Stephen
stephen.k.conklin@gmail.com
315-200-2188
18 Bartlett Ave
Homer, NY 13077
607-597-9464
NaviSite DevOps Engineer
31 years experience W2
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Summary

Accomplished DevOps Engineer; Promote GitOps; (IAC) infrastructure as code craftsman, provision with HashiCorp tools Packer, Terraform, Vagrant. Orchestration Ansible, Salt, Puppet. Accomplished Python and Bash skills. Excellent Linux skills Redhat, Centos, Debian, Ubuntu. Leverage Vagrant to build libvirt KVM/QEMU and Oracle VM VirtualBox virtual systems. Comfortable working in cloud environments; AWS, DigitalOcean, GCE, Azure. Develop CI/CD pipelines in GitLab, and Jenkins. Package-management Nexus, Artifactory. Experienced with Docker and Kubernetes

Objective:

  • DevOps / Release Engineer working remotely on a distributed team, improving the DevOps culture and environment, developing, improving, automating, orchestrating, provisioning systems and networks, and leveraging infrastructure as code. Create automated CI/CD workflows. Create developer environments using either Docker Containers or Virtual Machines that match staging and production systems.

Summary:

  • A team player with an accomplished analytical approach to solving/automating software integration/deployment scenarios in UNIX / Linux Cloud or Hybrid cloud environments.
  • Excellent understanding of the DevOps culture; The three ways, Phoenix Project, Unicorn Project
  • Promote GitOps to automate the process of provisioning infrastructure; IaC (infrastructure as code)
  • Extensive Ansible experience, developing Ansible Roles with Molecule.
  • Install Ansible AWX in a K3S Kubernetes environment
  • Leverage AWX to manage Drupal 9 dev, stage, and prod systems.
  • Leverage infrastructure as code when setting up compute environments
  • Use the HashiCorp tool Stack to build out infrastructure locally and cloud.
    • Packer and Ansible build local, cloud, and Docker-based systems.
    • Vagrant and Ansible to build developer systems
    • Terraform to create the complete cloud environment.
    • pushed code to GitLab
  • Build and support self-managed on-premises GitLab Server
  • Setup GitLab runners, both static and on-demand, in AWS
  • Encourage a Git workflow, facilitating workflow GitLab Flow
  • Facilitate unit testing through the CI/CD process by provisioning GitLab runners with the appropriate test software
  • Develop Docker Images with Packer and Ansible
  • Employ Terraform as IAC (Infrastructure As Code) tool
  • Utilize Terraform modules
  • Familiar with Cloud Kubernetes environments like AWS's EKS
  • Accomplished UNIX/Linux practitioner; Ubuntu/Debian, RedHat/Centos/SELinux, AIX, Solaris, HPUX
  • Package management with GitLab, Nexus, and Artifactory
  • Configure Jenkins jobs with GIU or with Jenkinsfile; groovy or Declarative
  • Understand the Software DevelopmenLife Cycle.
  • AWS services; S3, EC2, VPC, IAM, Route 53, security-groups, nat-gateway, route_table, internet_gateway, Aws_elb, aws_iam_server_certificate, aws_load_balancer_policy, aws_load_balancer_listener_policy
  • Setup Drupal environment; development, stage, production
    • Development environment Debian 11 vagrant box running on developer’s Linux systems
    • Stage Debian 11 running Azure
    • Production Debian 11 running in Azure

Experience
Education
Bachelor's in Computer Science
Binghamton University
Attended in Electronics Technology
Broome Community College
Skills
Linux
2023
16
MySQL
2011
15
Perl
2011
15
Apache
2023
14
C
2009
13
C++
2009
13
DB2
2009
13
LAMP
2009
13
Software Engineer
2009
13
UNIX
2009
13
Ansible
2023
8
Docker Containers
2023
8
Continuous Integration
2023
7
Java
2023
7
Devops
2023
6
Jenkins
2023
5
Python
2022
4
Box
2023
3
Cisco
2022
3
Elasticsearch
2022
3
Gitlab
2023
3
Pipeline
2023
3
Selenium
2016
3
Hibernate
2014
2
Maven
2014
2
QA
2014
2
SVN
2014
2
Agile Methodology
2016
1
CSS
2014
1
Design Patterns
2016
1
Django
2014
1
HTML
2014
1
jQuery
2014
1
Junit
2016
1
PostgreSQL
2014
1
TeamCity
2016
1
AWS
2023
1
Configuration Management
2011
1
Continuous Deployment
2023
1
Data Analysis
2011
1
Data Management
2011
1
Eclipse
2011
1
Flask
2018
1
Groovy
2018
1
IaaS
2018
1
JavaScript
2016
1
Ruby
2018
1
Terraform
2023
1
Puppet
2023
1
AIX
0
1
Ant
0
1
BaSH
0
1
C#
0
1
Cloud Infrastructure
2023
1
Customer Deliveries
2016
1
Cyber Security
2016
1
Drupal
2023
1
Git
2016
1
JSON
0
1
MariaDB
2023
1
MS Azure
2023
1
mSQL
0
1
Oracle
2019
1
PHP
2023
1
Project Management
0
1
Scripting
0
1
SCSS
0
1
Software
0
1
Solaris
0
1
SQL
0
1
Storage Management
2016
1
UI
2016
1
VMWare
2016
1
VPN
2023
1
Windows
2016
1
XML
0
1