DevOps Engineer

• Aug 2022 - Present

DevOps Engineer

• May 2021 - Aug 2022

Led the digital transformation for a Fortune 500 company by migrating to the Azure cloud and shifting the company to a DevOps & Agile culture. Established platform which delivers higher quality solutions and services at high velocity with reduced costs. Implemented services and tools including Azure Artifacts, Azure Boards, Azure Pipelines, Azure Wiki, Git, Microsoft Teams, PowerShell, Retrium, SonarCloud, Azure services (e.g., AKS, ACR) and more. Championed the DevOps implementation, trained staff, onboarded products, defined standards, established enterprise pipelines (YML) and automated everything. Led the way to bring containerization to the organization using tools like Docker, Containerd, Rancher and AKS. Mentored development teams to bring them up to speed on container technology Show less

DevOps Lead

• Sep 2019 - May 2021

Head of company’s DevOps team driving the effort to move all automated systems and processes (CI/CD, Operations, etc) into the cloud space. Designed and implemented DevOps cloud solution utilizing Azure DevOps Services, Docker, Git, Kubernetes, and more. Moved the current applications' CI/CD process from Jenkins (on-premise) to Azure DevOps Services. Maintained an Azure Container Service instance for publishing of our Docker images. Defined deployment targets using Kubernetes as part of Docker Enterprise. Installed, configured and documented new enterprise technology stack (e.g. Azure DevOps Services, Kubernetes, Selenium). In the future will be bringing more automated processes to our Azure DevOps Services instance for Ops-based tasks. Show less

DevOps Engineer

• Feb 2019 - Sep 2019

Championing a complete, streamlined CI/CD experience using industry standard technologies such as: -Amazon Web Services -ECR/ECS(AWS) -Jenkins -Docker -Ruby -OpenShift -Chef Solution will migrate all applications to the AWS cloud and provide: -Continuous integration -Full containerization -Automated, elastic and codified infrastructure -Continuous delivery -Various health checks and fail-safes Championing a complete, streamlined CI/CD experience using industry standard technologies such as: -Amazon Web Services -ECR/ECS(AWS) -Jenkins -Docker -Ruby -OpenShift -Chef Solution will migrate all applications to the AWS cloud and provide: -Continuous integration -Full containerization -Automated, elastic and codified infrastructure -Continuous delivery -Various health checks and fail-safes

Devops Specialist

• Apr 2018 - Feb 2019

Implemented and managed DevOps solution utilizing Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Release Management (RM), Subversion (SVN), Jenkins, SonarQube, Sonatype, Maven, PowerShell, and more. Migrated legacy tools to new stack (e.g. TFSRM -> Jenkins) and optimized new tool workflows (e.g. manual process -> Jenkins plugins). Created and maintained Jenkins Pipelines for building and deploying enterprise assets. Performed daily DevOps tasks such as builds, deployments, report generation and more. Performed manual deployments of Java-based assets to containers (e.g. WebLogic, AEM). Administered tools such as TFS, TFS RM, Nexus, Hudson, Jenkins, WebLogic and more. Coded "lights-out" automation of .Net operations in PowerShell. Designed TFS extensions in PowerShell to invoke TFS and RM requests using APIs. Handled the transfer of critical build tool jobs from TFS and TFSRM to Jenkins pipelines, allowing for centralized build and deployment. Maintained, developed for and updated Powershell automation framework, allowing for all different project types and use cases to be automated from build to deployment. Periodically served as Scrum master and provided all levels of DevOps support (e.g. end users assistance, tool training, deployment operations) Show less

Devops Engineer

• Sep 2017 - Apr 2018

Head of company’s first DevOps team driving the modernization effort for the company's software management workflows, tools and operations. Designed and implemented DevOps solution utilizing Jenkins, Docker, Git, SonarQube, Maven, and more. Installed, configured and documented new enterprise technology stack (e.g. Docker, SonarQube, Jenkins). Head of company’s first DevOps team driving the modernization effort for the company's software management workflows, tools and operations. Designed and implemented DevOps solution utilizing Jenkins, Docker, Git, SonarQube, Maven, and more. Installed, configured and documented new enterprise technology stack (e.g. Docker, SonarQube, Jenkins).

DevOps Specialist

• Jan 2016 - Sep 2017

Member of company’s first DevOps team driving the modernization effort for the company's software management workflows, tools and operations. Implemented DevOps solution utilizing Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Release Management (RM), Subversion (SVN), Jenkins, SonarQube, Sonatype, Maven, PowerShell, and more. Installed, configured and documented new enterprise technology stack (e.g. TFS Server, TFS Agents, TFS RM, SonarQube, Jenkins, SQL Server, Nexus). Migrated legacy tools to new stack (e.g. Hudson -> Jenkins) and optimized new tool workflows (e.g. manual process -> Jenkins plugins). Performed daily DevOps tasks such as builds, deployments, report generation and more. Performed manual deployments of Java-based assets to containers (e.g. WebLogic). Administered tools such as TFS, TFS RM, Nexus, Hudson, Jenkins, WebLogic and more. Coded "lights-out" automation of .Net operations in PowerShell. Designed TFS extensions in PowerShell to invoke TFS and RM requests using APIs. Periodically served as Scrum master and provided all levels of DevOps support (e.g. end users assistance, tool training, deployment operations) Designed, coded (Java, Selenium) and implemented an operational readiness tool using a keyword-driven framework, to ensure system up-time. Show less

Test Automation Engineer

• May 2015 - Sep 2015

Championed, architected, coded and implemented an automated data-driven testing tool utilizing Java, JSP, HTML, CSS, Swing API, MSSQL and Selenium. As the company's first automated testing tool, it was delivered in 90 days and saved company $80,000 per year residually. Authored high level design documents, led software reviews and provided team guidance. Instructed applications teams on how to properly code software solutions to be tested via automation. Tool built with Maven and integrated with SVN for test script versioning. Show less