Mike Owens
Sr. Manager, IT Engineering, Global Systems at Light and Wonder
- Role
- Manager, IT Engineering, Global Systems at Scientific Games
- Location
- Reno, NV, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Mike Owens
VCP 4, 5, 6, 7 all things virtualProviding world class tools and support for Dev and Test teams worldwide. Now heading up global engineering for an amazing gaming company that spans the globe. 32 years general computing, 22 years database management, 21 years gaming related systems management, installation, troubleshooting and QA. 20 years practical networking, 16 years virtualization, 12 years cloud computing platform configuration and administration. 11 years Active Directory services, 6 years container platform architecture and management. vCloud, vRealize, OpenStack, api architecture for automation with Chef, Octopus, Puppet and NSX.Specialties: VMware, vCloud, vSphere, Horizon (VDI), Hyper-V, Xen, OpenStack. Hyperconvergence in HPE, Dell or IBM including chassis installation and administration and Nutanix. HPE chassis, iLO, Nimble, 3PAR, vSAN and VSA storage. Dell chassis including E series chassis and VRTX with iDRAC, CMC. Equallogic, MD series and Compellent storage. NetApp administration. MSSQL installation, configuration and administration. Microsoft environments (Server and Desktop through Windows 11 and Server 2025). Platform infrastructure engineering and deployment, gaming systems, complex databases, web services and security. Linux web interfaces and security, Apache, PHP and Java, Docker and OpenStack.Cloud computing, public, private and hybrid cloud with AWE, Joyent, Azure, Xen, Hyper-V and VMware.Currently manage complex cloud platforms hosting thousands of VMs for multi-national DevOps organization in a network with a combination of Cisco, Dell and HP networking gear supporting over 350 private networks in 7 time zones.and learning more every day.
Experience
Manager, IT Engineering, Global Systems
Sep 2020 — Present · Las Vegas, NV, US
Responsible for all platforms and DC administration enterprise wide. Managing team overseeing every aspect of applied technology. We oversee all virtualization, automation, cloud migration and management, maintenance and implementation of tools and applications in both production IT and DevOps.
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