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Charleston, South Carolina Metropolitan Area

• Design, implement, and manage the OCI cloud infrastructure using a codebase housed in GitLab and deployed through Terraform.
• Develop and maintain a modular and reusable Terraform codebase, following best practices such as code organization, variables management, and keeping a “dry” configuration.
• Orchestrate and automate CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins for application deployment, testing, and cloud infrastructure provisioning.
• Collaborate with cloud team to build and stage production, testing, and development environments for seamless onboarding of cloud customers.

North Charleston, South Carolina, United States

• Automated the provisioning of infrastructure by extracting user inputs from Excel forms and converting into Terraform configurations to automatically provision (IaC) infrastructure in AWS or Azure.
• Designed and implemented Ansible, Terraform, VMware vRealize Operations, and VMware NSX to automate cloud provisioning, application deployment, systems administration, and incident response with AWS and Azure.
• Utilize VMware Horizon to provide a virtual desktop solution for clients in order to support a changing hybrid work environment.
• Created custom automation solutions for the transition of on-prem or cloud-based infrastructures to a new consolidated cloud infrastructure with minimal operational impact.

North Charleston, South Carolina, United States

• Provided SA support for the VMware-based virtual infrastructure, Windows enterprise systems, and Linux-based applications.
• Provided inter-network administration support for the production, out-of-band, and internal networks across different enclaves.
• Ensured a strong security posture of the premise network through proper configuration of network devices like screening routers (firewalls), load balancers, and intrusion-prevention systems.
• Assisted in planning for future enterprise CND-ASHORE builds and researched new capabilities for integration.

North Charleston, South Carolina, United States

• Designed, planned, & implemented a consolidated virtual infrastructure environment (Testing, Integration, Production) with the purpose of increasing productivity, streamlining data transfer capabilities between.
• Utilized knowledge of datacenter virtualization, hardware provisioning, and IA practices to maintain the integrity and high availability of the virtual infrastructure, and DevOps environments.
• Ensured network integrity and availability by implementing proper usage of firewalls, access lists, port channels, VLANs, Layer 2 switching, Layer 3 routing, & flow control.
• Designed and implemented Linux-based services such as YUM repos, Apache webservers, and FreeNAS storage.
• Designed and implemented Windows domain services such as AD, DNS, NTP, NFS, CA, DHCP, & WSUS.
• Maintain a good cybersecurity posture by following best practices such as data segregation, strict access control, logging for nonrepudiation, and mitigation of system vulnerabilities.

North Charleston, South Carolina, United States

• Remote and on-site incident response & Fleet support including but not limited to troubleshooting of hardware, software, networking, & system administration issues.
• Deployed, configured, baselined, and SOVT’ed the CND security stack comprised of DoD IA services such as HBSS, ACAS, and Retina.
• Developed and tested new RHEL-based Nexus scanner and Security Center builds.
• Deployed DISA mandated system upgrades, patches, and perform modifications to ensure systems are protected against known exploits.
• Maintained availability and integrity of the Charleston NOC Off-Ship (SHORE) IA services.
• Collaborated with Navy PORs to develop HBSS policies and ACAS scanning guidance.

North Charleston, South Carolina, United States

• Maintained Enterprise VMware virtual hosting environment and providing customers with knowledgeable technical support.
• Develop a systematic approach to analyze and respond to Enterprise HBSS system intrusion events.
• Implemented a continuous monitoring process through active and passive vulnerability scanning utilizing an Enterprise ACAS system, ensuring ongoing security and baseline compliance.
• Developed a risk-based approach to prioritize and remediate infrastructure vulnerabilities for the most effective reduction in attack surface.
• Created and managed a locally-hosted JIRA ticketing and project-tracking system.