Daniel Kirksey
Site Reliability EngineerProjects
Oracle SRD: 2019 - 2026
Kubernetes/Helm/Docker/YAML
Prometheus/Alertmanager/Grafana/Exporters
Jenkins/Argos
Chef/Terraform/Ansible
Jira/Confluence/Slack/OCI
Python/Ruby/Groovy/Javascript/Shell
Elementum SRE:2016 - 2019
Microservices/Containers: Docker
DC/OS/Mesosphere/Chronos/Jenkins/Sonarcube
Chef/Terraform/Ansible
Jira/VictorOps/Slack/Datadog/Sumologic
Mysql/Postgres/Redis/Mongodb
Python/Ruby/Groovy/Shell
Windows DevOps: 2016
Containers: Docker
Powershell Admin Tools: AV Scanner/Patch Management/Windows Error Reports/RDC Launcher
Python/Ruby Scripting: Learning Projects/Coding Challenges
Technical Infrastructure: 2014 - 2015
Postini-SecOps/Account Mgt:
Dev-Lab: sunsetting
Admob:decomission
Change Mgt:Puppet/Git/Subversion/Chef
Monitoring:Nagios/Borgmon
Menlo Inventory Mgt.
AcqOps Support: 2012-2014
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Rightsflow
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Incentive Targeting GCE
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Postini
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Dev-Lab
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Admob
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QuickOffice AWS GCE Migration
GSA Training: 2009-2013
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Maintain miixed ubuntu/windows/gsa environments for Enterprise Partner Training and Curriculum Development
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Standard maintenance requests: machine setup/kernel/patching/firmware/OS upgrades/Infrastructure Buildouts
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Resolving SecOps Vulnerability-Audits
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Refreshing student instances/User Migrations
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Proxy updates and VPN/Certificate Renewals
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Maintain separate internal DNS for learngsa.com; work with Traffic Team for external changes
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Backups-Restores of Content and Management servers
Postini SRE2009-2013
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Lab/Datacenter Coverage, help with breakfix/machine repair/maintenances/power-audits
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Assist with Capacity Build Outs, to accommodate new/existing customers and service types
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Production infrastructure changes; kickstarting/kernel/patching/firmware/bios/OS upgrades/cfengine/dns updates
Bio
I’m Daniel Kirksey, a SRE with a passion for Learning and New DevOps Technologies.
I take creative approaches to solve complex engineering problems, combining skills and knowledge from a diverse set of fields including infrastructure and software support.
Having worked for both large/startup companies, I always look for a learning environment, where my peers share a similar sense of ownership .
Skills
Software
- Languages: Python/ Ruby/ Groovy/ Shell/ Perl
- Content Mgt: Chef/ Ansible/ Git/ Gerrit/ Puppet/ Subversion
- Monitoring: Borgmon/ Alertmanager/ Nagios/ Datadog/ Pingdom/ VictorOps/ Cloudwatch/ Cloudtrail/ Opsclarity
- Productivity: Jenkins/ Jira/ Sonarcube/ Slack/ Sumologic/ Chronos/ Vault
- Infrastructure: GCE/ Vmware/ Xen/ AWS/ Terraform/ Docker/ Vagrant/ Mesosphere/ DC/OS
- DBs: Mysql/ Postgres/ Redis/ Mongodb/ Elasticsearch
- Message Queueing: AWS SQS-SNS/ RabbitMq/ Apache Kafka
- Servers: Haproxy/ Nginx
Hardware
- Dell/DRAC/HP/Computerlink/3Ware/APC/GSA/NetApp
- DC Operations/General HWOps
- Backup/Restore admin & management
- Security infrastructure/firewalls, bastions
Contact
- Personal kirksey@gmail.com
Phone
- Phone(631) 488-0621
Address
- Work23 Realnautic Ct. Hampton Bays, NY 11946
Accomplishments
Oracle
- Onboarded Teams into Unified Monitoring Pipeline -> 2021-2026
- Created automation around Obervability; Prometheus and K8s -> 2021-2026
- Product Owner of Monitoring team -> 2020-2026
- vTeam Launched Six new Product Features -> 2025
- Partnered with other observability teams to identify monitoring opportunities and federate data to be used by SaaS Paved Road Tools -> 2023-2026
- Trained New Team Members on Product Roadmap; K8s and Prometheus -> 2020-2026
- Security Compliance Certifications/Trainings -> 2019-2026
- Incident Command Lieutenant Certification -> 2022
- OCI AI Foundations Associate Certification -> 2025
- Worked with other teams on Architecture Review Board -> 2021-2022
- Ran Team/Product Owners Scrum/ Quarterly Planning /Retrospective -> 2021-2026
- Worked to transition/standardize Backlogs across the SSME Org -> 2023-2026
Elementum
- Help Devs Migrate to Microservice Apps, through Marathon/DCOS -> 2017-2018
- Automating Tasks for Customer Onboarding -> 2016-2018
- Automated Database/Collection Backups/Restores -> 2017-2018
- Database Upgrades/Migrations: Mongodb/Mysql -> 2018
- Build/Support Release Jobs through Jenkins -> 2016 -2018
- Rightsflow DR Deployment -> 2013
- QuickOffice AWS GCE Migration -> 2013-2014
- CorpX Support/Deploy VMs/Monitoring -> 2013
- TxVia Logistics Support -> 2013
- Transition GSA Support to Thorton Team -> 2013
- Las Vegas s12 Decom -> 2013
- Sys-Eng Lab Move -> 2013
- Netapp Storage Migration for Training -> 2012
- Toronto YYZ07 Decom -> 2012
- Implemented Disaster Recovery of critical GSA infrastructure -> 2012
- Admob SysEng Support -> 2012
- Vmware-EsXi Migration -> 2011-2012
- Student Refresh, streamlined process for instructors -> 2010-2011
- Postini Oncall SRE-SysEng -> 2010-2011
- Breakfix Coverage, rotated coverage for remote DC locations -> 2010-2012
- Resolve SecOps Requests/Vulnerabilities for GSA/Rebuilt WSUS -> 2010
- Become lead of GSA Training Managed Mixed Windows/Unix Environments -> 2009-2010
- Escalator/Alertmanager/Borgmon Migrate from ProdOps to SA -> 2009
- Manage Monitoring for Team/Create Landing pages/Playbooks -> 2009
- Move from ProdOps to Infrastructure -> 2009
Dreamworks Animation
- 2007 Shrek the Third (resource administrator)
- 2006 Flushed Away (resource administrator)
- 2006 Over the Hedge (resource administrator)
- 2005 Madagascar (technical resource administrator)
- 2004 Shrek 2 (render wrangler - as Dan Kirksey)
- 2003 Shrek 4-D (Short) (render assistant)
Education
Continued Education
- Udemy Online Courses
- Tech Talks Meetups
- AWS Technologies Online Courses/ReInvent
Cogswell Polytechnical College Sunnyvale, CA
- Areas of Study: Computer Video Imaging
- Animation Program 1995-1997
Wayne State University
- Areas of Study: Developmental Economics
- B.A. Economics 1991-1994