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Littleton, Co, Us

Denver, Colorado, Us

Denver, Colorado, Us

Seattle, Washington, Us

Linux Systems engineer maintaining cloud and customer systems to ensure operational efficiency. Built company standardized cloud network templates, remote access and system images using packer for AWS AMI that could also be used for GCP and Microsoft Azure. Built automated, centralized remote access templates and system to provide security for cloud systems while easing the workflow on developers and meeting reporting requirements for security standards. Worked as lead engineer through security assessment for threat and risk mitigation to obtain organization SOC2 type II compliance. Maintained systems associated to Ambari for Hadoop and big data processing.

Englewood, Co, Us

Transitioned from Echostar to Dish as part of a business transaction for the Engineering Division.• Design, deploy continuous integration and delivery techniques using Atlassian Tools and Jenkins with custom scripts written in Bash, Python, Perl and PHP. • Implemented configuration management and monitoring system to add efficiency for software development teams.• Design and deploy continuous integration, build and deployment technology to support agile application lifecycle.• Design AWS cloud environment and security setup with automation for software development operations.• Include cost controls in automation processes to include auditing of instances and functions for halting or termination.• Write scripts and processes in Bash, Python, PHP and Perl to automate routine processes, custom monitoring and reduce interaction requirements.• Work with networking and security teams for load balancing, firewall guidelines and access systems for development and production environments.• Manage vendor relationships for software frameworks and development tools.• Deploy and support software for international teams and customers.• Multi-database support and maintenance on MySQL, PostgreSQL and noSQL.• Responding to 24/7 on-call as needed and overnight production deployments.

Englewood, Co, Us

• Administer CentOS, Arch Linux, Ubuntu, and SUSE Linux servers in a 24×7 production and development environment primarily hosted in VMware.• Administer MySQL, Oracle RDBMS, and MongoDB databases for a variety of applications.• Administer the Atlassian application suite; Bamboo, Confluence, Crowd, Fisheye/Crucible, HipChat, Stash/BitBucket, and Jira.• Bachelor’s degree, with a technical major, such as engineering or computer science, or a comparable amount of education and experience.• Minimum of 8 years of system administration experience in Linux environments and proficient in tasks such as shell scripting, creating cron jobs, analyzing log files, and managing user accounts and groups.• Minimum of 5 years of experience with any of the following web-based technologies, including but not limited to; reverse proxy servers, three-tier architecture, service oriented architecture, SSL certificate configuration, enterprise service bus, http, and differences between browsers.• Experience administering Atlassian tools.• Extensive knowledge of standard system tools with the ability to automate complex system tasks.• Experience in a large networked environment with good understanding of network fundamentals, network file systems and storage options.• Experience with Tomcat, JBoss/WildFly, and other Java application servers.• Experience with authentication methods such as NIS, OpenLDAP, and Active Directory.• Experience with networking, IP addressing, DNS, SSL and firewalls.• Familiarity with Continuous Integration / Deployment / Delivery methodology and tools such as Jenkins and Bamboo in complex LAMP (and LAOP) application structures.• Experience installing and maintaining revision control systems such as Git and Subversion.• Familiarity with Configuration Management tools.• Experience with monitoring tools such as Up.Time, and Nagios.

• Install, configure and administer the companies J2EE web applications in a mixed Linux/Windows environment.• Install, configure and administer other web applications such as WordPress, ServiceMix, multiples Blogs including movable types and other similar open-source systems• Create and maintain application system documentation for production, QA, and development environments• Virtualization and storage - VMware infrastructure ESXi and Compellent SAN• Provide performance tuning and timely troubleshooting resolution of complex issues including high-pressure system down events• Team member on the 24/7 support systems.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Master Of Science - Ms, Information Security Systems

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Information Systems