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Bellevue, Wa, Us

Ventura, Ca, Us

Culver City, California, Us

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Ventura, Ca, Us

Design, implementation, and maintenance of data processing (batch and stream) components of a demand-side adtech platform emitting 100s of TB per day of event data and processing millions of queries per second.Declarative kubernetes engineering, ft. stateful operators for persistent stream processing workflows, new standards-based cluster turn-up automation, and integration of data processing concepts and technologies into wider SRE ecosystems.Hybrid cloud workload engineering between physical datacenters and all major cloud providers for value production through post-processing workflows, global data availability schemes, security compliance verification, and cost effectiveness gains.

Ventura, Ca, Us

Design, implement, and maintain hardware abstraction frameworks (Mesos, Kubernetes, Amazon ECS) across various company environments (data centers, outsourced data centers, cloud providers).Architect and maintain artifact stores, caches, and repositories in China hosted data centers where outbound network connectivity is inconsistent.Design, own, and support self service deployment pipelines for docker containers, container scheduler configuration, amazon machine images, and serverless lambda functions while minimizing downtime and ensuring security compliance.Designed and provisioned automated, dynamic team-oriented alerting, monitoring, and dashboard creation to enable development teams to better own and understand the infrastructure they manage and deploy through infrastructure as code tooling.Helped design and implement "from scratch" data center builds that enable agility similar to that of public cloud providers, including automated DNS and DHCP server deployment, PXE server deployment for OS imaging, and orchestrating the delivery and update of OS images and server/network device configuration.Consulted with Network Engineering team to manage network device (Juniper, Cumulus Linux) configuration and consistency using Ansible.Designed and implemented Ansible AWX server infrastructure for trigger-based playbook runs (for example, for Auto Scaling Groups and automatic alert remediation). Helped configure and delegate pre-approved permissions escalations through AWX playbooks to enable support or development teams to perform routine, privileged actions without needing to escalate to an infrastructure team.

Ventura, Ca, Us

Lead architecture and implementation of infrastructure as code tooling (Terraform, CloudFormation) for a sprawling multi-account, multi region AWS organization.Standardized access patterns to increase portability, consistency, and productivity across various development environments and for a variety of initiatives.Designed and built infrastructure as code abstractions for vertical application stacks, enabling development teams to migrate entire applications between hardware profiles and geographical regions in minutes instead of days.Served as subject matter expert on AWS infrastructure and implementation for several development teams, including projects on streaming data (Apache Kafka), NoSQL databases (Apache Cassandra, Aerospike), analytics databases (HP Vertica), in addition to standard AWS resource management (EC2, IAM, RDS, ElastiCache, Lambda, EMR, etc).Designed and implemented a private WAN, allowing applications run on several disparate physical data centers to communicate with multiple public cloud providers (Alibaba Cloud, AWS) over a secure, private network.

Chicago, Il, Us

Architect, configure, and troubleshoot Amazon Web Services components for a web-based, api-driven Data Science platform.Treat Infrastructure as Code -- create reusable scripts and templates for infrastructure resources using Cloud Init, AWS Cloudformation, and Ansible playbooks, templates, and roles.Track and maintain all changes to and the current state of infrastructure resources in Git repositories. Participate in peer code review for adds/moves/changes to said resources, and follow peer-driven coding standards and guidelines.Glue disparate systems together with a variety of technologies and resources, including Docker, Vagrant, Ansible, Python (and Perl, and Bash), AWS Lambda and Capistrano. Maintain and participate in test-driven development, prefer self-diagnosing and self-documenting code when possible. Use Continuous Integration tools such as Jenkins, or third party utilities such as CircleCI and Travis CI to make the release pipeline as quick and painless as possible.Monitor not only servers, but applications themselves with tools such as AWS CloudWatch, Stackdriver, and New Relic.

Bannockburn, Il, Us

Acted as subject matter expert on all issues related to networking infrastructure as part of a six-member operations team for a Unified Communications industry service with 30,000 users.Worked with developers and administrators to remove networking as an obstacle, improving network reliability and uptime while simplifying configurations and architectures.Refined network configuration tracking and resilience with version control software, RANCID, Ansible, and automation and correlation scripts written in Perl and Expect.Architected scalable solutions to business goals utilizing Cisco content switching module, nginx reverse proxies, and complex multi-tier network address translation.Contributed to 24/7 on-call rotation, troubleshooting issues with production web servers and infrastructure and acting as an escalation point for issues involving network connectivity.

Westlake Village, Ca, Us

Provisioned and administered 140 virtual machines with VMware vCenter, including workstations and servers, as part of a five-member Systems Administration team for a real estate industry web service with 250K clients.Added, adjusted, and deleted accounts and permissions for a 150-user Active Directory domain using Group Policy, PowerShell, and Microsoft System Center tools.Troubleshot production server issues while minimizing downtime for 250K clients.Developed automated health monitoring of customer websites, alerting on failures of specific components and enabling more accurate correlation of configuration events leading to downtime.Automated and refined domain-wide deployments, modifications, and information gathering processes with Microsoft PowerShell scripts.Created and supported automated inventory scripts and worked with financial stakeholders to minimize licensing fees.Developed new procedures for monitoring the production environment, datacenter hardware, event logs, and ambient temperature and ensured continuous monitoring while improving accuracy.Configured and supported PingFederate servers and maintained 24/7 SSO capabilities for over 100 customers in conjunction with project stakeholders.

Provides 24/7 on-call technical support and network services on-site for a computer services company. Diagnoses, troubleshoots and resolves network speed and connectivity issues.