Meet Sean Nicholson, our Global Director Technology Services. He has played a key role in driving SoftwareONE’ s incredible transformation from its focus on reselling to offering a wide array of technology services company. Watch Sean share his story and thoughts for the future.
- Implementing Cloud Resources in Azure including
- Azure Fundamentals (Enrollment, Subscription, Management Group, RBAC, Tagging, Blueprints)
- Azure Compute (VMs, Scale Sets, Cloud Services - Worker/Web)
- Azure Storage (Blob, Files, Disk)
- Azure Networking (Load Balancer, Application Gateway, DNS, VPN)
- Azure Security (Firewalls, Azure Security Center, WAF, IDS, IPS, NSG)
- Authoring Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates
- Excellent understanding of Network Virtualization concepts and hands-on experience with VMWARE(Optional),Hyper-V, KVM & Containers
- Analyze, design, test, install, documentation, implement and support complex network solutions in Azure Cloud
- Prepare and maintain up to date documentation for internal and external customers detailing configuration of deployed solutions
- Experience in Point-to-site virtual private network (VPN),Site-to-site VPN, Azure ExpressRoute
- Knowledge in Azure Storage
- Solid understanding of network protocols such as Ethernet, TCP/UDP/IP, ARP, ICMP, DNS, HTTP/S, IPSEC, SNMP, and SMTP. Familiarity with network architectures such as core/distribution/access and leaf/spine.
- Experience with Azure Express Route, Availability Zones, Virtual Private Gateways, IPSEC tunnels, Azure networking concepts.
- Solid understanding of routing including experience working with routing protocols such as BGP, EIGRP, and OSPF.
- Experience performing complex network troubleshooting using industry standard tools such as Wireshark, nslookup/dig, icmp, tcpdump on network/security devices and Windows/Linux endpoints. Experience reviewing network related logs on Windows and Linux endpoints for troubleshooting purposes.
- Working knowledge of PKI and SSL certificates.
- Basic understanding or experience with VMWare vSphere, NSX, vSwitch, and ESXi hosts and how to troubleshoot networking problems.
- Working knowledge of Linux and Linux-based network operating systems.
- Conducting Azure Cloud Migrations
- Facilitate cloud migration preparations
- Conduct Assessments and Report Creation
- Coordinating cloud migration (application owners, vendor support, customer infrastructure support, etc.)
- Knowledge on Azure Migrate and Azure Site Recovery
- Conduct cutovers
- Facilitate testing
- Facilitate handover
- Facilitate rollbacks/rescheduling if required
- Migration Status reporting
- Working knowledge in the following areas of Azure
- Azure Identity (Authentication & Authorization)
- Azure Compute (VMs, ScaleSets, Cloud Services - Worker/Web)
- Azure Storage (Blob, Files, Disk)
- Azure Networking (Load Balancer, Application Gateway, DNS, VPN)
- Azure ExpressRoute, VPN, NVA, Routing, Hub-Spoke, BGP
- Azure Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting
- Azure Security (Firewalls, Azure Security Center, WAF, IDS, IPS, NSG)
- Authoring Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates
- Experience with AWS/GCP/AzureStack/OpenStack will be advantageous
- Strong knowledge and exposure working across various services and components in Azure
- Knowledge on Cloud Architectures - IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, Docker.
- Datacenter Infrastructure Administration
- Strong oral and written communication skills in English
- Communicates clearly and tactfully
- Ensures information is accurate and complete
- Motivated and quick learner
- Willingness mentor, teach, share knowledge with team members and other operational teams
Strip away everything. Strip away our brand, strip away our buildings, strip away our offices. What are we left with? Our people. This is what makes SoftwareONE successful.
Passionate people who live and breathe our values every day, who delight our customers, every day, and who go above and beyond, every day. Our culture is unique, and I believe that having the right people, and empowering them to succeed, is the absolute key to our success.
Patrick Winter, Founder.
Success at SoftwareONE is not defined by what you do for yourself, but by what you deliver for our customers, the business and for the employees around you.
SoftwareONE employees are energized, agile and are laser focused on delivering world class Customer Satisfaction and results. Our leaders motivate and inspire their teams and provide a working environment that delivers incredible levels of Employee Satisfaction. We are Humble, have a very high degree of Integrity and are simply not interested in politics.
Our leaders operate with a high levels of Discipline but are able to work at Speed manage change in a global economy.
“SoftwareONE is an equal opportunity employer. With employee satisfaction as one of our core values, we are passionate about diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all of our employees. We want every employee to have the greatest experience of their career.”