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James Joyner IV

San Jose,CA

Summary

Systems Engineer with over 25 years providing technical solutions through high-quality service and support. Seeking a part time consulting or contracting position.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior DevOps Engineer

Yahoo
Sunnyvale, California, United States
02.2007 - Current
  • Production support for over 5k servers
  • Built Chef HA cluster in multiple AWS regions
  • Create and implement Chef cookbooks recipes
  • Execute daily administration on Jenkins build and release farms
  • Participate in weekly sprint planning following Scrum team best practices
  • Coordinate projects across multiple properties and platforms
  • Install, configure, and maintain java based application software
  • Install, configure, and maintain python based application software
  • Troubleshoot high level severity production outages
  • Write and maintain custom monitoring scripts in Perl and Python for staging and production environments
  • Implement and administer Git version conctrol best practices
  • Automate system configuration with Chef
  • Automate java and node.js builds with Jenkins
  • Support remote tasks and config management with SaltStack
  • Provide Tier 2 and Tier 3 level support
  • Implement linux kernel performance tuning
  • Participate in monthly on-call support rotation

Systems Administrator

Netflix
Los Gatos, California, United States
01.2002 - 02.2007
  • Oversee the daily performance of computer systems.
  • Ensured proper installation of cables, operating systems and software.
  • Ensured proper release and maintenance of all systems.
  • Create and deploy code to monitor applications and databases.
  • Implement and support the offline backup procedure.
  • Chart metrics and create dashboards to track application and system performance.
  • Provided documentation on start-up, shut down and first level troubleshooting of processes to help desk staff.
  • Managed firewall, network monitoring and server monitoring both on- and off-site.
  • Ensured network, system and data availability and integrity through preventative maintenance and upgrades.
  • Consistently met deadlines and requirements for all production work orders.

Education

High School Diploma -

Santa Teresa High
San Jose, California
1991

Skills

  • Claude Code
  • OpenStack
  • Kolla
  • Docker
  • Ansible
  • Terraform
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Ubuntu
  • CentOS
  • Redhat
  • AWS EC2
  • AWS Route 53
  • AWS S3
  • Kubernetes
  • JSON
  • YAML
  • XML
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Python
  • Perl
  • Bash
  • Gitlab
  • Perl
  • DHCP
  • DNS
  • TCP/IP
  • NMAP
  • TCPDUMP
  • Jira
  • ServiceNow
  • Slack
  • Large Networks
  • Backup / Recovery
  • Apache Guacamole
  • Victoria Metrics

Timeline

Senior DevOps Engineer

Yahoo
02.2007 - Current

Systems Administrator

Netflix
01.2002 - 02.2007

High School Diploma -

Santa Teresa High

hobbies

  • Online eCommerce Projects - devopsaitoolkit.com , lumenquery.io
  • Stride Piano & Jazz Trumpet