Experience

Blue Guardian IT

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• DevOps Engineer

  • Jul 2020 - Present

  Secure and harden Kubernetes clusters managed with Rancher. Use Ansible and Terraform to build infrastructure and configure applications. Build environments in AWS using common infrastructure services: VPC, EC2, ASG, ELB, RDS, etc. Secure and harden Kubernetes clusters managed with Rancher. Use Ansible and Terraform to build infrastructure and configure applications. Build environments in AWS using common infrastructure services: VPC, EC2, ASG, ELB, RDS, etc.



Alula

• United States
• Real Estate

• DevOps & Cloud Engineer

  • May 2016 - Jul 2020

  Design and build environments in AWS using infrastructure as code. Write automation in CloudFormation and Ansible to build AWS compute, network, storage, identity and security resources. Utilize Linux and virtualization administration expertise to build and support CentOS and Arch Linux servers and applications in hybrid environments on physical servers, VMWare and AWS virtual hosts. Manage Cisco equipment for LANs and multi homed WANs with upstream Internet providers and VPNs to major cell carriers. Monitor OS, network, and application level metrics with Nagios and CloudWatch. Maintain source code control with git and Bitbucket; package and deploy code updates with yum and pacman repositories.



Wells Fargo

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Information Security Engineer

  • Sep 2015 - Mar 2016

  Protected information assets through the management, administration and monitoring of UNIX systems and security tools Administered BoKS Management software for access and authorization controls to UNIX services Provided support for other custom applications written around BoKS that were used for monitoring and auditing privileged access, reporting and gathering statistics of use and performance, importing accounts from Active Directory, and managing individual entitlement requests Responded to incoming support requests and escalations Supported ArcSight infrastructure for security event gathering



Hostgator.com

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Security Administrator

  • Aug 2012 - Jun 2015

  Identified and secured root compromised serversPerformed forensic analysis of root compromised servers to discover the attack vectorDealt with legal issues such as DMCA and trademark complaints, terms of service abuse issues, and other illegal contentIdentified and resolve IP blacklist issues due to spam and malwareEscalation point for advanced technical security, abuse, and terms of service issuesContinued to identify, resolve, and secure hacked web sites, compromised accounts, and spam sources

• Security Administrator

  • Nov 2010 - Aug 2012

  Attended to a variety of abuse issues such as hacked web sites, compromised accounts, and spamDetermined source of web site compromise by analyzing various logsRemoved virus and malware infections from web site files, scripts, and databases using Linux tools and custom scriptsIdentified security vulnerabilities in web sites and offer solutions to close holes and secure web sites and web serversIdentified spam sources such as compromised email, hacked sites with malware used to send spam, and deliberate spam.

• Migrations Administrator

  • Jun 2010 - Nov 2010

  Transfered web site content for new and existing customers using traditional Linux file transfer services such as rsync and ftp and a variety of custom toolsInstalled and configured various services for web sites including cPanel accounts, DNS zones, MySQL databases, PHP scripts, and various web site content management software on CentOS Linux web servers

• Linux Systems Administrator

  • Feb 2010 - Jun 2010

  Performed various Linux systems administration tasks on Centos 4, 5, and 6 web serversSupported traditional Linux web server services such as DNS, SMTP (exim), web (Apache), MySQL databasesAssisted customers with technical issues related to cPanel/WHM hosting packages, DNS, web, database, and email services, and site functional issues related to PHP and HTML code and/or the configuration and performance of various web site CMS software such as WordPress, Joomla, osCommerce, zenCart, vBulletin, etc.