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Josh Beard
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IT Professional / DevOps / Sysadmin
## Contact Details
=> email: josh@joshbeard.me
=> web: https://joshbeard.me
=> github: https://github.com/joshbeard
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## Summary
IT professional with a strong background in systems
administration, cloud, and DevOps with over 13 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
### Lead DevSecOps Engineer with Ventera, Inc at USGS
June 2022 - Present - 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.
* Cloud-native and 'serverless' application development and
infrastructure.
* Integrated and automated code analysis into developer workflow
and pipeline.
Key technology and skills:
AWS (CloudFormation, Lambda, CloudFront, S3, IAM, RDS, API
Gateway, more), GitLab, Python, Jira
### 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.
* Lead and contributed to many of the group's most challenging
technical projects.
* Collaborated with over a dozen teams to deliver applications to
the USGS science community.
* Worked with hundreds of codebases spanning several languages and
product teams.
* Responsible for the architecture and implementation of the IT
platform for over 50 USGS products.
* Migrated over 50 products from on-premise and on-VM deployments
to AWS deployments, using Docker and native AWS services.
* Composed CI/CD pipelines for hundreds of projects, improving
consistency through automation, empowering product teams, and
reducing friction for releasing software.
* Authored and maintained hundreds of pages of robust documentation
for "all things DevOps" and project-specific documentation,
utilizing Markdown and adopting a "docs-as-code" workflow.
* Instructed colleagues on a variety of subjects, including Docker,
AWS, and Terraform.
* Implemented and maintained configuration management (Puppet,
Ansible) across hundreds of servers.
* Implemented and maintained Infrastructure as Code across dozens
of applications and services.
* Developed new HTTP architecture, utilizing CloudFront, Nginx, and
S3.
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, Debian/Ubuntu, DigitalOcean, Docker,
Elasticsearch, Everything is Code, FreeBSD, Git, GitHub, GitHub
Actions, GitHub Workflows, GitLab, GitLab CI/CD, Graylog,
HAProxy, HTML/CSS, Infrastructure as Code, Jira, LXC,
MariaDB/MySQL, MongoDB, Nginx, PHP, Packer, Postfix,
PostgreSQL, Puppet/Puppet Enterprise, Python, RedHat/CentOS,
Ruby, Security and Compliance, Sensu, Serverless, Terraform
(AWS, VMware, DigitalOcean, Proxmox, misc), Test-Driven
Development (TDD), Tomcat, Traefik, Vagrant