Ben Formosa
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at NVIDIA
Canberra, Australia
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Top SchoolBen Formosa is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years' experience specialising in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and automation using Ansible, currently supporting large-scale infrastructure at NVIDIA. He has a strong track record in Australian federal government IT, holding an NV1 AGSVA clearance and delivering compliant, auditable RHEL estates across on-prem and cloud environments. Ben combines systems administration, cloud platform work (Azure, AWS, Office 365) and Windows support for enterprise apps like Microsoft Dynamics and SharePoint, while automating deployments with Docker, Jenkins and scripts to reduce toil. Comfortable in both hands-on support roles and small architecture teams, he has operated in challenging contexts—from Antarctic shipboard communications to managing production services—bringing practical resilience and clear documentation to complex, risk-sensitive systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology, Software Development, Bachelor of Information Technology, Software Development at Charles Sturt University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (108)
rhel10
automation10
satellite10
ansible-role10
ansible-module10
cybersecurity10
ansible10
python9
sudo9
sudoers9
ssh9
sas9
configuration-management9
powerbi9
powerapps8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
benformosa/benformosa.github.io
Apr 2017 - Dec 2020
Ben's Personal GitHub Pages Blog
Contributions:2 PRs, 24 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 8 months
bengitbookjekyllpages-blog
envris/tomcat-jdbc
May 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:4 releases, 15 commits, 2 PRs in 5 months
jdbc-databasedatabase-connectionsdockertomcatbase-images
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