RUUNIX2

Ruu Michelle Jones

Work History

Senior Development Infrastructure Engineer
Site Reliability Engineering
Glytec
Sep 2022 - Dec 2023
Summary
Supported go-live efforts for the new containerized version of the Glucommander application by building out, testing, and enhancing the automated deployment process
  • Developed tools and enhancements for deploying, undeploying, and managing the tenants for the Glucommander application in Octopus Deploy and AKS clusters
  • Completed the buildout of cloud-based Intersystems IRIS for Health environments from the ground up, with tenants being successfully migrated to the new IRIS system from their existing HL7 integrations with Mirth Connect
  • Wrote and refactored Confluence articles for procedures internal and external to the SRE team
  • Monitored logging, container behavior, and system performance of systems throughout the organization with Datadog and Solarwinds
Key Skills
Kubernetes
Solarwinds
Datadog
Octopus Deploy
Linux Systems Administration
Microsoft Azure
Active Directory
System Administrator II
Cloud Services
Mitratech
Feb 2020 - Sep 2022
Summary
Maintained continuous environment uptime with server maintenance and troubleshooting, automation of repetitive tasks, patching security vulnerabilities, and growing infrastructure to accommodate increasing scale requirements
  • Implemented fresh IBM BigFix deployment across all hosted data centers and began automatic patching of VMs
  • Migrated numerous application and utility VMs from dedicated hosting provider to new Cloud environment in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
  • Contributed heavily to Ansible and Terraform repositories for buildout and improvement of hosted architecture
Key Skills
Linux Systems Administration
Ansible
Oracle Cloud
IBM BigFix
Shell Scripting
Active Directory
Technical Support Engineer III
TeamConnect Support
Mitratech
Sep 2018 - Feb 2020
Summary
Provided guidance, instruction, and resolution for escalated issues with the TeamConnect application to dozens of SaaS and on-premise clients
  • Communicated directly with clients via phone and email to diagnose and fix undesired TeamConnect behaviors
  • Offered recurring dedicated support to larger clients as requested
  • Identified reproducible bugs with the application and filed them as defects to development teams
Key Skills
Troubleshooting
SQL
Databases
Tomcat
Customer Service
Technical Lead, Consultant
Fenway Group
Jun 2015 - Aug 2018
Summary
Supervised and mentored teams of entry-level agile consultants while operating as a contributor to those teams' projects in a technical lead capacity
  • SΔLT Lending - Support: Addressed bugs in React.js and WordPress interfaces; provided tools and deployment improvements to development projects
  • Southwest Airlines - Aircraft Maintenance DevOps: Assisted the Mosaic project's development and testing teams in preparing Maintenix application for production release
  • Southwest Airlines - Crew DevOps: Supported development and testing efforts for the Crew Scheduling System application and microservices
  • CenturyLink - SAS Remediation: Migrated data warehousing and business intelligence implementation from SAS with Oracle to open-source platform
Key Skills
Linux Systems Administration
Scrum
Bash
Jenkins
DevOps
Scripting
SQL
Python

Certifications

Professional Scrum Developer I
Link to Certification (contact me for verification e-mail address)
Scrum.org
Sep 2016

Volunteering

Community Moderator
Freedom of Form Foundation
Apr 2022 - Present
Summary
Overseeing the goings-on in the official Discord server; ensuring rules are adhered to and that participants remain on topic; Interviewing individuals who have applied to join the server and determining whether they are a good fit.
Gender Resources Project Lead
Freedom of Form Foundation
Dec 2021 - Present
Summary
Researching, compiling, writing, and maintaining content on the Freedom of Form Foundation website which specifically pertains to medical and social gender transition, and what options are available for pursuance today. I oversee a team of volunteers who aid in contributing to and peer review of the website content.