Tickets included handling research software configuration and compilation requests (C/C++ software via GCC/Makefiles and CMake, Python, R, etc.).
• ›Held workshops for faculty, staff, and students to teach them about Linux fundamentals and creation of job scripts.

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Experienced with multi-domain forests utilizing AD Sites & Services, administration of Kerberos SPNs for secure service based accounts, deployment of CAs, Network Policy Server, and configuration of Distributed File System (DFS)

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• Pasadena, California
• mknawabi@gmail.com