Kevin East
About Kevin East
Kevin East is a Platform Administrator III at Cambia Health Solutions, where he has worked since 2012. He specializes in automation and configuration management, focusing on standardizing environments with various server technologies and utilizing DevOps principles.
Work at Cambia Health Solutions
Kevin East has been employed at Cambia Health Solutions since 2012, where he holds the position of Platform Administrator III. In this role, he focuses on standardizing and automating a large environment that includes over 500 Apache web servers, 500 Tomcat servers, 175 WebSphere Application Servers, and 100 OpenESB/Glassfish servers. His responsibilities include extending automation and configuration management to cloud services such as AWS and Azure. Prior to this role, he served as Platform Administrator II at the same organization for one year.
Previous Experience at The Regence Group
Before joining Cambia Health Solutions, Kevin East worked at The Regence Group as a Mainframe System Programmer from 2003 to 2011. During his eight years in this position, he contributed to various orchestration efforts and gained experience in automating complex operations across multiple platforms, including web servers, application servers, and load balancer tiers.
Education and Expertise
Kevin East studied at the University of Utah, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from 1996 to 1998. He also attended Salt Lake Community College, achieving an Associate's Degree in General Studies from 1993 to 1996. His educational background supports his expertise in automation and configuration management, particularly in large-scale server environments.
Technical Skills and Tools
In his current role, Kevin East utilizes DevOps principles and employs various tools such as Python, Perl, Bash, Ansible, and git to implement Infrastructure as Code strategies. He is also exploring application containerization using Docker, indicating his commitment to adopting new technologies and improving operational efficiency.
Career at Unisys
Kevin East's career includes a position at Unisys, where he worked as a Business Support Analyst from 2001 to 2003. This role contributed to his foundational skills in business support and analysis, which have been beneficial throughout his subsequent positions in technology and platform administration.