Claude Johnson

About Claude Johnson

My goal is to work on super interesting problems at Internet scale, especially backend distributed applications and services which see large and/or fast growing usage patterns, that involve operational complexity and may not necessarily be solved but are very dynamic and fluid. I want to always work in technically challenging environments with people who have deep technical expertise.Specialties: Unix/Linux system administration; agile infrastructure/systems management and DevOps culture; systems & JVM performance & scalability; technology hiring and strategy; operationalizing strategic insights.

Experience

1. Sr Adc Engineer

   Amazon Web Services (AWS)

   Mar 2024 — Present · Herndon, VA, US

   As the L6 senior Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) engineer for the aligned team supporting EBS (Elastic Block Storage) in US isolated regions, I am responsible for:* Ongoing deployment, management and retirement of EBS-related services* Troubleshooting software & hardware failures & faults* Planning & scheduling of maintenance activities in collaboration with EBS software service teams* Executing deployments of both EBS server and client software* Other duties as required to maintain EBS for U.S. government customersAlso a member of a 24 hour pager rotation covering off-hours support requiring in-SCIF support if necessary.

Education

• Howard University

  Electrical/Computer Engineering

  1993 — 1997

Skills

• Solaris
• System Administration
• Red Hat Linux
• Network Design
• Cloud Computing
• Linux
• Apache
• Unix
• Systems Engineering
• Tcp/Ip
• Postgresql
• Data Center
• Shell Scripting
• Agile Methodologies
• Dns
• Operating Systems
• Servers
• Storage
• Redhat
• Rhel
• Internet Protocol Suite (Tcp/Ip)
• Elasticsearch
• Java Performance