Mark Takla: Systems Analyst
With all these skills, we are not sure what more there is to say about Mark…
Email: mtakla@unitedforce.net
Skills & Expertise
Cloud: Amazon Web Services (AWS): EC2, VPC, Route 53, load balancing, CloudFront CDN, CloudWatch, S3; Microsoft Azure: virtual machines, virtual networking, DNS; Cisco Meraki Enterprise Cloud
DevOps & Automation: Ansible and Ansible Tower, Python, Bash, PowerShell, Git/GitHub, infrastructure-as-code deployment pipelines
Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows desktop and Windows Server, legacy through current releases; macOS
Monitoring & NOC: AWS CloudWatch, Nagios, SolarWinds, Site24x7
Enterprise Applications: Windows Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, VMware vSphere ESXi, Hyper-V, Citrix virtual desktop infrastructure
Security & SSL: OpenSSL certificate management (PEM, DER, P7B, PFX), Qualys, CSR workflows
Networking: LAN/WAN architecture, TCP/IP, SonicWall firewalls, Cisco routing and switching, Cisco Meraki wireless, Netgear switching
Hardware: HP, Dell, Lenovo, and Apple servers and workstations
Experience Highlights
- Advanced Windows Server administration in an AWS environment of over 900 web and application servers
- Automation at scale: Ansible playbooks for configuration, deployment, user management, and site provisioning across AWS VPC and EC2 environments
- Web hosting architecture best practices for enterprise clients across AWS and multi-region datacenters
- VMware vSphere and Hyper-V production infrastructure, with primary and backup datacenter operations
- Agile Scrum / Kanban team experience across 20+ sprints and release cycles