Senior Automation Engineer Resume

SUMMARY

Senior Linux Automation Specialist, Systems Administrator and Infrastructure Developer. Remote only, not available for on - site work. C2C/1099 contract preferred, also available for some W2 work. DevOps Infrastructure Engineering and automation development using shell, Perl and Python. Specializing in highly-available, on-premise production systems, and private cloud operations.
Large scale configuration management with SaltStack, Chef, Ansible, Puppet Enterprise and numerous custom tools. Automation design expert with knowledge of 8 computer languages and can turn most all manual steps into codified automation.
Data center infrastructure design, customized system monitoring with Nagios/Icinga, networking, backup system, and host-based security expertise.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Python
Perl and shell. Production knowledge of popular enterprise-class applications and other configuration management tools; VMware ESXi/vCenter vRealize Automation
SaltStack
Chef
Puppet Enterprise
Red Hat Satellite 6
CloudBolt
Docker
Git
Jenkins
Bitbucket
Vagrant and VirtualBox. Large site production administration experience with CentOS
Oracle EL
Solaris
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Ubuntu
MacOS X
FreeBSD
Raspbian and many other specialized (security embedded systems
MicroPython) Linux distributions. Subversion
XLD and Git for builds releases and code change tracking. Server capacity planning performance and application monitoring with Nagios/Icinga
OS maintenance tuning stack balancing
BCP/DR planning and host-based security.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Automation Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Remote automation and development for Infrastructure Automation Services and Enterprise Monitoring teams.
Started and drove Agile/Rallydev projects for SaltStack Enterprise POC, Splunk Configuration deployment automation, various Oracle Enterprise Linux and Chef based efforts.
Splunk config deployment written in Python to fetch latest configs from Bitbucket(Git), deduce the newest items, move them to the staging area and commit the new configuration using the various Splunk Rolling-Restart and other commands at multiple worldwide sites.
Development on custom “Dev Cloud” environment with automated VM deployments mainly for VMware and Docker testing via Chef Kitchen. SCM with Bitbucket, SDLC pipeline and artifact deployment operations with Jenkins and Artifactory.
Various security compliance trainings and assisted with DynaTrace Linux rollout.

Linux Automation Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Remote DevOps developer of automation for OS and Oracle CRS/Grid/DB product upgrades and OPatching via Perl tool scripts, supporting current and legacy Oracle Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Linux systems.
Provided project management expertise in migrating manual OS maintenance operations to custom automation solution with handoff to worldwide Linux admin teams.
Documented/performed off-shore OEL upgrades for New Zealand site using Ansible CM tool and performed various Linux administration team duties for Confidential, developm ent and DR sites.

Senior Linux Infrastructure Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Installation, configuration, documentation, and production rollout of Red Hat Satellite 6 server. VM build, and post-build support, for development and production retail back-end environments in CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux using Cloudbolt, VMware vCenter and AWS/Terraform.
Configuration management using Puppet Enterprise, Git, and other custom automation software authored in Python and shell.
DevOps, Project Management, Linux tier II, and application developer support and software troubleshooting. Manual, out-of-band, machine configuration and deployment to internal security build standards.
Remote 24/7, business unit, on-call Linux support.