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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Costa Mesa, California, United States

Position - SRE- Drove Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) initiatives using AWS, Terraform (IaC), and CI/CD pipelines to ensure scalable, cost-effective, and highly available infrastructure. - Implemented proactive observability and performance enhancements with Datadog and Grafana, leveraging data analysis for informed optimizations and reduced latency. - Orchestrated containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes, integrated with Argo for consistent, automated deployments and streamlined release management. - Maintained secure Linux-based environments, employed SSH for controlled access, and utilized GitHub for version control and collaborative development. - Aligned IT operations with strategic goals, employing Jira for effective workflow management and continuously refining IT Infrastructure Management processes.

Remote

Site Reliability Engineer working with AWS infrastructure (IAM, ECS, EC2, S3, RDS) management and operations. Network Admin using Terraform and Docker containers with Linux distributions. Setup logs and metric ingestion in New Relic and Datadog, including attribute lookup processors and PII Redaction. Created and managed dashboards and alert policies spanning multiple teams.Established 3rd party vendor status check and alert tool for all teams. Cloudflare network firewall operation and analysis.Performed migration from New Relic to Datadog for Observability and Alerting Application deployments to AWS ECS using Docker. DevSecOps team member operating as on-call response to ensure secure CI/CD operation.

Yucaipa, California, United States

● Setup secure AWS cloud infrastructure utilizing IAM and VPC's● Established secure EC2, S3 resources containing client PII according to HIPAA requirements● Provided Business Intelligence Analysis to increase profit margin 38% above market average resulting in higher growth of NOI by 24%.● Responsible for compliance involving data, certifications, and HIPAA privacy requirements.● Improved DME sales at 36% over company yearly quotas by creating a lead generation system.● Positive relationships with clients resulting in over 90% higher request rate than competitors.● Created remote sales presentations demonstrating services to hospital administration and adjusters.

Irvine, California, United States

Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery - Governance/Risk/ComplianceConducted ISO 22301 Business Impact Analysis (BIA) interviewsPrepared comprehensive reports for clients based on established ISO compliance guidelines. ISO 27001 Security Pre-Audit Consulting to identify vulnerabilities for remediation.

Certification, Cyber Security, 4.0

Information Technology