Senior DevOps Engineer
Sony Corporation of America - Remote
Duties:
- Create and set CI/CD best practicesfor entire Coninuous Operations, Development, and Engineering team
- Discover, and implement best practices for AWS cloud development environments
- Assist in leading, and planning 2 week development sprints
- Assist in designing, planning, and documenting yearly DevOps roadmap
- Provide feedback to senior management on engineer goals and objectives
- Mentor mid-level DevOps Staff
- All duties described in DevOps Engineer
Accomplishments:
- Original author of a project of CI/CD templates for repetitive tasks to limit pipeline code duplication
June 2019 - March 2020
DevOps Engineer
Sony Corporation of America - Remote
Duties:
- Assist developers in creating and automating CI/CD pipelines
- Automate virtual machine system provisioning with Foreman
- Automate configuration management, and enforcement with Salt
- Troubleshoot, and resolve issues with system automation
- Mentor junior DevOps Staff
Accomplishments:
- Promoted to Senior DevOps Engineer
- Original author of Salt configuration states that decreased virtual machine provisioning from days to 1 hour
April 2016 - June 2019
Junior Operations Support Analyst
Sony Corporation of America - Herndon, VA
Duties:
- Provision new user accounts
- System hardening in accordance with CIS benchmarks
- Patch management
- Register systems with internal PKI
- Monitor system health with Opsview
- Infrastructure management, and administration in VMware
- General Linux administration
Accomplishments:
- Promoted to DevOps Engineer
- Participated in deployment and remote on-boarding of > 200 network forensic appliances worldwide
- Deployed email monitoring appliances in Sony's Singapore datacenter
April 2016 - June 2019
Junior Linux Systems Administrator
Exelis (Harris) - Washington, DC
Contracted to US Naval Research Laboratory
Duties:
- System hardening in accordance with DISA STIG
- Provision web developer environments
- Racking hardware
- General Linux administration
Accomplishments:
- Part of a hand-picked, three persion team to re-architect the US NRL's classified Linux infrastructure
July 2012 - February 2015
Systems Administrator
XTec Inc. - Alexandria, VA
Contracted to US Department of State
Duties:
- Assisted in deployment of physical, and logical access control systems for Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards
- User support for proprietary identity managment enrollment devices
- Maintenance of identity management enrollment devices, card readers, and door controller equipment
Accomplishments:
- Organized, maintained, and re-wired network infrastructure for corporate office
November 2010 - July 2012