Justin Rue

About Justin Rue

I am a trustworthy and reliable professional with proven skills to manage enterprise…

Experience

1. Applications Operations Engineer Iv

   Panasonic Avionics Corporation

   Dec 2019 — Present

   Align with and work to support modernization strategies for Global Network Operations and Software Engineering teams while maintaining existing global applications and infrastructure in on-prem data centers, remote locations, and in the cloud. Contributed to Observability of a large cloud presence using Cloudwatch,Log Insights,and Quicksight; EKS and ECS monitoring. Active role in Monitoring the on-prem environment through Solarwinds including dashboards, custom SAM templates, process monitors, UnDP, trap rules,and alerts that call scripts or external APIs. Involved in multiple migrations to cloud including discovery, planning, identifying blockers, live network and application troubleshooting, complex coordination meetings, EKS cluster upgrades, network proxies, packet captures,large data moves,and RDS database migrations. Trained and proficient with many cloud native technologies and tools like Kubernetes,Docker,CloudFormation,S3,Kinesis,Glue,GitLab CI/CD,Jenkins,AWS CLI, Tower-CLI,and VSCode. Proactive maintenance of custom in house applications/services including Java,PHP,NodeJS,Perl,Python and more. Operation of many industry tools such as FreeIPA IDM,Graylog,Grafana,Elasticsearch,F5 BigIP,Email,DNS,etc. Leverage Linux server base and Ansible core to automate connections, fact gathering, and stateful actions. Ansible Tower to support centralized access and visibility via GUI/API,GIT integration for SCM. Custom dynamic inventory sources with CMDB lookups for control and integration capabilities. Wrote inventories and ssh configurations for complex connection requirements,unique systems,etc. Custom playbooks to introduce new auth methods,bolstered monitoring,and finally establishing consistency and maintainability in an aging environment. Led and documented processes and procedures while advocating for automation techniques, including training staff on both technical concepts and on the importance of standards and consistency across the organization.