aaron jones

Leading Cloud migration for AWS, Azure, and GCP. Serving customers as Subject Matter Expert (SME) and technical lead overseeing comprehensive network operations in a sophisticated multi-account environment utilizing FedRAMP-certified services. Managed various components, including NLB, DNAT, ELB, DirectConnect, and Transit Gateways. Serving customers as a consulting architect role in safeguarding

Provided technical direction and leadership to resolve critical design and operational issues across all infrastructure services. Managed IT Network Team and provided technical leadership. Directed infrastructure teams through various outages and incidents. Directed the Network & Infrastructure deployment of the new Headquarters. Managed network and firewall configurations. Led incident response a

Established partnership with Avaya and Shoretel. Supported a nationwide team of Avaya Technicians. Managed IP Office systems installations and upgrades. Managed Cisco ASA/PIX firewall installations and support. Refurbished F5 and Cisco Security Appliances. Managed Windows Domain architecture and RAS servers. Managed and secured Apache website server farms. Installed and managed Cisco M.A.R.S SEIM

Worked on various development projects including F5 automation, TCL scripts, vendor to eCommerce integrations, and website development. Built and maintained various eCommerce sites. Managed SQL database with real-time inventory connectivity to distributors. Implemented SEO and Google Ads analytics. Delivered significant sales growth. Managed and secured Apache website server farms. Installed and m

Responsible for the design, build, maintenance, and documentation of the infrastructure. Led incident response by managing firewall rules, analyzing network traffic, isolating infected devices, controlling network access, and conducting root cause analysis. Managed vendor VPNs and relationships with administration for FAA, SITA, ARINC, HoneyWell, Homeland Security, etc. Designed, built, maintained

Consulting Security/WAN and RFC 2351 MATIP SME. Mentored network and firewall team members on new designs.

Managed the migration of thousands of B2B vendor net connections from ATL and MSP to a new data center at T5 in Alpharetta, GA. Converted configurations from ASA and Checkpoint to Palo Alto firewalls. Provided design and strategy for the long-term goal of active-active data centers. Offered guidelines to improve VPN support, security posture, and future-proof the VPN landscape.

Studied and mapped application flow to network path for all partners and providers. Provided spreadsheets, Visio designs, and training sessions to educate network and security teams on their existing architecture. Utilized Splunk and FileMaker Pro to ingest firewall configurations and mapped them through a holistic view for a larger migration campaign. Wrote Python scripts for network details and

Analyzed production F5 configurations and developed a disaster recovery automation plan. Developed F5 DNS GTM failover designs for multiple data centers. Developed failover solutions for active-active data center architecture. Developed F5 and DNS failover strategies.

Built out a new data center with various Cisco Partners acting as the DCDR Data Center Architect. Focused on WAN, Firewall, Cisco ACI, and a Migrated Datacenter Interconnect and the WAN block Architecture. Designed the migration strategy moving VRFs off Brocade routers to Nexus NXOS switches.

Focused on ACI Design and WAN block design with Cisco Nexus 9k series and Palo Alto firewalls. Provided consulting as an F5 application delivery SME for Implementation and Design for various Fortune 500 companies. Worked on multiple contracts simultaneously and shared as a resource for other Cisco Partners in Atlanta. Designed and deployed Firepower and ISE. Involved in project management, softwar

Moved workloads to AWS VPCs and consulted on remote worker architecture. Secured VPC endpoints and audited rules and routes for remediation. Migrated Azure Vnet buildouts and VPN connectivity to AWS VPC and VPN tunnels. Configured Cisco CSRs for dev test environments.

Provided ACI and Firewall designs for new data center and migration plan from MSP. Palo Alto firewall migrations. Provided routing protocol troubleshooting for BGP to OSPF and circuit monitoring (MPLS, VPN, Dedicated Circuits).

Focused on Palo Firewall SME, F5 Load Balancer SME, and Network Design. Developed ACI designs for Tenants, EPGs, and Service Graphs.

Migrated IBM Mainframe network connectivity to ACI network and NXOS.

Collected all of Turner Media's network and firewall configurations, reported on security holes, vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations for the entire network consisting of over 8,000 network and security switches, routers, and appliances.

Worked as an F5 Architect, directly working on enterprise F5 Load balancers running products like GTM/Big IP DNS, LTM, ASM, APM.

Utilized experience in various areas of IT consulting, specifically focusing on pre-sales and post-sales architecture. Converted network teams from legacy network to DevSecOps implementations. Offered security incident response engagements. Provided consulting expertise in F5 load balancer technologies (GTM, LTM, ASM, APM) as well as zero-trust architectures using Cisco ACI, Tetration, and Duo Sec

Engaged on a project to configure Firepower clusters for Touchnet/Global Payments that were previously misconfigured. Resolved various misconfigurations across several Cisco switches/routers and firewalls during change windows.

Working with Cloud Governance closely and building an infrastructure that can service data real-time, dynamically with unaffiliated entities with a universal 0Auth Design and 0 trust across the nation. Turning Digital efforts into a Platform Reference Architecture and creating an IT service catalog to go to market with a net new line of revenue. Building solutions for Dynamic PHI data at scale. Cl