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Cisco Systems (contractor)
Marion, IL
DevOps Engineer
Mar 2025 - present
- Created RHEL 10 base images for Cisco IT Security.
- Generated and maintained Cisco IT hardened images.
- Migrated 120+ GitLab repositories to GitHub and refactored CI/CD from GitLab CI to GitHub Actions.
- Managed firewall access for 20+ customer-owned KVM-based hypervisors.
- Consolidated tribal knowledge into maintainable documentation with management support.
- Built and maintained VM image pipelines for OpenStack, KVM, and VMware.
- Performed OpenStack node upgrades.
Logmanager a.s.
Prague, Czech Republic
DevOps Engineer
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
- Virtualized a hardware-only log management product for VMware; stack included Elasticsearch, with participation in migration toward OpenSearch.
- Migrated internal wiki from GitLab to a Kubernetes-hosted platform; turned scattered docs into processes, tools, and SOPs.
- Administered 20+ Ubuntu VMs with Ansible and VMware.
- Deployed Zabbix for infrastructure monitoring.
- Introduced change-management procedures and SOPs for the IT team.
- Built automated black-box testing with GitLab CI and VMware.
SUSE Linux
Remote (Prague, Czech Republic)
Technical Training and Support Engineer
Jan 2017 - May 2023
- Authored training on containers, Kubernetes, and SUSE Linux Enterprise.
- Built advanced lab environments with KVM and Bash automation.
- Delivered live technical training internationally.
- Course list available on request.
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