Songtrust/DMPGroup- DevOps Engineer at Music Industry08/2016 - PresentImplement and maintain AWS cloud environment for Django Application for music publishing and royalty administration.Implement and admin Amazon services such as EC2, CodeDeploy, ECS, ELB, RDS, TrustedAdvisor, CloudWatch, S3, Route53. Performance monitoring using DataDog, NewRelic, PGAnalyze, Splunk and custom based solutions.Automate deployment processes with CircleCI, Ansible and CodeDeployMigrate older Ubuntu 14x instances to Ubuntu 16x and patch app code where necessary. Responsible for creating and maintaining Ansible playbooks to bring up new instances, elb's, deploy code, patch systems, backup RDS instances, launch instances, manage IAM accounts, SSL certs, system user accounts and permissions, storing raw PG data offsite and various sys admin tasks.Work with developers for full stack support, such as automating dev environments consisting of Django, Redis, Postgresql, Python modules, PIP.Debug and solve many issues as they arose. Such as webhooks, python log handler, rsyslog and log rotation.Created fully automated deployment process with Hubot implementing general ChatOps practices, including deploying and interacting with AWS services from Slack.Hardened all linux systems following standard security practices.Built out daily performance monitoring and alert notification dashboard.

Migrate entire web operations from third-party hosting provider to AWSSetup and maintain AWS ELB, RDS, EC2,VPC, Route53, ElasticSearch, ASG.Setup administer and maintain ruby on rails stack utilizing memcached,redis,sidekiq,postgresqlDebug and admin RoR, linux,nginx,mysql and PHP MVC-based web applicationCreate deployment processes for rails stack utilizing capistrano and custom-based solutions.Migrate chef cookbooks to ansible playbooks.Fully responsible for creating and maintaining AWS infrastructure, including both classic and VPC's.Create and maintain CI/CD using ansible, sinatra, hubot, circleci, github webhooks.Create and implement sinatra endpoint to automatically run ansible playbooks to launch/configure AWS.Create hubot scripts in coffeescript for speaking HTTP to sinatra based endpoint.Create and update ansible playbooks to build entire cloud infrastructure, including VPC's, security groups and high-availability (multi-az)Work with developers to streamline their build and release processesImplement and update automated backup procedure -- nightly,weekly,monthly shapshots -- using postgresql on EC2 and RDS. Integrate ChatOPs with hubot to fully configure EC2 instance launching and various AWS servicesDesign and implement robust monitoring systems and tools for rapid response to all systems issues.Debug rails performance issues including db imports and indices, batch processing, burst traffic and other RoR related issues.Quickly respond to various web operation issues and present solutions while maintaining a 99.9% uptimeUpdate all SHA-1 SSL certificates using less secure encryption technologies to current SHA2 standard.Develop custom based scripts in addition to using loader.io to provide performance benchmarks to enhance side usabilitySetup, maintain and automate user-management and permissions for developers to access web application tools needed.Cost-analysis and reduction using AWS on-demand and reserved instances.

Responsible for scripting, deploying, web programming, patching, errors/stack trace analysis, performance analysis and tuning to support all environments from testing to production. Worked independently and cooperatively with development team to assure high availability of systems.Responsible for implementing and improving database imports (full & incremental), stored procedures, backups and retention as well as solely responsible for multiple masters and slaves for sales reporting and other business critical applications.Responsible for building and scaling Rackspace/Tunecore dedicated servers as well as Rackspace/AWS cloud based servers for large scale web applications using Ruby On Rails, Sinatra and Python Django frameworks. Developed security tools for preventing RoR exploits and brute force login attempts. Developed and introduced caching layer using standard RoR caching techniques.Developed and maintained numerous svn and git repositories using both Unfuddle and Github. Initiated and completed svn migration to git workflow processes. Deployed and executed application updates using Ansible,Capistrano,Fabric and various other custom built deployment scripts.Developed and maintained large repository of crons,rake tasks, batch jobs, bash,python and ruby scripts for backend tasks and system automation.Assisted in creating service monitoring dashboard using nagios, collectd/rrdtool, newrelic, graphite, cacti, monit. Wrote custom system reporting scripts to measure hardware and application performance. traffic, bottlenecks and detect layer 7 saturation points.

Setup, configured and deployed multiple web servers both physical and virtual using LAMP and JBoss/Oracle stacks for mobile application infrastructure. Setup and configured Oracle DB, JBoss, UNIX ODBC, TSQL, cx_Oracle and how to use Python to connect to Oracle and Microsoft databases,Provide Cisco ASA remote VPN configuration and advise technical staff on fundamentals of administration.Provided fundamental linux administration such as package config, user management and environment settings.

Provide assistance in setting up and/or troubleshooting OSX and Linux development environments using Ruby On Rails, Vagrant, VirtualBox, Posgresql and various other software. Helped compiling of static graphics libraries for deployment of web application using Heroku.

Responsible for setting up and configuring DNS Bind9 for multiple hosts and wrote bash scripts for automatic zone file editing.Setup and configured full mail services suite using Postfix MTA with Cyrus-Imap-SSL, Dovecot and Postfix Admin web interface for account administration using Postfix-MySQL for mail domain alias creation and email storage.Provide complete and comprehensive forensics on exploited PHP web services to identify attack vector and remove vulnerable Wordpress plugins. Migrate all company websites from CPanel hosted environment to AWS ec2. Provided custom shell scripts for site updates and configuration changes.

Responsible for maintaining, executing deployment, configuring, hardening and troubleshooting over 400 PHP websites utilizing LAMP stack. Developed and improved log analysis tools and maintained monitoring dashboard using NAGIOS, mrtg, Google Analytics and Urchin.Wrote custom deployment and provisioning scripts in bash and python to setup and update multiple web operations environment as well as develop scripts for automatic creation and updates of virtual hosts (http/https) with automatic IP allocation across the web farm.Solely responsible and on call 7/24/365 to solve non trivial to trivial sys admin tasks as needed. Configured and improved upon existing MySQL database environment including performance modifications of hardware and software. Initiated backup retention policy.Manage Cisco PIX firewall and LB/CSS 115xx network devices.

Migrated all Microsoft email servers to Linux Postfix, Cyrus-imap-SSL, Dovecot with Squirrel Mail interfaceSetup and hardened multiple linux machines for DNS and Web environmentsResponsible for Instructing and Training Microsoft admins on Linux command line fundamentalsVarious Remote administration tasks to assist in linux networking and firewall (iptables) configuration.

Responsible for maintaining STX/NACT switches to manage large prepaid calling card network.Build Compaq Proliant servers and install SCO UNIX Openserver 5Design from the ground up a searchable dashboard using Perl to provide daily call-record reporting. Migrate Novell file servers to samba on FreeBSD.Setup and maintain company email using sendmail. Setup and configure bind 8 and DNS services Compile and install Apache 1x web servers.Admin and maintain LAN network consisting of Sun Systems running Solaris 7 and 8. Build tools using Perl and Bash to automate reporting processesSetup and maintain OpenBSD firewall using pf Migrate SCO UNIX servers to FreeBSD on Compaq dedicated systemsReplace Informix databases running on SCO UNIX with Oracle on FreeBSDCompile and optimize MySQL databases for web applicationsProvide network support for both WAN and LANTroubleshoot and provide solutions for users on internal networkProvide and automate full and incremental backups scripts.Build tools to upgrade and patch FreeBSD, including compiling custom kernels and complete userland environments.