SUMMARY

High energy, talented Automation/DevOps Engineer who eats and sleeps Linux, at home and on the job. Excellent troubleshooter on distributed systems in a multi - tier network architecture. Experience with continuous delivery methods needed to achieve maximum development velocity. Thorough understanding of AWS and cloud services.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• bash
• python
• linux
• puppet
• apache
• amazon-web-services
• jenkins
• ruby
• vagrant

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DevOps Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed a system that allowed developers to create new application environments via a Jenkins job using Cloudformation and Amazon EC2 Container Services (docker)
• Setup Puppet to allow for fully scripted instance provisioning
• Integrated services with New Relic
• Setup log aggregation to Confidential
• Assisted in application conversion from MySQL to Postgresql
• Implemented continuous delivery for a staging environment
• Configured all alerting systems to use Pagerduty
• Created an Amazon Lambda process for handling email processing
• Made recommendations to improve scalability of applications

Automations Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Setup high-availability Consul cluster and Vault service.
• Created a system to automatically create Vault credentials when an application stack is created in AWS.
• Wrote and maintained Puppet modules.
• Completed migration from a legacy git origin server to GitLab.
• Fix bugs in internal test runner for QA automation tests.
• Create and maintain Jenkins jobs to build and deploy code.
• Automation of setting up alerts for services

DevOps Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked with clients to develop solutions to increase server reliability and ease maintenance
• Implement continuous integration using Bamboo and Jenkins
• Automate creation of Docker images
• Setup operational visibility solutions including Logstash, Sensu, and Graphite
• Ruby scripting for automation
• Automate server deployments using configuration management systems using Puppet and Chef
• Automate application deployments

Systems/Automations Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Rework the way Apache configurations are tracked and deployed
• Cleanup and modification of bind DNS zone files
• Transition to a new NetAPP Cluster-mode filer, including updates to automation code
• Writing and configuring Nagios plugins
• Participated in an on-call rotation to ensure that production systems remain healthy
• Created indexes on a MySQL database to eliminate it as a bottleneck for high-traffic Wordpress blogs
• Made changes to Apache mod rewrite configurations to support a new redirect tool application
• Assist helpdesk technicians and developers troubleshoot problems in production applications
• Wrote automation code to assist database administrators with management of a Amazon EC2 instances
• Provide bug fixes for automation code
• Transition old deployment methods to Puppet
• Participate in code review process for other Engineer's code and configuration changes
• Maintain code deployment jobs in Hudson and Jenkins
• Implemented a system for building AWS AMIs and deploying application stacks on-demand to AWS

Perl Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Fix bugs in internal software.
• Write complex queries in DBIC.
• Improve efficiency of batch jobs.
• Add new features to existing Catalyst applications.
• Cleanup unused code.
• Rewrite of internal libraries to use new systems such as ActiveMQ.

Systems Administrator

Confidential

• Reworked a Puppet system to allow fast system deployment and ease maintenance of existing systems.
• Setup and monitored Nagios alerts for Linux and Windows servers.
• Deployed tripwire system to comply with PCI-DSS.
• Developed scripts to automate internal software deployment.
• Managed company DNS using bind and Window's DNS server.
• Performed maintenance on Confidential hardware.
• Maintain Microsoft Exchange server.
• Support Active Directory infrastructure.
• Configure Apache for IBM Cognos on Windows Server 2008.

Level 2 Linux Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided upper-tier technical support for Linux hosting customers.
• This included LAMP, Tomcat, Red 5, and Ruby on Rails administration for CentOS/RHEL 5 servers.
• Maintained company wide backups for over 3000 servers
• Monitored all servers to ensure the stability, uptime, and performance of the services.
• Troubleshooting of issues on backup servers running Solaris and ZFS.
• Diagnosed hardware issues and worked with the data center to replace and resolve hardware issues on Confidential hardware.
• Provided internal company support for backup systems.
• Developed scripts to automate common tasks.
• Resolved complex networking issues with internet exposed servers.
• Assisted customers with the use of cPanel.
• Wrote scripts to generate trending data for the backup system.
• Performed Operating System re-installs and data restoration.
• Created table indexes and database optimizations for MySQL databases.
• Performance troubleshooting on shared web hosting servers.

Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Deployed a company-wide VPN using OpenVPN on Linux firmware routers.
• Managed a Linux Sendmail server, including reviewing logs and troubleshooting.
• Configured and managed Cisco switches and routers.
• Implemented a new documentation system to lower the maintenance time for network tasks.
• Furnished end-user technical support.
• Ensured the stability of the entire network, spanning multiple geographical locations.
• Worked with developers for the smooth deployment of new business applications.

Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Set up and administered a high-availability Linux Ruby on Rails application server.
• Setup backup/disaster recovery plans for both Windows and Linux servers.
• Recommended IT methodology improvements to Management.
• Wrote documentation/tutorials for internal and external software.
• Purchased new equipment, including routers, switches, PCs, laptops, and commercial software.