Jason Reeves

Senior Engineer

Contact
  • Website
  • http://JasonAReeves.com
  • Email
  • jason.reeves19@gmail.com
Location
  • City
  • Victoria
  • State
  • Minnesota
Objective

Career growth by obtaining a software engineering and development role where I can also stay on top of new and emerging technologies while I further apply my technical education and experience in automating everything.

Work Experience

2016 till today

Senior Engineer - Security Solutions - Cloud Security/Digital Security at Target Corporation:

Part of an agile team responsible for developing and delivering security solutions for cloud infrastructure and in front of target.com, utilizing current open source solutions.

Architecting and developing security solutions for Google Cloud Platform utilizing Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines.

CDN/WAF/Edge Security Automation and integrations with Fastly using Terraform and custom go microservices.

Developed and delivered container layer scanning in the CI/CD pipeline as well as in production Kubernetes.

Architected, developed, and delivered a tool to isolate compromised containers in Google Compute Engine running on Target deployed Kubernetes clusters.

Lead and teach team members that need help with understanding and working with newer technologies and methodoligies.

Continuous investigation/integration of forward thinking and industry leading open source tools

Technical evangalist in regards to infrastructure as code as well as immutable deployments

2012 till 2016

Senior Cloud Systems Engineer at Digital River:

VMware suite SME, automating infrastructure and guest deployments.

VMware suite architecture, deployment, and management of environments supporting approximately 13,000+ guests and 650+ hosts.

Monitor, maintain, and deplyment of Windows AD DS, DNS, DHCP for private and public cloud infrastructures.

Private and public cloud infrastructure expansion and green-field architecture and deployment.

Automated Hardware and Software configuration and updates.

Provide escalated support for issues from the admin and operation teams.

Mentor, guide, and lead team members as the most senior team member.

Engineering efforts to continuously improve and build out the current and new environments.

Evaluating and engineering “cutting edge” technologies (open source and enterprise) to promote the “cattle“ over “pets” way of thinking.

Guest template build automation for Linux and Windows servers.

2010 till 2012

Field Service Engineer at Phoenix Technology Solutions (now Element):

Solving any and all issues as a dedicated engineer for no less than 5 SMB clients at a time.

Desktop/Network/Server Support for many different infrastructures.

Remote and on-site support, including SBS 03/08, Windows Server 03/08, Windows 7/XP.

Monitor and Maintain AD, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, Exchange, and VMware.

Removal of Malware and Virus infections.

Rebuilding/upgrading Windows workstations.

Solving a wide variety of user related issues.

Education

Microsoft

Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Server Administrator on Windows Server 2008

VMware

VMware Certified Professional: VCP5

Watchguard

XCS: 9.2 Certified

CompTIA

Network+: Certified Technician

CompTIA

A+: Certified Technician

2008 till 2010

Dunwoody College of Technology

Associate of Applied Science: Computer Networking

Skills

Core Concepts: Event Driven Automation, CI/CD, git, DevOps, agile, Cloud Security, Cloud Infrastructure, Containerization, Microservices

Tools (advanced): Slack, Terraform, Consul, Packer, GitHub, GitHub Enterprise, git, Jira, Waffle, Confluence, Postman, Glide, dep, govendor, Kafka Connect, Stackdriver, Venafi, Google Pub/Sub, Ansible, Vault, Fastly, Atom, Visual Studio Code, Shape, Drone.io, Jenkins, Artifactory, StackStorm, PowerCLI, Hugo, GitLab

Tools (intermediate): Spinnaker, Elastic Search, Kibana, Logstash, Kafka, Venafi, Ansible, Vault, Helm, Promethius, Shape, Chef

Languages (advanced): Go, json, yaml, markdown, bash, powershell, VCL, HCL, batch file scripting

Languages (intermediate): python, html, coffeescript, javascript, xml, VBScript, Windows Script Host, SQL, CSS

Languages (beginner): coffeescript, java, ruby, scala

Operating Systems and Virtualization (advanced): Kubernetes, VMware, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, Windows Server, Windows Desktop, OS X, macOS, Linux, Unix, Amazon Web Services

Operating Systems and Virtualization (intermediate): HyperV, LXC, LXD, OpenStack

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