Security Clearance

JOHN J. VOSSLER III CURRENT DOD SECRET SECURITY CLEARANCE

Elizabeth, CO 303-***-**** ****@********.*** SYSTEM & INFRASTRUCTURE ARCHITECT PROJECT MANAGER CONSULTANT Process Automation System Design Storage Solutions Dynamic and detail-oriented IT architect with a proven track record for requirements gathering, designing, and developing application automation. Excels at learning new technologies and applying them to build, deploy and manage infrastructure. Expertise in managing technical teams, deliver clear and concise details on deliverables and ongoing mentorship to improve team productivity. Highly skilled in the design and implementation of automation solutions using Chef, Ansible and associated DevOps tools. Current DoD Secret security clearance.

CORE COMPETENCIES

DevOps

Ansible

AWS and GCP

CI/CD/CT Architecture

Chef

Kubernetes

Automation

Terraform

Helm

Process Improvement System Design/Development Agile/Scrum Methodologies

Technical Team lead

Bash scripting

Atlassian Suite

Object stores

Artifactory

Technical Training

Github

CI/CD/CT pipelines

Unix and Linux

Jenkin and Bamboo

Gatekeep/OPA

Prometheus/Mimir/Grafana

Docker

CISA and DISA security

Nessus

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DevOps and DevSecOps Contractor

General Atomics, Denver, CO and California office – Mar 2024 – Jun 2024

Develop and build standard operating system images conforming to DISA standards. These STIG’d images would be used to create various types of servers for the TSIS-2 project.

Secure images for both SLES (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server) and Redhat server Linux machines.

Create images with automation to add or remove X11 support from the image to provide for BUI based functionality.

Code repositories were in hosted Gitlab for CI/CD/CT deployments.

Images, security groups etc. were all accomplished in AWS.

Ensure access under Okta and Fleet Manager, using secure SAML communications. Senior DevOps Engineer

Cogility Software Irvine, CA Oct 2021 – Nov 2023

DevOps engineer for automation into AWS and GCP environments.

Using Terraform, Kubernetes (EKS and GKE), Helm, Docker, Ansible and custom scripting.

All servers running Amazon Linux. Troubleshooting and management of Linux OS.

Develop AWS Lambda functions for automated startup and shutdown of environments.

Develop automation to enable the automated tear-down and rebuild of custom environments in both AWS and GCP.

All repository code for both AWS and GCP were in hosted Gitlab with various CI/CD/CT actions for deployments.

Implement SSO with the root source of truth being AWS AIM for both AWS and GCP access. Use secure SAML communications.

Implement builtin security and security audit for the companies software solutions for military and commercial deployment using CISA reports and DISA standards. Use OPA and Gatekeeper frameworks to ensure secure access to web front-ends, applications and various Kubernetes plains by aserting priviledges using SAML and Oauth with any updates to various account IDPs.

Design and implement observability tools for operations, troubleshooting and for design updates.

Deployments include air-gapped classified system for military customers. John J. Vossler III Page 2

Principle tools include: Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, AWS utilities (EKS, S3, Lambda, EC2, IAM, Fleet Manager, Autoscaling, ECS, ECR, Secrets Manager, Route 53, AMIs, etc.), GCP utilities, Git, Bash and Atlassian.

Senior Principle Engineer

Raytheon Aurora, CO Feb 2019 – Sep 2021

Section manager and technical team lead, leading a team performing the automation of product delivery for GPS III satellite system ground control installations.

DevOps senior principal engineer on three programs using full agile/scrum team structure performing classified and unclassified work for software compile, assembly and delivery.

Dev Ops software stack consisted of a hybrid cloud implementing to following tools: VMware, AWS, Artifactory, Vault, Rancher, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, Okta SSO, IDM, Nessus, Postgres and other software tools.

Implement AWS AIM as “source of truth” for secure SSO utilizing encrypted SAML communication links.

Code repositories were held in a local implementation of Gitlabfor security reasons.

Development work in GOVcloud and MODcloud. Classified deployments moved from GOVcloud and MODcloud to air-gapped VMS environments.

Automation goal was IaC to handle full environment creation and population to a production implementation state.

Provide metrics reports and updates to senior management on project progress.

Assist with definition and detailed implementation of the automation design. Automation Architect (Through TEKsystems)

Ford Motor Company Dearborn, MI Mar 2018 – Jan 2019

Use Chef to facilitate automation as part of Ford's Next Generation Data-center Engineering (NGDE) initiative that will, upon completion, provide a push button-automation system to stand up IT computing environments for various capabilities for all groups at Ford.

DevOps stack consisted of: Chef, Jenkins, Artifactory, vRO & vRA (vRealize), VMware, Bash, Ansible and others.

All target operating systems were Linux systems.

Code repositories were in hosted Gitlab for the group.

Collaborate in the design and implementation of a new method to support all future IT efforts.

Use NAAS, IAAS and PAAS services for supporting automation in all the targeted applications. Chef Architect and Team Lead (Through Nuovo Solutions) Charter Communications Greenwood Village, CO Nov 2014 – Feb 2018

Designed, built and operated initial Chef infrastructure for use company-wide on multiple projects.

Facilitated communications between technical teams from various parts to provide input and support in developing specific Chef architecture, delivery, standards and processes.

Used Agile methodologies and Devops concepts to develop the Chef-driven CI/CD/CT architecture.

As technical lead and Agile product owner, developed and delivered first two first two Chef projects to production, providing team mentorship and delivered training to enable other teams to begin developing Chef-based automation's for their products. Using Terraform, Jenkins, Vault and Artifactory and other tools.

Served as Devops engineer and architect, building and operating the video-on-demand (VOD) cloud infrastructures for client's cable services.

Developed and conducted QA on environments for new features, functions and capabilities. Automation Engineer (Though TEKsystems)

Comcast Centennial, CO Nov 2013 – Nov 2014

Collaborated the VOD team to compile and process media assets from various providers.

Managed and maintained all Unix and Linux systems and storage platforms (Netapp and isilon) needed to manipulate the content into forms and formats required by the content delivery agents to the end consumer.

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Provided real-time metrics, monitoring and reporting on all data streams with emphasis on SLA reporting and process improvement.

Professional Services Consultant Jul 2009 – Nov 2013 Intel/McAfee/MXLogic – Englewood, CO, 2010-2013

Operated more than 10 cloud computing centers used for email, web proxy and email archiving processing across the world.

Provided infrastructure support, QA development systems running on VMs PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (CONTINUED)

Professional Services Consultant (Continued)

Intel/McAfee/MXLogic – Englewood, CO

Designed performance databases and data collection programs for proprietary software and mass storage systems, as well as Postgres-backed dashboards and some customer-facing applications.

Served as sole storage administrator and architect for center Oracle ZFS storage appliances with over four petabytes of disk space.

Developed methods for large data migrations over high-latency WAN links to international sites. Galion Hospital – Galion, OH, 2009

Installed and configure systems and storage for a new system to handle 100% digital patient records, lab results and radiology images.

Set up and configured IBM HCM platform and AIX LPAR servers running on a Brocade FC SAN using EMC CX4 storage arrays, which included Veritas Custer Server (VCS), as well as site-to-site storage replication for disaster recovery.

National Cinemedia – Centennial, CO, 2009

Executed updates to an existing NetBackup environment, which included installation of a new Linux based media server, set-up of a dedicated DataDomain disk storage unit, configuration of synthetic full backups and the updating of most policies.

Increased performance of both disk and tape based backups for servers and Oracle database and worked toward a better vaulting solution.

The Assist Group – Lakewood, CO, 2009

Collaborated in the standardization of VMware guest images on ESX base operating system.

Executed backups, network security, databases and iSCSI performance tuning.

Developed procedures for using JeOS, Jboss, JVM and LVM2 under VMware to increase storage on guest OS images.

Enterpulse – Decatur, GA, 2009

Implemented Solaris containers and zones with ZFS on blade servers, as well as QA and development environment, layering VCS on for Oracle database services across all non-global zones located on iSCSI storage array with site-to-site replication for DR purposes. Virtela Communications, Inc. – Englewood, CO, 2003 - 2008

Led the migration of storage architecture, conducting HA clustering and designing HA systems to create redundant servers between and within data centers.

Moved data center from in-house hosting to a co-location facility

Mirrored servers without additional purchase of hardware or software, creating HA failover cluster to provide server redundanc Log Out

Alerts and Settingy.

Completely re-architected the storage and implemented new software constructs needed to run the business, which included creating two new SAN fabrics.

Implemented VCS clustering to increase availability and uptime of applications and Oracle database. Consultant

Symantec, Inc. (formerly Veritas Software, Inc.) Cupertino, CA 2004 – 2008

Delievered professional services to various Symantec clients, including the implementation, upgrade, installation and configuration of many of the Veritas suite of software products. John J. Vossler III Page 4

Planned and executed several data center moves, data center migrations and DR site implementations involving all tiers of the server and storage topology

Customized customer’s Oracle and trading cluster to allow communications with off-cluster processes, automating previously manual operations with custom Perl scripts.

Fulfilled customer request to tailor Oracle and custom applications clusters that gathered real-time gas and electric readings over existing power distribution lines. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (CONTINUED)

System Architect and Test Engineer for Solaris Ready Test Laboratory Sun Microsystems, Inc. Santa Clara, CA 2005 – 2008

Implemented and maintained testing facility and data center that provided integration testing, verification testing and validation testing of third-party hardware and software.

Provided technical evaluations of various hardware and software systems that ran on or in conjunction with Sun equipment.

Verified and passed over 200 Solaris Ready products for all environments, including sparse root and full root LDOMs, ZFS filesystems, openSolaris and sparc.

Diagnosed root-cause problems with dozens products so they could be re-worked by the vendor and re-submitted to the lab.

EDUCATION

Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Bachelor of Science - Engineering Physics

South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD

Engineering Physics Program

TECHNICAL SKILLS

OPERATING SYSTEMS Solaris, Linux (Mandrake, SuSE, CentOS, Red Hat, Fedora & Ubuntu) LANGUAGES Shell Scripting (sh, ksh, bash, perl, sed, awk), R, Pl/R, Perl, ruby DATABASES Postgre, Oracle

SOFTWARE Chef, Ruby, Terraform, Artifactory, VMware, Jenkins, Nexus, Puppet, Ansible, Jira

HARDWARE Sun servers, Sun/Oracle ZFS storage, Brocade switches, NetApp storage, HDS storage, HP Blade servers, Cisco Blade servers oracle

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