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Spokane, Wa, Us

New York, New York, Us

- Managing a team sunsetting existing managed service providers, bringing operational services and capabilities in-house (patching, monitoring/alerting, incident response) using Infrastructure as Code.- Planning, documenting, and driving the replacement of legacy 3rd party tools with performant and cost-efficient AWS services: DynamoDB, Lambda, Lambda@Edge, CloudFront, S3, Kafka (MSK).- Providing Day 2 operational support for applications supporting both e-commerce and retail stores. Including automated patching, IaC migrations, and regular check-ins with stakeholders.- Directly planning, configuring, and implementing Web Security through AWS WAF, Akamai Web Security, and DataDome (bot mitigation).- Leading and participating in incident response activities across several different portfolio companies.- Configuring and alerting in Terraform using AWS CloudWatch and DataDog, alongside on-call schedules in OpsGenie and PagerDuty.

New York, New York, Us

- Assisting in architectural design and deployment (via terraform) of a platform designed to house Saks application teams and support migration of non-cloud workloads to AWS.- Designed and implemented a multi-cloud networking construct fulfilling business needs for security and scale.- Developed a standard component via Terraform to integrate a constantly incrementing number of AWS accounts with Datadog, providing metrics visibility to all teams.- Working with stakeholders and teams representing different technical disciplines to accelerate AWS cloud adoption.

Herndon, Va, Us

- Driving the adoption of hybrid and cloud infrastructure in accordance with industry best practices, and setting company-wide AWS standards for teams to adhere to.- Building and deploying custom security tooling for security operations center monitoring using the AWS CDK, native AWS tools, and Python.- Integrating on-premise environments with AWS Transit Gateway and Palo Alto Firewalls for enhanced security and visibility.- Chairing internal AWS Guild by finding presenters for monthly meetings and organizing AWS-themed events.- Working with finance, infrastructure and product development teams to determine budget forecasts and optimal savings plan rates for AWS usage.- Working with multiple teams to assess and secure cloud deployments in compliance with NIST 800-171 and CMMC guidelines- Crafting and delivering reports to C level personnel on cloud usage, security, and spending

Herndon, Va, Us

- Helped plan, document and ultimately overhaul an enterprise network using VPLS, OSPF and new hardware from Juniper, Palo Alto, and HPE Aruba. - Assisting SOC by feeding information to SIEM (Splunk) and providing technical guidance during IR events.- Assisted in the planning, procurement and deployment of network infrastructure designed to improve business services and trim hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of operational spending.- Driving implementation of open source monitoring tools to track network statistics and isolate performance issues. - Driving security and standardization across 30+ AWS accounts by implementing monitoring, logging and best practice standards through the use of native AWS tools, SAML-based authentication, and 3rd party monitoring software.- Identified legacy infrastructure, instituted savings plans, and streamlined architecture to save roughly 75,000$ annually in cloud services bills.- Creating secure guidelines for AWS and on-premise network infrastructure, as well as driving architecture strategies for hybrid deployments using technologies such as CloudFormation and Terraform.- Directly configured all Corporate networking hardware (Juniper & Palo Alto Firewalls, Juniper and Cisco Switches, HPE Aruba Wireless, Pulse Secure VPNs)

Springfield, Virginia, Us

- Corporate IT Team Lead- Deploying and managing business critical hardware and virtual machines (eSXI, vCenter/VMWare, Cisco Unified Computing System)- Configuring and troubleshooting corporate infrastructure across multiple sites on network hardware from different vendors (Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, Dell)- Creating Visio diagrams of current and to-be network infrastructure to present to the business, and standing up infrastructure in new office locations - Driving accuracy and accountability by implementing ticketing, custom change monitoring, and workflow management tools- Driving creation of environmental controls and automated shutdown procedures in corporate data center, and implementing both off and onsite backups (Veeam, AWS) - Automated laptop imaging across the company, drastically reducing on-boarding times for corporate employees and contractors.- Handling organizational and IT policy changes in accordance with NIST 800-171 audit guidelines.

Springfield, Virginia, Us

- .NET development, UI development, parsing logic, C#, Javascript- Maintaining CI environment, configuring and deploying docker instances- Writing software to interact with varied networking equipment from multiple vendors

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