Leslie Ault
SRE | DevOps | Python | Linux | AWS | Infrastructure
Raleigh, NC
les.ault@gmail.com
Skills
Linux
95%
Python
90%
AWS
90%
Kubernetes
90%
DevOps
95%
CI/CD
95%
Configuration Management
95%
Languages
English
Spanish
Work Experience
DevOps Automation Engineer / Federal Reserve
Dec 2025 - Present
- Automate F5 LTM Virtual Servers and Pool members with ansible
- Participate in Blameless postmortems
- Create run-books for incident management
- Participate on-call rotation
- Mentor Junior Engineers
- Versed in Agile practices of SCRUM and KANBAN
Senior Site Reliability Engineer / Sharefile
May 2023 - Mar 2025
- Lead project to migrate from Elasticsearch 2.x running on EC2 instances to AWS OpenSearch
- Created a tool in Python to manage OpenSearch Indexes, Aliases, and ISM policies
- Configured New Relic Observability Metrics with terraform
- Deployment and configuration of Backstage.io centralized software catalog
- Manage Kubernetes deployments with Kustomize and Helm
- Troubleshooting of AWS EKS clusters
- Installation and Configuration of AWS Karpenter Autoscaling Daemon
- Create CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins
- Participate in Blameless postmortems
- Create run-books for incident management
- Participate on-call rotation
- Mentor Junior Engineers
- Versed in Agile practices of SCRUM and KANBAN
Senior Site Reliability Engineer / Penn Entertainment
Nov 2021 - May 2023
- Worked with AWS ECS and GKE Clusters
- Build on-premise Kubernetes clusters with Canonical MaaS
- Used Google Anthos to enable cloud management of on-premise clusters
- Create and Manage ArgoCD ApplicationSets
- Manage Kubernetes deployments with Kustomize and Helm
- Create CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins
- Mange Jenkins pipeline to build for iOS and Android applications
- Management of AWS Cloudfront sites for blue/green deployments
- Worked with Atlassian Products: Jira, Confluence
- Create run-books for incident management
- Participate on-call rotation
- Mentor Junior Engineers
- Versed in Agile practices of SCRUM and KANBAN
Senior DevOps Engineer / Align Technology
Jan 2018 - May 2021
- Automate creation of AWS Cloud environments using Python and Terraform
- Automate Rancher Server installation and configuration including automatic node registration
- Automate HashiCorp Consul installation and configuration
- Automate HashiCorp Vault installation and configuration
- Automate Deployment of Traefik Load balancer
- Automate Deployment of SignalFx clients
- Automate Deployment of WSO2 API Gateway and IAM services
- Work with Atlassian Products: Jira, Confluence, FishEye/Crucible, and Bamboo
DevOps Engineer / Cisco Systems
Sept 2016 - Jan 2018
- Implement Puppet configuration management
- Design and supervise Puppet 3 to Puppet 4 Upgrade
- Design and implement Puppet module release process
- Experience running Jenkins at scale
- Created Jenkins pipeline library
- Utilize Dockerfiles and docker-compose to Deploy Services
- Utilize Jenkinsfiles to configure Jenkins jobs
- Created and implemented Flask RestAPI to manage HAProxy backend servers
- Created and implemented Flask RestAPI for nagios passive service checks
- Created and implemented Python commandline utility to manage docker containers
- Installation and configuration of RedHat Openstack Director and Openstack Cloud
- Installation and Configuration of jFrog Artifactory
- Experience with Rancher Labs Container Management
- Created and deployed Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and logspout in Docker
- Implement Cloudflare SSL Certificate Authority
Senior Infrastructure Engineer / Jewelry Television
Jan 2014 - Sept 2016
- Support multiple scrum teams developing software
- Experience working in an Agile environment
- Unix/Linux systems administration (RedHat/CentOS Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7)
- Securing Unix/Linux Servers in a PCI Environment
- Implementation and Administration of Puppet configuration management server
- Experience with Nagios and Solarwinds for monitoring systems
- Installation and configuration of MicroStrategy Web, Mobile, and Intelligence Server
- Installation and configuration of Tomcat and TomEE web application containers
- Configuration of Apache, Nginx, and Pound reverse proxies
- Configuration of ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) cluster for application logs
- Configuration of ETCD for Puppet Hiera look-ups
- Administration of IBM v7000 storage controllers
- Administration of NetApp Storage controllers
- Used the following in a testing environment: RabbitMQ, Kafka, Eureka, ZooKeeper, Docker, Mesos/Marathon, and Traefik
Education
ITT Technical Institute / Knoxville, TN
1996 - 1997
Bachelors of Applied Science - Electrical Engineering Technology
ITT Technical Institute / Knoxville, TN
1994 - 1996
Associate of Applied Science - Electrical Engineering Technology
Dale Carnegie
2012
Effective Communicaztions and Human Relations
VMware
2009
VMware Certified Professional – Certificate #34565
RedHat
2007
Red Hat Certified Engineer – Certificate #805007000926324