Evan McKinney

DNS engineer with a solid background in Linux administration, Observability, and DDI

Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

About

Senior DNS Engineer with over a decade of experience building, scaling, and securing DNS infrastructure for large-scale telecommunications and service providers. With a solid Unix administration and DDI background, my focus is on the entire DNS ecosystem: from authoritative deployment and DNSSEC signing, to implementing recursive/caching services with DoH and with Anycast resolver networks. I oversee the full lifecycle of DNS platforms, including large-scale migrations, vendor evaluations, and automating operations. My work includes building self-service DNS systems, implementing DNS-based security products, and modernizing resolver networks to enhance privacy and performance for millions of end-users.

Experience

  • Site Reliability Engineer - DDI Team at Goldman Sachs
    Dec 2021 - Jun 2025 · 3 yrs 7 mos

    SRE for the team managing DNS, DHCP, IPAM, and NTP - Linux, Bind, Bluecat Managing configuration changes - Gitlab Building and testing application configuration changes Packaging and deploying images Monitoring production instances - ELK, Grafana, Splunk

  • Principal Engineer - DNS at Charter Communications
    Jul 2017 - Dec 2021 · 4 yrs 6 mos

    Principal DNS engineer

  • Site Reliability Engineer - DNS at GE Digital
    Jan 2017 - Jul 2017 · 7 mos

    DDI engineer

  • DNS Engineer at Nominum
    Aug 2016 - Jan 2017 · 6 mos

    On-site Nominum/Akamai DNS product SME

  • Security Analyst at Bank of America
    Apr 2016 - Jul 2016 · 4 mos

    F5 DNS administration