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Cameron Byers
Business Information Security Advisor at Cox Automotive Inc.
United States
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2020 : Present
Cox Automotive Inc.
Lead Business Information Security Advisor
Responsible for the availability and performance of one of the most searched auto brands on Google, www.kbb.com, with over 19 million unique visitors a month. Successfully manage IT projects from inception to execution, strategically allocate resources and delegate tasks to achieve on-time, on-budget delivery. Manage 10+ site reliability engineers (SRE), systems engineers, database administrators and support technicians.
Partner with senior leadership across departments, business units and vendors on key strategic IT and engineering initiatives and translate their objective and requirements into achievable projects. Successfully led enterprise-scaled on-prem and AWS projects with security, Windows, SQL, Linux, Hadoop and VMware; as well as complete datacenter and cloud/hybrid migrations of 2,000+ servers across the U.S.
2014 : 2020
Kelley Blue Book (owned by Cox Automotive, Inc.)
Manager Infrastructure Engineering
2013 : 2014
Kelley Blue Book
Associate IT Manager
Lead systems engineer supporting the kbb.com website, including hundreds of servers running Microsoft .NET/SQL stack, Memcached clusters and Akamai CDN with ION Premier, caching, image resizing, security, SiteShield, WAF (Web Application Firewall) and Bot Manager.
Design, build, and maintain IT infrastructure of 1,200+ production and non-production Windows, Red Hat, Fedora and Ubuntu Linux and VMware servers across multiple offices and datacenters using scripts, NetApp RapidDeploy, Red Hat Kickstart and other 3rd party tools. Wrote and edited PowerShell, VBScript, Batch and BASH scripts to automate backups, jobs, install operating systems and applications, manage AD objects, NetApp filers, vSphere and generate reports.
Built out KBB’s first SSO environment using Microsoft ADFS 2.0 and SAML 2.0 in a multi-datacenter and multi-tiered architecture allowing for local redundancy and the ability to shift traffic between datacenters. Onboarded several applications internal to KBB and AutoTrader and external to customers and SaaS vendors using custom SAML assertions.
Lead Linux admin on team. Built, administered and maintained multiple Cloudera and MapR Hadoop clusters in non-production and production environments. Performed initial PoC and had formal training on Apache Hadoop by HortonWorks. Managed multiple Bugzilla instances in LAMP stacks on prod and non-prod servers.
Build relationships and collaborate with engineers and leaders across multiple departments, business units and vendors to plan and execute small to large enterprise projects, architect and build redundant infrastructure and fulfill service requests.
Effectively use monitoring and alerting tools like Keynote, Dynatrace, Gomez, Splunk, HP SiteScope, Nagios, etc. to analyze and resolve system, application, availability and performance issues in a large multi-tiered web application environment.
2011 : 2013
Kelley Blue Book
Sr. Systems Engineer
Designed, built, and maintained a SaaS platform for the Stock Market financial industry with an IT infrastructure of 800+ production and non-production Windows, Red Hat, CentOS and Ubuntu Linux, Hyper-V and VMware servers across multiple offices and datacenters in North America and Europe using PowerShell, Batch and BASH scripts, Altiris, Red Hat Kickstart and other 3rd party tools.
Built and administer Exchange 2007 with high availability, load balancing and redundancies at every level.
Maintain multiple Windows Active Directory domains with Windows 2003 and 2008 R2.
Oversee, train and delegate projects and tasks to junior administrators.
Interact closely with multiple departments across the organization for planning and organizing projects and effectively support systems and applications.
Manage and automate backups, monitoring and reporting of enterprise systems, networks and applications.
2005 : 2011
Nexa Technologies
Systems Administrator
2020 : Present
Cox Automotive Inc.
Lead Business Information Security Advisor
Responsible for the availability and performance of one of the most searched auto brands on Google, www.kbb.com, with over 19 million unique visitors a month. Successfully manage IT projects from inception to execution, strategically allocate resources and delegate tasks to achieve on-time, on-budget delivery. Manage 10+ site reliability engineers (SRE), systems engineers, database administrators and support technicians.
Partner with senior leadership across departments, business units and vendors on key strategic IT and engineering initiatives and translate their objective and requirements into achievable projects. Successfully led enterprise-scaled on-prem and AWS projects with security, Windows, SQL, Linux, Hadoop and VMware; as well as complete datacenter and cloud/hybrid migrations of 2,000+ servers across the U.S.
2014 : 2020
Kelley Blue Book (owned by Cox Automotive, Inc.)
Manager Infrastructure Engineering
2013 : 2014
Kelley Blue Book
Associate IT Manager
Lead systems engineer supporting the kbb.com website, including hundreds of servers running Microsoft .NET/SQL stack, Memcached clusters and Akamai CDN with ION Premier, caching, image resizing, security, SiteShield, WAF (Web Application Firewall) and Bot Manager.
Design, build, and maintain IT infrastructure of 1,200+ production and non-production Windows, Red Hat, Fedora and Ubuntu Linux and VMware servers across multiple offices and datacenters using scripts, NetApp RapidDeploy, Red Hat Kickstart and other 3rd party tools. Wrote and edited PowerShell, VBScript, Batch and BASH scripts to automate backups, jobs, install operating systems and applications, manage AD objects, NetApp filers, vSphere and generate reports.
Built out KBB’s first SSO environment using Microsoft ADFS 2.0 and SAML 2.0 in a multi-datacenter and multi-tiered architecture allowing for local redundancy and the ability to shift traffic between datacenters. Onboarded several applications internal to KBB and AutoTrader and external to customers and SaaS vendors using custom SAML assertions.
Lead Linux admin on team. Built, administered and maintained multiple Cloudera and MapR Hadoop clusters in non-production and production environments. Performed initial PoC and had formal training on Apache Hadoop by HortonWorks. Managed multiple Bugzilla instances in LAMP stacks on prod and non-prod servers.
Build relationships and collaborate with engineers and leaders across multiple departments, business units and vendors to plan and execute small to large enterprise projects, architect and build redundant infrastructure and fulfill service requests.
Effectively use monitoring and alerting tools like Keynote, Dynatrace, Gomez, Splunk, HP SiteScope, Nagios, etc. to analyze and resolve system, application, availability and performance issues in a large multi-tiered web application environment.
2011 : 2013
Kelley Blue Book
Sr. Systems Engineer
Designed, built, and maintained a SaaS platform for the Stock Market financial industry with an IT infrastructure of 800+ production and non-production Windows, Red Hat, CentOS and Ubuntu Linux, Hyper-V and VMware servers across multiple offices and datacenters in North America and Europe using PowerShell, Batch and BASH scripts, Altiris, Red Hat Kickstart and other 3rd party tools.
Built and administer Exchange 2007 with high availability, load balancing and redundancies at every level.
Maintain multiple Windows Active Directory domains with Windows 2003 and 2008 R2.
Oversee, train and delegate projects and tasks to junior administrators.
Interact closely with multiple departments across the organization for planning and organizing projects and effectively support systems and applications.
Manage and automate backups, monitoring and reporting of enterprise systems, networks and applications.
2005 : 2011
Nexa Technologies
Systems Administrator
Company:
Cox Automotive Inc.
About
Seasoned Information Technology leader with a demonstrated history of delivering business value in the automotive, media, financial, and IT services industries. Skilled in IT engineering, information security, and leadership. Strong end-user advocate and experience in building highly talented technical teams, service delivery, project management, and the implementation, resiliency, and technical operations of large-scale, multi-tiered, and geo-dispersed websites.
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