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Michael Tatum

#> Linux && Security;

Operating Systems

RedHat
Oracle Linux
Fedora
Debian
BlackArch
Kali
TAILS (Tor)
DBAN
ShredOS
BackBox
TurnKey
Windows

Cloud

DigitalOcean
Azure
OVH
SoYouStart
Heroku
MLab
Oracle
AWS
GoDaddy
HostGator

Skills

Bash
GParted
CloneZilla
BackupNinja
Hardware
Networking
Apache
NGINX
NMap
ZenMap
RKHunter
Lynis
Siege
MySQL / MariaDB
VirtualBox
Moodle
Wordpress
Drupal
Jira
Redmine
IPTables
Firewalld
F5
Cockpit
SSL/ TLS
Let'sEncrypt
SaltStack
Ansible

Summary

  • Proven Linux and cybersecurity professional with both academic credentials as well as years of enterprise experience
  • Cloud Linux engineer focused on optimizing and hardening for efficient operations
  • Accumulated years of secure migration experience in the virtual cloud, maximizing business value
  • Prepares for disaster recovery with geographically-varied, redundant data backups
  • Designs, implements, and secures custom High-Availability server builds
  • Designs, implements, and secures custom routing and traffic distribution
  • Experienced with hosting and site administration for over 100k users
  • Automates using Shell scripting and related tools at scale
  • Verifies security configurations with Linux auditing tools at scale
  • Ensures server reliability and up-time under stress with load-testing tools
  • Visualizes and shares business-critical data with monitoring and graphing tools

Experience

Mar 2019Current

Systems Engineer II

Accruent
  • Multi-cloud administration, Accruent CloudOps
  • Redundant international data-center administration
  • Globally distributed applications, Java and Apache Tomcat
  • RedHat Linux administration
  • CentOS Linux administration
  • Oracle Enterprise Linux administration
  • Cybersecurity vulnerability patching and scanning
  • F5 routing, load-balancing, and administration
  • Bash Shell systems automation
  • Systems configuration and administration at scale with Ansible and Salt
  • IoT sensor server administration
Mar 2016Feb 2019

Linux Systems Engineer

MicroAssist
  • Cloud Infrastructure administration
  • RHEL environment administration
  • Network monitoring and logging
  • Apache web server management and hardening
  • Moodle LMS server management
  • Wordpress server management
  • Drupal server management
  • Redmine server management
  • Jira server management
  • MariaDB / MySQL database management
  • NMap / ZenMap network enumeration
  • Nginx proxy and load balancing
  • Server stress testing / bench-marking
  • Server security and auditing
Jun 2015Mar 2016

EMT+

Astreya at Google
  • MacOS corporate Domain environment
  • Equipment maintenance and support
  • Hardware support
  • Operating system / software maintenance
  • Networking support
  • Inventory management
  • Help Desk / Ticketing
  • User support
Feb 2012May 2015

Desktop Technician

Peniel Solutions
  • Windows 7 corporate Domain environment
  • Operating system / software maintenance
  • Workstation support and security
  • Networking support
  • Hardware support
  • Mobile devices support and security
  • Backup management
  • Help Desk / Ticketing
  • User support
Aug 2006Feb 2012

PC Repair and Network Technician

Freelance
  • Operating system maintenance and management
  • Software maintenance and management
  • Networking support and troubleshooting

Education

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