Greg Perry

Devops Engineer @Encore Technologies

Cincinnati, OH, US

Expert level Linux skills using Redhat (RHEL), and Ubuntu. NetworkManager/nmcli, netplan, cloudinit, DNS, NTP, LVM, gdisk / fdisk / parted, fstab, crontab, BIND / named, dhcpd, apache/httpd, nginx. firewalld, iptables. Working experience developing shell / bash scripts to automate management tasks. Experience with Redhat Satellite and IPA- Architect, implement and maintain KVM hypervisors and open source based private clouds for multiple geographic locations. Full understanding of network, storage and compute stacks- In-depth knowledge of Puppet. Experience with other configuration management tools such as Ansible and Salt- Working knowledge of building Ceph storage platform for both block and image storage of both production data and backup targets- Heavily experienced with Prometheus. Deploying exporters with automation tooling to collect metrics from various Linux and Windows systems, storage appliances and networking equipment. Experience creating Grafana dashboards to visualize data- Development tool knowledge including git, Powershell, PowerCLI, Stackstorm, and Python. Working in a team development environment and participated in code reviews & Pull Requests. Full understanding of creating a feature / bug fix branch, adding changes and submitting a PR for review- Experience with Packer to automate building of custom templates and images for both VM and bare metal systems- Used MAAS to deploy bare-metal systems- Devops focus on developing configuration management frameworks to complete all tasks needed to build and support a multi-tenant on-premise VMware environment. Developed a VMware management stack using Puppet: https://github.com/EncoreTechnologies/puppet-powercli

Cincinnati State Technical and Community College

Associate of Science (A.S.)