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Englewood, Co, Us

• Led a high-performing team that started as a team of 2 before growing into 15 employees. • Drove performance management efforts with the team, providing proactive training and development to drive individual and team performance improvements. • Deployed infrastructure for the Kubernetes clusters, maintaining the Kubernetes clusters and related tools, including Prometheus and Grafana. • Maintained all Linux-level machines, including patching, software updates, and deployment of services (NFS, SFTP, SMTP, and NTP).• Conducted in-depth troubleshooting, reviewed logs, edited YAML files, and deployed tools to Kubernetes clusters using HELM and VMware Telco cloud automation.

Englewood, Co, Us

• Served as a senior member of the PaaS team that had, over 10 months, established an on-premises cloud environment that included 345 ESXi Hosts, over 1300 Virtual Machines, and 50 Kubernetes clusters with approximately 600 compute node pools.• Maintained direct involvement in installing and upgrading the VMware suite of software used to create the current Dish Wireless Cloud Platform.• Evaluated, implemented, and administered several Cloud Native tools, including Prometheus, Grafana, Fluent Bit, ELK Stack, Metallb, and Traefik. • Established processes and procedures for deploying Kubernetes clusters and PaaS functions using VMware Telco Cloud Automator (TCA). • Held a key role as the PaaS Team's Kubernetes subject matter expert (SME).• Created Ansible playbooks that automated simple tasks, including creating NFS shares, adding users, installing and removing software packages, and performing backups of critical databases. • Train and mentor team members on new and existing technologies and initiatives. Provide direction on outstanding issues and help guide our team in contributing to the overall goals and success of the company. • Provided wide-ranging Platform, Core, and RAN support for external vendors and internal customers, often during after-hours and weekends, and participated in an on-call rotation, addressing both Tier-2 and Tier-3 level issues.Notable achievements while in the position included:- Developed processes to reduce the complexity and deployment time of various administrative tasks.

Englewood, Co, Us

• Implemented and administered a highly available private cloud utilizing Docker, Kubernetes, and Rancher technologies to support software development initiatives.• Led the management and integration of AWS technologies related to private cloud, including EC2, IAM Roles, Route53, and S3 storage.• Managed several customer networks utilizing Cisco and Juniper routing, switching, and firewall technologies.• Installed and administered VMware vSphere and ESXi clusters and administered Linux and Windows-based servers for DHCP, NAS, NTP, and system monitoring• Served as a compression engineer, managing the provisioning, encoding, multiplexing, and scrambling of systems necessary for end-to-end video transmission.• Evaluated and tested new software and hardware technologies and participated in an on-call rotation for production CAS Systems.• Obtained valued experience with SAFe Agile methodologies.