James Colburn

Background

About James Colburn

Key skills- Management of LAN, WAN and HPC technologies at both local and remote sites - Troubleshooting problems with LAN and WAN connectivity as well as firewall access issues - Design, configuration and implementation of datacentre infrastructure and networking - SWG administration - OSPF, BGP, VLANS, NAT, LACP, IPSEC, IKE, GRE, VXLAN etc- Installation and configuration of SDWAN appliances (Riverbed, Silver Peak) both on-site and offshore - Planning, design, implementation and support of Aruba wireless hardware and Clearpass authentication services - Management of Cisco, Arista, HP, Dell, Extreme & Force10 switches and Cisco routers - Installation and management of Juniper and Checkpoint firewalls - Zoning, DMZs and security rules etc- Project based implementation of hardware and testing of new technologies/services - Troubleshooting issues or planning changes/upgrades at remote sites - Creation of detailed network documentation and diagrams - Deploying monitoring solutions (Solarwinds, Sflow-Trend Pro, Grafana, PRTG etc.)- Management of RSA clients - ITIL Foundation Level - Experience with supporting Windows in an Enterprise environment - Active Directory, DNS, SCCM administration - Testing and rolling out of new operating systems and software/application packages - Working knowledge of Linux distributions (package installation, logging, network troubleshooting etc.)- DevOps/Automation, ELK/TICK Stack. in more recent years- Team Lead - Team Management and task prioritisation - Regional Manager - Priority Management and expectation setting - Project Management and reporting - Team Recruitment and development - Knowledge transfer