SUMMARY

To replace myself with as much automation as possible. I believe that the best administrators and engineers are the ones you don’t even realize are there. I would like to further apply and develop my skills with both desktop and enterprise grades of UNIX/GNU/Linux, monitoring, scripting and automation. Ideally, this position is also in an environment that embraces new ideas and technologies and also the use of Open Source solutions whenever appropriate.

• Nearly ten years of professional Linux System Administrator and DevOps experience.
• Proficiency with enterprise and desktop variants of GNU/Linux (GUI and Command Line) and Mac OS.
• Comprehensive scripting experience with Ruby, BASH and Python languages.
• Extensive experience with Chef, Amazon Web Services (AWS), DataDog, Consul, SumoLogic, Cassandra, Terraform, NewRelic, Boto, Zabbix, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Docker, ElasticSearch, Nomad, Nginx, Apache, Tomcat, HAProxy, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Jenkins CI, Unicorn, Git/Github, Ansible, Drone, Kubernetes, VirtualBox.
• Advanced conceptual understandings of data encryption practices and programming theory and techniques.
• Sound Confidential to work independently as a self - starter or in a team environment as both a cooperative member and in a leadership position.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed, built and tested completely rebuilt infrastructure to move sleepnumber.com eCommerce website from static hosting in Rackspace to containerized infrastructure-as-code maintained in AWS utilizing automation tools and frameworks like Ansible, Terraform, Nomad, Consul, Kubernetes, Docker, Drone, Prometheus, EFK and TICK monitoring stacks.
• Maintaining status-quo legacy RedHat infrastructure hosted at Rackspace

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure and application deployment/CI in Amazon Web Services via Chef and other automation tools.
• Developed custom Cassandra deployment and maintenance automation/tools as stand-in replacement for solutions like DSE.
• Utilized tools like Chef provisioning, Consul and Jenkins to manage the automated building of application clusters.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Architected initial roll-out of cloud-based and elastic services in Amazon Web Services, including both new application stacks as well as legacy from VMWare and bare-metal infrastructure.
• Developed a custom dynamic infrastructure-as-code management framework utilizing Python, Boto and Cloudformation.
• Implement DevOps best practices for elastic computing including promotion of a "cattle versus pets" mentality.
• Researched, implemented and promoted modern monitoring and alerting mechanisms to replace legacy systems incapable of handling dynamic infrastructure.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Combination of DevOps/Engineering and Help desk responsibilities for smaller start-up size company.
• Maintain multiple Ubuntu-based distributed zero-downtime environments inside of AWS utilizing EC2, RDS and Redshift primarily running a Ruby on Rails application by using stock, community and custom Chef cookbooks.
• Maintain iOS application deployment process all the way from from Github to App Store publishing.
• Also responsible for local user desktop (Mac/OSX) and network support as needed in-office.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for operation of zero-downtime .com website running in the AWS environment.
• Develop, maintain and verify Chef recipes and cookbooks for the handling of all remote systems in AWS environment.
• Automate maintenance and configuration management sub-processes not covered natively by Chef and related recipes or cookbooks.

Confidential

Linux Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for documentation of engineering environment and new in­development production platform.
• Engineer Linux/Open Source solutions to meet customer needs for test environment and provide documentation for solutions for hand-off to operations team.
• Implement Nagios monitoring through use of check mk, OMD and Puppet for AWS-based environment.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for production systems both internal and at customer sites, 1000+ RedHat/CentOS/Custom Linux installations.
• Designed, wrote, implemented and maintained custom centralized logging protocol and storage/retrieval system using a combination of Python, RabbitMQ, MongoDB and ElasticSearch.
• Saved company over $250,000 per year in licensing costs by replacing proprietary monitoring system with Open Source alternative which also better suited production requirements.
• Creator and maintainer of all custom BASH and Python scripts used for various purposes, from monitoring to maintenance.
• Maintain knowledgeable understanding of the Medicare health payment system and HIPAA compliance standards.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Develop QA process and perform QA testing on every machine in the queue, paying meticulous detail to all areas affected on remote customer computers.
• Maintain communications with 850+ stores about status of repairs, troubleshooting, and escalations.
• Manage day-to-day training of remote Agents across 3 world-wide sites and provided incredibly simple documentation including “How to Google”.