Senior Cloud Engineer

• Oct 2022 - Present

Managing Cloud Consultant

• Jul 2022 - Oct 2022

Oversee consultants as direct reports and strategic direction of key projects

Senior Cloud Consultant

• Jul 2021 - Oct 2022

Software Company -- Created a repeatable Azure Landing Zone process for a legacy app turned SaaS offering using Terraform. - Leveraged and integrated existing ARM templates with Terraform and bash to automate otherwise manual processes.- Advised client on high-level repeatable patterns for SaaS software in a multi-cloud deployment using Terraform to standardize on a single deployment tool, minimizing training costs and reducing toil.Fortune 100 Company -- Created an Azure Subscription Vending Machine in Terraform for standardization of customer environments.- Adapted and expanded upon GCP CAF Terraform modules to meet customer security, operational, and cost standards.- Codified and trained Cloud Enablement Team on Git and Terraform standards.

Cloud Consultant

• Jul 2019 - Oct 2022

Fortune 100 Company- Led a transformational initiative to operationalize governance and compliance standards, primarily using Cloud Custodian as a detective, preventative, and remediation tool. This initiative included empowering and training team members to safely deploy policies across 200+ AWS accounts, using a custom dashboard and reporting layer that included Terraform, Grafana on EC2, MySQL RDS database, SQS, and Lambda for data transformations.- Supported and trained a customer team of developers in a Java app replatforming from EC2 instances to ECS containers, including a legacy containerization refactoring effort, leading to a reduction of at least six months of planned development time and increased agility and security to meet corporate goals and policies. The end state environment included ECS, a GoCD CI/CD pipeline, SonarQube SAST/DAST scanning, SignalSciences WAF, and AWS ALBs.- Hardened base Linux AMIs using Chef, Kitchen, and InSpec, to meet CIS Benchmark compliance.- Architected multi-cloud governance and compliance initiatives using a combination of Cloud Custodian, Chef InSpec, and cloud native tooling.International Airline- Assisted with management, implementation, and design of AWS-native CI/CD (CodePipeline, CodeCommit, CodeDeploy).- Adjusted AWS Landing Zone templates to implement global AWS Managed Config Rules.- Created and deployed Terraform for Cloudfront on S3 static sites, allowing HTTP>HTTPS redirection, HTTP/2 implementation, and custom Lambda@Edge for basic auth on development environments to restrict public access.- Advised client as to CI/CD and DevOps best practices.Fast Food Company- Tested and revised initial set of Cloud Custodian and AWS Config policies in a dev environment, working with key stakeholders and the client to determine specific requirements.- Executed a successful transition from CET to Managed Cloud Services, including support up to two weeks post nonprod deployment.

DevOps Engineer

• May 2018 - Jun 2019

Burwood Cloud Services DevOps team member specializing in ScienceLogic EM7, ServiceNow, NetBrain, Ivanti Shavlik, HyperGrid, and integrating these tools using REST APIs, Python, and PHP. We offer tooling-as-service, software-as-service, and solutions for businesses of all sizes to improve their IT and thus their business.Responsibilities include cloud services and operations within AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Services, including working with Google Speech APIs, Google Storage, and Google Functions, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, developing CI/CD pipelines, governance, and policies. Key accomplishments:Part of a two-person dev team to develop a speech-to-text application in Google Cloud Platform using Google's APIs, Kubernetes, Docker, microservices architecture, Travis CI, Google pub/sub, BigQuery, and Python.Reduced monitoring noise and therefore ticket count for our NOC by 75%, dramatically improving operational efficiency.Took ownership over our NetBrain-as-a-Service offering, including maintenance and upgrades of infrastructure, development of process for setup of new customers, and automation to provision new NetBrain customers.Developed workflows and automatic conversion of emails to appropriate ticket types in ServiceNow.Responsible for processing 40+ changes per month with minimal disruption and downtime to our customer-facing services.

Monitoring Tools Engineer, DevOps Team

• Jun 2017 - May 2018

Burwood Cloud Services DevOps team member specializing in ScienceLogic EM7, ServiceNow, NetBrain, and integrating these tools using REST APIs, Python, and PHP. Our team is organized using Agile principles.Additional responsibilities include cloud services and operations within AWS and Google Cloud Services, including working with Google Speech APIs, Google Storage, and Google Functions.Burwood Group is not your average technology consulting firm. We are an innovative, culture-driven, industry leader and we are growing our team by leaps and bounds. Founded in 1997 in Chicago (and still headquartered here), we've grown to be a 200+ employee firm with people and offices spread from Southern California to NYC. Our specialty is closing the gap between business strategy and technology solutions. Our clients view Burwood as a trusted advisor and partner who can help them select the best technology for the job, manage and execute a first-rate implementation, and measure project success by the business outcomes achieved. We are committed to making sure our employees love their jobs and have been honored with numerous employer-awards including: Fastest Growing Private Companies, Best Place to Work for Millennials, Best Workplaces in Technology, Best Place to Work for Women under 35 – and more.

Associate Software Developer

• Dec 2016 - Jun 2017

Part of the managed services team. Assists in utilizing monitoring tools for our clients. Developing automated systems for monitoring tools using Python and PHP with the ScienceLogic EM7 database and API.