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Las Vegas, Nv, Us

Boise, Id, Us

Serve as an escalation point for Developers, Engineers, and other technology teams in the resolution of infrastructure and micro service problems running in AWS EKS. Contribute to the development and maintenance of automation tools used in the management of our infrastructure (Cloud formation and Terraform) and micro service applications in AWS. Plan, schedule, test and perform software installation and upgrades. Create and maintain documentation of systems and processes for existing and new micro service applications. Build, administer, and troubleshoot all mission critical environments (Production, Stage, Dev, Test, QA) for a micro service SaaS application that is highly available. Coordinate changes with application owners to ensure minimal user impact to customers and other micro services within the company.

Boise, Id, Us

Maintained reliable deployment methods for a SaaS application running with low latency and minimal downtime. Conducted PCI/SOC compliance audits to ensure best practices with running well architected software. Ensured cost minimizations and reduction with reworking AWS and on premise configurations.

Washington, Washington Dc, Us

Responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of allsystems hardware and software and related infrastructure using VMware Vsphere. Configures Windowsand Linux servers for production and testing environments. Develops Bash and PowerShell scriptsto automate systems configurations. Participates in technical research and development to enablecontinuing innovation within the infrastructure. Assists project teams with technical issues in theinitiation and planning phases of our standard project management methodology. These activitiesinclude: the definition of needs, benefits, and technical strategy; research & development within theproject life-cycle; technical analysis and design; and support of operations staff in executing, testingand rolling-out solutions. Focuses on smoothing the transition of projects from development staff toproduction staff by performing operations activities within the project life-cycle.

Washington, Washington Dc, Us

Evaluated Network and Systems configurations for NIST and FedRamp compliance. Performed security audits and vulnerability testing for ICS systems throughout the region. Ensured assessments and reviews were completed with the upmost security and minimal vulnerabilities to critical systems used for power generation and management of water. Renewed federal contracts for software and hardware used in the IT Security office for their regional support. Planned and coordinated processes for mobile device wipes and destruction of data on end of life devices.

Washington, Washington Dc, Us

Planned procedures and developed programming solutions to create a VOIP phone alert system for livedata. Created secured Postgres and MySQL database solutions to limit access from network attacks.Programmed Unix systems for automated file backup and program execution for fast disaster recovery.Utilized standard software engineering practices to work with a team of developers using Agile development practices.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

System/Network Administrator - Provided strategic planning, training and staff development for ateam of 6 subordinates on computer imaging, software setup and initial network configurations.Conducted risk management, information security management for the Department of Defense auditsand compliance. Lead product acquisition, operational planning/administration, reconnaissancefor 6 separate site configurations prior to deploying units to Afghanistan and Kuwait consisting ofpurchasing $500,000 in computers, servers and network devices. Lead a team of six to setup networksand configure over 300 new computers and over 200 VoIP phones at each of the sites. Networkadministrator duties consisted of planning, installing, configuring, and troubleshooting 16 switches,and 6 routers. Network setups included making over 300 Ethernet cables and 6 separate fiber cableconnections meeting compliance standards for color coded classification separation. Granted a TS-SCI security clearance to meet the Department of Defense regulations and information assurancecompliance.