Ryan Eldridge

Background

About Ryan Eldridge

I am currently a Customer Engineer with Google Cloud. I love learning about how customers accomplish their goals, and how Google Cloud can help them achieve success. With 20 years experience in IT Operations and deployments, I can help customers determine the solutions they need to reach their goals. Experienced with deploying and monitoring Cisco firewalls, routers and switches, CheckPoint firewalls, Juniper firewalls, Brocade fiber channel switching and F5 BigIP load balancers, as well as NetApp and Equallogic storage platforms and all major manufacturers server platforms Monitoring and ticketing systems; DatadogHQ, Splunk, Graylog, Solarwinds Orion, Spiceworks, Nagios (CheckMK). Extensive knowledge and abilities with Windows Server 2008, Server 2012 and Server 2016. Experience with various flavours of Linux (RedHat, Ubuntu, Centos), as well as experience with virtualization technologies (VMware and Hyper-V). Experience with managing and maintaining cloud-based servers within Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Computer hardware, including the setting up of networks, routers, cabling and switches and installing servers in rack-mount installations. Installation and configuration of both SAN and NAS appliances. Major business software suites (Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook), as well as Atlassian Jira and Confluence task and project management tools. Excellent Client Service and Satisfaction skills Organized and reliable, able work in a team atmosphere or independently. Willing to adapt and move quickly according to varying situations. Currently hold ‘secret’ and ‘enhanced reliability’ security clearances with PWGSC.