Jonathan Kinney Email & Phone Number

College Place, Wa, Us

College Place, Wa, Us

World Wide

Greater Seattle Area

* Primary responsibility; Linux system administration, monitoring, expansion and planning of multiple environments across multiple datacenters to meet business needs.* Mentor and train all new personnel on the Summon Operations team, and help guide development to take into account the reality of the environment, allowing them to better design their software to scale, and be resilient to failure.* Automate, manage, monitor, and deploy Linux/other systems configured via puppet, both physical, and virtual (xenserver, ec2), along with the planning, monitoring, and configuring of supportive physical assets such as racks, switches, routers, NAS, etc.* Application administration for Bind, Cacti, Cassandra, Cobbler, DHCP, Git, Gitolite, Graphite, Graphiti, HTTP, Ipmitool, Jira, LDAP/AD, Nagios, NFS, NTP, OpenSSL, PostgreSQL, Puppet, Rackmonkey, SNMP, Solr, SSH, Stingray Traffic Manager.

Walla Walla, Wa

Research & Development, Sr. Systems Administrator* Primary responsibility; Research, develop, and implement new services and products fully automated from order in billing system, to provisioning of service and notification to client.* Debug xen implementation in opensolaris (xVM) for production level stability.* Build an automated system for provisioning and removing of VMs and related resources via a custom built spooling task api and integrate it with our service order/billing software.* Research and implement IP address management system with MySQL backend, and integrate it with VM provisioning automation, for automatic IP address allocation and reclamation.* Tier 3 Support, and Sr. system administration responsibilities.

Walla Walla, Wa

* Primary responsibility; Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows NT system administration, monitoring, expansion, provisioning, and configuring of all servers and office systems.* Develop and implement Asterisk VOIP system (Trixbox) to replace expensive company wide proprietary phone system.* Build inexpensive open source system to handle company wide backups using hard drives, instead of unreliable and slow tape backup system.* Implement and manage Nagios monitoring system (Netsaint at the time), and Cacti to monitor all systems and services, setting up auto-healing on unresolvable issues.* Customize open source PHP based DNS management system (pdns) to centralize our DNS, and to meet our needs for future services.* Fully script IP address renumbering across all services, from HTTP configurations, network configurations, all the way to DNS, in a perfect smooth, non-interrupting manner (Flawless, and completed hands off in the span of an hour), after AS number allocation from Arin.* Implement and manage DHCP system for office use.* Implement KVM over IP for remote system management.* Implement security features such as enforce SSH only system wide, company CA, internally signed SSL certificates, reverse engineering of exploits threatening clients, mitigation of client incidents, and fostering security fundamentals to clients and colleagues.* Help facilitate datacenter move from Virginia to local in office datacenter.* Manage and deploy Xen, Virtuozzo, OpenVZ, and VirtualBox virtualization technologies for internal and client needs.* Troubleshoot client performance issues with MySQL, HTTP, and other services, suggesting and implementing changes and optimizations to MySQL and HTTP custom tuned to their usage patterns and data access practices.* Worked with Virtuozzo (SWsoft) developers and Sun to have OpenVZ and Virtuozzo ported over to the new UltraSparc T1 "Niagara" CPU architecture. (for more details google "jonathan kinney openvz advantagecom Niagara")