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DevOps Engineer — TS/SCI cleared
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I'm a TS/SCI-cleared DevOps engineer with 15+ years of cleared IT experience, including a decade of Linux engineering and field deployments. My specialty is deploying cloud-native and containerized platforms in air-gapped and classified networks — environments where there's no internet to lean on, so everything has to be packaged, automated, and right the first time. Deep expertise in Terraform and Ansible Infrastructure-as-Code, with the security posture work (DISA STIGs, ACAS, RMF) to match.
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DevOps Engineer, Technical Architecture Team
Terraform and Ansible Infrastructure-as-Code for AWS IL2/IL5 and air-gapped on-prem environments. Reusable Ansible roles adopted across deployment teams — cutting manual deployment effort by 80% — and containerized delivery to RKE2 and OpenShift via GitLab CI/CD.
Systems Engineer, Engineering Services
Built a full GitLab + Kubernetes DevOps platform from bare metal for classified networks. Ansible SME, vCenter HA cluster management with NSX, and DISA STIG hardening for Air Force and Space Force customers.
Sr. Systems Engineer, ESMS
Lab infrastructure validating patches before production, F5 BIG-IP LTM load balancing, RMF packages for the full BMC Remedy infrastructure, and AWS EC2/S3 workloads with Lambda-automated backups.
Principal Systems Engineer, Intelligence Battle Laboratory
Provisioned and secured lab infrastructure spanning multiple classified and unclassified networks; Hyper-V clusters, NetApp SANs, and integration of commercial technologies into DoD networks.
Systems Engineer / Systems Administrator, NETCOM
Domain controllers, 300+ desktops, and enterprise account administration across NETCOM systems, followed by systems engineering for the Intelligence Battle Laboratory.
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