Remote DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer — CloudScale Technologies

Austin, TX | June 2023 – Present

• Architected and maintained multi-region Kubernetes clusters on AWS (EKS) for 8 high-traffic microservices, improving deployment frequency by 65% and reducing infrastructure provisioning time from 4 days to 18 minutes.
• Designed and implemented automated CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI and Terraform, reducing application deployment failures by 38% and saving developers an average of 6 hours per week in manual deployment steps.
• Configured a centralized logging and monitoring architecture with Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stack, cutting average incident detection time by 42% and preventing an estimated $45,000 in monthly downtime losses.
• Spearheaded cloud cost optimization audits, modifying auto-scaling groups and transitioning dev environments to spot instances, saving the company $140,000 annually in AWS operational expenditures.

Systems Engineer — Vertex Software Solutions

Dallas, TX | June 2020 – May 2023

• Managed a fleet of 150+ Linux servers, migrating 85% of configuration tasks from manual execution to automated Ansible playbooks, which reduced system build and setup times by 72% across all environments.
• Collaborated with development teams to containerize 12 legacy monolithic applications using Docker, improving local engineering workflow bootstrap speed by 55% and reducing environment-based bugs by 34%.
• Built automated shell scripts and Jenkins jobs to perform nightly backups and security scanning, reducing data recovery point objective (RPO) from 24 hours to 15 minutes with zero data loss over 3 years.
• Optimized relational database queries and cache settings for a PostgreSQL cluster, reducing API response latency by 28% and ensuring stable operations during peak traffic loads of 15,000 concurrent users.

AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS, IAM, S3), Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Ansible, Linux/Unix administration, Bash scripting, Python, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Helm, Git, Nginx, PostgreSQL

Automated AWS Disaster Recovery Pipeline

Role: DevOps Engineer

Tools: AWS, Terraform, Bash, GitHub Actions

Designed and implemented a multi-region failover strategy using Terraform, reducing recovery time objective (RTO) from 4 hours to 12 minutes and successfully passing 6 security audits.

Kubernetes Migration & Autoscaling

Role: DevOps Engineer

Tools: Kubernetes, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana

Containerized and deployed a customer-facing portal to EKS, configuring horizontal pod autoscaling that handled a 200% spike in traffic with no latency degradation.

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional (2023)
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) (2022)

• Languages: English (Native), Spanish (Conversational)
• Affiliations: DevOps Austin Meetup Member (2021-present)
• Availability: 2 weeks notice