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Cloud Infrastructure Engineer and System Administrator

Oceanside, USA
Only remote
B.S.B.A. Decision and Information Science
Oceanside, USA
Only remote
B.S.B.A. Decision and Information Science

About me

Cloud Engineer and System Administrator with wide range of experience in Web and application hosting infrastructure including database management, WebOps, and DevOps across both public cloud and physical environments.

Amazon Web ServicesDevOpsZabbixDatadogCloudwatchPuppetTerraform
I am a reliable, and experienced Infrastructure Engineer based in Southern California with expertise in systems administration, AWS CloudOps, WebOps, and DevOps.
A little about me:
  1. Over 25 years experience.
  2. Based in Southern California (Oceanside).
  3. 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:
  1. 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.).
  2. Utilizing a variety of monitoring tools such as Datadog, Zabbix, Grafana, and Cloudwatch to monitor application performance and resource utilization.
  3. Provisioning and configuring infrastructure with Terraform, Packer, and Puppet.
  4. Supporting Web platforms based on PHP, Ruby on Rails, Go and NodeJS.

Experience

Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2019

Languages

EnglishNative speaker

Project history

Infrastructure Engineer

- Refactored existing Terraform codebase for better organization and modularity with Terragrunt and OpenTofu.
- Implemented Best practices, right-sizing, costs optimizations, scaling, and compliance within SOC 2, GDPR, and CCPA compliance frameworks.
- Implemented AWS Single-Sign-On for Multi-account AWS resources.

Infrastructure Engineer

- Established groundwork for replacing legacy in-house IaC tools with Terraform and Terragrunt.
- Managed third-party CDN (Akamai), including TLS, DNS, and security services.
- Provided infrastructure, operational, and architecture support during uplift from colo to AWS.

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.

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.

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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