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Greater Seattle Area

Following promotion after delivering on key projects, lead DevOps efforts for AWS IoT Greengrass, including:* Region Build Automation project to shorten our time to expand in new regions from six SDE weeks to a less than 5 SDE days, by implementing automated scripts with rollback for previously manual step, moving projects to CI/CD, and implementing new tooling provided by the Company.* Implement Virtual Lab Image Building, allowing test devices to be configured and validated ahead of time on a weekly basis. Instance launch times reduced by up to 90%, instance configuration error rate eliminated, increased the numbers of instances available per hour from hundreds to thousands, and leveraged the improved throughput to cut costs by reducing standby instances by 50%.* Expand the Component Release infrastructure to support additional teams so they can deliver their 2p components* Bleeding-edge testing and validation for early detection of potential issues on supported popular platforms

Greater Seattle Area

Participate in the design, implementation and launch of Greengrass v2, a complete rewrite of a popular AWS service in the IoT space. Key accomplishments:* Improve our IoT device lab to facilitate device acceptance testing. With the Reflash Service, hundreds of devices can be changed on-demand to the required OS and configuration in minutes, allowing for highly parallel testing.* Reduce required human presence in IoT device lab (KVM, standardized naming / locations, cameras, increased monitoring, remote tooling) following need due to the ongoing pandemic. * Build component deployment CD infrastructure to deploy new versions of components to millions of devices* Migrate internal CI/CD infrastructure to the new CDK* Improve remote and local testing experience for engineers.

Quebec, Canada

Primary manager for Canadian operations doing tasks such as:- Plan and execute a migration of our JD Edwards ERP to a cloud provider- Automation of our most common tasks to increase quality, decrease workloads and unplanned work- Standardize branch office configurations and automate the creation and destruction of these environments- Improve monitoring coverage for faster incident detection and response.- Develop self-service web applications to reduce dependency on IT for common business tasks.- Create Ansible and Docker scripts to standardize Linux infrastructure.

Victoriaville, Canada

Handling the day-to-day and upgrade operations of several clients and participate in internal projects, including:- Automating computer and server provisioning, increasing margins on this fixed price task.- Planning and deployment of redundant server infrastructure for many clients- Help the web team in identifying client requirements for complex projects- Develop Outlook add-ins to simplify work order reporting in our in-house system.- Be the primary engineer for two multinational corporations, improving their networks and infrastructure to handle their recent growth.

- Implement automated CI and release process to deploy more frequently- Design and code a web funeral home management system (Sphère, .NET)- Standardize and streamline dev environment for faster onboarding- Development of client websites, back-end and front-end (ASP.NET MVC, C#, PHP, Knockout, jQuery).- Help maintain our internal infrastructure

Montreal, Canada Area

The Centre D'Information RX Ltée. is the IT subsidiary of the Groupe Jean Coutu pharmacy network.• Analyze, verify and apply security procedures on new production deployments• Development of a reporting system pulling data from our monitoring systems, periodically notifying business units of the status of their services. (PHP)• Developing applications for the IBM iSeries to simplify our own work.• Ensure security procedures and set-up automated notifications when ACLs are not properly set on newly deployed to production software.• On-Call support when critical systems go down or problems occurs (rotating schedule)

Under the supervision of senior developers and business analysts:• Assist in the planning of database schemas and core design of the funeral home application• Create and maintain client websites on both front-end and back-end.• Assist in implementing interactive web pages using jQuery and AJAX• Implement source control (Mercurial) and help train staff in using it

• Support users and employees with the computer systems in the library• Keep the IT systems in working conditions and free of unappropriate software• Help with the migration to the new inter-municipality library management system • Install new computers for client usage (with appropriate restrictions)