Shola Julius

About Shola Julius

I am an Experienced professional in the design, deployment and management of Systems. i…

Experience

1. Systems Administrator

   TransCore

   May 2025 — Present

   Managed a high-availability data center supporting production systems delivering 99.99% uptime for compute-intensive tolling and monitoring infrastructure.Provisioned and administered virtual and physical servers using vSphere (vCenter) and Hyper-V Failover Clustering, supporting over 200+ hosts and 500+ VMs, including GPU-ready nodes.Supported GPU-integrated infrastructure by managing PCIe configurations, performing firmware/BIOS updates (including GPU BIOS), and enabling future support for AI/ML and compute-intensive workloads.Prepared environment for HPC scheduling with Slurm, including node labeling, integration with monitoring tools (e.g, Nagios/Grafana), and testing Slurm job submissions in non-production clusters.Tested GPU resource scheduling via Slurm using NVIDIA GPU nodes, ensuring proper cgroup isolation, accounting, and workload fairness policies for anticipated AI/ML workloads.Participated in containerization efforts using Kubernetes, focusing on Helm chart management, GPU node configuration with the NVIDIA device plugin, and supporting future Slurm-on-Kubernetes hybrid models.Automated health checks, patch cycles, and configuration tasks using PowerShell and Bash, contributing to infrastructure-as-code principles and operational consistency.Expanded storage infrastructure with Dell PowerStore, managing tiered storage, Metro node replication, and disk provisioning across production and staging clusters.Conducted vulnerability scans, remediations and enforced security hardening policies across Linux and Windows systems.Migrated endpoint protection across 500+ systems, enhancing threat detection and incident response.Configured bonded NICs to ensure optimal data throughput and resilience in latency-sensitive, cluster-based environments.Installed and configured proprietary and SQL Server applications.Monitored system health and job resource usage using Grafana, SolarWinds, Nagios, and OpenManage Enterprise, for compute and storage.

Education

• Khai

  Bachelor of Science (BSc), Avionics

  2009 — 2014

• Rotor ukraine

  Certification, Helicopter maintenance & Avionics

  2011 — 2012

Skills

• Business Planning
• Export
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• Import
• Mazut
• Agriculture
• Cooking Oil
• Security Cameras
• Real Estate Development
• Doors
• Commodity Markets
• Glass Showers & Jacuzzi
• Management
• Cafta
• Stainless Steel
• Project Management
• Business Development
• Negotiation
• Ip Cctv
• Construction
• International Trade
• Strategic Planning
• New Business Development
• Jp54
• Business Strategy
• Oil & Gas Industry