Designing, deploying, maintaining, supporting, and improving cloud infrastructure and the supporting tools & applications related to hosting the company's SaaS offerings. Additionally, responsible for technologically supporting Data Engineering, Software Development, and other teams; and advising on Ops and Reliability best practices.• Increased hiring pipeline by 4x in my first month by reviewing and revising the interview process and candidate search criteria.• Managing AWS Infrastructure• Implementing Observability• Lead and supervised short-term, contract engineer

Responsible for all infrastructure related to Mindstrong’s 24/7 telehealth product offering, achieving 99.99% (“four nines”) uptime for the platform; as well as mentoring and supporting QA, Data Science, Software Development, and other teams in DevSecOps and Reliability best practices.• Lead cloud cost optimization efforts, reduced annual cloud spend by 50%.• Lead observability and monitoring stack design and development, including metric selection, alerting, dashboard and reporting design.• Implemented DevSecOps practices such as continuous security scanning, alerting, reporting, and remediation.• Implemented DevOps practices via stack modernization, automation, and CI/CD using configuration and infrastructure as code;• Managed containerized microservices; orchestrated, hosted, and served via AWS ECS, VPC, ALB/ELB, Route53, etc.

Primary engineer responsible for all infrastructure (and supporting tools) related to the cloud-hosted services layer of Magnopus’ mobile and web-based, virtual- and augmented-reality app, allowing users attending a global exhibition, virtually and in-person, to connect and engage with each other and interactive exhibits.• Lead observability and monitoring stack design and development, including metric selection, alerting, dashboard and reporting design.• Performed load testing for capacity planning, cost projections, code optimization, and scalability testing.• Performed continuous cloud cost optimization, reducing cloud spend by 50%.

Responsible for designing and implementing efficient, scalable, highly available, cost-effective, and secure solutions to address various clients’ cloud infrastructure needs and goals.Cloudreach Client Projects:• Datacenter-to-cloud migration using Terraform and other tools.• Cloud application and infrastructure development and deployment in AWS.• Enterprise-level “Minimum Viable Cloud” using Terraform, CloudFormation, and Cloud Custodian; comprising a variety of AWS services, with a focus on automation and cloud security for a large, high-profile financial organization.• AWS Cloud infrastructure to support serverless ETL workloads.

Responsible for maintaining, troubleshooting, monitoring, supporting and improving infrastructure (and supporting tools) related to managing ICF customers’ high-traffic, commercial websites in the cloud.• Interviewing, hiring, and mentoring new SRE team members, developing entry-level hires into effective self-reliant engineers.• 24/7 on-call rotation for off-hour deployments, Production incident response and management, and live-event support.• Restored customer trust when asked on special assignment to an onsite client project, in order to not only offer infrastructure assistance and expertise but to also repair (previously) damaged relations.

Lead trading systems support engineer responsible for first-line trading systems administration and serving as technical liaison between developers and traders.