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San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Implemented and drove adoption of a highly available secrets management strategy using Hashicorp Vault.Managed AMI build pipeline utilizing Hashicorp Packer and Jenkins to maintain fleet of thousands of AWS ec2 instances.Managed multiple AWS accounts, VPS configurations, peering links, ec2 instances, s3 buckets, IAM policies and roles via Terraform. Implemented controls and a review process for infrastructure changes leveraging gitops and terraform.Created and maintained Kubernetes clusters.Educated engineers on operational basics of Kubernetes, terraform, secrets management best practices and their respective Invitae specific implementations.Advocated container best practices to application developers and ops engineers.Implemented self-service feature stack deployment to enable developers to simultaneously test in environments matching production. Created Jenkins pipeline templates and a Jenkins library to enhance CD/CI flows for new services.Partnered with Information Security to eliminate vulnerabilities and harden environments.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Created an internal web application to make production account changes self-service reducing NOC overhead by 20 hours weekly.Migrated an in house developed inventory management and IP address management system from bare metal to multi datacenter Kubernetes.Architected several Django based internal tools that provided UI and API support to identify service and server owners internally.Maintained internal source code management systems and compliance enforcement git hooks with python.Wrote development environment and troubleshooting documentation for various internal tools.Created and maintained incident response tooling to streamline all issue communications and tracking.Implemented automation for mass decommissioning servers for a data center migration meeting compliance and security requirements for decommission.Fully automated employee production account deprovisioning to guarantee security compliance and reduce NOC toil.Lead a scrum group of 8 engineers to accomplish large automation projects.Conducted change control meetings and orchestrated maintenance scheduling.Developed service based alerts, alert remediation procedures and response automation.

Performed high availability service monitoring on the NOC team.Provisioned, configured, built, and physically repaired servers for Golden Frog and GigaNews.Automated troubleshooting tasks into an internal web application to speed up problem recovery.Developed and maintained operational documentation on the infrastructure and standard NOC operating procedures. Built, tested and shipped server clusters for Golden Frog’s global VPN network.Performed hands on maintenance and capacity expansion on existing server infrastructure.Maintained and operated automation to handle DMCA processing.