Kyle Sweeney

Clearwater, FL 33755 · (813) 308-9391‬ · sweeney.kyle@shoggoth.dev

Experienced in Linux Systems Administration, CI/CD, and event-based orchestration.


Experience

DevOps Engineer

Yello

Duties:

  • Provision/Decommission customer sites
  • Monitor application and infrastructure health
  • Respond to alerts, and correct infrastructure malfunction
  • Provision/Decommission AWS infrastructure with Terraform and Chef
  • Maintain GitLab application, and associated infrastructure
  • Instruct developers, and infrastructure engineers in CI/CD best practices

Accomplishments:

  • Established reputation as GitLab, and CI/CD SME
  • Planned and performed a GitLab migration from on-premise to AWS
March 2020 - Present

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

Education

Morehead State University

Bachelor of Science
Computer Science
August 2005 - December 2009

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
  • Version control with Git
  • CI/CD with GitLab
  • Configuration management with Salt
  • Scripting with Bash, and Python
Preferred Tech Stack
  • Linux
  • GitLab
  • Python
  • Salt

Interests

Professional
  • Infrastructure automation
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • DevOps/Agile methodologies
Personal
  • Call of Cthulhu tabletop roleplaying
  • Lego
  • Craft beer

Awards & Certifications

  • Ordained Priest - First United Church of Cthulhu | January 2019 - Present
  • GCIA Certified Incident Handler | January 2016 - January 2020