Michael S.

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT MICHAEL S.

Over the years I’ve gained a great deal of experience in AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes and Linux. Configuration management and automation of all sorts and Service Oriented Architecture as well. I’ve worked for an 80k+ online university, a streaming media company (Sling / Dish Networks) and for IBM as a Platform Engineer Consultant / Contractor. For IBM I’ve helped Architect an AWS EKS greenfield deployment for a hippa compliant company, acted as an SRE / DevOps engineer for a 1500 server Big Data farm (Production Only / no lower environments) and helped develop a Terragrunt / Terraform greenfield deployment of Keycloak for a Redhat SSO migration for a private / government identity provider.9 years of devops engineering. Helped develop CICD pipelines for 11 Enterprise Level companies.Helped develop and maintain linux configuration management for 14 companies using Chef, Salt, Puppet, Vagrant and vRA.Worked on many high visibility projects including the following- Development of a Bitbucket/Gitlab -> Jenkins/Gitlab -> Terraform/Salt/ArgoCD/Helm -> Consul/Vault -> k8s - Development of a Stash -> Bamboo -> Nexus -> CHEF CICD Development Pipeline- Development of a Stash -> XLR -> Jenkins -> Nexus CICD Development Pipelines- Helped Resolve Critical Production Outage Incidents in an SSO/Redis/JAVA/Centos/VMware (off-prem DCs) and AWS/Oracle environment to Improve Site-Reliability• Rancher/k8s Platforms• AWS/GCP Platforms• VMware ESX/ESXi Server 4.x/5.x/6.x Platforms• Linux/Unix/Solaris/*NIX Technologies• SVN, GIT, Gerrit, Jenkins, Bamboo, Puppet, CHEF, Salt and vRealize• Graffana, Nagios, CheckMK and Splunk• MySQL, Casandra and Oracle RAC database server setup and maintenance• Broad understanding of TCP/IP subnetting, porting and Ethernet • Software/hardware raids, business continuity, disaster recovery & redundancy theory• In-depth knowledge of hardware. Including blade servers, storage arrays, their physical connectivity and their protocols.(IE iSCSI and Fibre Channel)• Formerly a SME on a team focused on Oracle, NDMP, AER, Unix/Linux, Solaris, AIX and VMware with respect to deduplicated Backup, Recovery and Performance Diagnostics70-215 Installing & Configuring Server, Microsoft MCP,(20•••••70 Installing & Configuring XP Workstation (20•••••46 Installing & Configuring 2008 Server (20•••••80 Windows 7 Configuring (2010)Information Storage Management (ISM)(2012)E20-594 EMC Avamar Installation and Configuration Specialist (EMC Proven Professional Specialist)(2013)Terraform Associate Certification (2022)