Nicolas Marois

Information Technology Infrastructure Engineer @ Pitch Black

About

Really passionate about technologies. Especially open source. You should see my home lab… Noticeably advanced experience with: Bash, docker, rhel, macOS, ansible, ICX switches, cumulus linux, watchguard,sophos and pfsense, … soon Bacula expert Very thorough and practical understanding of : - the TCP/IP stack and complex network architectures. - cryptographic protocols such as SSL/TLS, ssh, IPsec, 802.1X EAP… - open source or proprietary virtualization technologies like VMware or libVirt (qemu/kvm). - all types of storage device, raid, filesystem and access protocols. - cross platform filesystem security access lists and storage encryption. - complex domain configurations (domain trust, multiple forests, full support for multi-domain setup on macOS or Linux…) - proxy configuration, reverse, load balancing, high available. - mail protocols and delivery. …

Country

Canada

City

Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area

Industry

Motion Pictures & Film

Skill

Information Technology Infrastructure, Infrastructure Technologies, Network Design, Network Engineering, Solution Architecture, Automation, Scripting, Linux System Administration, Networking, System Administration, Network Administration, Firewalls, Storage, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Voice over IP (VoIP), Programming, Technical Support, Troubleshooting, Windows Server, Windows

Experience

Information Technology Infrastructure Engineer

Pitch Black

2022-1 - Present · 4 yrs 9 mos

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• Global network design and implementation. • Automation of scalable infrastructure using Ansible. • Implementing and supporting IT projects across our worldwide locations.

System Administrator

FOLKS

2018-4 - Present · 8 yrs 6 mos

Montreal, Canada Area

• Advanced Networking on FastIron - Ruckus (Brocade) • Setting up isolated administrative networks using ACLs and Windows Network Policy Server (Radius authentication) • Firewall administration; advanced rulesets, proxies and strong security implementations under FireWare from WatchGuard • Implementation of Log management system - Graylog, WG Dimension • Administration and deployment of multiple oVirt clusters (RHEV) • Windows Active Directory deployments • Implementation of Public Key Infrastructure on Centos 7 • Storage Management with Quantum StorNext, GlusterFS, LSI MegaRaid on Centos, LVM on LUKS and Synology NAS • Providing automated deployment with Ansible on MacOS and Linux (Rhel 7) • Complete MacOS Automated device enrollment implementation using Apple Business and Addigy MDM • Monitoring with LibreNMS • Support, installation and administration of PCoIP client and server using Teradici • Remote deployments and administration • Linux and MacOS environment.

IT Technician

Dispro Inc.

2015-3 - 2018-3 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Montreal, Canada

• ESXi, VMware vSphere Administration and Installation • Implementation of advanced Veeam Backup and DR site strategies • Management of Windows Server infrastructure: - Active Directory, Windows DNS, DHCP - Exchange, IIS ... - PowerShell • Storage management on Dell storage equipment • Support • AV deployment solutions (Eset Smart Security) • Windows environment

Internship IT

Fondation Externat Sacré-Coeur

2013-1 - 2013-2 · 2 mos

IT support in general. A lot of social interactions. Free times were dedicate for improvements. • Windows Servers • Windows clients running on HP and on Apple hardware

IT support

Dispro Inc.

2011-5 - 2011-8 · 4 mos

Anjou, Montreal

Getting a hand to the network admin before the start of my vocational training at Centre de Formation des Nouvelles Technologies

Education

Collège Lionel-Groulx

AEC

2017 - 2018 · 1 yr

• Storage • IP Telephony • Virtualization • Cloud Computing • Control and Surveillance • Backup and Restore • High availability • ITIL

Collège Lionel-Groulx

AEC

2013 - 2015 · 2 yrs

• Optical fiber and structured cabling • Physical Security • Programming / Scripting • Windows server administration • Linux server administration • IP Telephony • Network and system security • Cisco CCNA