Responsible for the daily management of DevOps/Systems Engineering teamWork directly with all department leaders on customer success and driving the team to maintain schedules and deploy projects on time. System patching and general system administration as needed. Continually working to ensure the technology stack is current.Moving all development into docker/Kube for eventual production roll ou

Responsible for the overall maintenance of 20 active clients AWS accountsTerraform and Puppet Infrastructure as codeNewRelic, Logz.io, Datadog, Jira/Bibucket/Confluence Cloud, Magento, Linux Systems Engineering Create and Maintain automation tools. Okta SSO, AWS Organizations. Cloud Cost control.Work with PMs and Developers on the full development lifecycle.

DevOps, Linux Systems Engineer, AWS Certified, Puppet, Terraform, Magento, Newrelic

Linux System Administration and Metrics Engineer* Responsible for the configuration and management of Graphite/InfluxDB/Grafana/Telegraf time series metrics. * Atlassian software administration. * System patching and general system administration as needed. * General Open Source database maintenance

Linux System Administration and DevOps/TechOps Automation * Automated process of building bare metal servers; created ability to build and deploy 30 servers automatically in under 2 hours, with single command. * Utilized VMWare, XenServer, and Bare Metal in monitoring and maintenance of over 1K servers, across multiple platforms, handling ~1PB of searchable data. * Automated server and software deployment using Ansible, creating consistent platform across development, QA, and productions server and increasing recovery time after critical failures. * Implemented and maintained Atlassian tools, resulting in increased code efficiency and more agile development. * Enhanced data collection and search abilities through breaking down application into SOA architecture. * Collaborated with developers, ensuring project delivered into production on schedule. * Provided on-call, 24/7/365 support, in rotation.

DevOps and RHEL System Administration.* Produced Release Notes for System Test and Operations Team.* Implemented and maintained Atlassian Tools (Fisheye, Jira, Bamboo), allowing efficient code delivery and continuous build/integration of Java development team projects.* Advised development team on production server and infrastructure requirements and Maintained development servers on ESXi Virtualization Platform.* Collaborated with core system administration team on production troubleshooting, facilitating on-time releases.

Primary Linux System Administration on Linux and Windows servers across 2 virtualization farms.* Setup, automated, and maintained critical, customer-facing server and back end infrastructure, minimizing system downtime.* Automated server configurations, service, and security updates using Puppet.* Implemented Nagios upgrade, improving reliability of server/service monitoring.* Utilized open-source tools for design and implementation of HA SCSI SAN.* System administration and maintenance: HIDS with OSSEC, AWS and HA SCSI SAN Systems.

* Design, planning, implementation, documentation, and support for Linux-based cloud hosting platform based on OnApp Cloud/CDN.* Reduced provisioning and bare metal restores of hypervisors by automating kickstart installation with post scripts.* Wrote perl, bash utility scripts, facilitating system API interface.* Maintained and supported legacy servers, systems, networks, and websites.* Software: MyDNS DNS Cluster, Trac Wiki with Subversion, Munin Server Monitoring

Linux Administrator SupervisorLinuix Systems AdministratorLead Supervisor over 26 Night Shift System AdministratorsProviding primary technical support and Linux system administration to web hosting clients. Daily monitoring and maintenance of thousands of Linux Cpanel servers.Linux, DNS Bind, Cpanel/WHM, Apache, Exim, MySQL, Bash Shell

Sr Linux Systems AdministratorResponsible for the management of 1000's of CentOS and FreeBSD servers.Provided technical support to client base for the following server typesWeb Server - Apache - Ngnix - LighttpdEmail Server - Sendmail - Exim - Postfix - SpamassassinDatabase Servers - MySQLStreaming Video Servers - FFMPEG - mod_flx H.264 - Red5Load Balancers for Web/DNS serversHigh Availability LinuxHA - LVSServer Hardware - 3Ware - PERC - MegaraidDeveloped USB Based Automated Kickstart installer for fast growing base of servers. Reduced server install time including raid configuration from 30 to 10 minutes. Worked with Datacenter team to fine tune support processes by creating a automation tool kit with scripts written bash and perl.

Sr. Linux Systems AdministratorResponsible for the management of dozens of CentOS based email,web and database servers. Working with Marketing/Operations teams to drive efforts ensuring the reliability of the hardware and software systems. Increased overall company profitability by maintaining systems up-time and improving technical infrastructure. • Successfully migrated MTA server farm to a new SMTP platform and upgraded hardware. Reduced hardware requirements by 50%• Successfully rebuilt MySQL infrastructure to utilize Innodb, Master Slave Replication and upgraded hardware. • Automated and fully documented server installations • Implemented updated server monitoring with Nagios and Cacti• Work with software developers to launch and maintain client and internal websites.• Setup Load Balancing for MySQL Slave ClusterMySQL, Apache, mod_proxy, Momentum(ecelerity), Bash, InnoDB Hotbackup, Squid, Subversion, Trac, Bind, Tinydns, Dnscache, Goodmail, Nagios, Cacti, SNMP, CentOS, IPTables, GRE Tunneling, SMTP, TCP Tuning.

Linux System Administrator – Level II Technical Support• Providing primary technical support and Linux system administration to web hosting clients. • Daily monitoring and maintenance of hundreds of Linux Cpanel servers.• Responsible for over 100 support replies per day average. • Linux, DNS Bind, Cpanel, Apache, Exim, MySQL, Bash Shell

Providing primary technical support and Linux system administration to managed hosting and web development clients. Worked remote from home office in Houston Area.• Daily management of over 100 servers running 4 hosting platforms (Plesk, Ensim, Hsphere, Virtuozzo).• Successful migration of 1000’s of clients web sites.• Ensure 24/7 Quality Technical Support for customers.• Routine maintenance and updates of Linux servers.• Monitoring and maintaining security and network/server performance.• DNS, TCP/IP, Apache, PHP, MySQL, Bash Shell, Linux, Virtualization, Scripting, HTML

Leveraged extensive experience in the Internet hosting arena to establish and grow this pioneer provider of Virtual Private Server (VPS) Web hosting to 600 customers with over 10,000 domains. Held full responsibility for company finances, sales and marketing, hardware and software purchasing, 24/7 technical support and customer relations. Managed staff of six local and remote personnel.• Launched the first full-service VPS-only hosting company with minimal up-front investment, establishing early industry standards for product specifications, pricing and service levels.• Effectively managed more than 100 servers running four hosting platforms while maintaining an extraordinary rate of 99.9% network and server uptime.• Proactively adjusted company’s marketing approach and product pricing to survive in the challenging post-9/11 economic environment.