Site Reliability Engineer

Currently engaged in professional development and available for new infrastructure, site reliability, cloud operations, and database engineering opportunities.

Studying Ansible configuration management and advanced AWS administration while building on extensive Oracle, Linux, automation, monitoring, and disaster-recovery experience.

Led end-to-end migration of production servers and databases to new infrastructure, including bare-metal operating system installation, software deployment, and Oracle 23c database rebuilds from legacy systems. Owned backup and restore strategy using RMAN and Oracle Data Pump.

Deployed centralized Oracle Enterprise Manager observability, defined metrics, tuned alerts, and rolled out monitoring agents across Linux and Windows fleets. Automated backup reporting across development, UAT, and production environments with shell scripting, while supporting audit reviews, compliance updates, and database access controls.

Planned and executed production Oracle database upgrades from 11g and 18c to 19c under formal change-control processes. Migrated production databases to new physical hardware and supported schema lifecycle management.

Performed disaster-recovery testing and production restores to validate recovery objectives. Provided Tier-3 operational support, including incident triage and database connectivity troubleshooting.

Provisioned and managed AWS EC2 infrastructure supporting enterprise database environments. Built and hardened Ubuntu and RHEL-family Linux systems for a broad range of application workloads, including OS and kernel-level performance tuning.

Partnered with automation teams to deploy Ansible-driven configuration management to AWS-hosted instances. Implemented Data Guard Broker automated failover, operated centralized monitoring across hundreds of production databases, and managed monitoring changes programmatically through EMCLI.

Led Oracle database migration and upgrade projects involving 10g and 11g environments. Hardened database access controls and standardized roles and profiles to meet security requirements.

Built RMAN catalog infrastructure and automated database provisioning through scripting. Modernized monitoring and automation tooling to improve operational visibility and reliability.

Administered mixed Oracle, MySQL, and MariaDB database fleets on Linux infrastructure. Led multi-application migrations from Solaris to Exadata X2 and X4 platforms from planning through execution.

Executed Exadata network reconfiguration during a datacenter relocation. Supported version upgrades and worked with application teams throughout migration cutovers.

Prepared Oracle ASM and CRS clustered storage environments for Oracle 12c upgrades. Standardized database environments and supported the transition of operations to the permanent team.

Mentored junior engineers on monitoring practices and production operational best practices.

Led upgrades and migrations of secure government Oracle RAC databases to 11g. Built a multi-site disaster-recovery topology with hot standby and cascading standby systems across the United States and United Kingdom.

Performed production health checks, database performance tuning, and PCI security audits. Reduced operational toil by automating monitoring, audit cleanup, and log maintenance with shell scripting.

Worked as an SAP HR Administrator supporting human resources administrative systems and processes.

This role preceded the candidate's long-term database administration and infrastructure operations career.

Worked as a Circulation Associate supporting library circulation operations and patron services.

This role contributed to early experience in operational support and information services.

Worked as a Medical Records Archivist supporting records organization and archival processes.

This position provided experience handling structured information in a healthcare setting.

Worked as a Network Analyst supporting network and technology operations.

This role established an early foundation in IT infrastructure and systems support.

Completed college-level coursework in Python.

Earned a Master of Information and Library Science degree.

Earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History.