Victor Feng
About Victor Feng
Victor Feng is a Senior System Engineer at SEI Investment in Oaks, PA, with extensive experience in system optimization, automation, and disaster recovery.
Current Role at SEI Investment
Victor Feng serves as a Senior System Engineer at SEI Investment in Oaks, PA. In this capacity, he leads a team of system engineers to manage and maintain over 1,000 Linux and Unix servers. Responsibilities include tuning system kernel and I/O parameters to enhance performance and providing guidance on system architecture and disaster recovery initiatives.
Past Work Experience
Victor Feng has accumulated extensive experience in system engineering and administration. He worked as a Senior Systems Engineer at Farmers Insurance from 2009 to 2014 in Wilmington, DE, and as a Senior System Administrator at Omnicare Inc. for 8 months in King of Prussia, PA from 2008 to 2009. His roles involved managing complex system environments and optimizing performance at organizational levels.
Education and Expertise
Victor Feng holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Lamar University, earned between 1999 and 2001. Complementing his formal education, he possesses multiple certifications including RedHat Certified Engineer, Sun Certified System Administrator, Sun Certified Security Administrator, Sun Certified Network Administrator, HP Certified System Engineer, and Oracle Certified Professional.
Systems Engineering Skills
Victor specializes in various technical areas including the migration of physical Linux servers to SAN and UCS blades, automation of Linux server management using tools like Puppet and Ansible, and the hardening of Linux/Unix servers following SEI/CIS benchmarks. He has also executed storage migrations such as SAN from VMAX to VPlex/XBrick and NAS from VNX to Isilon, and developed automated scripts for routine system management tasks.
Technical Projects and Implementations
Throughout his career, Victor has led numerous technical projects. He has designed and installed systems including ElasticSearch, Logstash, Weblogic, Apache Hadoop, Dynatrace, and Oracle Virtual Directory. He has also implemented and developed monitoring tools such as Nagios and Zenoss, enhancing system reliability and performance through advanced monitoring and alerting mechanisms.