Remote linux devops engineer

EVAN SOWARD

Fishing Creek, MD ***** 304-***-**** ad1nwt@r.postjobfree.com

SENIOR Dev/Ops

Trained in enhancement requests along with Knowledge document writing. Familiar with end-to-end ticket monitoring, managing, and escalations. Recognized for repairing end-user issues to remediation independently. Adept at troubleshooting Linux with strace, system components and recommending enhancements / bug fixes / upgrades. Skilled in maintaining disaster and downtime recovery plans to ensure business continuity of infrastructure systems. Track record of configuring systems, including hardware, system software, applications using IaC. Ansible used for dev, staging, test, production.

Familiarities

•Design, build, configure, document, deploy, and administer IT infrastructure in AWS necessary to deploy, manage, and scale software applications using ansible.

•Following DevOps practices, collaborate with software teams to define and build tooling and automation that simplifies and supports software development, encourages best practices, and smooths the transition between development and deployment environments.

•Propose, scope, design, and build system infrastructure based on application, scaling, cost, and security requirements. Working with system stakeholders to collect accurate requirements.

EXPERIENCE

Philips Respironics, Plum, PA 2016 – 2023

Senior DevOps

-Built frameworks, automation, and tooling to enable the culture of quality within Medsage and automate all aspects of the infrastructure as code (IaC) using ansible, ansible tower, terraform.

-Designed, developed, published software, processes, workflows supporting fault tolerant SaaS.

-Participated in high-level architecture of large-scale distributed systems, promoting security, reliability and scalability in development, QA, production, and testing environments. Upgraded GitHub.

-Oversaw and ensured the security of cloud infrastructure, data, internal services by converting all users to mandatory VPN use to bastion and elimination of public ip address’

-7+ years of experience building infrastructure on cloud hosted systems (AWS, VPC, Linux EC2, RDS, CloudFormation, Elasticsearch, ELBs, Bastions, Ansible, S3, docker, Tomcat, Apache, Nginx, MySQL-RDS, snapshots, clones, EKS, Route53, Lambda for IVR, Cloudwatch, Gitlab. Jira, Confluence, Slack monitors.

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 2014 – 2016

System Administrator

-With 3 java developers restructured the toolsets and technologies used by the library and branches.

-AWS: EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, ECS, EKS, RDS, SNS, SQS, Route53, Cloudwatch, Lambda

- Containers: Docker, ECS, Kubernetes. Code management; git, github. CI/CD: Github actions

-Infrastructure automation using terraform, ansible, RH satellite, spacewalk.

-DB: Oracle, Oracle MySQL, and PostgresSQL. Search: Solr, ElasticSearch, Google academic

-Administration: JIRA, Confluence, Github issues, Slack, Remedy, Ansible Tower, Ansible

-VMware hosted OS: Linux (Oracle Linux, Ubuntu, retired CentOS) window servers (AD)

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts (BA) University of Texas at Austin & SW School Technology, diploma, electronics

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