John Rodriguez Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• In Scrum/Agile setting with SRE and Dev team members maintaining Ansible enterprise environment
• Used Ansible Tower and AAP to manage projects and users
• Create and run Ansible playbooks from Ansible core, Ansible Tower, AAP
• Use GitHub to maintain Ansible projects, playbooks, and configurations
• Use Ansible Tower and AAP to troubleshoot customer job and access issues
• Use Jira and ServiceNow to manage user request and problems

Hanover, MD, US

• @BCBSLinux Engineer
• Work with application teams to reduce Linux technical debt by migrating applications off end-of-life servers. Followed up with teams for accountability.
• Participants in the requirement, analysis, and design phases of SDLC.
• Track and monitor team progress during cutovers and decommissioning.
• Reprioritize activities with application teams in dynamic environment as required by changes communicated by executive management team.
• Used Excel to create reports track and analyze progress towards eliminating technical debt.

Milwaukee, WI, US

• @ IBM
• Create KB articles instructing Linux engineers on step-by-step procedures to locate, identify, and remediate vulnerabilities.
• Implement baseline security configurations per CIS Benchmark and Linux vendor recommendations.
• Remediate Linux systems and application vulnerabilities according to current IBM cyber security and Best Practice guidelines.
• Verify and report on remediation success/failures.
• Draft and report assessment findings and remediation results to analytical management teams to gauge the effectual scope of the remediation program.

Hanover, MD, US

• @ SoftLayer Fabric SRE:
• Responsible for the triage and analytical diagnosis of the fabric behind SoftLayer’s cloud product.

• System Administrator
• System administrator providing support for Linux desktops and several Linux servers that included Ubuntu 16.04 & 14.04, Red Hat Linux 6; CentOS 6. Linux
• Developed documentation for handling user problems
• Developed scripts to collect needed user system information and system performance.
• Performed installation and configuration of Ubuntu Linux systems.
• Performed maintenance and hardware replacements on Linux servers and desktops.

• System Administrator
• Primary system administrator on two man system administration team providing support for approximately 100 servers in a disparate platform and operating system environment. Operating systems included Ubuntu, Debian.
• Performed troubleshooting, configuration, and maintenance, both hardware and operating system, on HP servers, including PA-RISC and Itanium.
• Performed ignites/installs on HP servers ranging from Superdome to rp3440, PA-RISC to Itanium architecture.
• Installed additional products and applications as requested by users to meet their needs.Linux
• Performed troubleshooting, configuration and maintenance on all Linux servers in environment: including NFS, NIS, and multipathing.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

UNIX System Administrator - Primary system administration on Solaris and Linux, secondary on AIX- On-call 24X7 playing vital role on team, serving as initial point of contact for customers in problem situations, providing highly responsive, dependable service, and protecting fellow team members from interruptions both on and off-shift- Performed.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Computer Operations – handled schedules and jobs on mainframe and AS/400, also responsible for tape duties in data center. Assisted in problem resolution and trouble shooting on mainframe and data communications to stores. Worked with management in daily activities involving data center. On occasion, chaired and prepared reports for daily status meetings.

Denver, Colorado, US

Computer Operations - handled schedules and jobs on mainframe and AS/400, assisted on data transfer to stores, and responsible for tape duties in data center. Assisted in problem resolution and trouble shooting on mainframe and data communications to stores. Worked with management in daily activities involving data center, chaired and prepared reports for.

Bs, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering