Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps Engineer / Software Developer

Google (via Proof), Various Clients

Performed work on both short and long-term contracts for various companies in a DevOps role, utilizing a variety of technologies and strategies

Worked closely with multiple development teams in building, testing, deploying, managing, and automating cloud-hosted solutions

Common technologies include:

• Kubernetes (multiple platforms)
• Amazon Web Services / Google Cloud Platform / Microsoft Azure
• Jenkins / Artifactory / Drone CI / Circle CI (continuous integration)
• HashiCorp Consul & Vault
• Chef / Puppet (configuration management)
• Ruby / Python / Perl Scripting for additional automation
• Bitbucket / Github (source code repositories)
• Git / Subversion (and common source tree management)
• Zabbix / Nagios / PagerDuty / DataDog / New Relic (monitoring)
• JIRA (issue tracking)
• Wowza Streaming Engine (video services)
• Docker Containers (builds, testing, and orchestration)
• AWS EC2 Container Service
• Agile methodology and latest modern CI/CD practices
• fluxcd / DroneCI
• Prometheus / Grafana (Metrics / Monitoring)
• ElasticSearch, fluentd, and Kibana (Centralized Logging)

Senior Systems Engineer, Transcepta

2006 - 2014

Acquired lead role for monitoring, maintaining, and scaling production environment for a customer-facing, hosted service

Including design, budgeting, and ground-up implementation Deployed a multitude of Linux systems to satisfy an array of business needs

Including web hosting (Apache), DNS (Bind), SMTP (Postfix), database (MySQL), and FTP (ProFTPd)

• Designed and deployed virtualization architecture utilizing VMWare Infrastructure
• Including SAN technologies and High Availability planning
• Deployed Chef server to manage server configurations and code deployments
• Implemented Zabbix server to provide monitoring capabilities
• Created backup infrastructure and disaster recovery plan
• Responsible for security policies and implementation in production environment
• Including vulnerability scanning and IDS/IPS management
• Deployed multi-site corporate network architecture using IPSec VPN tunnels
• Developed internal corporate and external customer-facing, web portals utilizing PHP and MySQL
• Utilized C# expertise to develop internal application that helped ease internal process overhead
• Served as central technical escalation point for several departments

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