Jeff Ousley
Infrastructure Operations Team Lead
Kearney, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Ousley is an experienced infrastructure operations leader with 11+ years at IBM driving global, production-critical systems for Db2 Warehouse on Cloud across hundreds of Kubernetes clusters, thousands of VMs and bare-metal servers. He combines hands-on skills in Kubernetes, Ansible, Jenkins, Linux, and cloud platforms with proven incident RCA, 24x7 on-call management, and CI/CD orchestration. A natural mentor and manager, he leads hiring, career development, and roadmap decisions while improving automation and operational resilience. His background in development and systems (Java, WebSphere, databases including Db2/Informix, and Hadoop) gives him an unusual full-stack view that helps turn complex problems into simple, maintainable solutions. Known for the motto “Make it work, then make it better,” he thrives on coaching teams and executing large-scale upgrades and migrations with minimal disruption. Based in Kearney, Missouri, he pairs decades of hands-on ops experience with a track record of practical innovation and documentation that still supports internal IBM tooling today.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Kearney High SchoolBachelor of Science, Electronics Engineering Technology, 3.75, Bachelor of Science, Electronics Engineering Technology, 3.75 at DeVry Institute of Technology
Github Skills (15)
paloaltonetworks6
openconnect5
okta5
authentication4
rust3
linux3
azure3
yubikey3
saml3
vpn3
robotpy2
vpn-client2
auth2
python2
pure-python1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jousley/node-todo-api2
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
frc3528/SimbaTankDrive
Sep 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:12 pushes in 4 months
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