AWS Cloud Solutions Engineer and Admin
Resume:
Mike Thompson
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Solutions Engineer
Experienced and results-driven AWS Cloud Engineer with a background in diverse environments ranging from telecommunications, banking, and health to e-commerce. Proficient in administering various UNIX/Linux-based systems including RedHat, Debian, Ubuntu, Suse, AIX, Solaris, Tru64, and HPUX. Skilled in cloud technologies such as AWS, GCP, and Azure, with a focus on AWS solutions architecture and administration. Demonstrated expertise in deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of application, cloud environments, as well as on-prem. System monitoring utilizing Nagios, Zabbix, SolarWinds and CloudWatch, ensuring optimal performance and uptime across infrastructures. Complemented by solid experience in database administration, including Oracle RAC and MySQL Clustering.
EDUCATION
AWS Solutions Architect Associate 2/2024
SMU School of Applied Sciences and Engineering - Plano, TX
Sun Solaris Certification Program: UNIX File Systems, Shell Programming, UNIX Administration, Network Administration
Sun Solaris
A+ Certified
North Lake Community College - Irving, TX
Computer Science Courses
Brain Bench Red Hat Certification
EXPERIENCE
Bank Of America
AWS Cloud PKI/Security Engineer – Dallas TX
Mar 2024 to Current
●Supported Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) solutions across the Enterprise.Partnered with cross-functional teams to determine certificate use cases.
●Integrated digital certificates with the Certificate Lifecycle Management platform in Venafi.
●Created architecture, system build procedures, and knowledge base documentation.
●Responded to requests from users, Internal Audit, and Federal Regulators on company PKI.
Clorox
AWS Cloud Engineer
Durham NC
Oct 15th 2023 to November 15th 2023
●30 day project to oversee various recovery efforts around Windows and Linux servers in their AWS environment.
Smart City Locating
AWS Cloud/SysOps/DevOps/Release Engineer Dallas, TX
December 2020 to April 2023
AWS (Amazon Linux/Stream8/Ubuntu) Administrator
●Deployed, monitored and maintained cloud environment running a PHP based custom CRM.
●CRM was comprised of MariaDB, Solr, RabbitMQ, PHP, Nginx, and Apache being monitored with Nagios XI,prometheus, grafana. AWS services used were EC2, ELB,Lambda, ALB, NLB, Certificate Manager, ASG, SQS, RDS, S3, CloudFormation, CloudFront, Route53. CI/CD using Bitbucket
●Monitored with CloudWatch, Nagios XI, Greylog
Verizon Business
Senior Linux Administrator
Richardson, TX
August 2019 to December 2020
Linux (RedHat 3/4/5/6/7/Tru64/AIX/Solaris/Puppet/Ansible/Satellite6) Administrator Level IV
●Served as fourth level UNIX/Linux Administrator, responsible for 3,000+ systems in a telephony environment.
●Maintained a production environment that includes: Linux, Solaris, Compaq Tru64, Windows, Oracle, SS7 signaling gateways on IBM, Sun/Oracle, HP ProLiant, Compaq servers, and RedHat clustering. Kickstart, Ansible, Satellite 6, Kubranetes, app monitoring using prometheus/grafana, automated bios and ilo configuration with HP SST Tool Kit. Kernel and application tuning and hardening.
HP/HPE/DXC
Big Data Information Developer
January 2015 to April 2019
Hadoop/RedHat/Centos/ArcSight/Nagios/Puppet
●Deployed and managed a “Security Monitoring” solution comprised of Vertica, Hortonworks HDP/HDF, ArcSight, Spark, Kafka and Nifi
●Daily management of Kafka/Vertica/Storm/Nifi/ArcSight/Nagios/Talon Intel Platform
●Senior role on Information Development team in America’s
●Responsible for maintaining, monitoring, and performance tuning the Big Data infrastructure specifically designed to take inputs from mutiple tools utilizing Spark to dedupe and transform mainly Arcsight CEF and Tanium data into Vertica for use as well as building out an airgapped environment consisting of nested vm's and netsinks using Cukoo to evaluate and audit malware payloads.
Walmart
Rapid Deployment Infrastructure Architect
August 2013 to January 2015
Hadoop/RedHat/OpenStack/Oracle RAC/Kickstart
● Deployed $250 million in infrastructure for Walmart.com Big Data stack in the DFW metroplex spanning two separate datacenters.
● Automated the deployment of dl580’s for Oracle RAC Clusters and HP SL4540’s for Hadoop/OpenStack analytics. Utilized hp sst tool kit to configure ilo and update bios firmware, kickstart to automate initial build
●Managed a team of 5 hardware deployment and 3 software deployment engineers across TerraMark in Richardson TX and CyrusOne in Carrollton TX.
Rent-A-Center
Senior Oracle DBA
January 2011 to July 2013
●Responsible for maintaining the day-to-day integrity of production and development systems comprised of Oracle DB 10g, 11g, Oracle Application Cluster 10g, Siebel CRM, MDM, ESB Tibco, OID
●Managed 4500 Enterprise Oracle DB instances in production store servers.
●Oversaw multiple Oracle RAC Clusters 9i/10G/11G, performance tuning, Oracle CRM, Oracle Enterprise Manager 11G/12C, OID
Rent-A-Center
Senior Linux Administrator
July 2008 to January 2011
RedHat Linux/Oracle DB/Cacti/Nagios Administrator
●Migrated 4500+ POS systems from SCO Unix to Oracle Enterprise Linux.
●Responsible for implementing PXE/Kickstart/Yum repo for OEL5 for HP ProLiant blades ie..460, 465, 490, 685 in c7000 blade enclosures
● Deployed 11g Oracle Enterprise Grid infrastructure to monitor and maintain packages and PCI compliance for over 4500 POS systems.
●Designed a XenServer environment to allow the company to replace 3u servers with HP BL465m blades saving the company 1.2 million in hardware/cooling/space related costs which allowed expansion of the onsite kiosk offering.
●Maintained the day-to-day integrity of production and development systems comprised of OEL, VMware, OLVM, Oracle DB 10g, 11g, 12c. Oracle Application Cluster 10g, Siebel CRM, MDM, ESB Tibco, monitoring with Nagios, prometheus/grafana, capacity planning with Cacti, hardening and performance tuning of systems and dbs.
IdArc Media Corp
Senior Linux Administrator
DFW Airport
Aug 2007 to July 2008
Linux/Solaris/Nagios Administrator
●Responsible for complete rebuild of distributed Nagios monitoring platform.
to include redundant failover capabilities
using Groundworks Nagios. The new platform included 10 passive nodes and 2 redundant failover management nodes monitoring 1000 hosts with over 10,000 service checks. Development of custom perl plugins to support various checks across Solaris 8/9/10 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 servers.
●Implemented PXE/Kickstart for RHEL5 for Sun Blade 8000
Sun X4600 and Sun X2200 servers.
●Maintained the day-to-day integrity of production and development systems.
Consultant Data Return Irving, TX
Feb 2007 to Aug 2007
Linux/Unix Administrator
●Linux/Unix Administrator supporting RedHat, HPUX, Solaris.
●Oversaw production environment that included Oracle, Tomcat, WebLogic, Apache, Qmail, Sendmail
●Maintained customer uptime and any uptime related issues.
Consultant - MTS Plano, TX
November 2006 to Feb 2007
Linux Administrator
● Linux Administrator supporting a RedHat, Debian environment.
●Responsible for maintaining a production environment that includes Linux, MySQL, PHP, Apache
●Install, configure, secure, Red Hat and Debian Linux distributions on third party hardware
●Serve as Disaster Recovery and Network Security Lead. Security scans using Nessus, and system monitoring using Nagios.
WorldCom/MCI/Verizon Business - Richardson, TX
October 2000 to October 2005
UNIX (Linux/AIX/Solaris/Tru64) Administrator Level III
● Served as second and third level UNIX (Linux, AIX, and Solaris) Network Application Administrator, responsible for 2,000+ systems in a telephony environment.
●Maintained a production environment that included: Linux, AIX, Solaris, Compaq Tru64, Windows, VMWare, Oracle, SS7 signaling, router configuration and monitoring.
●Installed Red Hat and Debian Linux distributions.
●Was responsible for building and loading Sun Net servers.
●Responsible for upgrading Compaq ProLiant DL series servers.
●Served as Disaster Recovery and Network Security Lead. Supported security scans using Nessus, and system monitoring using Nagios.
●Revamped Intranet using Mambo/Joomla and implemented Jabber secure messaging server.
●Handled System Monitoring using Nagios and Nessus.
●Provided for kernel configuration to enable new hardware configurations and remove unwanted modules. Korn, Bash, Perl scripting as needed for automation Apache, PHP, MySQL, Qmail, and Jabber messaging.
TECHNICAL SUMMARY
Agentic AI development, AI/LLM, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGPT, Cursor, Claude, OpenAI, ChatGPT, API, AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubranetes, HELM, Ansible, Cloud,Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, UNIX (Linux, AIX, Solaris), RedHat RPM based distributions, Debian, Slackware, SUSE, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, NetBSD, PHP/MYSQL, Mambo/Joomla Nagios system monitoring, Nessus, VMware, Qmail, SAN/NAS/CAS, Hortonworks HDF/HDP. ArcSight, Oracle RAC, MySQL Clustering, Postgres, Clustering, DHCP, TFTP, DNS, BOOTP, UDP, NFS, SAMBA, NIC Teaming/Bonding, load balancing.
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