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.