Alexander S.

Software Engineer at Kratos Defense

Dallas, Texas, United States

About

What do I currently do? Hmm.... I can tell you I was building out environments in the Oracle Cloud, for ONE Network Enterprises with Terraform while expanding monitoring for both of their on-prem and cloud infrastructure. Further back would be Lead DevOps Support for EVA during the Mosaic era of SouthWest Airlines migration of their fleet maintenance into a modern software suite. Oh, I also managed the QA infrastructure at Tripleseat Software.

Experience

  • Kratos Defense and Security Solutions (2 yrs 10 mos)
    • Senior System Engineer
      Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

    • System Engineer
      Oct 2023 - Jun 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • DevOps Engineer at Tripleseat
    Jun 2022 - Oct 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos

    • Utilizing Terraform for Amazon Web Services • Linux OS vulnerability scanning and remediation • Building Ansible Playbooks for configuring AWS infrastructure • Designing AWS console automation to close off SSH access to the outside world • Creating Docker containers for seamless deployment of our application in any environment • Took ownership of QA and redesigned our infrastructure to help secure components of the network --- Designed every QA environment, to have their own VPC, and utilize one shared bastion host • Designing Ruby applications that find old database snapshots --- Throws Slack alerts to help the team with cost savings

  • DevOps Engineer at One Network Enterprises
    Oct 2021 - Jun 2022 · 9 mos

  • Southwest Airlines (2 yrs 1 mo)
    • Lead DevOps Support for EVA (ETOPS Verification Aid)
      Jul 2021 - Oct 2021 · 4 mos

      • Primary DevOps representative for the ETOPS Verification Aid application. (Extended-range Twin-engine Operations Performance Standards) • Supporting Go Live simulation for new maintenance software supporting Boeing 800 series & Max 8

    • DevOps Engineer
      Oct 2019 - Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      • Overseeing software change scheduling and execution • Supporting high-availability, integration, and smoke tests to maintain architectural integrity • Enforcing first-pass security for the Maintenix application • Assisting with host upgrades • Building Grafana dashboards for monitoring applications and related services • Developing specialized BASH scripts • Restructuring and backing up Oracle Databases • Creating and maintaining technical documentation for systems pertaining to airline maintenance • Supporting Go Live for new maintenance software supporting over 400 Boeing 700 series aircraft • Primary devops representative for the ETOPS Verification Aid application. (Extended-range Twin-engine Operations Performance Standards)

  • Associate Consultant for SouthWest Airlines at Fenway Group
    Oct 2019 - Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    • Presenting on Southwest Airlines' evolving digital landscape to Fenway Group management • Identifying and engaging untapped talent for Fenway Group • Mentoring and guiding university recruits into IT professionalism