David Beeker Email & Phone Number

Rougemont, Nc, Us

United States

Durham, North Carolina, United States

• Leads development of Compute and CaaS solution architectures in partnership with Hosting Services teams, ensuring consistency with other Hosting Services technical and user services, and the business IT strategies and architectures.• Communicate with internal hosting services customers, including senior executives, to understand their technical and operational challenges and create appropriate Compute/CaaS solutions to meet their needs.• Responsible for engineering Container Strategy… Show more • Leads development of Compute and CaaS solution architectures in partnership with Hosting Services teams, ensuring consistency with other Hosting Services technical and user services, and the business IT strategies and architectures.• Communicate with internal hosting services customers, including senior executives, to understand their technical and operational challenges and create appropriate Compute/CaaS solutions to meet their needs.• Responsible for engineering Container Strategy and Container management infrastructure design and implementation. This role includes all aspects of cloud computing using a Hybrid Multi-Cloud model.• Key responsibilities include engaging with business areas to ensure new services/offerings are aligned with changing business requirements.• Responsible for Application Container strategy and management using Kubernetes Clusters to run modernized Container applications within Azure and On-prem (Data Center)• Responsible for storage solutions as it pertains to Kubernetes Managed servicesThis is to include the following:KubernetesRancher Kubernetes DistributionAKSVMwareNetApp StorageEMC StorageS3 Object StorageNutanix (Hyper-Converged Infrastructure)LinuxWindowsAnsibleTerraformDockerCertifications:SUSE Certified Administrator in SUSE Rancher 2.5NetApp Certified ProfessionalBrocade Certified Fabric ProfessionalAzure Fundamentals AZ-900 Show less

Research Triangle Park

• Serves as the lead Technical Designer for the Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) architectures for the GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) global environment.• Creates and maintains qualified documentation (e.g., systems requirements, design documentation of the solution, installation instructions) to GSK integrated Quality Management System (iQMS) standards and provides assistance, when required, to the support teams in creating local instruction sets that outline the use of… Show more • Serves as the lead Technical Designer for the Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) architectures for the GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) global environment.• Creates and maintains qualified documentation (e.g., systems requirements, design documentation of the solution, installation instructions) to GSK integrated Quality Management System (iQMS) standards and provides assistance, when required, to the support teams in creating local instruction sets that outline the use of the system and how to manage it• Documents standards for the storage infrastructure and provide guidelines within the design/solution documentation for support to adhere to.• Maintains a solutions catalog of hardware and software for the storage infrastructure• Provides expert knowledge in server virtualization and storage connectivity for Hypervisors• Performs research to identify new solutions and storage technology• Provides expert-level support to operations staff and directs them, when needed, in matters of priority for severe support cases• Evaluates new storage hardware and software, determines where best these may fit, and provides detailed information to key stakeholders for approval.• Works with GSK storage vendors and resellers on new solutions and design components, including costing and technical criteria, for possible implementation within GSK• Provides technical leadership on projects pertaining to storage and storage-related concepts. This includes but not limited too:NAS (NetApp)SAN (EMC)Brocade NetworksS3 (Dell/EMC ECS) Show less

Research Triangle Park Durham Nc

Responsible for all Windows Server design/implementation/support throughout the global environment. Primarily responsible for the R&D community and supporting their IT needs but included support for centrally managed functions of the server environment.Was one of only a handful of support staff trusted with access to global servers.