Landon Orr
Site Reliability Manager at Cowbell
Landon Orr is a seasoned Systems Administrator and Teaching Assistant currently associated with Brigham Young University. With almost a decade of relevant experience under his belt, he has worked with some of the most prominent names in the industry. Landon started his career as a Hardwa
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Years of Experience
Education
brigham young university
Companies
cowbell cyber, cowbell cyber, lacework, lacework, ripple, qualtrics, qualtrics, qualtrics, byu, fulton supercomputer lab byu supercomputing
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Experience
2024 - Present
cowbell cyber
Site Reliability Engineering Manager
2023 - 2024
cowbell cyber
Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer
2022 - 2023
lacework
Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer
2021 - 2022
lacework
Staff Site Reliability Engineer
2019 - 2021
ripple
Senior Platform Engineer
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.
2018 - 2019
qualtrics
Senior NetDevOps Engineer
As a NetDevOps engineer, I help Qualtrics automate their networking infrastructure using DevOps CICD pipelines. I work heavily with Python, Ansible, Jenkins, Docker and Terraform to achieve this. NetDevOps allows our networking team to keep up with fast-paced infrastructure changes and to deploy infrastructure as quickly as our developers deploy code! Some of my projects I've worked on are: • Use Ansible to automate backing up of switch, DNS and DHCP configs. Also used for automation of VLAN changes and configuration management/validation. • Use Terraform and Ansible to deploy DR networks in AWS using their VPC networks • Dockerized internal tools and deployed via Nomad to allow HA of critical monitoring and configuration applications • Work on a CICD pipeline for configuration changes to firewalls, loadbalancers, DNS services and all routing and switching.
2017 - 2018
qualtrics
Global IT Manager
• Manage Qualtrics global IT team and support 2500 employees in a very fast-paced growth environment • Ran global IT team for Qualtrics. Supported 15 offices both domestically and internationally for 2000+ employees. • 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.
2012 - 2016
qualtrics
Site Reliability Engineer
As a SRE, I helped Qualtrics grow our infrastructure from a single-homed traditional LAMP stack to a multi-site, automated, microservice-oriented infrastructure. While I worked in all aspects of automation, I specialized heavily in building our network infrastructure, both on the corporate and production side. • Dockerized network automation internal tooling. Deployed to production via Nomad • Built a front-end dashboard in Python to automate the use of 16 F5 BIG-IP LTM machines, presented on this topic at the Utah F5 User’s Group. • Deployed and administered the networking of ten AWS datacenters. • Managed network of five physical colocation datacenters and seven offices worldwide, including LAN and WAN connectivity and DNS and DHCP services. • Automated deployment of AWS VPCs, VPC SME for SRE team. • Configure and install a layer 3 to-the-edge network for Qualtrics’ Provo network. Network consists of over 100 layer 3 switches using OSPF. • Worked on moving to a scalable, automated network both in the offices and prod.
2011 - 2012
byu
Systems Administrator/ Teaching Assistant
Oversee the maintenance and administration of over 80 physical hosts and over 200 VMs, including twenty Linux and Windows servers. Extensive experience in working with IP tables, DHCP and Firewall rules in Linux along with automated backups for both Windows and Linux machines. Designed and implemented a system to decrease Windows imaging time in Altiris by 500% using torrenting. Currently in charge of deploying and maintain ing VMWare ESXi hosts, using vCenter and VMWare Virtual Data Recovery. Assist in teaching BYU's web development class . Experienced in using monitoring systems such as Nagios , Zenoss and Cacti.
2010 - 2011
fulton supercomputer lab byu supercomputing
Hardware Technician
Maintained BYU's supercomputer utilized for research projects for investors, students and faculty . Maintained hardware on BYU's supercomputer arrays used for research and development. Worked solely in Linux, mostly in a command line only environment.
Experience
9 Skills
Automation
infra
Infrastructure
linux
Networking
Python
Senior Software Engineer
Site Reliability Engineering
SRE
Education
2010 - 2014
brigham young university
Bachelors
Information Technology
