Joseph Walters
Cloud Engineer IV at Premera Blue Cross
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Walters is a Cloud Engineer IV with two decades of systems and security experience and a decade focused on cloud-native infrastructure, automation, and compliance. He blends deep Unix expertise (including Solaris and RHEL families) with hands-on Terraform, Ansible, and container orchestration to design secure, scalable AWS and Azure environments for regulated domains like DoD, HIPAA, and SOC II. Known for migrating complex on-prem systems to the cloud and tuning high-performance computing clusters for CFD and research workloads, he also implements identity solutions (FreeIPA/LDAP) and CI/CD pipelines to streamline operations. Joseph’s background in security hardening and accreditation work informs pragmatic, auditable architectures that balance availability, cost, and risk. Based in Nashville, he pairs long-term operational discipline with a penchant for scripting and automation that surfaces non-obvious efficiency gains across large estates.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (AS), Computer Information Systems, Associate of Science (AS), Computer Information Systems at Victor Valley College
English
Github Skills (5)
plex10
meta10
passwd8
passwords7
shadow7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
JoeWalters/Plex-Meta-Manager-Configs
Apr 2022 - Aug 2024
Config files for Plex Meta Manager
Contributions:2 PRs, 80 pushes in 2 years 3 months
metaconfigconfig-filesplex
JoeWalters/FreeIPA-Local-Auth-Imports
Aug 2017 - Feb 2020
Import local users/groups/passwords using passwd/shadow/group
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 7 months
groupspasswordsshadowpasswordpasswd
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