John Mc Kenna

John Mc Kenna has a solid work experience in the field of technology and IT. John currently works as a Senior Consultant at Ensono Digital since 2022. Prior to that, they worked at Version 1 as a Senior Azure DevOps Engineer from 2021 to 2022. In 2019-2020, they were a Team Lead, Site Reliability Engineer at WhiteHat Security. In 2014-2019, they worked at Novosco where they held the positions of Technical Services Team Lead - Hosted Platforms and Senior Technical Services Engineer - Level 3. Earlier in their career, they had roles at Titanic Belfast as a Systems Administrator, CDW as a Consultant, Cowen Group, Inc. as a Senior Network Administrator, eir Business NI as a Senior Unified Communications Engineer, and Cable & Wireless as an MSC Systems Engineer - High Care Delivery and Senior Engineer. Throughout their various roles, John has gained experience in areas such as infrastructure management, project implementation, network administration, and customer support.

John McKenna obtained a Post-Graduate Diploma in Advanced Networking from The Open University from 2013 to 2015. In addition, they have obtained various certifications, including LFS258: Kubernetes Fundamentals from The Linux Foundation in July 2021, Understanding of Cisco Data Center Technologies and Networking and Understanding of Cisco Network Devices from Cisco in February 2020, DevOps Essentials from Linux Academy in August 2019, VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization 2019 from VMware in February 2019, Double VCP – Data Center Virtualization & Network Virtualization from VMware in April 2017, VMware Certified Professional 6 – Network Virtualization from VMware in April 2017, Zerto Certified Professional (ZCP) 4.5 Basic from Zerto in July 2016, SUSE Certified Linux Administrator (SUSE CLA) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 from SUSE in October 2014, CompTIA Linux+ (Powered by LPI) from CompTIA in September 2014, VMware Certified Professional 5 - Data Center Virtualization (VCP5-DCV) from VMware in May 2013, ITIL Foundation (Version 3) in 2007, CCNA from Cisco in September 2006, Cisco Certified Network Professional Collaboration (CCNP Collaboration) from Cisco in October 2016, Cisco Certified Network Professional Data Center (CCNP Data Center) from Cisco in August 2022, Cisco Certified Network Professional Enterprise (CCNP Enterprise) from Cisco in November 2009, Cisco Certified Specialist - Collaboration Cloud & Edge Implementation from Cisco in October 2016, Cisco Certified Specialist - Collaboration Core from Cisco in October 2016, Cisco Certified Specialist - Data Center Core from Cisco in August 2022, and Cisco Certified Specialist - Data Center Operations from Cisco in August 2019.