Josh Beard

IT Professional / DevOps / Sysadmin

Contact Details

josh@joshbeard.me

https://joshbeard.me

github.com/joshbeard

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Summary

IT professional with a strong background in systems administration, cloud, and DevOps with years of experience and collaborations with more than a hundred teams across hundreds of projects.

Experience

Senior DevOps Engineer with Live Oak Bank

September 2022 - Present - Remote

Serve as the DevOps Lead for a software engineering team dedicated to developing cutting-edge banking services.
Work extensively with AWS, Terraform, GitLab, Go, Python, and Docker.
Developed and maintain an open source Terraform provider for publishing to the ReadMe.com documentation platform.
Successfully implemented CI/CD pipelines across numerous projects, streamlining processes, introducing new features, and enhancing release reliability.
Orchestrated the deployment of robust monitoring, observability, and alerting solutions using AWS, DataDog, and PagerDuty, all managed with Terraform.
Engineered Terraform modules and tools to efficiently oversee and manage hundreds of GitLab projects, users, and pipelines.

Key technology and skills: AWS, DataDog, Docker, GitLab, Go, Golang, Python, Shell, Terraform

Lead DevSecOps Engineer with Ventera, Inc at USGS

June 2022 - April 2023 - Remote

Contracted to Water Resources Mission Area at the US Geological Survey.
DevSecOps on a small team working on a project focused on modernizing and advancing a highly-utilized set of services for water data collected and provided by the USGS.
Collaboratively designed, implemented, and supported infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for a Python codebase of Lambda functions, modularized static websites, and supporting resources.
Specialized in cloud-native and serverless application development and infrastructure.
Integrated and automated code analysis into the developer workflow and pipeline.

Key technology and skills: AWS (CloudFormation, Lambda, CloudFront, S3, IAM, RDS, API Gateway, more), GitLab, Python

Lead DevOps Engineer with Apogee Engineering, LLC at USGS

September 2015 - May 2022 - Remote

Contracted to Science Analytics and Synthesis at the US Geological Survey.
Managed the architecture and implementation of the IT platform for 50+ USGS products, ensuring their smooth operation.
Led and contributed significantly to complex technical projects within the Science Analytics and Synthesis group at the US Geological Survey.
Deployed comprehensive configuration management across hundreds of Linux servers using Puppet and Ansible.
Migrated hundreds of projects from Bamboo and BitBucket to GitLab.
Architected and deployed scalable and flexible HTTP services with AWS, Nginx, and Traefik.
Successfully migrated 50+ products from on-premise and on-VM deployments to AWS and Docker.
Automated CI/CD pipelines for hundreds of projects, streamlining release processes and enhancing consistency.
Collaborated effectively with over a dozen teams to deliver critical applications to the USGS science community.
Authored extensive documentation, adopting a "docs-as-code" approach to ensure clear guidance on DevOps practices and project-specific information (utilized Markdown).
Provided mentorship and training to colleagues on various topics, including Docker, AWS, and Terraform.
Established and managed Infrastructure as Code for numerous applications and services.

Key technology and skills: Linux, GitLab, Docker, AWS (wide range of services), Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Python, Packer, VMware vSphere, Jira, Artifactory, Bamboo, BitBucket, Tomcat, Ruby, Nginx, Traefik, Apache

Sr. Professional Services Engineer with Puppet Inc.

September 2013 - April 2015 - Remote

Consulted on Puppet products and DevOps practices for a wide range of customers, including some of Puppet's largest customers and most sophisticated engagements.
Instructed dozens of classes on Puppet products to organizations and general public.
Contributed Puppet modules and other tools for community use and used within Puppet's commercial products.
Developed Puppet, Ruby, and shell code for extending products and automating processes.
Consulted on pre-sales, scoping of work, and post-sales support.
Earned high marks for customer satisfaction, team work, and professionalism.

Key technology and skills: Linux, Puppet and Puppet Enterprise, Git, GitLab, Packer, Vagrant, Jira, Tomcat, Ruby, Shell, Nginx, Apache, WebSphere

Linux/Unix Systems Administrator with Douglas School District

January 2010 - September 2013 - Box Elder, SD

Deployed and administered school district Linux and FreeBSD servers and services for thousands of users.
Improved integration across network services for over 2,000 students, faculty, and staff.
Administered network file systems, HTTP, DNS/DHCP, Firewalls, Monitoring, Logging, Mail (SMTP, POP3, IMAP, filtering, webmail), and other services for all district users.
Improved workstation provisioning through automation, deploying several hundred new workstations a year.
Introduced configuration management (Puppet) to manage servers.
Redesigned district website and implemented WordPress to manage it.

Key technology and skills: FreeBSD, Linux, MacOS, Puppet, Apache, Nginx, BIND, Shell, HTML, CSS, PHP, Ruby, KVM, pf, Sophos, Graylog, Nginx, Icinga, NFS, Postfix, WordPress

Tier II Technical Support with Apple, Inc.

October 2008 - January 2010 - Remote

Signal Support Systems Specialist with US Army

August 2006 - October 2008 - Fort Carson, CO

Skills

12 Factor App Methodology, AWS (EC2, RDS, IAM, S3, Elasticsearch, ECS, EFS, CloudFront, Lambda, Route53, Secrets Manager, Load Balancing, CloudFormation, CDK, misc), Accessibility, Analysis (e.g. Codacy, CodeFactor, Mend, DeepSource, Owasp ZAP, rspec), Ansible, Apache, Arch Linux, Artifactory, Atlassian, Bamboo, Bash and Shell, BitBucket, CI/CD, Cloud, DataDog, Debian/Ubuntu, DigitalOcean, Docker, Elasticsearch, Everything is Code, FreeBSD, Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions, GitHub Workflows, GitLab, GitLab CI/CD, Go, Golang, Graylog, HAProxy, HTML/CSS, Infrastructure as Code, Jira, LXC, MariaDB/MySQL, MongoDB, Nginx, Octopus, PagerDuty, PHP, Packer, Postfix, PostgreSQL, Puppet/Puppet Enterprise, Python, RedHat/CentOS/Rocky/EL, Ruby, Security and Compliance, Sensu, Serverless, Terraform (including provider development), Test-Driven Development (TDD), Tomcat, Traefik, Vagrant

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