Vincent Cojot

Principal Consultant at Red Hat

France

About

- UNIX/Linux Systems Specialist with over 30 years experience. - Senior Openstack & Openshift Technical consultant and enthusiast. - Solaris Systems Specialist (15 years) and Linux Systems Specialist (20 years) - Veritas Storage Foundation & Cluster Server Specialist (10 years) - Extensive experience in High-Availability, Internet Systems, Distributed environments. - Extensive knowledge of SAN, NAS and replicated DAS environments. Specialties: - Solaris (Sparc, x86), RHEL, Linux, X11, OpenWindows, XView - Dell and HP x86 servers, SUN High-End Servers, IBM Blade Centers, Brocade, EMC storage. - SunCluster, Veritas Cluster, Veritas/Symantec Storage Foundation. - DNS/Bind, NIS, NIS+, LDAP, IPV4/IPV6. - Linux Hypervisors and Virtual Machines.

Experience

  • Red Hat (11 yrs)
    • Principal Consultant
      Jun 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

    • Principal Consultant
      Jan 2021 - Jun 2024 · 3 yrs 6 mos

    • Technical Cloud Consultant
      Aug 2015 - Jan 2021 · 5 yrs 6 mos

  • UNIX Systems Integrator at Morgan Stanley
    Dec 2014 - Aug 2015 · 9 mos

    As part of the global UNIX integration team, my responsibilities include: - Integrating new UNIX technologies onto the MS Plant (30k+ servers) - Analysis of complex Linux performance issues. - Low level optimizations for High-Performance Linux farms. - Cluster Filesystem design and support. - Writing modules for the Configuration Management System of the firm.

  • Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking - SG CIB - Montreal, Canada (5 yrs 2 mos)
    • UNIX systems specialist
      Jul 2013 - Nov 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos

      - Support the SGCIB Follow-The-Sun project by providing L3 expertise and escalation capabilities to Europe and Asia places. - Incident & problem solving, in relation with NYC, Paris and Bangalore Teams. - Performance Tuning and complex problem solving. - Linux specialist on kernel-level optimizations (latency, buffers, etc..) - Participate to IT projects (design, setup, rollout) with GTS other MKT teams. - Technical team leader role and point of contact for UNIX MSC Team (4 people). - Technical point of contact for client-oriented IT projects involving AMER and EUR. - Veritas Storage Foundation and Veritas Cluster Specialist for SGSS, SGCIB and Windows Teams. - Enabled and coordinated migration of Business-critical UNIX Systems to new SAN infrastructures.

    • Information systems manager (RESG/GTS)
      Oct 2009 - Jul 2013 · 3 yrs 10 mos

      - Production Projects Manager for UNIX backed infrastructure services (Storage, TIBCO buses, High-Freqency Trading, FOREX, etc…) servicing internal customers. - Responsible for technical projects, choice and implementation of packages software‟s or new technologies (schedule, backup, recovery plan, monitoring tools, etc.). - Provided internal technical expertise on Symantec Solutions, RHEL, Solaris10 (Zones) and assistance on technical/performance issues involving the Bank‟s most critical applications (Referentials, Deals, Trading, etc..) - Managed a small team of contract UNIX systems Adminstrators. - UNIX systems architect and infrastructure projects specialist. - SGCIB/MKT single point of Contact for RedHat and related issues. - Coordinated and manged UNIX-level migration to newer EMC storage arrays (VMax) and remote Datacenters.

  • UNIX Systems Architect at Societe Generale Securities Services - SGSS
    Feb 2008 - Oct 2009 · 1 yr 9 mos

    - UNIX Systems & Storage Infrastructure Architect. - Technical expertise, including in-depth performance tuning and debugging on live systems/VCS clusters.

  • Systems Architect at Orange
    May 2005 - Jan 2008 · 2 yrs 9 mos

    Orange-FT Group – Technical Direction Dept (http://www.francetelecom.fr) - SUN and Linux Systems Specialist dedicated to Orange IT Production. - Developed and executed several heavy IT production migrations for many France Telecom Business-critical applications (GIM/GALION, ARTMIS, 26E) on multiple SUN E25K servers (OS Upgrades, Storage Upgrades, Server upgrades). - In charge of platform deployment for new applications or application upgrades under Solaris (SunFire/PrimePower Servers) and RHEL (IBM Blade Centers, xSeries). - Systems expertise and assistance on complex performance, availability and scalability production issues. - Migration and consolidation of legacy applications onto recent platforms and storage systems in a full SAN environment