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Josh Bowers

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Last update: 24.11.2023

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer and System Administrator

Company: Cloud Ops Group
Graduation: B.S.B.A. Decision and Information Science
Hourly-/Daily rates: show
Languages: English (Native or Bilingual)

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:
  • 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).
Some highlights of my background include:
  • 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 - Present
Cloud Infrastructure engineer

  • 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 - 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 - 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 - 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.


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