Ricky McKenzie
- Role
- Devops Engineer at Viasat
- Location
- Aurora, CO, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Ricky McKenzie
At Viasat, our team has elevated automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to new…
Experience
Devops Engineer
Apr 2022 — Present
Provided customer enhancements, supported Sensu Classic to Sensu Go transition, conducted code reviews, deployed via Ansible, and merged changes- Developed and deployed a GitHub Action workflow that creates EC2 instances using Terraform, configures them with Ansible, and runs a bash script to delete old instances, and post the results on a Slack channel- Developed and deployed new Infrastructure provision software using Terraform, replacing Jenkins CI/CD and CloudFormation- Deployed Ansible playbooks used to install the required configuration pertinent to the 4 types of Sensu Cluster (api, conf, event, and metric) all hosted in AWS- Rewriting existing Ruby scripts to Go, I have been converting a repository of Ruby scripts to Go language, ensuring equivalent functionality between the two versions- Developed & deployed automated procedures like setting cloud servers using cloud-init, and writing scripts using Ansible, Python, and bash for both Sensu & Splunk- Developed & deployed a new Splunk Ingest Request method for all Syslog data being sent to our Splunk environments. The procedure directs customers to create a GitHub Pull Request- Worked with multiple teams across the company on troubleshooting issues ranging from missing Syslog or databus data to configuration problems on Splunk itself.
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