As a Senior DevOps Engineer, I bring extensive expertise in designing and automating infrastructure using a variety of tools and technologies. My work focuses on Kubernetes, Python, Helm, bash, and the full suite of Argo tools, including Argo Workflows, Argo CD, and Argo Events. I have significant experience with AWS, including C2S, and infrastructure as code with Terraform. I’m skilled in containerization and driving efficient CI/CD pipelines using GitLab. Additionally, I have a strong understanding of navigating the ATO process, ensuring compliance and security at scale.

As a Cloud DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer, I am responsible for deploying, enhancing, and maintaining cloud/on-premise infrastructure, including identity and access management, network architecture, application security, logging, monitoring, billing, etc. I work on a team to help develop the optimal design for secure, scalable infrastructure for government and commercial customers, including networking, encryption, load balancer configuration, caching, compute optimization, continuous integration and delivery pipelines. Technologies used in this position: Infrastructure-as-code via TerraformAutomationContainerizationContainer Security Python/ BASH scriptingCI/CD via GitLabAnsibleAmazon Web Services (AWS): EC2 Auto Scaling Groups Elastic Container Service Identity Access Management S3 Lambda CloudWatch SNS/SQS Elasticache KMS Route 53 RDS etc...

As a system/database administrator, I work collaboratively with others in the Business Core Systems unit to deploy and maintain complex IT solutions across multiple locations. I am responsible for maintaining a highly available ERP to the university which includes projects that involve:AutomationSite ReliabilityScriptingPerformance TuningCapacity MonitoringData SecurityBackup & RecoveryStandby/Failover AdministrationRAC & ASM AdministrationSQL TuningHealth MonitoringSystem Troubleshooting

As the Team Lead for our online Learning Management System (LMS), Blackboard, I was responsible for ensuring that our LMS system was operating at peak performance levels at all time. In this position I was performing the same duties as I was when I was a Computer Systems Administrator but with increased autonomy to make technical decisions involving the LMS environment. I am also responsible for managing the team that helps support to the LMS as System Administrators. During my time as Team Lead we have successfully reduced unscheduled maintenance and provided exceptional system support. Due to my role as the LMS Team Lead, I also co-chair the LMS subcommittee and LMS Task Force. The LMS subcommittee is responsible for setting LMS business policies and evaluating integrations to the LMS. The LMS Task Force is responsible for determining a 3 to 5 year LMS plan that involves issuing an RFP, evaluating responses, and presenting a recommendation to the user community, governance, and senior leadership. In this role I also have also been able to deploy and help maintain our F5 BIG-IP LTM, F5 BIG-IP DNS (formerly GTM), and Tableau Server. This involved working with the following technologies:RHEL 5, 6, & 7Oracle 11gJDK 7 & 8SNMPZabbixApacheF5 BigIP LTM & GTMSQL Server 2014Bash ScriptingTableau ServerTableau DesktopSSISELK Stack

I was responsible for ensuring that our locally hosted Learning Management System (LMS), Blackboard, was operating at peak performance levels at all times. This means performing upgrades, patching, level 3 support, monitoring systems, and consulting on projects as needed. This involved working with the following technologies:RHEL 5 & 6Oracle 11gJDK 6 & 7SNMPZabbixApacheF5 BigIPSQL Server 2005Bash