DevOps Engineer / Technical Consultant Resume

SUMMARY:

Passionate and skilled professional with 6+ years of experience in technology field and 3 years developing and providing technical training. Experience in Linux systems administration, Cloud, and virtualization technologies. Excellent relationship, customer service, technical writing, training, and communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming/Scripting: BASH/Shell, Python, Go, SaltStack Automation

Automated Configuration Management: SaltStack, Chef

Operating Systems: CentOS 4 - 7, Debian 8, Ubuntu 12-14, Alpine

Web Servers: Apache, Nginx, Nginx Plus

Virtualization: Virtuozzo/OpenVZ, KVM, Docker

Cloud Platforms: Amazon Web Services, Jelastic PaaS, Azure

Databases: MySQL/MariaDB

DNS: Named/Bind, CloudFlare, WHM/cPanel

Mail: Exim, Postfix, Dovecot, Courier, Zimbra, Qmail

Monitoring: Nagios, Zabbix

Technical Writing: Blog posts, Policies & Procedures, Documentation

Web Hosting Control Panels: WHM/cPanel, Plesk

Backup Solutions: Idera/R1Soft, Bacula

Atlassian Products: Jira, Confluence

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

DevOps Engineer / Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

Confidential is a transformation company helping its clients adopt modern Agile technological practices and facilitating cloud adoption and DevOps.
Wrote containerized AWS monitoring/auditing tool in Python/Go
Wrote Docker image to contain binaries to mount to host container for scanning/analysis
Wrote BASH scripts to aid in automated provisioning of resources
Architected & deployed applications in VPC private subnet
Used App Load Balancer/Elastic Load Balancer to reach resources in VPC private subnet
Used Nginx Plus to reach resources in VPC private subnet
Implemented Salt-SSH to remotely configure resources agentlessly in VPC private subnet
Developed AWS tagging strategy
Performed lean evaluation/bake-offs of potential solutions and perform analysis of alternatives
Implemented secrets management, Hashi corp Vault, with registry service back-end, Consul
Implemented Graylog stack (ElasticSearch, Filebeats, MongoDB) & integrated with LDAP
Lead development of internal sandbox environment using Windows 2012 & Hyper-V
Automated Hyper-V VM provisioning through PowerShell
Built an Internet of Things (IoT) project using MQTT, Python, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

Confidential is a computer security firm that specializes in computer security consulting, Total Network security, design and review, Log Analysis, Incident Response, Vulnerability Assessments, and Managed IDS/IPS Services
Developed code to automatically install salt-minion, software, and configuration
Reduced time required to deploy training environments using Salt configuration management
Upgraded Zimbra mail server’s operating system, software, and migrated all existing data
Developed Salt states to pull audit data from user workstations to ensure security compliance
Built development Salt/Docker virtual environment
Assigned to Incident Response team for hacked client project
Proactively monitored the network and infrastructure using tools such as Zabbix, graphs, etc
Managed DNS through Named/Bind and

Confidential

Operations Coordinator / Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

Confidential is a provider of managed hosting solutions and services. They offer off-the-shelf, fully scalable, fully managed dedicated, vps, bare metal and hybrid hosting solutions
Developed solution to locate and identify vulnerable Content Management System software
Developed solution to check MySQL for INNODB tables, poll databases, and table information
Developed solution to analyze Apache traffic logs to identify potentially malicious traffic
Recognized for high quality of work through employee of the quarter and promotions
Partook in Amazon Web Services training
Chosen to develop and deliver training for internal staff
Appointed to Anti-Spam task force
Engineered Nginx load-balanced product offering using Jelastic PaaS
Configured client DNS using Named/Bind, WHM/cPanel interface, and CloudFlare
Developed and delivered CloudFlare DNS/CDN training
Acted as a mentor and trainer to existing and new staff
Acted as a point of escalation for complex issues
Proactively monitored the network and infrastructure using tools such as Nagios, graphs, etc