Cheyenne Gray

Lead Systems Engineer

About

Enthusiastic and creative systems engineer with hands-on experience across data analysis, software production, Kubernetes, automation, and large-scale systems engineering. I build reliable, high-efficiency platforms and the automation that keeps them healthy.

Experience

  1. 2024 – Present Lead Systems Engineer Paycom
  2. 2021 – 2024 Systems Administrator, Senior Paycom
  3. 2020 – 2021 Systems Administrator Paycom
  4. 2019 – 2020 Technical Support Analyst Paycom

Highlights

Splunk Platform

Deployed and operate Splunk across multiple data centers and technology departments — over 10 TB/day of ingestion and 1,000+ daily active users in the core search-head environment. A small team drives automation for server builds, license detection, and OpsGenie alerting.

Splunk Engineering

Administrator of the core Splunk, ITSI, and Enterprise Security environments — 80+ servers maintained by a three-person team. Covers security patching, architecture refinements, health monitoring and alerting, and enterprise upgrades via Ansible automation and change management.

Cribl Engineering

Engineer for a six-cluster, multi-data-center Cribl environment. Implemented and maintain tooling that heavily reduces Splunk licensing cost while improving data quality for technology departments.

Skills

Education

East Central University — Ada, OK
General Studies of Computer Science · GPA 3.7