Career Profile
I love Automation, Open Source, and Linux the perfect combination of these three would be Ansible and Terraform with a bit of Kubernetes. I also enjoy problem solving while designing and building solutions.
Experiences
Ansible Automation Architect supporting multiple Fortune 500 customers with their automation needs. Here are a few of the tools and technology that I worked with creating automation.
- Ansible Automation Platform
- Ansible
- Ansible-lint
- Ansible-Navigator
- Ansible-builder
- Custom Collections
- Custom Modules
- Controller/Tower
- Private Automation Hub
- Terraform
- GitHub Actions
- Python
- ServiceNow
- Zabbix, Solarwinds
- VMware and Nutanix
- RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu
- Cisco NXOS, JunOS, Cumulus
Linux Systems Administrator maintaining over 1,000 Linux servers across multiple sites.
- Managed user accounts using IDM
- Reviewed/updated STIG compliance for RHEL 7
- Provided support with system upgrades/updates
- Provided technical support for end users
- Built up RHEL7 VM servers using VMware ESXi 6 and kickstart
- Managed systems using RH Satellite Server 5&6
- Worked with OpsView/Nagios to monitor systems
- Managed SourceFire Defensive Center 5 systems
- Worked with Puppet for configuration management
- Wrote Ansible Playbooks to automate and configure systems
- Built and worked with Ansible-Tower
- Reviewed STIG compliance
- Built up webservers
- Built up email server
- Installed and Configured Issue Ticketing/Tracking Software (JIRA)
- Tested upgrading to CentOS 7 from Oracle 6.7
- Managed permissions on NAS
- Managed user accounts
- Worked with/wrote Ansible scripts
- Updated and maintain SVN repository
- Extensive work with Linux Operating System
- Updated documentation, policies and procedures
- Wrote Bash and Python scripts
- Tested moving SVN to GIT repository
- Created Network Diagrams
- Performing backups on essential computers
- Working with VMS systems
- Scanning and hardening Windows OS using Retina and manually installing updates
Certifications
Projects
Here are some Ansible Collections and Open Source Projects that I help contribute to/or maintain.
Controller Configuration
- AAP/AWX configuration as code standarization collection
Automation Hub Configuration
- PAH/GalaxyNG configuration as code standarization collection
Automation Automation Platform utilities
- AAP automation deployment collection
Execution Environment utilities
- Automating building and publishing of EEs
Publications & Presentations
Here are some of the talks that I have presented.
AnsibleFest 2022
AnsibleFest 2021