Brandon Smith

Location

Baltimore, MD
Education
    TESST College of Technology-Baltimore
    February 2006 - October 2008
    degree
    Other degree
Work Experience
    Knowledge Applied
    Cloud Engineer
    Baltimore, MD, US
    March 2022 - present
    company
    Knowledge Applied
    title
    Cloud Engineer
    overview
    - Managed Route53 hosted zones for clients - Managed S3 buckets and object archival/retrieval services - Assisted with VPC builds and routing modifications - Created and managed IAM policies - Performed RDS database migrations - Created EC2 instances with mounted EBS volumes - Performed EC2 instance filesystem and disk increase and decreases on logical volumes, and partitions, through AWS, Windows, and Linux - Leveraged CloudTrail for auditing and tracking of AWS services actions and events - Created, Updated, and deleted CloudFormation Templates - Identified cost-saving opportunities by rightsizing instances to match workload performance and capacity requirement - Experience with Git and GitHub - Working knowledge of Jenkins - Knowledge of CI/CD technologies and best practices
    Tech Ops Engineer II Arete incident Response FL
    January 2022 - June 2023
    Baltimore City Office of Information AND Technology
    IT Specialist II
    Baltimore, MD, US
    January 2019 - October 2020
    General Dynamics IT
    Systems Technician
    Baltimore, MD, US
    November 2010 - February 2018
    Dell Medstar Health
    Baltimore, MD, US
    May 2010 - December 2010
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Skills
Active DirectoryAdministrative OperationsAltirisAmazon Elastic Compute CloudAmazon S3Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)Amazon Web ServicesAuditing SkillsAutomationAutoscalingAzure Active DirectoryBackendBackup DevicesBitLocker Drive EncryptionBusiness RequirementsCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Cloud ComputingCloud EngineeringCloudformationCloudwatchCommunication SkillsComputer NetworksComputer ProgrammingContinuous IntegrationCorrective and Preventive ActionCryptographyCustomer Relationship ManagementData AnalysisDatabasesData MigrationData StreamingDesktop ComputingDesktop VirtualizationDisaster RecoveryDomain ControllersDomain Name System (DNS)Dynamic Host Configuration ProtocolElectrical SwitchesEnterprise Application SoftwareFile ServerFile SystemsFiling SkillsFront End Software DevelopmentGitGithubHTMLHyper-VIdentity and Access ManagementImagingIncident ResponseInformation TechnologyInformation Technology Infrastructure Libraries (ITIL)Infrastructure ManagementJavaScript (Programming Language)JenkinsLaptopsLinuxLinux ServersLog AnalysisLog FilesMaintenanceMalwareManagement SystemsMcAfee VirusScanMicrosoft AccessMicrosoft AzureMicrosoft LyncMicrosoft OfficeMicrosoft ServersMicrosoft WindowsMonitoring of SystemsMulti-Factor AuthenticationNetwork ConnectionsNetwork ForensicsNetworking SkillsNetwork RoutersNetwork ServerPerformance ImprovementPeripheralsPreventive MaintenancePrintingPrint ServersProblem SolvingProcess Oriented PersonPython (Programming Language)Remote Access TechnologyResearch SkillsRisk AnalysisRisk ManagementRoute53RoutingRSA (Cryptosystem)S3 BucketSafety PrinciplesSelf MotivationServer AdministrationServerless ComputingSoftware SafetySoftware Vulnerability ManagementSolarWinds (Software)SymantecSymantec Backup ExecSystem Center Configuration ManagerTape LibrariesTCP/IPTeam ManagementTesting SkillsTransport Layer SecurityTriageUser AccountsVeeamVirtual Private Networks (VPN)VmwareVoIPVulnerabilityVulnerability AnalysisWhatsUp Gold (Software)Windows PowerShellWindows ServersWorkstationsYAML