SUMMARY:

• 14 Total years of experience in systems administration, engineering, and support
• 6 years of experience in Linux systems administration on a wide variety of Linux distributions and versions, in both virtualized, cloud, and datacenter environments
• 3 years of experience in managing and supporting AWS production environments using a wide variety of Amazon products and services, as well as migration of servers and resources from physical and virtual machines to VPCs
• Experienced in working on Agile software development teams and coordinating the DevOps relationship between infrastructure and the software development lifecycle
• Experienced in Continuous Integration and Deployment in test - driven development environments, primarily with Jenkins, CloudFormation, and AWS CodeDeploy
• Experienced in Configuration Management and Server Orchestration in public and private cloud environments, primarily with Puppet and shell scripting
• Experienced in systems and application monitoring and log aggregation, including custom dashboarding, primarily with Datadog, Loggly, LogicMonitor, and CloudWatch

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cloud Technologies: Amazon AWS - EC2, VPC, IAM, ECS, S3, RDS, SQS, SES, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFormation, CodeDeploy, OpsWorks, ElastiCache, Route 53, WorkSpaces o Automation and Orchestration - Puppet Enterprise and Open Source including module development, bash shell scripting, PowerShell, Python o Continuous Integration - Jenkins including Job DSL, pipeline development and monitoring, and Docker build slaves. Docker container development and infrastructure including Docker 1.12 Swarm Mode, Kubernetes, Harbor, and Portainer. Application Stack Experience Node.js, Microsoft .NET, Rails, Tomcat o Additional Tools - Vagrant, Consul, Simian Army, Datadog, Loggly, Papertrail, Raygun, New Relic, Nginx, Redis, Memcached, Okta, ELK stack, Artifactory

Systems Engineering: Hypervisors and Operating Systems VMWare vSphere, Xenserver, Hyper-V, ESXi, Windows Server, Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Amazon Linux) o Database Servers (I am not a DBA, but I am accustomed to supporting the following) MySQL, Aurora, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server o Hardware HP and Dell server, storage and blade systems ; NetApp, 3PAR, and XIO storage systems ; SAN fibre channel and 10GbE switching ; Extensive TCP/IP networking experience ; Virtual Desktop Infrastructure design and support

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a build and release engineer in a continuous integration and delivery environment supporting CNN newsroom video delivery applications
• Architected a microservice-based Jenkins continuous integration based on Docker Swarm, including creation of associated containers, orchestration of build agents, and testing migration of an existing legacy Jenkins server
• Supported a mixed environment including both on-premises VMware and Amazon AWS infrastructure using Centos 6/7 Linux
• Supported Chef configuration management and automation for Java and Node.js applications
• Supported a Gradle-based build toolset with deployment via RPM packages
• Other tools used included Artifactory, Nagios, Confluence, Jira, Gitlab, and Consul

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all DevOps functions in an AWS VPC environment running multiple production SaaS applications on Node.js, .NET, and Rails stacks with auto-scaling elastic infrastructure
• Implemented an AWS reservations plan to save over $120k/yr on AWS spend o Performed cleanup of existing unnecessary infrastructure in AWS using Simian Army tools o Improved application deployment reliability and speed o Implemented continuous integration with Jenkins
• Implemented replacement of existing deployments based on shell scripts with DEB packaging and Puppet automation
• Responsible for maintaining infrastructure as code via CloudFormation and OpsWorks
• Responsible for day-to-day systems administration and engineering on all production, staging, and development environments with supporting technologies including RDS, ElastiCache, Redshift, S3, SQS, SES, CodeDeploy, GitHub, Papertrail, Slack, Raygun, Pivotal Tracker, and PagerDuty

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Supported multiple and diverse development teams as a DevOps engineer on the Release Management team
• Maintained Jenkins continuous delivery pipelines for web and mobile applications
• Coordinated with development teams to assist with software releases and educate developers on available automation and monitoring tools
• Assisted in team administration of development and staging environments in AWS
• Tools used included GitHub Enterprise, Artifactory, Datadog, Loggly, New Relic, and Docker

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on a team of contractors providing migration services and consulting to clients utilizing Racemi's Dynacenter software to migrate workloads to AWS
• Migrations included VMWare virtual machines and physical servers that were being migrated to various AWS regions, including GovCloud, and some machines migrated to IBM Softlayer VSI (e.g. Oracle database servers)
• Enhanced day-to-day operations on migrations that were primarily manual and carefully monitored by hand with shell scripting and coordinated with the QA team to record and address bugs and improve logging

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a member of the Server Engineering team in Corporate Operations during Confidential 's initial transition of systems from on-premises VMWare infrastructure to AWS
• Optimized VMWare clusters for more efficient performance and redundancy, including VDI clusters and large virtual machines
• Tested PoC of Puppet Enterprise for and participated in the Puppet Labs "jump start" program, wherein I learned the software and set up the Puppet Enterprise infrastructure in Amazon AWS
• Automated Linux security patch updating and Samba active directory integration on AWS Linux servers via Puppet
• Migrated production workloads to AWS and served as Product Owner on my team for all new AWS infrastructure and automation via Puppet
• Served as a member of the Change Control Board for production Corporate Operations systems
• Assisted in company-wide rollout of new cloud-based VOIP service and phone hardware
• Tested Infrastructure as a Service products to provide development and engineering teams with on-demand resources
• Completed official AWS training courses for AWS Technical Essentials (4501L), Systems Operations on AWS (4503L) and Advanced System Operations on AWS (4506L)
• Managed infrastructure in a hybrid environment with hardware on-premises and in a co-located data center, including SAN administration, VDI administration, and maintenance of server hardware
• Served in a continuous on-call rotation supporting both US and International systems
• Coordinated and worked with database, client services, network engineering, unified communications, and software engineering teams as needed to improve infrastructure and assist with projects