Walter Solano Sanchez
Engineer IT, Information Technology, and Services in San José, Costa Rica
Walter Solano Sanchez : cat lover, David Bowie fan ★ . IT & services professional, focused on virtualization, data protection and storage.
Walter Solano Sanchez's background:
• Areas of Expertise and Specialties:
IT Systems Administration (multi-OS), Virtualization (VCP, vROPS-vRA, Nutanix, Citrix), Networking (CCNA, NSX-T), Cloud Computing and BigData.
Data protection routines (backups and restores) using the best industry standards, managed clusters in Cohesity, BlackPearl, Veeam and Dell DP.
• Profile:
Certified and forward-thinking IT professional with 10+ years of fruitful experience encompassing virtualization, solution architecture, and IT infrastructure management and administration. Expertise in operating with numerous high-end technical tools, operating systems, high availability critical environments and software-development.
Fluency in Spanish and English backed with excellent negotiation, collaboration and communication skills with a wide range of audiences.
•Skills:
Networking tools and equipment setup and maintenance (Cisco, Extreme Networks and Cumulus switches; SonicWall and WatchGuard firewalls).
Web Services management and protection tools (DDoS protection with Prolexic, Incapsula and SiteProtect). Uptime and site and services monitoring with Pingdom and Solarwinds.
Highly experienced in virtualization solutions by VMware.
Internationally trained in Cloud Computing (@ Infosys, India), focused on Cloud computing on configuration and management of infrastructure, virtualization and infrastructure automation.
• Software and Hardware skills:
Windows Server 2012/2016/2019/2022 administration, including IIS and Active directory management.
Linux Redhat/CentOS, Debian/Ubuntu Systems administration, process management and performance monitoring.
Database basics knowledge (Oracle, SQL, MySQL).
Physical servers (UCS, HP, Supermicro, Dell) and Storage Systems setup and maintenance in critical environments.
Networking equipment setup and maintenance (Cisco, Extreme Networks and Cumulus switches; SonicWall and WatchGuard firewalls).