I love Automation, Open Source, and Linux. The perfect combination of these three are Ansible and Terraform with a bit of Kubernetes. I also love to problem solve while to designing and building solutions.
Ansible Automation Architect Jan 2021 - Present Red Hat, Remote Ansible Automation Architect supporting multiple Fortune 500 customers with their automation needs. Here are a few of the tools and technology that I worked with creating automation.
- Ansible Automation Platform
- Ansible
- Ansible-lint
- Ansible-Navigator
- Ansible-builder
- Custom Collections
- Custom Modules
- Controller/Tower
- Private Automation Hub
- Terraform
- GitHub Actions
- Python
- ServiceNow
- Zabbix, Solarwinds
- VMware and Nutanix
- RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu
- Cisco NXOS, JunOS, Cumulus
Sr Systems Engineer II Jan 2017 - Dec 2020 Raytheon, Pensacola FL Linux Systems Administrator maintaining over 1,000 Linux servers across multiple sites. Managed user accounts using IDM
- Reviewed/updated STIG compliance for RHEL 7
- Provided support with system upgrades/updates
- Provided technical support for end users
- Built up RHEL7 VM servers using VMware ESXi 6 and kickstart
- Managed systems using RH Satellite Server 5&6
- Worked with OpsView/Nagios to monitor systems
- Managed SourceFire Defensive Center 5 systems
- Worked with Puppet for configuration management
- Wrote Ansible Playbooks to automate and configure systems
- Built and worked with Ansible-Tower
System Administrator May 2016 - Dec 2016 Jacobs Technology, Ridgecrest, CA
- Reviewed STIG compliance
- Built up webservers
- Built up email server
- Installed and Configured Issue Ticketing/Tracking Software (JIRA)
- Tested upgrading to CentOS 7 from Oracle 6.7
- Managed permissions on NAS
- Managed user accounts
- Worked with/wrote Ansible scripts
Software Configuration Manager/Jr. Linux Sys Admin May 2014 - May 2016 Jacobs Technology, Ridgecrest, CA
- Updated and maintain SVN repository
- Extensive work with Linux Operating System
- Updated documentation, policies and procedures
- Wrote Bash and Python scripts
- Tested moving SVN to GIT repository
- Created Network Diagrams
Computer Operator (2nd & 3rd shift) Jan 2014 - May 2014 NDTI, Ridgecrest, CA
- Performing backups on essential computers
- Working with VMS systems
- Scanning and hardening Windows OS using Retina and manually installing updates
- Red Hat Certified Architect Feb 2022 - Mar 2024
- RHCS in Advanced Automation: Ansible Best Practices Mar 2021 - Mar 2024
- RHCS in Developing Automation with Ansible Automation Platform Feb 2022 - Feb 2025
- RHCS in Ansible Network Automation Nov 2021 - Nov 2024
- RHCS in Containers and Kubernetes Jan 2022 - Jan 2025
- RHCS in Deployment and Systems Management Dec 2021 - Dec 2024
- Red Hat Certified Engineer Feb 2021 - Feb 2025
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator Jan 2021 - Feb 2025
Here are some Ansible Collections and Open Source Projects that I help contribute to/or maintain.
- Controller Configuration - AAP/AWX configuration as code standarization collection
- Automation Hub Configuration - PAH/GalaxyNG configuration as code standarization collection
- Automation Automation Platform utilities - AAP automation deployment collection
- Execution Environment utilities - Automating building and publishing of EEs
Here are some of the talks that I have presented.
The Home Depot transforms network infrastructure with NVIDIA Cumulus Linux 5 via new NVUE module Brad Harrell, David Danielsson, Roberto Nozaki AnsibleFest 2022
Working with complex APIs: when no modules exist Vinny Valdez, David Danielsson AnsibleFest 2021
- Problem solving
- Ansible
- Yaml
- Bash
- Python
- Terraform
- Containers
- Kubernetes