John Gruss

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About John Gruss

Hi - I'm a Systems Engineer and Agilist with over 10 years of progressive engineering responsibility through analyzing, designing, implementing, deploying, maintaining, managing, monitoring, and supporting IT infrastructures for large-scale businesses Expert in managing Agile software delivery teams including planning phase, retrospective, backlog refinement and estimation, release planning, resource management, dependency tracking, cost management, identification and mitigation of risk and issues, and managing project delivery and backlogs Hands-on goal-oriented technical leader and articulate communicator, dedicated to serving both business needs and teams’ empowerment, with the ability to quickly develop subject matter expertise and identify priorities in a DevOps environment Hands on experience in deploying, migrating, and supporting critical business workloads in AWS and Azure OS: Win 7, Win10, Mac OS X, Linux,(RHEL 5-7, CentOS, Proxmox), Windows 2008/2012/2016 Relational Database: Microsoft SQL Server 2008/2012/2016, MS Access, Database Creation Cloud: AWS (EC2, VPC, ELB, Auto Scaling, Lambda, S3, EBS, RDS), Azure (PaaS, IaaS), Azure Active Directory, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Intune Virtualization: VMware Horizon, VMware vRealize, VMware (Virtual Machines Deployment, Networking & Security Configuration) Automation/Deployment: PowerShell, Docker, Kubernetes, Puppet, Terraform, Jenkins, GitHub Actions Networking/Protocol: TCP/IP, NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP, DFS, HTTP, FTP, Telnet, Sockets, Distributed Systems, Active Directory, Group Policy, Firewalls (Sonicwall, Cisco ASA 55XX, Sophos, Palo Alto) Languages: SQL, Python (Flask), PowerShell (Scripting, DSC, Modules, Remoting) Certifications Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate - Windows 10 CompTIA A+ Certification ITIL Foundations Next Certifications Microsoft Modern Desktop Administrators Associate AWS Cloud Practitioner Puppet Certified Professional Projects DevOps Homelab Deploy containers to confirm python functionality and maintain state of Kubernetes cluster using Puppet Use internal GitLab server for code storage Proxmox/vSphere Homelab Currently running Proxmox/vSphere. Created new VMs by deploying images. Performed host and VM upgrades. Manage vSS and vDS policies, NSX and vSwitches, and Active vMotion.