Landon Orr
Wake Forest,NC
Summary
DevOps engineer with a background in networking and a passion for building, automating and scaling infrastructure.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Staff SRE - Lead
Cowbell Cyber
01.2023 - Current
- Led multi-national team of SREs to support infrastructure across multiple cloud providers and regions
- Saved over $800k annually by right-sizing and applying best practices to cloud infrastructure and hosted services
- Develop and implement deployment pipelines, including work for security compliance.
- Maintain multiple Kubernetes clusters across multiple cloud providers
- Built development environment for engineers that runs natively in Kubernetes, preventing an expensive hardware upgrade for engineers and significantly increasing developer velocity.
Senior Staff SRE
Lacework
06.2021 - Current
- Built a Prometheus monitoring framework to replace a $2m+ vendor solution
- Maintained 40+ EKS clusters
- Worked with dev teams to cut yearly cloud spend by $2m by optimizing Kubernetes workloads
- Oversaw and mentored junior engineers to deploy an org-wide CICD process for EKS clusters
- Architected multi-cloud backbone for scalable routing between AWS and GCP infrastructure.
Senior Platform Engineer
Ripple
11.2019 - 06.2021
- Developed Terraform modules for multiple AWS/GCP services, including a CI/CD pipeline for documentation generation and syntax checking.
- Built and maintained six Kubernetes EKS clusters, consisting of 100+ total nodes and 2000+ pods.
- Developed monitoring applications for cluster health and reachability. Created and deployed Helm charts in clusters.
- Created Prometheus rules/alerts and associated Grafana dashboards for EKS cluster health and connectivity.
- Built global network backbone, connecting together AWS and GCP regions, physical offices and VPN users.
- Automate deployment and configuration of virtual routers in AWS with Terraform
- Contributed to open source projects such as Helm charts for Prometheus and Cert-manager
- Developed Telegraf configuration generation and VPN web portal in Python.
Senior NetDevOps Engineer
Qualtrics
12.2018 - 11.2019
- Implemented Dockerized CI/CD Pipeline for Network Automation using Python, Gitlab and Jenkins.
- Migrated corporate network to Networking team, implemented OSPF on IPSec tunnels for cross-office communication.
- Developed automation of VLAN changes and configuration management/validation in Ansible.
- Automated spin up of DR datacenter in AWS via Terraform, Python and Ansible.
- Worked with AWS transit gateways and AWS direct connects to physical colocation sites.
- Exporting network information via Telemtry to Grafana for health dashboards and alerting.
Global IT Manager
Qualtrics
12.2016 - 12.2018
- Ran global IT team for Qualtrics.
- Supported 15 offices both domestically and internationally for 2000+ employees.
- Managed a team of eight IT employees, spread over the US and Europe.
- Handled corporate server and network infrastructure, including new office buildouts.
- Oversaw international corporate IT purchasing with a $5 million yearly budget.
- Migrated IT team to a self-service architecture, implementing technologies like self- service IT vending machines.
- Resulted in a 40% reduction in IT tickets per employee.
- Trained multiple IT employees in networking, Linux and overall infrastructure design to help them to move to more technical positions within Qualtrics.
- Moved IT internal architecture to Docker.
- Handled backups of multiple departments in AWS S3 and Glacier.
Site Reliability Engineer
Qualtrics
04.2012 - 12.2016
- Worked heavily in CentOS for configuration and management of servers.
- Dockerized network automation internal tooling.
- Built a front-end dashboard in Python to automate the use of 16 F5 BIG-IP LTM machines
- Deployed and administered the networking of ten AWS datacenters.
- Architected and built five physical colocation sites.
- Oversaw datacenter transition from cloud services to cloud/physical hybrid infrastructure.
- Negotiated over ten million dollars in infrastructure purchasing, including colocation facilities.
- Automation of infrastructure using Puppet.
- Moved infrastructure from single-site LAMP stacks to multi-datacenter microservices by using KVM, Docker and Puppet.
- Oversaw all AWS network services, including ownership of ELBs, VPC deployment and F5 EC2 instances.
Systems Administrator
Brigham Young University
06.2011 - 04.2012
- Oversaw the maintenance and administration of over 80 physical hosts and over 200 VMs, including twenty Linux and Windows servers.
Education
B.S - Information Technology
Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah 01.2006 - 05.2014
Skills
Kubernetes
Python
Terraform
Networking
CI/CD
Timeline
Senior Staff SRE - Lead
Cowbell Cyber
01.2023 - Current
Senior Staff SRE
Lacework
06.2021 - Current
Senior Platform Engineer
Ripple
11.2019 - 06.2021
Senior NetDevOps Engineer
Qualtrics
12.2018 - 11.2019
Global IT Manager
Qualtrics
12.2016 - 12.2018
Site Reliability Engineer
Qualtrics
04.2012 - 12.2016
Systems Administrator
Brigham Young University
06.2011 - 04.2012
B.S - Information Technology
Brigham Young University
01.2006 - 05.2014