Ben Konicek Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, Us

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

- Maintained and developed infrastructure for AWS and GCP accounts via Terraform.- Supported services running in ECS, EKS, and GKE across all application environments.- Assisted in SRE efforts to optimize and right-size AWS resources, reducing costs by over 30% per month.- Built, tested, and hardened bare-metal OS images with Packer to be deployed to datacenter servers via Canonical MAAS.- Assisted the iOS development team in designing a solution to allow an external testing platform to automatically generate images for mobile app ID verification.- Created event-driven Lambda function to automatically update blue/green deployment ECS cluster nodes on a monthly basis in order to meet compliance regulations.- Deployed test automation reporting tool to EKS via Helm and wrote a Kubernetes CronJob to regularly sync project data stored in Minio to an AWS S3 bucket.- Assisted data engineering team in updating their infrastructure to match other accounts’ standards.- Migrated legacy Amplify-hosted static site to an S3 static page behind CloudFront to simplify management and improve security.- Migrated EC2 AutoScaling Groups from launch configurations to launch templates for improved functionality and long-term support from AWS.- Upgraded all GP2 EBS volumes to GP3 for improved performance and cost savings with no downtime.

Woburn, Ma, Us

- Lead engineer on managed services consulting team. - Provided ad-hoc and long-term support and implementation for client projects within AWS ecosystem.- Assisted clients in modernizing infrastructure and applications using best practices for security, DevOps processes, and cloud architecture.

Boston, Ma, Us

- Designed Azure DevOps release pipelines to support new Engineering projects- Architected serverless functions with AWS Lambda and Azure Functions to migrate off of legacy services- Wrote Ansible playbooks and roles to automate configuration changes and server deployments- Wrote scripts to interface with REST APIs to automate common tasks- Tracked bugs and improvements in JIRA- Took part in regular QA reviews of upcoming code releases

Boston, Ma, Us

- Deployed and maintained cloud infrastructure hosting online communities for over 200,000 external users- Worked closely with Engineering team to deploy new applications to Azure services or servers, and troubleshoot problems- Maintained pipelines in Octopus Deploy for deploying new application releases to Azure servers- Participated in on-call rotation to respond to after-hours issues

Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

- Supported investment and operations staff across 6 offices in 3 countries- Deployed and maintained virtual servers and network and storage infrastructure in offsite datacenters- Implemented PKI infrastructure to secure corporate network- Maintained firewalls and client and site-to-site VPN connections on Palo Alto Networks firewalls- Regularly reviewed vulnerability scans to better secure corporate network- Implemented PRTG for network and infrastructure monitoring- Created PowerShell scripts to automate tasks such as user onboarding- Traveled to branch offices to perform network upgrades and maintenance as needed

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Bs, Computer Science, Film Studies Minor

Computer Science

Education record