Career Profile
I am a driven and passionate platform engineer with experience building and supporting highly available and scalable infrastructure. I subscribe to the ideals of DevOps, both technological and cultural. I’m driven to learn new skills and to be constantly challenged in all that I do. I’m a proponent of open source and open data. I’ve been fortunate enough to be afforded the opportunity to provide a technical review of two DevOps related books from Packt Publishing. I’m looking for the next exciting challenge, to allow me to contribute to a successful operations or platform team, and continue to embrace new skills and ideas.
Experiences
- As with Senior SRE, with additional responsibilities to;
- Liaise with Tech Leads and and business leaders to ensure alignment across teams;
- Define our team’s roadmap and technical direction
- Contributing to internal paved road CloudFormation templates to enable self-service for software teams;
- Providing automated solutions to eliminate toil, mostly using Python and Go;
- Supporting a Prometheus, Grafana and CloudWatch based monitoring and alerting platform;
- Supporting a CI/CD platform based on Jenkins and Octopus Deploy;
- On-Call
- Similar to previous roles, with a focus on specific needs of an early stage startup;
- Building out secure and scalable infrastructure with Terraform (using a lot of AWS services, and a mix of ECS containers and HashiCorp Nomad);
- Improving resiliency and performance; Working in a HIPAA environment
- Strategy;
- Architecture;
- Project lead on longer running operations projects
- in addition to Senior Operations Engineer
- Line management and mentoring for four other operations engineers, in addition to Operations Engineer
- Building, monitoring, and managing highly available AWS Linux infrastructure at scale using CloudFormation and Puppet, Datadog and CloudWatch;
- Being a designated engineer for a number of service teams, ensuring that their operational requirements are accommodated;
- On-Call
- Managed the Operations Team;
- Line Management;
- Requirements gathering and monitoring implementation;
- Mentoring a new operations team on site in Vancouver;
- On-Call
- Development and enhancement of monitoring tools deployed as Splunk apps via Chef;
- Incident resolution, investigation and root cause analysis;
- On-Call;
- Mentoring junior engineers;
- Built and migrated various AWS infrastructures involving Puppet, Chef and CloudFormation.
Accomplishments
AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate) - lapsed
AWS Certified SysOps Engineer (Associate) - lapsed
Technical Reviewer - Continuous Delivery and DevOps: A Quickstart Guide, Packt Publishing
Technical Reviewer - Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook, Packt Publishing