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Clearwater, Fl, Us

Clearwater, Fl, Us

Clearwater, Fl, Us

KnowBe4 is the world’s largest, best of breed integrated platform, for security awareness training. Helping train users to be the last line of defense in the ever changing threat landscape.• Help maintain and establish build/release/run patterns managing all AWS resources via terraform and deploying applications via Gitlab pipelines.• Wrangle infrastructure to enable repeatable and safe code delivery.• Facilitate engineering through reliable, scalable, infrastructure built following current best practices.• Increase application/organization observability by introduction of automation to auto instrument infrastructureresources during initial deployment.• Write python lambda’s to automate simple repeated tasks: AWS DMS replication task stop/start, informationcollection published via JSON consumable document, etc.• Collaborate with colleagues across Cloud Infrastructure Services to help facilitate innovative solutions.• Coordinate with security and network teams to provide a robust infrastructure platform• Evaluate emerging technologies for feasibility and integration analysis

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Malwarebytes is an anti-malware software company that helps protect against malware, ransomware, malicious websites and other advanced online threats that have made traditional antivirus obsolete.• Directly manage team of 16 distributed SRE’s, including all sprint rituals, quarterly/annual planning, in support of 8 developer groups.• Help establish build/release/run patterns managing all AWS resources via terraform and deploying applications via Jenkins shared libraries, supporting applications written in Ruby, NodeJS, Java, Python, and Go.• Design, build, and maintain infrastructure to support cloud delivery.• Wrangle infrastructure to enable repeatable and safe code delivery• Ensure high degree of applications and infrastructure observability by providing zero touch logging, metrics, alerting and tracing.• Coordinate with security and network teams to provide a robust infrastructure platform.• Work with developers to update legacy monolithic code bases deployed via Elastic Beanstalk to be containerized micro service workloads.• Work with security to set up PCI DSS compliant in-house shopping cart connected to Zora, Avangate, 2CheckOut, CleaverBridge, and Salesforce.• Work with security on SOC2 compliance readiness check phase 1.• Facilitate engineering through reliable, scalable, infrastructure and practices.

Austin, Texas, Us

Senior Cloud Engineer IAS-DEVOracle Data Cloud helps advertisers connect with the right customer, personalize every interaction, and measure the effeteness of each engagement giving more understanding of who the customers are, what they do, where they go and what they buy. The IAS-DEV (Infrastructure Automation Services – Development) team focused on implementing IT infrastructure best practices to empower development through self-service tools and services. Striving to create an environment that enables agile development and continuous innovation by being technical experts and cloud architect evangelists. Responsibilities • Design, build, and maintain infrastructure to support cloud delivery.• Provide core administration, systems engineering, and delivery tasks around all aspects of the ODC public /private cloud infrastructure.• Help design and build the tools and processes to support and automate the above infrastructure.• Liaise with development teams to drive continual improvement of our cloud capabilities, help facilitate solutions, and maximize resource utilization.• Collaborate with colleagues across Cloud Infrastructure Services to help facilitate innovative solutions.• Coordinate with security and network teams to provide a robust infrastructure platform• Evaluate emerging technologies for feasibility and integration analysis

Denver, Co, Us

Chief Site Reliability EngineerPing Identity is a security software company specializing in Identity and Access management solutions.• Lead team of seven engineers with responsibility of ~1,500 servers.• Coordinated all long term goals driving team cadence and removing blockers as they arose.• Multiple monitoring environment configurations (splunk, zabbix, newrelic, monit, Nagios)• Drive architecture, maintain, and help secure our developer pipelines for our On-Premise and SaaS product teams.• Work with developers/SQE to make sure that they have what they need to be successful.• Handle all advanced Windows use cases and customer issue replication for both Development and SQE teams. This includes setting up and integrating with Office 365, Windows Azure Pack, Active Directory Federation Services, SharePoint, Exchange, Authentication Mechanism Assurance, and any other basic Windows Role or Feature tasks.• Create scripts to help teams with basic repeatable tasks, examples: script to stand up a new AD for testing, create users in AD, adjusting Windows Firewall for public-facing test machines, DNS record creation for O365, etc.• Use packerIO to publish new images for: Vagrant, Virtual Box, VMWare, Openstack and AWS.• Automate lab deployments with Puppet and Salt to drop-in base configurations for testing.• Manage/administer JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, Perforce, GIT, Artifactory, Garrit, and light Linux support.• Manage Lab Migrations with minimal downtime and negative effect to Development Trains from VMWare Lab to Openstack and then Openstack to AWS. Labs consisted of 1,200+ servers and client machines

Denver, Co, Us

Configuration EngineerPing Identity is a security software company specializing in Identity and Access management solutions.Responsibilities• Drive architecture, maintain, and help secure our developer pipelines for our On-Premise and SaaS product teams.• Work with developers/SQE to make sure that they have what they need to be successful.• Handle all advanced Windows use cases and customer issue replication for both Development and SQE teams. This includes setting up and integrating with Office 365, Windows Azure Pack, Active Directory Federation Services, SharePoint, Exchange, Authentication Mechanism Assurance, and any other basic Windows Role or Feature tasks.• Create scripts to help teams with basic repeatable tasks, examples: script to stand up a new AD for testing, create users in AD, adjusting Windows Firewall for public-facing test machines, DNS record creation for O365, etc.• Use packerIO to publish new images for: Vagrant, Virtual Box, VMWare, Openstack and AWS.• Automate lab deployments with Puppet and Salt to drop-in base configurations for testing.• Manage/administer JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, Perforce, GIT, Artifactory, Garrit, and light Linux support.• Manage Lab Migrations with minimal downtime and negative effect to Development Trains from VMWare Lab Manager to Openstack and then Openstack to AWS. Labs consisted of 1,200+ servers and client machines.

Victus Captial Management was an investment company with holdings in aviation, manufacturing, retail, software development, and financial services. The scope of my responsibilities covered many facets of business, everything from day-to-day operations of IT infrastructure and services, helping evaluate companies and their technical infrastructure in support of venture capital operations, and partnering with development teams on root cause analysis to isolate problems and craft appropriate solutions. More specifically, I was the architect and administrator for all network connectivity and security among the various assets.• Maintain all layer 2 & 3 devices in enterprise network in different geographic areas. Configured EIGRP, DMVPN, IPSec VPN, Remote user VPN, STP, RADIUS Authentication and Syslog logging. Planned and executed multiple ISP changes.• Utilized SNMP tools to monitor uptime and determine bandwidth trends. Utilized EventComb to pull Event Logs form Windows servers. • Build out high available 2010 Exchange deployment with multiple CAS and DAG servers. Migrated 9 different entities from CommuniGate to Exchange servers. • Upgraded various Active Directories from 2000-2012. Integrated separate Active Directories to share resources on joint projects between companies. Configured both domain trusts between Active Directories as well as migrating both companies to a single shared Active Directory with a single forest containing multiple Domains. • Setup and maintain vSphere 4 in high-availability mode in support of manufacturing, software development and financial services companies• Partner with development teams on root cause analysis to isolate problems and craft appropriate solutions• Manage DNS and DHCP services across dozens of logical networks• Create specification documents for multiple data center expansions and office relocations• Evaluate companies and their technical infrastructure in support of venture capital operations

Austin, Tx, Us

Sunbelt Software was security Software Company that developed antimalware/antivirus enterprise Solutions. After being purchased by GFI Software, my role in the company grew into managing nine datacenters worldwide, and multiple I.T. teams. During the early days of Sunbelt Software that I helped the company deal with explosive growth in staff, workstations, servers, storage, PBX, and public servers that supported our solutions.• Responsible for entire network design to keep up with explosive growth (500% growth four years); staff, workstations, servers, storage, PXB, and public services. Including end to end High Availability and Disaster recover planning. • Configured and maintained all layer 2 & 3 devices including internal/perimeter firewalls.• Regularly had to troubleshoot: DNS, SQL, DHCP, Terminal Services, POTS PBX, IIS.• Played key role in helping company deal with bandwidth needs of public services that averaged over 340 Terabytes of traffic per month. Negotiated and managed all CDN and cloud services.• Managed multiple I.T. teams to keep up day to day operations.• Managed all I.T. budgeting for new projects and maintenance of existing hardware and software.• Managed public facing IIS web clusters that delivered Antivirus/Antimalware definition files. Worked closely with Development teams to test and roll out new code into production.• Designed customer storage solution utilizing EMC NS480 (120TB’s of usable space) allowing for MAC, Linux, and Windows system to send in NFS file access request and deliver direct block level iSCSI• Played Key role in integrating Sunbelt Software’s active directory into GFI’s active directory after buy out. Designed global IP addressing policy allowing for logical use of Microsoft site and services • Worked closely with development staff to test release candid versions of software on inhouse production servers. • Assisted QA and Support teams in setting up complex test scenarios to mimic customer environments.

Knoxville, Tn, Us

Pellissippi State is a technology college.• Created OS images customized for each department’s software needs; modified images as requirements changed. Deployed images in Enterprise production network environment.• Wrote logon/startup scripts to map network drives, printers, and audit local group membership.• Directly supported end users to resolve an array of issues ranging from Internet connection, email access, network file storage to printing and hardware malfunctions on 1600 pc network with 40 servers.

CNS Computer Services was a small business providing technical solutions to SMB.• Designed and developed proprietary Access database interface utilized for documenting call transactions for medical center, meeting all HIPAA compliance regulations. Created technical user guide and trained staff of 20.• Provided Network and PC support for small business, including software, hardware, printers and security.• Designed and deployed Internet / Intranet Web.

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

Clientlogic was a call center based in the technology market supporting a contract for Bell South’s Consumer/Business DSL customers.• Supported Windows: 95, 98, ME, NT, XP, 2000 Pro, Mac OSX, Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape and Internet Explorer.• Supported Home Networking up to 4 PC’s including file and print sharing.

RainForest Adventures is a for-profit zoo based in the Gatlinburg, TN tourism market.• Installed and administered workgroup based LAN, including voice / data cables and workstation configurations. Designed and maintained company internet website.• Designed and developed Access database utilized for tracking season pass holders.

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Ccna Academy

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