Rial Sloan
Manager, OS & Cloud at Tennessee Valley Authority
Ringgold, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRial Sloan is a seasoned cloud and infrastructure leader with over a decade of experience building, modernizing, and operating hybrid and public cloud platforms for large enterprises. Currently Manager, OS & Cloud at the Tennessee Valley Authority, he leads cross-functional teams that manage AWS and Azure estates, enforce regulatory and security controls, and drive modernization through DevOps practices and standardization. Rial combines hands-on engineering roots—from designing high-availability DNS and container platforms to automating patching—with program and budget management, mentoring, and a strong focus on psychological safety and career development. He’s pragmatic about risk and compliance, having operationalized controls for Sarbanes-Oxley, NERC/CIP, FISMA, and HIPAA, while also shepherding cloud adoption and Zero Trust initiatives. Based in Ringgold, Georgia, he brings a rare mix of technical depth, people leadership, and long-term planning that consistently translates into measurable operational improvements.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Northwest Whitfield High SchoolGeorgia Institute of TechnologyCollege Algebra, College Algebra at Dalton State College
Github Skills (16)
docker10
kubernetes-cluster6
kubectl6
security5
ansible5
kubeadm5
raspberry-pi4
golang4
kubernetes-setup3
kubernetes3
ssh3
server1
automation1
linux1
python-bindings1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
n00tz/n00tz-compose
Apr 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:87 commits, 84 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 4 months
n00tz/darc-jekyll
Dec 2016 - Dec 2021
Contributions:80 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years
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