Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer — Apex Cloud Systems

Seattle, WA | January 2022 – Present

• Architected and managed multi-region Kubernetes clusters on AWS using Terraform and EKS, facilitating the successful migration of 14 core legacy microservices and decreasing network latency by 28% across all production environments.
• Redesigned Jenkins CI/CD automation workflows for 4 parallel engineering pipelines, reducing build times from 45 minutes to 11 minutes and increasing daily deployment frequency by 65% while keeping failure rates under 1.5%.
• Implemented automated infrastructure compliance checks and IAM policy audits using AWS Config, achieving a 98% security readiness rating for annual SOC 2 audits and eliminating 40+ high-severity security vulnerabilities.
• Managed cloud infrastructure resources and vendor pricing packages with a total annual budget of $1.8M, identifying and eliminating unused database instances to cut overall cloud hosting expenditures by 22% in 8 months.

DevOps Engineer — Vertex Software Solutions

Portland, OR | June 2018 – December 2021

• Configured and maintained Ansible configuration playbooks for 150+ Linux servers, shortening standard system provisioning times by 40% and eliminating manual configuration discrepancies across testing and production environments.
• Developed custom Python and Bash automation scripts for log aggregation and monitoring via Prometheus and Grafana, decreasing the mean time to detect infrastructure alerts by 35% and preventing 12 major system outages.
• Supervised the integration of Docker containerization into the development lifecycle for 5 separate engineering teams, which reduced software startup overhead by 45% and resolved dependency issues across deployment environments.
• Collaborated closely with 8 software developers to design robust disaster recovery strategies, testing database backup automation procedures and achieving a recovery time objective (RTO) of less than 15 minutes.

AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, CI/CD, Git, Python, Bash, Prometheus, Grafana, Linux Administration, IAM, VPC, Route 53, ECS, EKS, CloudWatch, Terraform Cloud

Multi-Region Cloud Migration

Role: Lead DevOps Engineer

Tools: AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm

Led the migration of a massive SaaS platform to AWS across 3 distinct regions, reducing downtime to zero and improving overall application response speeds by 32%.

Deployment Pipeline Modernization

Role: Senior Platform Engineer

Tools: Jenkins, Docker, GitLab, Python

Designed and executed a unified pipeline strategy for 18 microservices, which slashed developer build wait times by 55% and reduced release rollbacks from 8% to under 0.5%.

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (2023)
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) (2021)

• Languages: English (Native), French (Conversational)
• Volunteer Work: Technical mentor for high school coding camps (2022-present)
• Availability: 3 weeks notice