Principal Platform Engineer

• Apr 2022 - Present

Maintain, upgrade and administer Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) platforms across multiple environments at numerous Air Operations Centers (AOCs) Provide operational support of PCF through monitoring, disaster recovery, security compliance/auditing, storage, etc. Collaborate with and assist application developers to on-board and test applications (i.e., code fixes, deployment configurations, etc.) Use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) artifacts to build and maintain platform environments Build, , deploy, optimize and troubleshoot automation and CI/CD pipelines for >250 applications on PCF infrastructure in 4 geographic regions worldwide Coordinate disaster recovery of 80+ apps to multiple regions while minimizing production downtime through established SLAs Conduct PCF tile backups and use internally developed concourse pipelines for MySQL and Postgres database services disaster recovery Manage technical documentation for common processes and train new operators, both locally and remote Monitor Gitlab boards for customer incidents and internal code changes Audit daily operations via vRealize and VMware Tanzu services Show less

PCF/Kubernetes Platform Engineer

• Jul 2021 - Present

Maintain, upgrade and administer Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) platforms across multipleenvironments at numerous Air Operations Centers (AOCs)Provide operational support of PCF through monitoring, disaster recovery, securitycompliance/auditing, storage, etc.Collaborate with and assist application developers to on-board and test applications (i.e., codefixes, deployment configurations, etc.)Use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) artifacts to build and maintain platform environmentsBuild, , deploy, optimize and troubleshoot automation and CI/CD pipelines for >250 applicationson PCF infrastructure in 4 geographic regions worldwideCoordinate disaster recovery of 80+ apps to multiple regions while minimizing productiondowntime through established SLAsConduct PCF tile backups and use internally developed concourse pipelines for MySQL andPostgres database services disaster recoveryManage technical documentation for common processes and train new operators, both locallyand remoteMonitor Gitlab boards for customer incidents and internal code changesAudit daily operations via vRealize and VMware Tanzu services Show less

Core Systems Manager

• Apr 2019 - Jul 2021

Manage a small team of Systems Administrators maintaining and upgrading the systems andsoftware on an Air Force Air Operations Center.

Senior Principle Systems Administrator

• Apr 2015 - Apr 2019

Senior Systems Administrator

• 2004 - 2015