Cloud Infrastructure engineer
Skills
I am a reliable, and experienced Infrastructure Engineer based in Southern California with expertise in systems administration, CloudOps, WebOps, and DevOps.
A little about me:
A little about me:
- Over 20 years experience.
- Based in Southern California (Oceanside).
- Expertise in systems administration, CloudOps, WebOps, and DevOps on a variety of platforms including physical, co-located, and custom cloud-based environments (primarily Amazon Web Services).
- Projects that have me working on Web sites reaching millions of page-views daily served by dozens of load-balanced, auto-scaled EC2 instances, RDS database servers, and other AWS services (load balancers, Route53 DNS, S3, CodeDeploy, etc.).
- Utilizing a variety of monitoring tools such as Datadog, Zabbix, Grafana, and Cloudwatch to monitor application performance and resource utilization.
- Provisioning and configuring infrastructure with Terraform, Packer, and Puppet.
- Supporting Web platforms based on PHP, Ruby on Rails, Go and NodeJS.
Project history
10/2019
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Present
- Greenfield AWS infrastructure provisioned with Terraform, Packer, and Puppet.
- Ubuntu-based AMIs for Go application and Faktory (ruby) job Scheduler.
- Logging with Timber.
06/2016
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Present
Infrastructure engineer
- Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, Packer, and Puppet building Auto-Scaled infrastructure for PHP and NodeJS-based applications.
- Centralized logging with rsyslog, Filebeat, and log analytics with the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana).
- System metrics, analytics, and dashboards with Datadog.
- Deployment pipelines with Jenkins and Amazon CodeDeploy.
11/2012
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02/2016
Infrastructure engineer
- Ubuntu-based AMIs for highly available, scalable Ruby-on-Rails application.
- Configuration management with agent-less Puppet.
- Centralized logging with Syslog-ng and monitoring/trending with Zabbix.
02/2006
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01/2012
System Administrator
- Migrated hardware-based High-Availability clusters to multi-zone, load balanced Web clusters using Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud.
- Configuration management with Puppet.
- Collaborated with developers to prototype and benchmark system architectures to ensure performance and capacity met expectations.
- QA, staging, and production infrastructure for PHP-based applications using CentOS/Red Hat and Gentoo Linux.
Local Availability
Only available in these countries:
USA