Senior Linux DevOps with lengthy experience in automation and Infrastructure, living in Chester New Hampshire. Extensive Linux experience in large scale automation with Puppet and Ansible along with virtualization work on KVM, LXC, AWS, and Docker. Experienced with appliance design and automation of vm deployment with Jenkins, vmware sdk with govc. Open to Full-Time opportunities. Interested in working or driving a team to implement fully automated provisioning, test, and production environments. Welcome remote positions. My Experience includes: Over 25 years Computer Industry experience, hardware, software, Unix, SVR4, Linux support, development & training. Experienced with numerous distro`s, including rhel, SuSE, Ubuntu/Debian, Busybox. Experienced with LDAP, redhat directory server,389-ds, Sun DSEE, and iPlanet/Netscape LDAP. Strong automation skills, automated systems deployment, application deployment and tools development via Puppet, Ansible, Cobbler, PXE, scripts, Infrastructure as Code, etc. Broad experience with several virtualization platforms such as OpenStack, Docker, Lxc, Vmware, Aws, Libvirt (kvm), Xen, Qemu, Vagrant, Virtualbox. Strong Experience in Systems Architecture design for HA, Performance & Security. Strength with Build & Release, Distribution & Packaging via rpm, dpkg & fpm. Taught C, Tcp/Ip, Administration, Unix Systems programming & Sockets, Unix Performance classes. Experienced MySQL/Mariadb and replication. Experienced with HA services and clustering, such as glusterfs, DRBD/8 and Heartbeat/Pacemaker/corosync. Looking for a Linux Infrastructure Architect position that utilizes my broad background in systems architecture, automation, virtualization and high availability. Interested in remote position. No relocations. See my website for my Linux Tips ©