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San Jose, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Responsible for Infrastructure as code within AWS using terraform Ansible and AWS CloudFormation automation.• Engineered the complete deployment of Aviatrix controller and FQDN gateways to manage whitelisted egress security controls.• Upgraded Hasicorp vault into EKS improving availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery for a core infrastructure service. Improved configuration of vault service with automated configuration, and deployed promethium as a daemon set in the cluster to increase collection of vault metrics.• Engineered a stop gap solution integrating New Relic with Service Now using AWS event bridge, & AWS SQS updating Service Now from alerts generated by New Relic via a rust app on an EKS container.• Conceptualized a pilot deployment to update our Aviatrix implementation to use hub/spoke transit gateway fronted by Palo Alto firewalls to improve egress and ingress security controls.• Upgraded online statement product team's resources within AWS improving reliability and security.• Served as a Gatekeeper code reviewer for our internal git code repository. and Provided squad and cross squad mentoring to fellow cloud engineers within the organization.• Collaborated closely with netsec engineering to improve security across all cloud assets, including review and remediation of dome9 alerts, and any other security issue when identified.• Developed baseline alerts within New Relic to provide alerting for standard AWS resources.

Boise, Idaho, Us

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Boise, Idaho, Us

Cloud engineering First Republic Bank

Boise, Idaho, Us

CitrixWorked on Citrix project to create a FEDRamp as service offering.Engineered Automated deployment of Teamcity on Windows assets using Terraform, Ansible & WINrm.Automate deployment of Azure resources & Azure Linux assets with terraform.

Boise, Idaho, Us

Juniper:Worked on a highly visible security enhancement role. The first part of which was to create OS repository mirrors to provide security patching across the entire company for RedHar/Centos, Ubuntu, & FreeBSD. This consisted of three branches for each repository, emerge, stable & old. The emerge branch was a daily sync with the external mirror. Stable was a sync of emerge on a six month cadence to help throttle the changes to some level of sane changes, and old was derived from the previous version of stable.In the case of a high level or zero day patch the client systems could get patches directly from emerge to provide just in time patching.The second part of the project started out as just automating the creation of Vmware templates to use for smoke testing before a merge from emerge was implemented. It later turned into a project called Image Factory to use Packer on VMware clusters to spin up hardened VMware template to be distribute to the various project teams inside of Juniper. I engineered this system from scratch completely on my own. Other joined in after the fact to help turn this into a CI/CD Jenkins process to create custom configuration package build system. The packages were to provide Juniper with specific preset configuration for things like SSSD, ntp, resolve, Splunk integration, Geo specific internal repo... This was across RHEL/CentOS (RPM), Ubuntu (deb), and FreeBSD.

Boise, Idaho, Us

SAP/ARIBA• Engineered new deployment of RHEL 7.x into Ariba dev & production environmentso Migrated existing salt formula and engineering new ones to support the new platform o Worked with DBA's to implement kernel & network tuning parameter for deploying Hana & Oracle DBso Implemented OS hardening in preparation for production deployment o Built custom RPMs for installing Hana & Oracle client SW as well as re-spin existing Ariba custom packageso Created baseline image for Hana CFM project utilizing Packer• Built RPMs for Hana 2 client on el6, as well as backported unixODBC 2.3.1 from el7 to el6• Upgraded all dev & production machines to use the latest versions of unixODBC & Hana 2 client • Reversed engineered salt master & minion setup on desktop using vagrant to provide sandbox testing environment for developing and testing configuration management code• Created Packer built virtual box images for all OS types (RHEL 5/6/7, SuSe, Ubuntu) currently in use as base boxes for the above mentioned sandbox• Used Packer & Vagrant created a re-producible RPM build environment that runs off a desktop• Extended salt by writing custom state & execution modules in python • Engineered deployment of Oracle DB image into Azure using Terraform

Boise, Idaho, Us

Dell Force 10 Networks • Served as an IT DevOps engineer supporting Dell's Force10 Development IT environment • Defined all aspects of configuration management practice utilizing Profession Edition puppet, which included design, deployment, workflow, updates, and day to day maintenance o Added the roles & profiles design pattern o Implemented R10k, & completed an automated split of a monolithic repo into one repo per moduleo Created new workflow to take advantage of the split repo design o Added rspec test to modules to provide a mechanism to perform automated Unit tests• Created an automated system deployment environment using Cobbler, VagrantVsphere, puppet, & VMware • Designed, implemented, and maintained a new Monitoring core using Nagios/Check_MK & SolarWinds • Created a flexible scripting framework using python & pyexpect to automate making changes & collecting information from the networking gear in the Data centers • Created a build system utilizing FPM used to build package artifacts that could be distributed via an Artifactory server, and controlled by puppet manifests • Provided troubleshooting expertise as it was needed• Mentored & coordinated activities with local & remote team member especially in regards to DevOps Practices

Boise, Idaho, Us

Nuance• Main responsibilities involved support of existing Puppet infrastructure, architectural design/augmentation of existing structure, mentoring & support of fellow Solution Architects• Enhanced vagrant environment used by Solution architect team to perform local testing of puppet code before committing into lab, QA, Stage & Production environments• Provided support & training for migrating existing legacy environment to be managed by puppet• Provided guidance on best practices to improve procedure & process flow, and followed up transfer of knowledge of implemented changes to Sr. Staff members • Fixed puppet master modules in order to enable puppet managed configurations on the puppet master• Solely responsible for engineering and deployment of a load balanced Multi Master puppet solution with a puppetdb storeconfig backend, and a puppet board frontend for reporting• Developed a highly flexible replacement module for managing Apache proxy servers across multiple product platforms • Reversed engineer product configurations in order to implement them under puppet• Gained competency in setting up Apache to load balance puppet master traffic, and set up puppetDB to capture puppet facts & resource data• Enhanced expertise with Puppet especially with regards to puppet forge modules• Learned how to setup eyaml as an additional backend to heira• Enhanced expertise with Apache and mod_proxy

Boise, Idaho, Us

Jasper Wireless• Successfully repaired the client’s broken Puppet/Foremen implementation and rolled it out to production replacing a mostly manual process with a much more robust, streamline and automated one• Re-integrated an orphaned remote puppet instance in United Arab Emirate's Data Center to use the same centralized code source used by all the other Data Centers, providing constancy across all of the companies Puppet resources• Implemented a strategy to provide Puppet/Foremen control over assets in a DMZ using only outgoing ssh to supply the central code base via git replication• Implemented automatic population of assets into Device42 using its REST API via Python scripts• Automated, managed, and improved the process of building out new physical & virtual production system (XEN/KVM) to meet the clients growing requirementso Including internal repository management, configuration management/installs using Puppet/Forman, and source code control/replication using git• Refactoring automation code for improved functionality, maintainability, & readability

Boise, Idaho, Us

Juniper• Led Juniper Datacenter Consolidation Move project• Infrastructure discovery and analysis of system interdependencies as pre-cursor to move• Preparation for migration of assets in A3 and NTT (San Jose) data center to Sacramento datacenter• This included P2V, V2V and physical migrations• Coordinated technical activities and tasks using remote / virtual team (Arizona, Illinois and Boise)• Automated migrated all A3 VMware instance from legacy Hitachi Storage to Violin with virtually no downtime using PowerCLI• Created Python & PowerCLI scripts to perform detailed discovery of Legacy assets within NTT datacenter• Used VMware 5.1.x, created a stage (NTT) and destination (SAC) environment that allowed us to seamlessly vMotion VMware instances in NTT to SAC without incurring downtime• Worked closely with client to plan and implemented a Wide Area namespace expansion from NTT to SAC allow migrations without re-IPing assets• Worked closely with storage team to deal with complicated configurations such as Veritas encapsulation and VCS clustering

Boise, Idaho, Us

ProofPoint• Identified and resolved differences between two versions of Puppet SVN repositories (main Production branch and FISMA regulated USDA mail archives)• Wrote, validated, and submitted Puppet configuration code to satisfy FISMA audit compliance• Assisted in resolving outstanding long-term ticket backlog

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

• Provided heterogeneous systems support for over 900 workstations, 800 PCs and 40 production servers • Coordinated and oversaw strategy meetings addressing design and implementation of projects • Supported PC to Unix integration using MKS, Solstice Network Client, Samba, and PC-Netlink. Major contributor to IT Ops - PC integration standards for deployment across Sun WAN • Provided planning and procurement of capital equipment and subsequent training of junior staff members in procurement procedures

• Administered software, hardware and network connection in multi-platform lab for Sun’s internet related product development • Recreated customer system and network configurations used to develop custom software solutions for strategic accounts • Maintained superset NIS servers for customized maps in test lab • Managed WEB/NFS, ATM switch and capitol asset management for web performance lab • Assisted in customer consultation when systems or networking expertise was mandated

• Administered all aspects of lab test systems, file servers, and network infrastructure • Provided duplication of customer hardware and software configurations used for bug verification, subsequent patch creation, and distribution • Performed complete lab redesign of lab network hierarchy for improved performance and uptime • Coordinated with corporate IT split of engineering lab net from public net to isolate test traffic from corporate end user data space • Provided space planning, network design, and team guidance in cross town move of department to new campus • Accompanied fly and fix escalation engineers when systems or networking expertise was required

San Jose, Ca, Us

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