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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