Cody G.

Experience

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  HP

  Jun 2010 - Oct 2011

  Work Force Management Developer

  • Responsible for making updates to Active Directory• ASP.net development• Performed Active Directory account activation• Setup and enforce Common Access Cards• Perform network connectivity troubleshooting• Provide desktop/laptop support for the Naval and Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI)• Provide software/hardware support for NMCI

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  DeVine Consulting, Inc.

  Oct 2011 - Feb 2012

  Windows System Admin USNAVY

  • SIPER and NIPER Windows system hardening• DHCP and DNS server admin• Remote VPN hardening • Push and Pull Windows System Images • Server 2008 admin • Daily developing and pushing GPO through a multi-domain forest

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  Modis Deutschland

  Feb 2012 - Apr 2012

  Fields Services

  I served as an on call fields services POC for the Boise area, duties included: Configuring and managing LAN based printers and fax for a government agency. Along with configuring permissions on that given network, to allow for consumable asset analysis.

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  Perfect Computing

  Mar 2012 - Sept 2012

  Business Client System Admin

  • Asterisk based phone system configuration• Pots, SIP and PRI configuration• Initial configuration and management of Microsoft SBS• Configuring and managing VPN Firewall endpoints• In-depth configuration and troubleshooting of Microsoft exchange• Configuring and setting up smart hosting for exchange

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  Western States Automation

  Sept 2012 - Sept 2013

  IT Project Manager (PT)

  • Customer relationship management system bids and implementation.• Developing and administering training on best practices on a CRM system.• Managing and monitoring SLA with remote Information service providers. • Windows server SBS PCI compliance testing and patching.• Windows exchange server configuration and troubleshooting.• Microsoft SQL server data migration and development.• Creating and managing back up procedures for critical system in a businesses.• Creating and managing documents and standards to meet the Osha for small businesses.• Pneumatic and electric valve fabrication.• Customer Relations Management and direct work with outside vendors. Show less

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  St. Luke's Health System

  Sept 2013 - May 2016

  • Respond to multiple security vulnerabilities by creating deployable solutions over multiple datacenters through multiple domains. A focus on using PowerShell and System Center orchestrator.• Maintain and develop monitoring tools and functionality for our epic environment ranging from server Windows 2003 – 2012 up to UNIX running cache.• Leverage existing monitoring and automation tools such as SCOM, SystemPulse and the System Center suite. • Create and maintain scripts for SQL 2014’s install process using PowerCLI for the Vcenter data allocation and mapping. With PowerShell to utilize windows based functions such as disk management. • Utilizing SAPIEN Software Suite for automation using Primal Script, Primal SQL and PowerShell studio for superior GUI generation.• Development of robust VM templates that can easily be spun up for instant availability for highly utilized applications and processes. • Configuration and virtualization of applications using Citrix XenApp for local and remote users.• Act as a final escalation and resolution path for Epic Care System issues.• Deploy and decommission servers from a Vmware ESXI environment hosted across multiple physical sites.• Configure and securing VPN access for external vendors to maintain the highest level of security and confidentiality as possible. • Interface and configure vendor applications with internal SQL and Cache database architectures.• SAP Business Objects 3.1 to 4.1 upgrade and support for a large organization.• Daily automation for repetitive tasks that are susceptible to human error via PowerShell and SCCM. Show less • Act as a point of technical escalation and resolution• Provide high level input and development testing for new products, submitting product integration information valued in the purchasing process.• Act as one of the main engineering/Developer contact for our Microsoft SCOM environment• Provide development for truly custom monitors and management packs for all facets of our infrastructure.• Communicate daily regarding project status with appropriate team members• Participate in project development activities including drafting new procedures, working out deployment schedules and fascinating communication between multiple teams. • Actively testing new technology for adherences to our infrastructure.• Developing new processes to automate repetitive tasks through use of PowerShell• Build servers such as Windows server 2003 and Windows server 2008 R2• Maintained Active Directory dns records and objects.• Performed Server upgrades as necessary• Worked in the VMware ESX 4.1 environment• Performed SQL 2008 and 2012 installs. • Troubleshoot SQL databases and run SQL queries• Performed SQL backups on Databases• Installed physical servers in data center such as blade and rack able servers. • Performed snapshots used by VMware as a prechange disaster recovery solution.• Performed server decommissions for retired servers. Show less

  • Server Engineer for Epic

    Jan 2015 - May 2016

  • NOC Data Center 3 Lead

    Sept 2013 - Feb 2015
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  MedAmerica

  May 2016 - Nov 2016

  Dev-Ops Engineer / Systems Admin

  • Designing, automating, maintaining and monitoring of our production environment and supporting infrastructure, applications, and continuous integration through Zabbix.• Build and execution of a fully functional VM dev/test sandbox for our development team to test code and applications. • Assisting in automated server provisioning through the use of foreman and Windows MDT.• Build and maintain an IT Operations documentation library for our team. • Working closely with the Development team establishing baseline hardware requirements and best practices, optimization, security, high availability and resource planning.• Performing proactive application monitoring, configuring and maintaining a healthy system using industry standards.• Exposure to and hands-on work with CM tools such as Ansible and puppet.• Assisting with Free-IPA processes for our Linux infrastructure.• Vetting and testing new application technologies for integration into our existing infrastructure. Examples being Horizon.io built on RethinkDb Show less

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  Scentsy, Inc. (Corporate Office)

  Nov 2016 - Aug 2018

  Windows - Dev-Ops Engineer

  • Develop and maintain system deployment automation processes to enable teams to deploy, manage, configure, scale and monitor their applications• Build, configure and manage tools for fast and reliable deployments of software• Build tools for infrastructure monitoring and resolve any issues while running in production• Install new software releases, server automation, system upgrades, evaluate and install patches, and resolve software related problems• Configure, deploy, and ensure secure setup of Internet Information Services (IIS)• Administer and support multiple web development environments to ensure server uptime and availability (4- 9’s)• Monitor web services, concurrent connections, server performance, and report on up-time• Provide hands-on service and infrastructure operations support to internal and external customers in accordance with the terms of the established Service Level Agreements (SLAs)• Carry out incident and problem management support to the highest standards and coordinate the resolution with the appropriate resolver groups• Proactively detect problems related to service and infrastructure operations and delivery services, conduct diagnostics, and provide service• Support multiple Middleware integration projects by troubleshooting middle-tier issues and assisting developers on infrastructure related issues• Perform change management, configuration, design, and implementation of supported products and systems• Collaborate with application owners, managers, and enterprise infrastructure staff• Write custom tools and scripts to support the infrastructure and development teams, and help craft the direction and architecture of our systems • Create, update, and maintain pertinent documentation for procedures, policies, permissions, and landscape Show less

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  Titan Schools, Inc.

  Aug 2018 - Jul 2019

  Senior Dev-Ops Engineer

  • Creating and maintaining a Google Cloud environment.• Implementing Octopus deploy as part of our CI/CD deployment pipeline.• Working with developers to manage and control config variables in multiple environments deployment pipelines. • Office 365 integration into application flow.• Increasing reliance on our SQL environment by implementing SQL AG.• Implementing and tuning Dynatrace for our Application Performance monitoring tool set.• Implementing and tuning SQL Sentry for monitoring of the overall sql health and performance tuning.• Managing and maintaining our hangfire message queue.• Connecting developer code to infrastructure that could scale depending on load. Show less

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  RDG Filings, Inc.

  Jul 2019 - Oct 2022

  Senior Dev-Ops Engineer / SRE

  • Migrated an onsite data center (vcenter) fully to Google Cloud to support full resiliency and replication in the event of an outage. • Worked with our dev team to create a fully automated deployment pipeline in place of developer local deployments to production. • Creating separate server-side environments for developer testing. • Migrate source control from SVN to git (bitbucket).• Implemented automatic branch building and unit testing using Jenkins.• Implement fully automated deployments using Octopus Deploy.• Migrate our single sql server over to a SQL AG to allow for site failures and speed in access.• Migrated our onprem exchange and individual licenses to office365 for ease of management.• Created and maintained Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) reporting standards on our email and internal shares. • Created and maintained HIPAA and Hitech compliance controls via office365 and internal audits.• Created and maintained SOC type one compliance controls.• Implemented Atlassian Jira and Confluence with a basic scrum outline for project tracking. • Sourced and implemented Cisco Meraki and Cisco catalyst devices for a new building while working with onsite contractors for drop locations based on our wifi simulations. • Working with developers on unit tests and troubleshooting bugs in .net core, java, sql stored procedures and visual basic code. Show less

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  American Red Cross

  Oct 2022 - now

  Senior Dev-Ops Engineer

  • Infrastructure as code first mindset through Gitlab pipelines using Terraform and Ansible.• The primary backbone in this position is AWS with a focus on lambda serverless architecture using docker images.• Usage of Kong api gateway instead of AWS Application Gateway.• Migrating our alerting and monitoring over to the Grafana suite (Prometheus, Tempo and Loki)