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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 environments, and establishing robust disaster recovery.• 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.• Attended weekly leadership meetings as Infrastructure Lead

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.