Engaged in AWS architecture while guiding a diverse team of cloud engineers providing services in cloud security, IAM, FinOps, cost savings, governance, IaC, automation, and recommendations across AWS (90% of cloud utilization), Azure, and GCP.- Heavily involved in architecture and related decision making.- Working with architecture teams around AWS account build automation, SSO integration with Okta, product refactoring and improvements.- Identified and resolved savings of over $6 million by eliminating cloud waste and right sizing infrastructure while utilizing advance techniques to quantify waste.- Increased productivity of team by over 50% without increasing staff through training and processes.

Provided technical customer contact between AWS and government agencies, and offered architecture recommendations to dedicated customers.

Cloud architecture, governance, access, enablement, IAM, automation, engineering, security.

Providing cloud engineering and automation for cloud components of IAM, networking, security, cost management, and governance.

Primarily focusing on engineering cloud infrastructure, within AWS and Azure. Currently utilizing modern devops practices and tools including Ansible, Terraform, and Packer among others.Participated in the engineering and deployment of the new federal level Microsoft Azure based SaaS infrastructure.Developing standards around deployment of new AWS accounts and related infrastructure for various projects and environments.Primary tools being utilized include cloud (AWS and Azure), Ansible, Terraform, bash scripting, OpenShift, Rally, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and CentOS Linux.

Providing Linux and network administration and engineering for a government agency and internal customers. Actively involved with all aspects of day to day operations and engineering. Focusing on ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Ansible, AWS, Linux patching, CentOS, RHEL 6 and 7, scripting, Postfix, and security. Projects utilizing AWS, S3, Teraform, Vagrant, and other cloud tools were worked on.

As the Hosting Services team's systems engineer, I lead the infrastructure architecture, engineering, and day to day operations duties. Primary accomplishments include rolling out Nimsoft Monitoring OnDemand to monitor the department's Verizon CaaS implementation, deployment of Bacula backup software to handle backup and disaster recovery scenarios, automation via bash and perl scripts, and build standards for deployments and processes used within the infrastructure.Architecture and engineering support for the SaaS offerings within CA. Worked on new cloud implementation of Linux systems and back end supporting services including Red Hat Satellite Server, Red Hat Capsule Server, Pulp, Kickstart, syslog, and more.Designing, engineering, and rolling out a large scale implementation of CA UIM (formally Nimsoft) to support multiple large customers with hundreds of thousands of devices being monitored. Performing Linux, Solaris, network, Oracle DBA, and UIM duties.-Created script to be run at build time of new servers to security harden Linux systems based upon CIS Benchmarks for RHEL 6 and 7. Using commercial security penetration tools, for testing effectiveness of the script, non hardened systems contained over 40 vulnerabilities, and after the script was run, there were no vulnerabilities.-Engineered and created architecture for patching solution using Red Hat Satellite Server and Red Hat Capsule Server (multiple installs) to provide single point of patching and package deployment to 7 global data centers with over 5000 servers.

Provided support and build out of HPC (High Performance Computing) clusters for use in processing batch satellite imagery.Key Achievements: Doubled the size of the production HPC clusterBuilt out research and development HPC clusterBuilt out development HPC clusterBuilt out test clusterUsed Moab, torque, xcat,and psh for managing jobs, reservations, users, and the HPC clusters.

Provided senior level support for issues throughout the Unix and Linux environment of over 800+ servers including installation, configuration, implementation and administration. Key Linux administrator for Linux servers used by Space Operations.Key Achievements: Implement rsyslog company wide, for 700+ Linux and Unix servers, to redundant centralized logging servers improving analysis time for complex troubleshooting situationsPromoted to senior subject matter expert and point of contact for technology used by Space Operations DepartmentAnalyzed Xorg setups for Mission Control Center and provided a Linux based 4 monitor solution to help end users complete complex satellite tasking operations efficientlyInstalled, built, and configured numerous servers for all manners of use in the company from sandbox to dev to test and production.Assisted in the migration of over 300 servers to a DR facility located in another state.Built ESX/Xsigo, NetApp sandbox infrastructure to mirror production ESX cluster configuration.Deployed kdump and Dell OMSA to numerous systems to facilitate hardware monitoring

Managed IT department functions from vendor relations to Unix administration, day to day operations, purchasing decisions, budget, site architecture and infrastructure maintenance. Key Achievements: Designed and deployed new site architecture allowing the site capacity to increase over 2.5x from previous design while keeping costs at less than 50% additional.Maintained vendor relations including negotiating several contracts for servicesImplemented Subversion and build system for developers allowing for versioning control and backups of all company source code. Prior to this, there was no versioning or backups of source code.Assisted in the migration of primary site database from SQL Server to MySQL.Handled all day to day Unix/Linux, network and Windows, requests. Some services, Windows and networking, were outsourced to a local company as necessary.Coordinated and completed all technical aspects of office move of the New York office.Maintained 99.8% uptime of production website in a highly aggressive and experimental environment Rearchitected internal and collocation networks for improved security, performance, and maintainability.Updated and maintained all web services on a regular basis. This includes custom versions of Apache, PHP, APC cache, mod_geoip, memcached, and MySQLImplemented Nagios and Cacti for monitoring.

Acted as "jack-of-all-trades" for the Unix Services team providing a wide variety of skills and talents. Evaluated server and network equipment required for various projects. Tested and implemented new technologies such as syslog-ng.Key Achievements: Assisted in the migration of 26 geographically varied sites from Solaris 8 on v880s to Sun 4100s running VMware ESX saving thousands of dollars in yearly costsAdvisor and implementer on new SOA project designed to replace current order processing system for entire companyCreated and maintained patching solution for all Solaris servers allowing for quarterly security patchingHandled day to day maintenance and user requests and participated in rotating on call duties.Primary "goto guy" on the Unix Services team for help brainstorming providing out of the box ideasAdministered over 300 servers, with 7 team members, in a mixed environment of Solaris, AIX, Linux, and VMware running RHEL for production, testing and development environments.

Developed, implemented, and supported a variety of business solutions in conjunction with software developers, third party vendors, and business process owners. Maintained and administered data security. Served as UNIX administrator. Evaluated server and network equipment required for various projects. Created and administered SLAs. Assisted with Sarbanes-Oxley implementation. Mentored other administrators as required. Acted as team lead for entire tenure.Key Achievements: Created website and wiki for procedures/reference materials documentation.Doubled website capacity.Migrated over 50 Sun servers from Enterprise and Ultra to Sun Fire through V880s.Designed and implemented network for collocated facility able to support over 500,000 hits daily.Designed and implemented office infrastructure including routers, switches, local directors, checkpoint firewalls on Solaris, multi-node development, testing, and deployment to production. Implemented Sendmail and DNS servers including mail relays, round robin DNS, and DNS forwarding. Migrated Sendmail to Postfix.Installed, configured, and maintained Solaris and Linux based servers.Designed and installed two separate NetBackup solutions. Tuned software and databases resulting in 50% performance improvement.Created security and UNIX use policies.Enhanced sever performance via shell scripting, Nagios and NISCA.Moved office to new location including server and network relocation.Merged three additional business units resulting in the addition of over 80 new servers.

Managed all technical operations, including architecture, design, and implementations. Supervised team of desktop and server administrators supporting daily operations and R&D. Identified and evaluated server and network equipment required for upgrades and enhancements. Served as UNIX administrator as required. Developed shell scripts to enhance and track server performance.Key Achievements:Designed and implemented all network infrastructure.Developed infrastructure and deployed website capable of sustaining over 500,000 hits daily.Installed, configured, administered, and maintained Solaris and Linux based servers.

Monitored and tuned UNIX based systems. Performed backups/restores, maintained permissions and user accounts, and managed storage on AIX, Solaris, and Digital UNIX servers. Developed shell scripts and performed job scheduling. Performed implementation planning, and installed and maintained custom software, Performed troubleshooting and configurations, and performed UNIX administration functions.Key Achievements:Installed configured and maintained four HACMP clusters of 2 nodes each.Maintained DNS databases for 14 name servers, and over 80 servers performing various functions.Installed AIX 4.x, Solaris 2.x and Red Hat Linux 5/6 for Oracle development and production servers.Promoted from Junior Administrator to Administrator I after three months. Promoted to Administrator II after 10 months.