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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
## Other Formats
=> web: https://joshbeard.me/resume
=> pdf: https://joshbeard.me/resume/Josh-Beard-Resume.pdf
=> word: https://joshbeard.me/resume/Josh-Beard-Resume.docx
## 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