Rick Holt
Information Technology Systems Engineer/Administrator
- Role
- Systems Engineer at Boost Mobile Echostar Dish Wireless) at Boost Mobile
- Location
- Denver, CO, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
Experience
Systems Engineer at Boost Mobile Echostar Dish Wireless)
Jan 2023 — Present · Littleton, CO, US
Led swing shift team in daily operations, projects, ticket resolution, and troubleshooting efforts involving network connectivity, software deployments, and on-prem distributed unit computer hardware issues to guarantee overall system availability and 5G cell site uptime.Utilized advanced monitoring and observability tools including Splunk and Grafana to protect network performance and 5G cell site uptime to meet the established SLAs.Utilized Jira for departmental projects and ServiceNow for production-impacting issues and daily operations, ensuring successful resolution of tickets.Contributed to the migration of mission-critical Kubernetes-deployed SuperMicro and Dell (XR11 and R740) distributed unit computers across more than Open RAN 5G cellular sites. The migration involved transitioning from VMware Telco Cloud Platform to Debian based Wind River Linux within a six-week timeframe, enhancing performance, reliability, and availability while reducing overhead costs.Engaged to migrate over crucial Open RAN 5G cellular sites from the Amazon AWS EKS environment to an on-premises Kubernetes and VMware Telco Cloud Platform, resulting in reduced latency, enhanced stability, and cost savings.Assisted cross-functional teams (NOC, RAN, Transport, CaaS, Platform) to successfully migrate, deploy, and maintain 5G cellular sites demonstrating adaptability in hybrid cloud environments.Coordinated with external partners (AWS, Samsung, Mavenir, Dell, Wind River, Infoblox, and VMware) to optimize solutions and resolve technical challenges.
Education
University of Denver
Bachelor of Arts - BA
University of Denver
Master of Arts - Dual MA Candidate
Skills
- Management
- Networking
- Computer Hardware
- Linux
- Centos
- Customer Service
- Mysql
- Vmware Vsphere
- Gnu/Linux
- Ubuntu
- Eucalyptus
- Vmware Esx
- Macintosh Os X Server
- Network Security
- Project Management
- Network Administration
- Vms
- Red Hat Linux
- Vsphere
- Rhel
- Windows
- Nginx
- Windows 7
- Amazon S3
- Vmware
- Ibm Aix
- Esxi
- System Administration
- Unix
- Apache
- Unix System V
- Hp-UX
- Amazon Web Services (Aws)
- Amazon Ec2
- Virtualization
- Routers
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