Tullahoma, TN · Open to Remote
Where infrastructure meets eDiscovery.
Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer · eDiscovery Platform Specialist
7+ years in systems administration. 13+ years in eDiscovery. I build, deploy, and harden large-scale eDiscovery platforms on AWS, Linux, Docker, and PostgreSQL. I replace proprietary tools with infrastructure-as-code and self-hosted open-source.
Experience
Senior Systems Administrator
2023 to Present
Venio Systems, Inc. · Tullahoma, TN (Remote)
Build, deploy, and harden the VenioOne eDiscovery platform across dev, validation, and production, including an FBI-hosted environment.
- Built and upgraded VenioOne environments with automated install/patch/config procedures, standardizing deployment and reducing manual error.
- Designed and shipped a custom NSRL database upgrade tool and a PowerShell automation suite covering AD/vault mapping, staged credential rotation, and auditing.
- Migrated a proprietary identity tool to open-source PWM running in Docker on existing Linux infrastructure. Retired the legacy server, cut recurring spend, established a repeatable proprietary-to-self-hosted pattern.
- Led a 53-action privileged-access offboarding across 7 systems (AWS IAM, EC2, VPN, vault, AD, SSL/DNS).
- Drove STIG/SCAP hardening (FIPS, TLS 1.3, SQL TDE) in an FBI-hosted environment with reusable documentation supporting SOC 2 readiness.
- Authored SAML/SSO specifications making the platform provider-agnostic; specified a 3-server reference architecture for new cloud clients.
Senior Application Support Engineer
Nov 2019 to 2023
Legility / Consilio, LLC (acquired) · Nashville, TN
Administered Linux and PostgreSQL infrastructure powering global eDiscovery and legal-services workloads.
- Administered and troubleshot in-house Linux and PostgreSQL eDiscovery applications; implemented automated installation and patch procedures, standardizing deployments across the environment.
- Automated and adapted SQL operations for the local environment, supported large-scale eDiscovery hosting platforms, and produced clear technical guidance ensuring standardized, repeatable installs.
Application Support Manager
2019
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Led an eDiscovery tool-dev team (SQL, C#, PowerShell, Tableau); built metrics/reporting tooling; recruited talent.
eDiscovery Service Manager
2018 to 2019
Yerra Solutions
Led an eDiscovery team; drove workflow, quality, and process improvements; advised attorneys on collections.
eDiscovery Coordinator
2013 to 2018
Deloitte Transactions & Business Analytics LLP
Delivered projects on Relativity, NUIX, and eCapture: processing, hosting, productions, and QC at scale.
Lead Desktop Support Technician
2009 to 2013
Trevecca Nazarene University
Built a Linux network-image deployment system; administered a Debian server; SSL/PKI generation and OS hardening.
Projects
A selection from github.com/nathanaelries , weighted toward the intersection of infrastructure and eDiscovery.
venio-ng-tika-docker
FeaturedApache Tika packaged as Docker images for eDiscovery text extraction
Containerized builds of Apache Tika Server, the text-extraction engine that powers most eDiscovery platforms. Multiple Tika versions, multiple Java LTS variants (8/11/14/16/17), and minimal vs. full builds with GDAL and Tesseract OCR. The eDiscovery × DevOps wedge in one repo.
- Docker
- Apache Tika
- Java
- OCR
- Shell
containerized-guacamole
FeaturedProduction-ready Apache Guacamole with TLS, reverse proxy, and persistent state
Docker Compose stack for Apache Guacamole: Nginx reverse proxy, Let's Encrypt TLS termination, PostgreSQL persistence. Two env vars to deploy. The kind of small, opinionated infra pattern a platform team actually ships.
- Docker Compose
- Nginx
- Let's Encrypt
- PostgreSQL
- TLS
Powershell-Convert-XLS-To-ConcordanceDAT
FeaturedExcel to Concordance DAT load-file converter for legal-review pipelines
C# and PowerShell tool that converts Excel worksheets into Concordance DAT load files, a format only legaltech engineers have heard of. Parallel processing, batch ops, memory-efficient streaming. Built from 13 years of watching review teams fight load-file conversions.
- C#
- PowerShell
- Parallel processing
- eDiscovery
guacamole-install-rhel
Bash installer for Apache Guacamole on RHEL
End-to-end install script for Apache Guacamole on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The pre-container version of the stack above, useful for environments where Docker isn't on the table. Together they show the evolution from script-driven to container-driven deployment.
- Bash
- RHEL
- Linux
- Apache Guacamole
gci-AsParallel
Multi-threaded Get-ChildItem replacement for PowerShell
Wraps .NET's EnumerateDirectories and EnumerateFiles with AsParallel() to speed up large directory traversals. Built after profiling a real bottleneck in an eDiscovery file-ingest job. 4★ / 1 fork.
- PowerShell
- .NET
- Performance
Skills
DevOps & Automation
- CI/CD & build/release pipelines
- Infrastructure as Code
- Docker
- Automated installation & patching
- PowerShell
- SQL
- C#
- Terraform (learning)
- Ansible (learning)
Cloud & Infrastructure
- AWS (VPC, EC2, IAM, peering, cost optimization)
- Linux server administration
- Windows Server
- IIS
- PostgreSQL
- SQL Server
- VPN, DNS, SSL/TLS
- Multi-environment (dev / validation / production) deployment
Security & Compliance
- STIG/SCAP hardening
- FIPS
- LDAPS / Kerberos
- TLS 1.3
- TPM / Secure Boot
- GPO
- Credential vaulting
- Security incident response
- SOC 2-aligned documentation
eDiscovery Platforms
- Relativity
- NUIX
- eCapture
- Venio (VenioOne)
- Brainspace
- Recenseo
- Encase / Cellebrite (forensics)
- Large-scale processing, ingestion & hosting
- Environment build & upgrade
- Team leadership
Contact
Best way to reach me is email. I'm open to remote DevOps, Platform, and Infrastructure Engineer roles, especially at eDiscovery and legaltech companies.
Location
Tullahoma, TN · Open to RemoteGitHub
github.com/nathanaelries