Skills & Technologies

• Shell scripting (optimised BASH), Go (golang), Makefiles, Perl, some Python
• Immutable infrastructure & cloud compute; internal Google technologies, OpenStack, GCE, AWS, Packer, Ansible, Docker, some Kubernetes, some Puppet
• Numerous Amazon Web Services; EC2, EKS, VPC, Elastic Beanstalk, EMR, ACM, ECS, EFS, CloudMap, CloudWatch, SSM, Route 53, IAM etc.
• Proficient in Debian DEB, and RedHat RPM build and packaging
• Source revision control systems; client use and management of as a service to end-users; RCS, CVS, Subversion / SVN, git, GitLab, GitHub, Perforce
• CI/CD using GitLab & Jenkins (scripted and declarative Pipelines & some Groovy)
• Various UNIX derived platforms; Linux (primarily Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS & RHEL, Amazon Linux) (RHCE qualified), FreeBSD 9, FreeNAS, Darwin
• Past professional familiarity of IBM AIX, SunOS, OpenSolaris, HP-UX, DG-UX, SCO
• Multiple internal Google technologies, including numerous domain specific languages
• Can get by reading various languages like C, Javascript, Java for infrastructure support and diagnosis
• R83 DataBasic, PICK RDBMS and SystemBuilder SB+ 4GL, OptioDCS DCL and various other obscure domain specific languages
• VMware Virtual Infrastructure / VI3 / ESX3 / ESXi4 / ESXi5 (VCP qualified)
• Past professional familiarity with Cisco IOS and CatOS
• PXE netboot automation, SYSLINUX, Red Hat's Kickstart & Debian's pre-seed
• ZFS, Linux software RAID & LVM
• Database servers and APIs; Perl DBI, ODBC, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MySQL Cluster (NDB), SQLite, UniData & UniVerse RDBMS, Revelation PICK, R83 PICK, AWS RDS, Aurora, passing familiarity with HBase & Presto
• Networking tools, services and concepts; ipchains, iptables, ipset, Linux Virtual Server / LVS HA Load Balancing
• Enterprise server hardware experience, including NetApp, Cisco, Brocade, hardware RAID, out-of-band management (DRAC, iLOM, iLO, IPMI & BMC)