Summary
Mark Mckinley is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and automating resilient infrastructure across AWS, OCI, and GovCloud environments. He blends deep networking expertise (Cisco, F5 BigIP, BGP/OSPF, VPNs, Cisco ACI) with systems administration across Linux, Solaris, and Windows, and strong automation skills using Terraform, Ansible, Python, Bash, and PowerShell. At Oracle he drives FedRAMP Moderate (IL4) compliance, authors detailed architecture and network diagrams, and has led audit engagements to support ATO objectives. He has a track record of solving complex cross‑provider outages, building datacenter failover topologies, and integrating inventory and change-detection workflows with ServiceNow. Mark also applies AI-driven automation and advanced prompt engineering to streamline operations, making him as comfortable with packet captures and layer-7 analysis as with policy-driven IaC.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
General Studies, General Studies at Mira Costa Community College