Aaron Lucas
Work experience
Globalcloud September 15th, 2014 — Present
- Build and maintain Datacenter Network with a multitude of technology for a fault tolerant, high speed environment (Firewall, Core switching, Multi-Site BGP, MLAG, Load Balancer, & Replication)
- Designed and maintain top tier PCI compliant network utilizing open source tools and third party integration.
- Implemented a VMware environment for High Availability and off-site DR replication using various technologies.
- Designed load balancer network utilizing A10 load balancers to maintain load balanced web clusters for high available, highly scalable systems.
- Utilizing Zabbix network monitoring system, to include automated actions based off of alerts.
- Designed and implemented Logging analytic platform using Elasticsearch, Logstash, & Kibana to provide PCI related alerts, host intrusion detection, and actionable firewall alerts.
- Ongoing project to implement PowerShell automation in Windows environments to simplify & create uniform standards across servers.
- Maintain Windows systems on network. (WSUS, AD, Group policy management, IIS, AD Integrations)
- Currently designing Storage Area Network, implementing storage arrays in a high speed fault tolerant configuration.
Tradeglobal April 2011 — September 15th, 2014
- Tradeglobal is audited yearly by a PCI auditing company who performs an in-house audit. Gathered data and enacted policy changes before the audit to ensure existing and future PCI compliance for a multi-million dollar eCommerce data provider.
- Designed and Implemented 3 building dark fiber network to provide Active/Standby failover disaster recovery plan, as well as increasing uptime for Call Center, and site infrastructure.
- In charge of VMware infrastructure to include over 130 virtual servers, designed RPO plan & policy for increased uptime.
- Managed Cisco firewalls; to include firewall rules, SSLVPN & IPSECVPN, S2S VPNs, NAT, and general configurations.
- Responsible for the core network, to include three buildings, and two fully functional Datacenters.
- Proactively monitor event logs on servers, switches, routers, and other network equipment to proactively address issues as they arise.
- Solely responsible for VMWare GuestOS, and SQL instances in a production environment of over 130 servers, and 70 SQL instances.
- Responsible for Linux, and Windows systems from configuration management to setup and support.
US ARMY RESERVES March 2011 — March 2013
Qualifications
Education
Information Technology Specialist/Analyst 2011
Top of the class & distinguished honor graduate
- Cisco CCNA Network Fundamentals July 16, 2011
- Cisco CCNA Routing Protocols and Concepts August 15, 2011
- Microsoft Exchange August 25, 2011
- Microsoft Operating Systems September 3, 2011
- Microsoft Active Directory September 18, 2011
- UNIX Command Line Interface October 22, 2011
Interests
Currently digging Virtualization, along with docker/container systems. Always loving some Linux as well as open source projects. Ready to dive into some networking of all sorts; load balancing, firewalls, routers, switches. You name it lets do it!
I've worked a lot with Windows systems. I've also handled some PCI environments in my time, something that I enjoy once every few years. Free to spend some time on Active directory systems, LDAP, or two factor systems.
I've been known to dabble in cloud consulting, and I've become relatively good at it. Loving on some Ansible at the moment, with a little Chef experience; automation is awesome.
References
References available upon request.