Experience

Dominion Systems Inc
• DevOps Engineer
• DevOps Engineer

  • Nov 2018 - Present

  • Creating and maintaining fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment including build triggers poll SCM, build periodically and GitHub web-hooks. • Automating builds and deployments using Jenkins, Ansible, Docker and Kubernetes to maximize deployment efficiency. • Proficiency with Configuration Management tools & Build management tools such as Ansible, Git, Jenkins, and Terraform. • Creating and storing Ansible Playbooks, Helm Charts and Kubernetes and terraform manifest… Show more • Creating and maintaining fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment including build triggers poll SCM, build periodically and GitHub web-hooks. • Automating builds and deployments using Jenkins, Ansible, Docker and Kubernetes to maximize deployment efficiency. • Proficiency with Configuration Management tools & Build management tools such as Ansible, Git, Jenkins, and Terraform. • Creating and storing Ansible Playbooks, Helm Charts and Kubernetes and terraform manifest files. • Creating Ansible playbooks for installation, patching, configuration management, User and file management, deployment, and full automation. • Experience with container-based deployments using Docker, Docker images, Docker hub. • Configuring EKS clusters for container orchestration in Kubernetes. • Using Helm to simplify code writing to handle complex application deployment integrated with Jenkins. • Continuous Monitoring of applications using Prometheus, Grafana and.EFK (Elastic Search, Filebeat and Kibana) • Using Terraform, AWSCLI/UI, Kops and ansible to provision and configure infrastructures in AWS Cloud including: EC2 Instances, VPC, S3, Route53, Private and Public subnets, route tables, EFS, NFS, EBS, IGW, IAM, ELB, Autoscaling, CloudWatch, Databases and NACLS.

• Jr DevOps Engineer

  • Jan 2017 - Nov 2018

  • Worked with Developers and Build & Release team. Setup Jenkins Master & Agent nodes for build and release teams. • Build Release Engineering and configuration management which includes environment setup, build automation, continuous integration, Scripting and deployments. • Performed Build activities using Maven and Jenkins tool. • Coordinated/assisted developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labelling/naming conventions using GIT source control. • Set… Show more • Worked with Developers and Build & Release team. Setup Jenkins Master & Agent nodes for build and release teams. • Build Release Engineering and configuration management which includes environment setup, build automation, continuous integration, Scripting and deployments. • Performed Build activities using Maven and Jenkins tool. • Coordinated/assisted developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labelling/naming conventions using GIT source control. • Set quality gate policies on SonarQube for code coverages, to track bugs and vulnerabilities. • Designed CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, Ansible, Docker and Kubernetes. • Performed applications installation, upgrades/patches, troubleshooting, maintenance and monitoring of Linux servers. • Created custom mode VPCs in AWS with multi-regional private and public subnets along with firewall rules to allow SSH, ICMP, and RDP ingress traffic.



Jamaica Defence Force (JDF)

• Military Officer (Major)

  • Jan 2002 - Oct 2014

  Army Officer, Officer Commanding, Rank (Major) • Commanded a team of over one hundred (120) soldiers and three (4) officers. • Conducted operational risk assessments, Evaluated compliance to Ministry and Force regulations and recommended corrective actions and contingency plans. • Conducted audits and validated compliance with range, exercise and physical security standards and other operational best practices. Staff Officer Training and Doctrine, Headquarters JDF… Show more Army Officer, Officer Commanding, Rank (Major) • Commanded a team of over one hundred (120) soldiers and three (4) officers. • Conducted operational risk assessments, Evaluated compliance to Ministry and Force regulations and recommended corrective actions and contingency plans. • Conducted audits and validated compliance with range, exercise and physical security standards and other operational best practices. Staff Officer Training and Doctrine, Headquarters JDF • Advisor to the Chief of Defence Staff on training and doctrine policy matters as well as planning and coordinating all training matters affecting the organization. • Conceptualized, designed and monitored training exercises with regional and international partners including USA, UK, France, China, India and Canada • Ensured training standards were documented, reviewed for continuous improvement Show less Army Officer, Officer Commanding, Rank (Major) • Commanded a team of over one hundred (120) soldiers and three (4) officers. • Conducted operational risk assessments, Evaluated compliance to Ministry and Force regulations and recommended corrective actions and contingency plans. • Conducted audits and validated compliance with range, exercise and physical security standards and other operational best practices. Staff Officer Training and Doctrine, Headquarters JDF… Show more Army Officer, Officer Commanding, Rank (Major) • Commanded a team of over one hundred (120) soldiers and three (4) officers. • Conducted operational risk assessments, Evaluated compliance to Ministry and Force regulations and recommended corrective actions and contingency plans. • Conducted audits and validated compliance with range, exercise and physical security standards and other operational best practices. Staff Officer Training and Doctrine, Headquarters JDF • Advisor to the Chief of Defence Staff on training and doctrine policy matters as well as planning and coordinating all training matters affecting the organization. • Conceptualized, designed and monitored training exercises with regional and international partners including USA, UK, France, China, India and Canada • Ensured training standards were documented, reviewed for continuous improvement Show less