JUST A SYSADMIN
Operational Excellence Dashboard
Infrastructure support, automation, incident response, and just enough skepticism to keep the dashboards honest.
Do you need a regular sysadmin to perform mundane tasks with suspicious confidence?
Someone to join your call, ask one uncomfortable question, and accidentally identify the root cause?
Need to pump the project numbers so you look corpo?
Ask for Joe.
He's just a sysadmin.
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About
Joe Hockstok is a systems engineer and infrastructure administrator with experience supporting Windows Server, VMware, Microsoft 365, Azure, Active Directory, enterprise storage platforms, backup systems, networking, automation, and operational support of CI/CD.
He has a healthy skepticism of dashboards, a strong belief that DNS is guilty until proven innocent, and a long history of incidents that were "resolved" shortly after nothing changed.
Skills
Core Infrastructure
- Windows Server 2016–2022
- Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, GPO
- VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, Horizon
- Linux Administration
Storage & Backup
- SAN/NAS Platforms
- Veeam Backup & Replication
- Dell PowerProtect
- Snapshot & Replication Management
Cloud & Identity
- Azure IaaS, AVD
- Entra ID / Azure AD Hybrid
- Microsoft 365
- Intune / Autopilot
Networking
- Cisco, Meraki, Aruba
- VPN, VLANs, ACLs
- Subnetting, Routing
Security & Governance
- PKI / ADCS
- CrowdStrike
- RBAC
- Certificate Lifecycle Management
Automation & DevOps
- PowerShell
- Ansible
- Docker
- Kubernetes Fundamentals
- CI/CD
Created for fun, in spare time. The whole Anchelada.