Systems Engineer
Saint Louis, Mo
Designed, built, and maintained a highly-available multi-tier Web hosting architecture to support the University's core Web properties, utilizing open-source technologies (Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Puppet/Satellite, MariaDB/Galera, Varnish, WordPress).Managed F5 application delivery infrastructure, including load balancing and DNS, for high availability of core line-of-business applications. Developed custom F5 ASM (security) and APM (authentication) policies to interoperate with single-sign-on systems and to enforce Information Security policy requirements.Implemented Cisco WSA proxy to aid in Information Security policy compliance, endpoint protection, and data loss prevention.Utilized network tools including Wireshark and browser development tools to troubleshoot proxy and load-balancer connectivity issues.Installed, configured, and managed multiple Web server platforms (Apache httpd, IIS, Tomcat) and database platforms (Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB).Built highly-available Splunk server environment. Assisted internal customers with adding new data sources, and with creating reports and dashboards.