Sophie Loewenthal
Freiberuflich, Linux System Engineer, BNP Personal Finance
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Über mich
I'm an all-round UNIX/Linux system administrator in Brussels, Belgium available for freelance/contracts. Experienced in the design, documentation, management and support of critical infrastructure. I love change that brings clearly defined benefits. I'm always learning, so drop me a line to see what we can do together. Specialties and certifications * Red Hat, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu * SCSA (Sun Solaris 9) certified. Languages * Native anglophone - Conversational French * My opinions on Linkedin neither endorse nor reflect any views of clients I work or worked with. *
Werdegang
Berufserfahrung von Sophie Loewenthal
Bis heute 5 Jahre und 5 Monate, Jan. 2019 - Juni 2024
Linux Specialist
European External Action Service
Low level design documentation, and implementation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for a secure communications platform dealing with EU information. Creation of Linux related configuration management and provisioning components on STIG and FIPS compliant RHEL with Ansible. Technical expert on Linux for the project team.
Bis heute 9 Monate, seit Sep. 2023
Linux System Engineer
BNP Personal Finance
AlphaCredit SA : RHEL 7/8/9, Apache httpd, Keycloak, daily linux administration.
11 Monate, Feb. 2018 - Dez. 2018
System Engineer
BNP Paribas Asset Management
Data centre and O/S migration project : 11 month project. Technical environment: Solaris 10, Solaris 11, RHEL 6, RHEL 7, OVM Project work: I migrated syslog/UDP to Rsyslog TCP on Solaris & RHEL for 600 servers. Implemented RHEL Linux auditing to Rsyslog. Daily admin tasks to free up the existing team for their own data centre migration projects.
1 Monat, Nov. 2017 - Nov. 2017
System Engineer
small private company
20 days contract. Project work: Designed and deployed a bespoke email service Migrated client’s email from an out-sourced email service. Provided an interface for their staff to manage unlimited email accounts, and for users to read email from PCs, mobile devices and webmail. Automated the server security patching and SSL certificates renewal process. My design decreased client's ongoing costs by 80%. User base was 20 people. Technical environment: Debian Postfix RSPAMD Dovecot
Guest O/S: RHEL 6/7, Oracle Linux 6 running on RedHat KVM, OVM XEN Goal: Employed to reduce the Linux team's daily workload so they can focus on projects. Tasks: Troubleshooting, feature implementation, server installations/removals and support for internal and external clients ( Famifed Fedict CAAMI-HGIZ Sigedis EHealth RSZ-ONSS )
7 Jahre und 6 Monate, Mai 2009 - Okt. 2016
senior unix system engineer
Tele2
O/S: HP-UX Solaris RedHat Debian Suse and HP-3PAR storage Design and support of large server farms. Apache Tomcat and HTTPD configurations. mySQL admin. SAN Storage : EMC DMX administration, HP 3PAR configuration. Oracle VM Manager 3.2 (we have RHEL and Oracle 11g running on Intel x86_64 XEN) HP C7000 enclosures, VMWare and Sun T2000 & v240. Postfix, IMAP, JIRA, Nagios (OP5) Working within an Agile, Scrum and Kanban framework.
O/S: CentOS 6 Applications: Inhouse jboss application Hardware: IBM Blade Center, Cisco ASA, IBM Storwize storage arrays, Fibre Channel and FCoE O/S related: Radius. KVM virtual machines. GRE/IPSEC tunnels. Implemented site-to-site VPNs for Vodafone SIM testing with custom B2B APN. Technical feasibility study for VPN/SIM cards. Daily storage and system administration
1 Jahr und 2 Monate, Nov. 2007 - Dez. 2008
Solaris System Engineer
PartyGaming PLC
(Now called: bwin.party digital entertainment ) Servers and Storage - NAS/ SAN (EMC Clarion). Veritas File System, Volume Manager, Solaris Containers, Solaris LDOMs, Solstice Disk Suite. Sun Enterprise 25,000 6900 1280 480 240. Domain Controller SC upgrades.
1 Jahr und 2 Monate, Nov. 2007 - Dez. 2008
Solaris System Engineer
PartyGaming PLC
(Now called: bwin.party digital entertainment ) Servers and Storage - NAS/ SAN (EMC Clarion). Veritas File System, Volume Manager, Solaris Containers, Solaris LDOMs, Solstice Disk Suite. Sun Enterprise 25,000 6900 1280 480 240. Domain Controller SC upgrades.
1 Jahr, Nov. 2006 - Okt. 2007
Solaris System Administrator
BetVictor
Solaris 9 10 on T2000 & 880. jumpstart, DDOS verification of attacks on Solaris front-end webservers and escalation to Network team/ISP. Set-up of Sun systems on remote DR site. DNS maintenance, and admin changes to cfengine. Solstice Disk Suite. Flash archives for jumpstart and zone configuration
3 Jahre und 1 Monat, Okt. 2003 - Okt. 2006
Lead Solaris System Administrator
GEMINI Observatory, Chile
System engineering on Solaris, Linux, RAID, Veritas, ODS/SDS, Active Directory's integration with DNS(bind), Sendmail, *NIX security, SHAPE monitoring tool, Solarwinds, HTML, Shell Scripting, Sun SPARC & x86 hardware. Sybase ASE 12.5 & 15.0 DBA, Nessus, nmap. 60% project and 40% administration. 10% of work on international travel to other sites for project work between Chile and Hawai'i US.
Sprachen
Englisch
Muttersprache
Französisch
Gut