Richard McGlory

A member of the Container As a Service team which provisioned and maintain production clusters.

Tasks included

• Implementing security best practices and Project lead for the introduction of encryption at rest in ETCD, safeguarding sensitive data and minimizing vulnerabilities.
• Ensuring a smooth transition during major platform upgrades by meticulously planning rollouts with stake holders, testing thoroughly, and providing post-deployment monitoring and support when needed.
• Developing comprehensive engineering documents for all projects worked on.
• Enhancing platform performance by optimizing infrastructure and implementing automation tools such as Ansible and Jenkins.
• Performing SRE related tasks that included monitoring via PagerDuty, System monitoring, system troubleshooting and incident mitigation.
• Assisting other team members on project related tasks

• Participated in design and planning exercises for software rollouts.
• Resolved system test and validation problems to provide normal program functioning.
• Utilized such technologies as VueJS, CSS, HTML5, JavaScript and Golang to develop new applications.
• Coordinated deployments of new software, feature updates and fixes.
• Consulted with operations staff to evaluate cloud system requirements for software deployment.

• Maintain, diagnose and repair communication systems, and sensors.
• Program manage section for short and extend maintenance periods period for numerous
  equipment repairs/upgrades.
• Maintain and administer various systems including servers and networking for the Defense Information
  Infrastructure network.
• Manage teams of various sizes coordinating tasking training and professional development
• Act as IT Security Officer, carrying out risk assessments and implementing solutions. Trained personal in IT security awareness.