Devnull Industries/Fraser McAlister is a freelance UNIX/Linux system administrator based in Fife, Scotland. My expertise has taken me to a number of highly regarded companies; including Sun Microsystems, Oracle Corporation, RBS, Tesco Bank and Balfour Beatty.

I am available for contract work throughout the UK.

Services

Including, but not limited to;

  • Planning and implementation of server build/decommissions

  • P2V migrations of UNIX and Linux systems

  • OracleVM and VMWare virtualisation technologies

  • BAU support and maintenance of OS Platforms and server estate

  • Proactive incident analysis, rapid diagnosis and root cause analysis

  • Writing and reviewing project documentation and implementation planning

Technologies

  • Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, RedHat Enterprise Linux, Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008

  • SPARC Enterprise grade hardware, OpenBoot PROM

  • HP ILO, HP Onboard Administrator, Sun/Oracle ILOM/ALOM

  • Solaris Containers/Zones, Oracle Virtual Machine, Oracle Virtualbox, VMWare ESXi/vSphere

  • Symantec Veritas Volume Manager [VxVM], ZFS, NFS, Samba

  • BASH/Shell scripting, XHTML/CSS, XML, MySQL

  • Oracle Weblogic Application Server, Oracle E-Business Suite

  • Cyberark Password Manager

  • NetApp ONTAP SAN/NAS

  • HPSA/Opsware

  • Puppet, Git, Apache HTTP Server