Cloud Engineer Resume Reston, VA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Cloud Engineer with Associates Degree in Electronics and 10+ years of IT experience. Possess a Red Hat Certified System Administrator qualification (RHCSA / RHCT) and Red Hat OpenStack Administrator Certification.
Possess a solid background in hardware and software deployment, troubleshooting, maintenance, and design of IT systems and networks.
Experience with Linux, OpenStack, AWS, VMWare, KVM, and Linux Containers.
Expert in Ansible, experience with Jenkins and Puppet.Frequent contributor to OpenStack - Ansible and other open source software projects.

PROFESSIONAL E XPERIENCE:

Confidential, Reston, VA

Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

Confidential, Reston, VA

Sr. Linux DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

Participating in distributed development using Git.
Deploying software using Puppet, writing Puppet modules.
Development work in Python, Perl, PHP. zeromq, tornado, flask, redis, Oracle 10g, MySQL, C, nginx.
IPv6, GRE tunnels, OpenVswitch, network namespaces.
Systems Architecture.
Developing RESTful APIs in PHP and Python serving 17+ million requests per day.
Managing hundreds of servers and tens of millions of devices.

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Team Lead / Lead Linux Engineer

Responsibilities:

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Sr. Consultant / Sr. Linux Engineer

Responsibilities:

Directly responsible for deployment, operation, and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, VMWare ESXi 5.1 systems, and Windows Server 2008 R2 systems.
Maintains and operates Production SQL Server 2008 and MySQL server.
Configuring and managing VMs in VMware and KVM.
Integrating Linux systems and services with Active Directory and Kerberos.
Custom web application development in Python, PHP, Javascript, and SQL.
Writing Bash and Python scripts to automate tasks.
Installing and configuring system software and services using yum and apt-get.
Remotely troubleshooting production servers.
Managing user and computer accounts and permissions in Windows Active Directory and Linux.
Maintaining network equipment including Cisco ASA Firewall and Confidential Procurve Switches
Maintaining Confidential BladeSystem, Confidential LeftHand SAN, and other server hardware.
Helped identify SQL code fix to increase DB efficiency by ~87.5%
Rewrote significant portions of production web application, greatly increasing reliability and performance.
Installed and configured monitoring system.
Developed numerous tools and procedures to ensure continuity of operations.

Confidential, Dulles, VA

Tier One Linux and Windows Enterprise System Administrator

Responsibilities:

Managing user and computer accounts and permissions in Windows Active Directory and Linux.
Configuring and managing VMs in VMware, Citrix XenServer / XenCenter.
Writing Basic Shell scripts to automate tasks.
Installing and configuring system software and services using yum and apt-get.
Remotely troubleshooting production servers.
Responding to user trouble tickets in a fast and efficient manner, document incidents and work in various ticket management systems..
Occasionally fill in for Tier Two administrators
Corrected Apache tuning configuration for production web server after a system migration.