Cloud Architect

• Jan 2020 - Present

- Configures and deploys servers on AWS, Azure and OCI. - Development of Ansible playbooks for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Windows servers to include application installation via yum and chocolatey. Secure Operating System (OS) and applications per relevant Standard Technical Implementation Guides (STIG). - Lead developer of Ansible Tower integration into current cloud environments. - Developed AWS Cloud infrastructure to facilitate DevSecOps training for project personnel. Environment includes InstanceScheduler utilizing DynamoDB and Lambda, NGINX Reverse Proxy, Bastion Host, GitLab, GitLab Runner, Jenkins, SonarQube, Artifactory, Kubernetes Cluster and Harness Delegate. Show less

Senior Systems Analyst

• Nov 2015 - Jan 2020

Satellite-6/Katello Developer. - Develops Katello and Foreman installation scripts. - Develops hammer scripts and menus to rapidly configure Katello on multiple production and development environments. Scripts create Organizations, Life Cycle Environments, gpg-keys, products, repositories, content views, activation keys, import of subscription manifests and updating of smart proxy. There are also Operation Menu scripts for admins to import RPMS, and sync into Katello and publish and promote new content views. - Created numerous Red Hat Satellite Organizations (Subscription Asset Manager) so that customer subscriptions can be imported into katello via manifests on isolated networks. - Develops join scripts menus for customers to subscribe to desired content views by Operating System, and location. Menus ensure of use by customers unfamiliar with subscription-manager commands by making desired actions available via menu selections, and a troubleshooting menu in case of issues. - Schedules and completes Foreman and Katello upgrades. - Requests and Installs SSL Certificates via foreman-installer, and configures mod_ssl for TLS 1.2 per https://mozilla.github.io/server-side-tls/ssl-config-generator - Downloads CentOS and RHEL RPMS using https://github.com/pyther/upstream_sync This provides customers with backup capability to continue receiving yum updates, in the event of MongoDB failure. - Exports EL6, EL7, CentOS and RHEL RPMS to isolated customer production and development networks, enhancing their security posture. Show less

Redhat Virtualization Engineer

• Mar 2015 - Nov 2015

- Information Assurance (IA). Completes security configurations for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.11 and 6.6 systems utilizing Defense Information Systems Agency Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG). STIGs contain technical guidance to "lock down" information systems that might otherwise be vulnerable to a malicious computer attack. - Creates and updates engineering documents that facilitate migration of physical servers into Navy Data Center Consolidation program. Build VMs based on customer input, disk space, partition layout, desired CPU and RAM. - Provides transition support to Navy customers, coordinating the transfer, delivery, and scanning of data prior to migration to Virtual Machines. Creating user accounts, keeping systems updated and coordinating system reboot times. - Coordinates setup of data center services for customers, SSL cert requests, local and public DNS entries. - Developed bash scripts to configure system security settings, reducing STIG time from days down to minutes. Researches script solutions and provides organization and portability of scripts. - Conducts security scans to include SCAP and ACAS. Show less

Redhat Virtualization Engineer

• Apr 2014 - Mar 2015

- Information Assurance (IA). Completes security configurations for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.11 and 6.6 systems utilizing Defense Information Systems Agency Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG). STIGs contain technical guidance to "lock down" information systems that might otherwise be vulnerable to a malicious computer attack. - Creates and updates engineering documents that facilitate migration of physical servers into Navy Data Center Consolidation program. Build VMs based on customer input, disk space, partition layout, desired CPU and RAM. - Provides transition support to Navy customers, coordinating the transfer, delivery, and scanning of data prior to migration to Virtual Machines. Creating user accounts, keeping systems updated and coordinating system reboot times. - Coordinates setup of data center services for customers, SSL cert requests, local and public DNS entries. - Developed bash scripts to configure system security settings, reducing STIG time from days down to minutes. Researches script solutions and provides organization and portability of scripts. - Conducts security scans to include SCAP and ACAS. Show less

Redhat Administrator

• Jan 2012 - Apr 2014

- Installed, configured and maintained two vSphere 5.5 servers and six ESXI hosts on two separate networks. Configured Active Directory authentication for vSphere Single-Sign-On and High Availability of Virtual Machines in case of ESXI outage. - Built Cobbler (Kickstart) provisioning servers that provided automated and unattended network installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and 6. - Developed configuration solutions that enabled upgrade of 460 computers from RHEL 4 to RHEL 5. - Lead development of Community ENTerprise Operating System (CENTOS) 6.6 kickstarts and snippet configuration for future upgrade. - Scripted daily remote synchronizations of data to backup servers. - Additional RHEL / CentOS experience configuring and maintaining NFS, Apache, Samba 3.6 and local yum repository's. Show less

Retired

• Mar 1992 - Mar 2012