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Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Ontario, Ca

– Leading teams responsible for delivering code or automation with in-depth problem-solving.– Diving deep to the atomic level to debug and resolve issues at their root while maintaining a pragmatic mindset, with the ability to step back and understand the impact in a broader, product-level context.– Built confidence and ensured customer success when building new and migrating existing applications, software and services on the AWS platform.– Establishing credibility and building deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates.– Educating customers on the value proposition of AWS and participating in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are ready for deployment in the cloud.🏆 Key Contributions:– Developed and executed a strategic DevOps roadmap aligned with the company's business objectives. This included successfully migrating the company's infrastructure to a cloud-based solution, resulting in a 20% reduction in operational costs and a 30% increase in application performance.– Championed the adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform and Ansible, which standardized the setup of environments, reduced errors during deployments, and increased deployment speed by 40%.

Toronto, Ontario, Ontario, Ca

– Built and maintained infrastructure for a multi-site development team, including source code repository, build, integration, release tools and scripts, continuous integration infrastructure, packaging, and deployment tools.– Solved challenging operational issues in a complex enterprise environment running fleets of server instances interacting with multiple services across several AWS regions and supporting critical infrastructure services.– Investigated and implemented best practices for maintaining code quality, including developing code metrics, code review workflows, code coverage measurement, and static and dynamic analysis tools.– Identified areas of improvement around the current DevSecOps program to increase developer velocity and program efficiency while maintaining a high-security bar.– Worked with software development teams to identify security problems and improve the security aspects of their services.🏆 Key Contributions:– Led the design and implementation of a continuous integration/continuous deployment pipeline that reduced deployment time by 40%, increasing the efficiency of software releases and significantly reducing downtime. This involved automating testing and deployment processes and integrating various tools like Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes.– Developed and maintained a robust monitoring and alerting system using tools like Prometheus and Grafana, which improved system reliability by 30%. Proactively identified and resolved potential issues, minimizing system downtime and ensuring a 99.9% uptime for critical applications.

Meudon, Île-De-France, Fr

– Build and automate streamlined continuous integration/continuous deployment pipelines, testing, code validation, code approval processes, and release management.– Identified and solved ambiguous problems, architecture deficiencies, or areas where the team’s systems bottleneck the innovation of other teams.– Influenced feature development teams to integrate maximum test automation into the continuous integration/continuous deployment process.– Participate in security incident response, red team and penetration testing exercises, bug bounty response, and audit support.– Drove root cause analyses and coached others on doing them in collaboration with software development teams to improve operational performance.🏆 Key Contributions:– Led architecture workshops and worked directly with technical teams from AWS enterprise customers and partners to provide unique solutions to customers' individual needs for their application deployment.– Built distributed systems in new data centers and regions and managed capacity in existing regions.

Seattle, Wa, Us

– Worked with vendors and business teams to understand customer issues and to investigate, prototype, and deliver new and innovative solutions.– Dived deep into service interdependencies and region-specific configurations to find the root of a problem about to affect an entire nation.🏆 Key Contributions:– Managed day-to-day operations of global, multi-organization Exchange and Active Directory environment supporting over 10000 users. Served as technical lead for the deployment of expanded Exchange 2016 infrastructure.– Developed a variety of PowerShell and Bash scripts to automate server administration and roll out security settings throughout the enterprise.

London, London, Gb

– Drove the team to improve operational efficiency for all services through root cause and trend analysis by identifying and developing SLA, metrics, monitors, procedures, tools, and documentation.– Played a crucial role in investigating and recommending best practices for maintaining and improving our service's code quality, fleet health, and security & reliability.– Contributed to the design, implementation, and execution of security review and test methodologies for the routine and holistic testing of a critical group of AWS production services. Ensured remediation of risks by partnering with service teams.🏆 Key Contributions:– Centralized security logs for all servers and developed review strategies for the IT team.– Designed and implemented a disaster recovery system based on Symantec BackupExec and IBM robotic libraries across multiple regions.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

– Managed large, complex environments based on hundreds of ESXi and Hyper-V servers across multiple data centers on multiple continents.– Investigated system variances about to affect primary services worldwide and solved them proactively before impacting customers.– Worked with others on the engineering team in day-to-day development activities, contributing to architecture discussions and participating in designs and implementation.🏆 Key Contributions:– Planned, designed, and implemented an upgrade to Exchange 2016.– Architected and implemented disaster recovery using VMware and NetApp technologies to failover hundreds of virtual machines from the primary data center to a colocation facility.

Москва, Москва, Ru

– Created and implemented automated processes that reduce manual efforts and increase efficiency and scalability.– Investigated new ways to improve operations and define solutions to technically complex cloud issues.– Provided practical server support for the technical area according to ITIL best practices, following Incident, Problem, and Change management processes.🏆 Key Contributions:– Migrated high-loaded corporate websites to a cluster of Linux servers to provide high availability.– Reviewed and maintained contracts related to the IT Department, saving the company money by eliminating seldom or unused services.

– Monitored and continuously improved the production environment to ensure optimal performance, reliability, and scalability.– Maintained fleet inventory management, including producing, maintaining, and evolving capacity plans for various components.– Engaged with and influenced the many stakeholders and interested parties to ensure compliance, security, and operational and functional requirements were met or exceeded.🏆 Key Contributions:– Planned, designed, and implemented Skype for Business 2015 installation with all major features.

Zurich, Zh, Ch

– Deployed and maintained Windows and Linux systems and application software in multiple clusters across eight data centers.– Tacked complex operational problems and solved them through high-quality, scalable solutions that drive operational excellence.– Drove standards and best practices across the organization to continuously improve development time, product quality, and operational excellence.

– Worked with many different internal Software Development teams to drive improvement of the systems/services within the team's scope.– Created and reviewed documentation and process regarding recurring issues, new standard operating procedures, and knowledge transfer material.– Developed and improved metrics that drive desired behaviour and security outcomes.

Moscow, Moscow, Ru

– Designed Exchange-based solutions that meet customers' long-term goals.– Built services that scaled across six continents for thousands of users worldwide.– Worked with Security Teams to ensure all IT Security standards were applied.

– Launched services from ordering hardware to software deployments.– Assisted in the training of new staff as the team grows.– Created and constantly maintained team-specific knowledge-base articles.