TECHNOLOGIES:

• Amazon Linux
• Free BSD
• Ubuntu Linux
• CentOS 6.2 - 7.0
• Redhat 6-7
• Cisco IOS
• Cisco Catalyst Switches (Layer 2/3)
• Cisco UCS
• HP Procurve Switches
• Dell PowerEdge Servers
• HP Proliant Servers
• Terraform
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• My SQL ( Percona )
• MongoDB
• Postgres
• Nagios
• Apache
• Nginx
• Java
• Haproxy
• Foreman
• Puppet
• Git
• AWStats
• NeXpose
• Metasploit ( Framework and Professional )
• NodeJS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Techops Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Primary point of contact for interrupts (various issues in many environments that conflict with project work)
• Collaborated with team members to architect Puppet upgrade path and architecture to fit with recommended best practices.
• Primary architect of new puppet environment to ensure HA/DR principles.
• Collaborated with team members to establish Terraform standards and best practices ( parameterized code, environment agnostic, etc).
• Involved with K8’s planning and implementation.

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

Senior DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Architected AWS account layout using organizations for multi - customer big data analytics environments.
• Established a management AWS account providing SSO via Active Directory and centralized logging via Splunk using AWS private link.
• Created a base Terraform template for onboarding new accounts/customers relying heavily on parameterized code to ensure that it is account agnostic.
• Implemented Confluence for centralized documentation storage as well as established the standards for organization of spaces.
• Established Terraform standards for all AWS infrastructure.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Senior DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with team members to architect a CI/CD pipeline using Terraform in conjunction with Jenkins and Atlassian tools such as BitBucket in AWS.
• Designed and built an Artifactory HA cluster utilizing EFS and S3 for meta data and artifact storage that was integrated with Okta for SSO.
• Collaborated with team members to establish standards around Terraform for module and file layout as well as code.
• Created Lambda functions to monitor EBS and RDS snap shots using Python.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Senior DevOps Architect

Responsibilities:

• Senior member of a 70 person team that designed and supported applications and platforms consisting of over 5000 servers in an AWS enterprise environment.
• Designed and implemented the following platform infrastructure: E-commerce Analytics
• Implemented a new Puppet code SDLC process according to best practices recommended by Puppet Labs utilizing GIT and Jenkins for all of DevOps.
• Re-designed as well as upgraded the Puppet infrastructure to be in line with recommended best practices to ensure horizontal scalability.
• Collaborated with internal and external development teams to recommend best practices for overall application performance and resilience.
• Collaborated with various development, infrastructure and security teams in different divisions to design a CI/CD process to be implemented by development teams over all of MHE.
• Designed and implemented Confidential corp Vault for secret storage used by both development teams and applications.
• Designed standards for Cloud Formation as well as Terraform for infrastructure.

Confidential, Cambridge, MA

Systems/Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for AWS architecture and configuration utilizing EC2, VPC, S3, OpsWorks, Route53, SES and Cloudwatch.
• Upgraded Puppet from 2.6 to 3.1 going from Cobbler to Foreman as an ENC.
• Re-wrote and re-factored all custom puppet modules to be compatible with puppet 3.1.
• Designed a deployment process for all products and Puppet using Capistrano.
• Primary engineer responsible for all setup/implementation/upgrades of Atlassian products (Jira, Bamboo, Stash, Crucible)
• Increased the monitoring of all physical and virtual servers via Nagios with custom plugins written in both bash and Ruby. (Raid controllers, SMART statuses, etc.)
• Increased security awareness and decreased vulnerability vectors with weekly scans using NMAP and Metasplolit.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Primary engineer responsible for puppet architecture and configuration.
• Re-architected web site infrastructure from a single physical site to a globally distributed design utilizing a combination of Amazon VPC and GDNS that provides inherent DR and DDoS protection while providing a platform for implementation of localization with a very low yearly cost.
• Designed and implemented a SAN storage iSCSI based file server for user home directories and backups.
• Wrote custom puppet modules for in house and customer facing application configuration management.
• Developed scripts in Ruby and bash to automate many daily tasks.
• Primary engineer responsible for the design and maintenance of the customer facing Perimeter Security Services environment running NeXpose web consoles and scan engines.
• Increased data center scalability by collaborating with team members to plan and orchestrate a data center move of our mission critical internal systems as well as our PSS customer environment.
• Implemented increased monitoring using Nagios and NSCA client across all sites.
• Designed and implemented hosted solution for the professional services organization to facilitate access to private cloud VPS systems with 99.999% up time for use in customer engagements.
• Designed and implemented a machine dedicated to ATI GPU password cracking using hashcat running on Ubuntu server 10.04 for the professional services organization.
• Designed a backup solution utilizing a combination of rsync and Backup Exec for all Tier 1 systems across all sites.
• Implemented graphite with a MySQL back end, using a graphene front end and utilizing collectd for statistic collection to facilitate capacity monitoring and planning.

Confidential, Cambridge, MA

Senior Support Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administered and maintained over 2000 user and group accounts in an Active Directory environment with a very extensive OU and group policy structure.
• Primary team member tasked with creating and implementing a Windows 7 corporate image using MSDT2010.
• Primary team member tasked with creating Linux documentation and troubleshooting processes along with developing a training regimen for team members.
• Created Confidential Ubuntu Linux and Windows 7 images for deployment on the corporate network.
• Primary team member who assisted with the planning and implementation of the Bomgar remote support tool on the corporate network.
• Primary team member tasked with working with network engineering for testing and implementation of SSL-VPN in Ubuntu Linux and Windows 7.
• Primary team member who was tasked with creating Ubuntu packages and bash scripts to ease the process for 802.1x certificate renewals.
• Primary team member that used Cisco IOS for troubleshooting 802.1x authentication issues.
• Primary team member responsible for all Ubuntu Linux issues.