Support Specialist Security

Sean Lowery

**********@*****.***

m: 703-***-****

Jenny Lane, Woodbridge, VA 22192

Qualifications and Technology Experience:

Ansible, Apache web server, Amazon Web Services, Bash scripting, Conflu- ence, Cygwin, Docker, Git, HTML, iptables, JavaScript, Jboss, Linux kernel, Linux traffic shaping (tc), Jira, Maven, mod_perl, MySQL, Nagios, Network troubleshooting (IP, TCP and application layers), OpenSSL, Oracle database, Perl, QoS, RESTful web services, RedHat Enterprise Linux, SQL, ssh, SSL, Tomcat, Ubuntu and Vagrant.

Education: B.S., Computer Science. George Mason University

Employment History:

DevOps Engineer, Dunbar Consulting Inc., July 2021 - November 2022 An integral member of the Operations team on the Securities and Exchange Com- mission (SEC) contract, responsible for managing the application server environ- ments (production, staging and development) for various systems, with responsi- bilities including:

Building, maintaining and patching application environments for multiple projects.

Developing the requirements, building a plan and then implementation of the Microfocus IDOL upgrade on new development, stage and production VMware servers.

Collaborating with developers to provide systems engineering support for an upgrade of Oracle WebLogic.

Coordinating with the security team and my team to correct vulnerability scan findings.

Infrastructure Support Specialist, Accenture Federal Services, November 2017 - February 2021

A strong team player at AFS supplying Unix infrastructure configuration and infra- structure management experience for the following projects.

Technology Delivery Lead. FAR: Big Stone project o Dispensed systems engineer expertise with a team delivering an application on Amazon Web Services architecture.

Security Specialist: Systems Integration: General Electric o Augmented our team’s responsibility for account creation, account management, administrative access to the servers and two-factor authentication for elevated root privileges for the UNIX environ- ments.

DXTR Systems Developer: Gabilan Project

o Supported a team negotiating Jira tickets for crafting Perl regular expressions to match text used by a client web tool. Additional re- sponsibilities included applying Microsoft SQL database updates associated with the pattern match tickets and monitoring daily sta- tus checks associated with client data files.

Infrastructure Tech Support Specialist: Sabin Project: o Part of an Operations team migrating a set of systems from a con- ventional datacenter setup to Amazon Web Services. Senior Systems Engineer, Phase One Consulting Group. October 2013 - November 2017

A key member of the Operations team for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) APHIS contract, responsible for managing the application server environments (production, UAT/staging and development) for the following projects:

IPHIS

ITEMS

ARM

SNICAS

Responsible for:

Maintaining nine Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers.

Lead systems engineer for application releases related to custom Java ap- plications:

o In 2017 I fulfilled 207 UAT/staging deployments and 33 production deployments/releases using an automated process

Pioneering the development, implementation, and maintenance of the cus- tom automation process scripts (Bash and Perl) for the IPHIS project. In addition the process included build information collection to identify build issues.

Guiding the management and patching of:

o Tomcat application servers: nineteen instances

o Apache httpd web servers: ten instances

o Nagios monitoring software including NRPE

o MySQL database: three instances

o Awstats web analytics software

For all projects I was involved in crafting the Disaster Recovery environ- ments that mirrored the production environment.

Devising SQL query optimization of existing queries and new SQL queries to manage relational data in an Oracle database.

Involvement in Agile software development process (Kanban)

Authoring process and system documentation in a wiki using Confluence

For all projects I enthusiastically remediated security vulnerability scan findings.

Unix Systems Engineer, SAIC. December 2003 - October 2013 Part of the Operations team on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) contract, responsible for managing the servers that host http://www.SEC.gov/ . I amplified our teams excellence with these responsibilities:

Building, maintaining and patching fifteen Slackware Linux servers.

Upgrading and maintaining server software: Linux kernel, Apache httpd, Perl, MySQL, Proftpd, Tripwire, Jboss, Tomcat, Bind and Sendmail.

Building and implementing custom Linux kernels (2.2.x, 2.4.x and 2.6.x).

Increasing the sites reliability and security by implementing and maintain- ing advanced Linux kernel network functionality: iptables firewall rules and Qos / traffic shaping.

Fostering innovative utility scripts (Perl or Bash) for tasks such as custom log analysis, monitoring, reporting, automation, backup, rc scripts, etc.

Cultivating Perl modules as libraries for utility and CGI Perl scripts.

Advancing log analysis of Apache access log files with custom Perl mod- ules and scripts to identify abnormal web usage patterns

Choreographing system and test documentation in a wiki (Twiki and Me- diaWiki).

Collaborating with the security team to address security vulnerability scans.

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