I'm a DevOps Engineer who's always looking to advance my skills. I love learning new things and teaching others around me about what I already know. I always want to know the "why and how" rather than just utilize a command / tool blindly so I fully understand the process.
Maintained Kubernetes infrastructure utilizing Amazon EKS ensuring high scalability and maintainability by leveraging multiple node groups, spot instances where appropriate and both cluster and application level autoscaling.
Work with development teams to ensure a smooth transition from code to production deployments
Develop process requirements related to product infrastructure
Designed and developed Jenkins Pipelines to build, test, containerize and deploy microservices
Configure and maintain an EKS based Kubernetes infrastructure
Track and prioritize work efforts to ensure work is completed in a timely fashion
Educate and assist other engineers to allow them to maintain current skillsets as well as develop new ones.
Managed 250+ microservices on 11 Kubernetes clusters with 5k+ pod across 18 different AWS accounts. (~500K per month of resources)
Responsible for over 75k lines of Terraform Code.
Cloud Virtualization Engineer I
Rackspace
September 2015
to July 2019
Provided customer and team support during night shift hours.
Education of co-workers on new technologies and novel uses of existing technologies.
Support over 50k+ physical servers and 500k+ virtual instances.
Maintain the uptime and availability of a global scale infrastructure with systems numbering in the thousands.
Guided co-workers and customers on best practices for configuring scalable, production grade server clusters.
Troubleshooting and diagnosis of infrastructure issues working with appropriate teams to attain quick and lasting resolutions.
Escalation point within company for in-depth technical issues about all Cloud Products, precluding the ability to Google the answer.
Starting to experiment with Kuberneties and Docker as the technology is very interesting to me.
Linux Administrator I
Rackspace
July 2013
to September 2015
San Antonio
United States - Texas
Aid customers in application design and configuration to ensure proper scalability for future needs.
Front line contact for all Rackspace Cloud Customers.
Act as a point of escalation for team members for more difficult configurations and issues
Electronic Systems Security Analyst
United States Air Force
January 2004
to May 2013
Monitoring of US Govt. communications assets to ensure Operational Security and Information Security compliance.
Subject Matter Expert for Cyber Operational Risk Assessment mission set.