The home of Jeff Vernier
The following attempts to summarize an Infrastructure Engineer possessing diverse experience with high availability enterprise, financial and datacenter networks.
Projects
- Aviatrix network overlay for connectivity between datacenters, AWS and Azure.
- Checkpoint Cloudguard security services cloud deployment.
- NSX-T Network overlay deployment for Centene Cloud Platform (CCP).
- Nextgen firewall and VPN deployment & management supporting 80,000 sessions.
- Designed a DR remote access solution leveraging VPN to allow access for geographically diverse staff to participate in DR exercises.
- Nextgen Network Access Control deployment, Cisco ACS/ISE & Aruba Clearpasss
- Non impactful datacenter migrations.
- Key participant on annual network infrastructure AOP outlines and roadmaps.
- Responsible for the deployment and management of Enterprise Load balancers.
Subject Matter Expert
- Aviatrix cloud networking
- NSX-T on prem cloud networking
- Netscaler Hardware Load Balancers
- Cisco Anyconnect VPN
- Checkpoint Cloudguard firewalls
- Cisco ISE/ACS & Aruba Clearpass network access control
- Network Underlay routing, BGP
- Riverbed WAN optimization services
Jeff’s Experience
Centene
2024 – Present
Manager
Application Development, Robotics/Automation
Centene
2021 – 2024
Team Lead, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Public Cloud Services
Centene
2019 – 2021
Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Private Cloud Services
Centene
2014 – 2019
Lead, Network Engineer
Network Infrastructure Services
Stifel Financial
2008 – 2014
Network Engineer III
Network Infrastructure Services
Education
Associates of Applied Technologies
Computer Networking Technologies, Computer Network Architecture
Ranken Technical College, 2005-2007
Phi Theta Kappa, National Honors Society
National Dean’s List, Fall 2005 – Spring 2007