CODY STEVENS
Bozeman,MT
Summary
- 20+ years of experience delivering Linux production environments in cloud scale, high demand, mission critical conditions
- Expert Systems Engineer with operational proficiency with many BigData tools
- Strong programming and scripting ability in Python, Unix Shell
- Excellent ability to quickly identify and remediate problems in a fast-paced environment
- Exceptional individual and team work ethic, sees problems through to the end while collaborating with multiple teams
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Staff Monitoring Engineer
Datto
Norwalk, CT
11.2019 - Current
- Built and deployed multi-team/multi-datacenter monitoring solution allowing teams to self-service their own alerting
- Maintained multiple systems syncing into Redis cluster for fast alert configuration lookup
- Built flexible solution allowing end user to target various alerting paths
- Maintained CI/CD pipeline in GitLab for automated configuration deployments
- Wrote custom python modules to support internal alerting requirements
- Set up and maintained Elastalert instances and wrote custom enhancements to support internal teams.
- Designed, setup, configured, and supported streaming pipelines using Kafka, Logstash, Telegraf, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch
- Assisted with deploying Victoriametrics as backend store for all systems and applications metrics.
- Administered and maintained legacy Bosun alerting solution until it was replaced with Victoriametrics
- Reduced recurring Datadog bill by $30k monthly by moving to internally hosted monitoring solution
- Supported multiple internal teams alerting requirements, working with individuals to help them craft vmalert queries, elastalert rules and Api calls for their alerting
- Maintained ansible playbooks for multiple services
- Worked towards deprecating existing Zabbix deployment with Victoriametrics and Prometheus.
- Maintained documentation around using internal monitoring solution as well as provided user support
Principal Systems Administrator
Oracle
Bozeman, MT
02.2012 - 11.2019
- Designed, setup, configured, and supported streaming pipelines using Kafka, Spark, HBase, Yarn, and Zeppelin.
- Member of DevOps focused team in OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) and OCI-C (Classic) deploying cloud instances using terraform, docker and kubernetes into multiple high-scale, geographically dispersed production systems.
- Worked across multiple teams both locally and with remote members globally to architect solutions using best technology for each situation.
- Researched and evaluated competing technologies to determine which fit needs and requirements of each project best.
- Maintain and support data streaming and web applications in multiple production environments around the globe.
- Deployed and administered Oracle Big Data Appliance from both command line and Cloudera Manager.
- Collaborated with a global team to move a logging framework from batch oriented to a streaming solution, which enabled near real-time search capabilities.
- Continued ownership of original RightNow Technologies Hadoop cluster after acquisition from Oracle.
Hosting Systems Administrator
RightNow Technologies
Bozeman, MT
05.2009 - 02.2012
- Built and deployed a production Hadoop cluster currently still in use with over 1 petabyte of searchable data.
- Designed and deployed an ETL pipeline for data flow into a Hadoop cluster before such tools were widely available that is still in use 10 years later.
- Deployed and maintained graphite framework for realtime system and application metric visualization from proof-of-concept through to a multi-datacenter solution. This became crucial to allow the global operations center to monitor current production health as well as provide forensic data after an event to provide a root cause.
- Day to day administration of RHEL/CentOs linux environments in high-scale, geographically dispersed production systems consisting of thousands of servers and customers.
Developer
Kobie Marketing
Saint Petersburg, FL
04.2007 - 05.2009
- Developed scripts as needed for automation of various tasks.
- Performed Quality Assurance for code to be released into a production environment.
- Configured JIRA, subversion, apache webservers for internal and external customers.
System Administrator
Zoot Enterprises, Inc
Bozeman, MT
02.2004 - 05.2007
- Automated many tasks including system maintenance, file sends, archiving, and system monitoring, using a variety of languages and tools.
- Configured systems for a production environment to ensure 24/7 operation.
- Documented response procedures for system monitoring pages and emails.
- Deployed customer specific code into a production environment.
- Responded to system issues escalated by the support team during off hours.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Montana State University
Associate of Applied Science -
Montana State University-Billings College of Technology
09.1997 - 05.1999
Skills
Systems: Linux, AIX, Windowsundefined
Software
Kafka
Hadoop
Docker
Hbase
Cassandra
Terraform
Kubernetes
Ansible
Puppet
Kong
Yarn
Mapreduce
Zookeeper
Timeline
Staff Monitoring Engineer
Datto
11.2019 - Current
Principal Systems Administrator
Oracle
02.2012 - 11.2019
Hosting Systems Administrator
RightNow Technologies
05.2009 - 02.2012
Developer
Kobie Marketing
04.2007 - 05.2009
System Administrator
Zoot Enterprises, Inc
02.2004 - 05.2007
Associate of Applied Science -
Montana State University-Billings College of Technology
09.1997 - 05.1999
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Montana State University
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