David Fox

About David Fox

Management and co-worker described as “energetic, creative, intelligent, calm, friendly…

Experience

1. Platform Engineering Team Lead

   NetApp

   May 2014 — Present

   Developed and executed a strategy to improve Kubernetes security my enabling Istio ambient mesh for all application stacks in our production environment.Architected, deployed, and maintained OpenShift & Rancher infrastructure in support of multiple production application stacks.Maintained security standards for Kubernetes deployments using Kyverno.Leveraged IaC tools such as Ansible and Terraform to provision compute, network, and storage resources both on-prem (VMware, Infoblox, AVI, etc) and in the cloud (AWS EC2 instances, EKS clusters, NLBs, etc).Architected a Kubernetes DR solution using Velero and Ansible, allowing cross-cloud automated application migration.Critical technical lead in the implementation of Conjur to enable secure secrets distribution in our Kubernetes environment.Developed Splunk dashboards to track overprovisioned workloads as part of an overall cost-reduction initiative.Continuous integration of Ansible playbooks using Jenkins & Gitlab, and later Ansible Automation Platform & Azure Devops.Used Ansible to automate \"all the things\"- Linux, AIX, and Solaris servers; Developed routines to automate patching, and to automate provisioning of patching infrastructure, all in a single Ansible playbook.Maintained internal Gitlab service to version control Ansible playbooks and automation scripts.

Education

• East Carolina University

  B.S.B.E, Information Technology

  1998 — 2004

Skills

• Virtualization
• Red Hat Linux
• Configuration Management
• Aix
• Linux
• Operating Systems
• Servers
• Infrastructure
• Linux System Administration
• Ansible
• Unix
• Solaris
• Cluster
• Vmware Infrastructure
• Storage
• Vmware
• Bash
• Storage Area Networks
• System Administration
• Networking
• Apache
• System Deployment
• Aix Administration
• Team Leadership
• Enterprise Architecture
• Tsm
• Disaster Recovery
• High Availability
• Powervm
• I/O Virtualization
• Performance Tuning
• Infrastructure Management
• Marksmanship
• Rhel
• Open Source
• Network Security
• Netapp Filers
• Enterprise Software
• Vmware Esx
• Postgresql