Eric Lake Email & Phone Number

San Jose, California, Us

- The primary engineer responsible for building a PaaS utilizing bare metal servers, Terraform, and Ansible allowing us to migrate to Kubernetes and saving our company hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. This solution lasted for 2+ years.- The primary engineer responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing the migration of our SaaS from our bare metal environment to AWS EKS.Helped with the migration from Elasticsearch to a new datastore and then back to Elasticsearch in our SaaS environment.- Architected the solution to migrate a large customer to our SaaS solution helping to add thousands of dollars per year in revenue.Manage multiple Kubernetes clusters across an array of settings including bare metal, IBM Kubernetes (IKS), and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes (EKS).- I coordinated several Kubernetes upgrades across each of our environments.- Mentor junior engineers.- Participate in on-call rotation.

Lansing, Mi, Us

- Write custom salt formulas and Ansible roles to facilitate the automation of system and application deployments.- Assist with creating custom Terraform providers to work with our internal cloud solution.- Help with establishing best practices.- Deploy Kubernetes platform for internal use (Rancher).

Reston, Virginia, Us

Private Cloud EngineerMember of a small team responsible for the creation and upkeep of an internal IaaS / PaaS install.- Mentor junior operations staff.- Write custom Ansible roles/playbooks to assist with ensuring the state of internal systems.- Worked closely with Red Hat to deploy a Ceph-backed OpenStack platform in an air-gapped network.- Assisted with the architectural design of the network.- Deployed OpenShift on OpenStack to provide our users with a container-based solution in an air-gapped environment.

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Member of the SRE team building an internal PaaS. Responsibilities include:- Build out the PaaS for our internal teams with OpenShift running on top of VMWare.- Deploy a persistent solution for containers to use using Ceph.- Utilize orchestration tools such as Ansible and Terraform to ensure that our backend systems are built and run as desired.- Ensure that documentation exists so that operations teams will be able to support the platform successfully.- Help organize an internal Operations Conference.

San Antonio, Texas, Us

- Ensure that the back-end systems that support pieces of the Rackspace cloud run as expected.- Help architect new solutions for internal customers.- Write the configuration management pieces (Ansible and Puppet) to ensure that the systems perform as desired.- Help organize an internal Operations Conference.

San Antonio, Texas, Us

- Recreated the interview process used by our team for screening new candidates both internallyand externally- Provided career coaching for direct reports- Created a staffing algorithm to monitor when new head was required

San Antonio, Texas, Us

- Part of a four person management team overseeing a team of 20 admins- Responsible for working with recruiters when have open positions on our team

San Antonio, Texas, Us

- Working to ensure that our ticket queue is getting answered so our customers’ issues areaddressed in a reasonable amount of time- Currently working on a project to help make our current repository system more standardizedand consistent- Documenting the project / products that I work on- Help in the training / onboarding of new admins to our team

- Coordinate events and meetings both in person and online - Support users via irc, forums and email

Hanover, Md, Us

- Maintain the firmware development systems involving 500+ Linux (RHEL / CentOS / Fedora / Ubuntu) servers / workstations as well as their users. This includes NIS, LDAP, Spacewalk, Pulp, Puppet, Mail servers (including about 1300 mailing lists), DHCP, and DNS. - Work closely with the global SCM team, user community, and firmware architects to define document, and review requirements for access rights management for firmware systems.- Performed regular patch management and system backups.- Administered Active Directory Domain across multiple child domains and provided support for 50+ servers for the MES system.- Implemented enterprise class monitoring solutions for fault management and capacity planning.- Designed custom scripts to automated common administrative tasks to improve scalability.

- Package and document applications for ease of installation and use- Support users via irc, forums and email- As a member of the marketing team I helped with development of the distribution web site in use at the time.

- Maintained all severs and workstations across 30 branch offices- Managed domain, security, backup policies and procedures- Evaluated new software and hardware solutions to lower costs- Administered network infrastructure and implemented monitoring and security scanning withopen source tools to provide comprehensive security at a low TCO

Hebron, Ky, Us

- Worked with the LAN, Server and Application teams to migrate legacy systems to moderntechnologies- Part of a team to upgrade deprecated domain platform and later serverd as team leader forthe VMware implementation- Eliminated over 40 hours of weekly manual processes by designing and developing a set ofapplications that monitored more than 200 servers and automated redundant administrativetasks- Part of a two man team to develop and continually enhance a custom application to improveefficiency in bulk account create for RAS / VPN solution- Wrote custom scripts to handle real time, wide spread, viral attacks to diagnose andresolve network problems

Education record

Education record

Computer And Information Sciences And Support Services