Personnel file
Joseph Abbott III
Software Engineer · AWS Certified · Open Source Contributor · DevOps · AI Engineering · Experienced with government cybersecurity frameworks and policy.
- Boise Metropolitan Area
- Active DoD Secret Clearance
- GitHub
- X
- Engineering log
About
Marine veteran and Senior Field Engineer who keeps mission-critical training systems secure and running, now bringing that operational discipline to DevOps, DevSecOps, and cloud engineering.
Since 2022, I’ve supported F-35 flight simulators for Lockheed Martin. I manage Linux servers, virtual machines, and Active Directory in environments where downtime and security gaps aren’t an option. Before that, I provided Tier 1 support on the NGEN contract. I also spent five years in the U.S. Marine Corps as a field radio operator, keeping communications up when it mattered.
I have graduated with a B.S. in Software Engineering at Western Governors University and write code in Go, Python, Java/Kotlin, and SQL. I’m also building infrastructure-as-code skills and preparing for the HashiCorp Terraform Associate certification.
Clearance: Secret
I’m relocating to Boise, Idaho, and I’m open to DevOps, DevSecOps, Cloud, and Software Engineering roles in Boise or remote. Let’s connect.
Experience
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Senior Field Engineer
Lockheed Martin · Full-time
- Installed security updates on 300 machines to harden them against threats.
- Installed all new hardware and software on 300 machines, 12 F-35 cockpits, and 300 projectors. Enabling the training of 50+ F-35 pilots a day.
- Maintain, deploy, and repair 24 SuSE file servers and 48 RHEL virtual machines.
- Managed all user access for 68+ users on 16 isolated intranets with active directory.
- Preflight and launch flight simulations, completing up to 84 simulated missions per day.
- Utilized ALIS for all equipment change management and maintenance, to successfully replace or fix $21.5M+ in hardware.
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Senior Field Engineer
Delaware Resource Group · Full-time
- Installed security updates on 300 machines to harden them against threats.
- Installed all new hardware and software on 300 machines, 12 F-35 cockpits, and 300 projectors. Enabling the training of 50+ F-35 pilots a day.
- Maintain, deploy, and repair 24 SuSE file servers and 48 RHEL virtual machines.
- Managed all user access for 68+ users on 16 isolated intranets with active directory.
- Preflight and launch flight simulations, completing up to 84 simulated missions per day.
- Utilized ALIS for all equipment change management and maintenance, to successfully replace or fix $21.5M+ in hardware.
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Tier 1 Agent
Leidos · Full-time
- Handled over 4,000 service tickets ensuring every customer issue is handled appropriately. Ensuring as a team that contract metrics were met.
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Tier 1 Agent
Insight Global · Full-time
- Handled over 4,000 service tickets ensuring every customer issue is handled appropriately. Ensuring as a team that contract metrics were met.
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Field Radio Operator, Sergeant / E5
United States Marine Corps · Contract
- Established satellite, radio, and computer-mediated communications for 20 training operations, 10 coalition operations, and 2 humanitarian aid operations. Zero communication failures during those operations ensured command and control had continuous communication throughout each operation.
- Managed 13 Marines ensuring combat readiness is always as close to 100% as possible.
- Planned all communications for 6 operations ensuring successful communication between all participating parties.
- Held 4 communications classes with 300 marines at each class. Resulting in 15+% reduction in the workload of the core 13 communications Marines on operations. Allowing them to focus on other priority issues.
- Handled all COMSEC and cryptographic requirements for 100+ communication systems. There were zero COMSEC incidents.
Projects
Open Source Project Contributions
Merged Pull Requests of contributions made to other projects.
- s3-orchestrator Merged pull request #1682
- AegisFlow Merged pull request #140
- InfraCanvas Merged pull requests #12, #19, #21
CLI and TUI Projects
Command line interface applications and terminal user interface applications.
- Munus Go Terminal-first task manager with a Bubble Tea TUI and Cobra CLI, SQLite storage, tags, relative deadlines and import/export.
- Cryptare Go File encryption and compression TUI/CLI using AES-256-GCM and Argon2id, with a password-protected key store and signed releases.
- Salus Go Environment health checker for disk, memory, CPU, Docker, Kubernetes, services, certificates and misconfigurations with PASS/WARN/FAIL reporting.
- Capsus Go CLI toolbox that bundles every command-line tool I have built into one binary.
Volunteer
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Volunteer
United States Marine Corps · Social Services
Community relation building in Okinawa, Japan.
Education
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering
Western Governors University
Excellence Award in Back-End Programming
Certifications
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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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CompTIA Project+
CompTIA
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ITIL 4 Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management
PeopleCert
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CompTIA Security+
CompTIA
Skills
Top skills
Industry Knowledge
Tools & Technologies
Other Skills
Languages
English · Native or bilingual proficiency