Deric Ramsey
Summary
10+ years of experience in the IT industry consisting of DevOps Engineering, automation development and operational improvements efforts. Extensive experience in software change management, OCI Cloud infrastructure and managing containerized workloads. Committed and a reliable team member continuously striving learn and sharpen skills.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Engineer (Software Assurance Team)
Oracle
Remote
11.2022 - Current
- Expanded team's network capabilities by leading the effort to implement additional network load balancers support critical capacity requirements within a time sensitive window
- Configured blue/green environment for real time communication traffic and coordinated traffic shift successfully
- Provided technical expertise to live streaming clients by modifying solutions to include customer requirements
- Developed and maintained automation scripts for projects to reduce manual efforts and fill the gaps within existing infrastructure
- Performed troubleshooting on live production systems to quickly resolve issues affecting live traffic and restored availability to services within the Kubernetes infrastructure
- Developed validation automation which reduced validation efforts by 50 percent in production and significantly increased deployment efficiency
- Created and maintained critical grafana dashboards for infrastructure observability including throughput monitoring, bytes in/out, active connections and pod availability for live streaming and production traffic
- Developed tools to automate data extraction within Kubernetes clusters related to the infrastructure and application deployments
- Developed and deployed graceful application deployment process with a custom automated procedure to safely roll out new application updates
- Isolated / identified issues reducing the end-to-end latency of live streaming in collaboration with our streaming pipelines and Client partners.
- Knowledge of network and streaming protocols (TCP, UDP, RTP, HLS and with multimedia frameworks such as FFMPEG
- Optimized services performance for improved user experience and system efficiency by updating configurations and confirming with cross team testing efforts
Senior Software Developer ( DNS Plat / OHC )
Oracle
09.2019 - 11.2022
- Performed large scale Kubernetes management operations supporting customer workloads for multiple environments
- Extensive experience with container-based deployments using Docker, working with Docker images and Docker registries related to Kubernetes
- Performed DNS policy management and troubleshooting support for internal customers
- Developed terraform automation for deploying cloud resources
- Maintained and developed support for Kafka clusters
- Automated cloud resource configurations and security patching with ansible, python and BASH
- Managed AWS / Azure / Google vantage points for health checks support for customer operations
- Developed new processes and procedures for more efficient deployments of resources and solutions
- Improved infrastructure observability by deploying logging with Fluentd
- Improved software performance by identifying and resolving bottlenecks in the code.
- Mentored junior developers, providing guidance on best practices and coding techniques for improved productivity.
- Spearheaded the successful migration of legacy systems to modern platforms without compromising functionality or data integrity.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Scientific Research Corporation
04.2019 - 09.2019
- Automated security compliance procedures for VMware infrastructure using ansible, BASH and PowerCLI
- Automated VMware dev/testing environment with terraform and ansible for quick re-build
- Developed and deployed a CICD pipeline using jenkins in a disconnected environment
- Improved virtual storage by configuring virtual volumes with HPE Nimble storage.
- Reduced downtime for critical applications by proactively addressing potential issues through regular maintenance and updates.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop, test, and deploy scalable software solutions.
Senior Software Developer / DevOps Engineer
Solute
11.2017 - 04.2019
- Deployed OpenShift on VMware infrastructure using terraform and ansible
- Strong experience with container management using Docker
- Configured and maintained AWS GovCloud resources with ansible
- Automated and configured VMware infrastructure with terraform and ansible to support DoD Applications and solution testing
- Automated solution acceptance testing with Robot Framework in Python
- Developed regression testing using Selenium post code changes for updates or feature improvements
- Automated STIG compliance with ansible for private cloud solution
- Developed Docker images for microservice applications and deployment using Docker containers
- Configured and managed iSCSI datastores on ESXi hosts for the VMware infrastructure.
VMware Architect
Leidos
04.2017 - 11.2017
- Developed plans / procedures and performed full infrastructure upgrades on multiple vSphere environments
- Improved VMware infrastructure for military hospital sites using best practices, host profiles, cluster rules and PowerCLI scripts
- Delivered a disaster recovery solution with vSphere Site Recovery Manager
- Developed VMware infrastructure deployment procedures with terraform.
VMware Engineer
T-Mobile
11.2016 - 04.2017
- Improved infrastructure observability by configuring vRealize Operations, vRealize Log Insight and vRealize Orchestrator within the VMware infrastructure
- Produced proof of concepts / demos by deploying and configuring solutions for principal engineers using infrastructure as code best practices
- Managed automation GIT repo for PowerCLI scripts
- Deployed and configured Splunk within virtual infrastructure.
VMware Solutions Architect / Professional Services Consultant
Dell-EMC
04.2014 - 11.2016
- Developed VM migration options and procedures for customers and performed migration activities
- Performed upgrades and patching using VMware Update Manager (VUM)
- Installed and configured vCenter Servers, Platform Service Controllers with vSphere 6.0 / 6.5
- Implemented and configured vRealize Suite for multiple enterprise clients
- Configured ESXi host profiles based on client requirements
- Improved client virtual infrastructure storage performance with a vSAN implementation
- Managed and improved vSphere datastore cluster efficiency with NAS and SAN storage
- Designed and implemented disaster recovery solutions using vSphere Site Recovery Manager for enterprise customers.
Education
Information Assurance -
Capella University
12.2012
Skills
- Security compliance management
- Infrastructure resilience best practices
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Docker
- BASH scripting
- Python
- Go
- Jenkins
- Kafka
- "Put customers first"
- "Team collaboration"
- "Nail the basics"
- "Take pride in work"
- "Expect and embrace change"
- "Act now and iterate"
- "Growth mindset"
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer (Software Assurance Team)
Oracle
11.2022 - Current
Senior Software Developer ( DNS Plat / OHC )
Oracle
09.2019 - 11.2022
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Scientific Research Corporation
04.2019 - 09.2019
Senior Software Developer / DevOps Engineer
Solute
11.2017 - 04.2019
VMware Architect
Leidos
04.2017 - 11.2017
VMware Engineer
T-Mobile
11.2016 - 04.2017
VMware Solutions Architect / Professional Services Consultant
Dell-EMC
04.2014 - 11.2016
Information Assurance -
Capella University