Summary
Les Ault is a DevOps Automation Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native, observable systems across finance and enterprise environments. He combines deep systems background (RHCE, VCP, CVE) with practical automation skills in Terraform, Python, Jenkins and OpenSearch, and has led migrations such as ElasticSearch to AWS OpenSearch. Comfortable from low-level Unix administration and ISC Bind DNS to container orchestration with Docker, Rancher and Kubernetes, Les has repeatedly automated repeatable infrastructure—writing Terraform modules, Puppet modules and Python tooling—to reduce toil. Now at the Federal Reserve System after SRE roles at ShareFile, Penn Entertainment and Align, he blends security-focused vulnerability management mindset with platform reliability work. A polyglot coder (C, Perl, Bash, Go, Rust) who built logging platforms and CI/CD pipelines early in his career, he’s equally at home troubleshooting storage and network stacks as scripting deployment automation.
9 years of coding experience