Lead Devops Engineer Resume
Austin, TexaS
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
- With a strong technical background, I have been applying my skills to create a repeatable, reliable process for releasing software in an enterprise environment.
- By resisting antipatterns such as deploying software manually I strive to empower developers and deliver business results by designing systems that provide reliable and timely feedback that one can act on, reduce bugs, reduce stress during production deployments, save time, and ensure predictable results through the use of automation.
- I believe these underlying principles are essential for any organization that wishes to achieve delivering valuable software to the hands of end users.
SKILLS:
Continuous Delivery & Automation: Powershell, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, NuGet, Jenkins, TFS, Git, SVN, MSSQL, Visual Studio, .NET 4.5
Cloud & Monitoring Platforms: AWS (EC2, IAM, etc) Altiris, Nagios, SolarWinds
Systems Administration: TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, Jenkins, Confluence, JIRA, Crucible/Fisheye, VisionApp, Fortify, Active Directory, MSExchange, Office 365, Sharepoint
Adept communication skills both written and verbal: Experience in driving cross - team initiatives including Development, Operations, Information Security, Quality Assurance, Networking, and Business/Data Intelligence.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Lead DevOps Engineer
Confidential, Austin, Texas
Responsibilities:
- Led the charge in bringing DevOps practices and methodologies to Confidential development team.
- Leveraged tools including TeamCity and Octopus Deploy to build a Continuous Delivery pipeline in a windows development shop that had little to no automation previously.
- Includes over 60 separate deployable components spread across an optionally scalable platform.
- Reduced business bottleneck by building an automated scaling platform using AWS and private cloud hybrid approach to process Data Intelligence and Quantitative Development processes. These efforts empowered the business to move quickly on emerging real estate and mortgage backed security markets.
- Involved in the architecture of production and test environments. Assisted in a significant domain migration and planning for offsite disaster recovery efforts.
DevOps Automation Engineer
Confidential, Austin, Texas
Responsibilities:
- Directed automation of software builds, unit testing, functional/component tests, integration tests, and metrics gathering for mainly .NET C#, and PHP components using the latest Continuous Delivery platforms and practices.
- Obtained and applied extensive knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery principles and tools especially Jenkins.
- Advanced development team from the absence of automation to a suite of over 300 build/test/deploy jobs across hundreds of prominently Windows servers resulting in savings of thousands of man hours. These systems reduced bugs propagating to production, and Confidential now measures delivery time in hours instead of weeks or months. This pipeline has been adopted as a critical system used by development, operations, and the business for delivering valuable software in a timely and repeatable fashion.
- Responsible for the design and maintenance of testing and deployment infrastructure. Served as a catalyst for standardizing environments between development, test, staging, and production systems through the use of automation and reporting.
- Served as the site IT liaison for an office of ~40 highly skilled software developers and architects where there is no official on - site IT helpdesk.
- Administrated the company's Atlassian suite including JIRA, Confluence, Crucible/Fisheye.
Lead Help Desk Engineer
Confidential, Round Rock, Texas
Responsibilities:
- Operated the IT Managed Services help desk for 150+ end users and 15+ servers.
- Performed exchange and web hosting support, AD administration, desktop support for end users.
- Microsoft BPOS administrator and Office 365 Beta testing.
- Exuding high levels of customer support and satisfaction. Proficient in managing multiple simultaneous tasks in a fast paced environment.
Field Engineer
Confidential, Austin, Texas
Responsibilities:
- IT Engineer: Implement full range of IT services for small and medium businesses. Streamlined on the spot support for arising IT issues, and consultant for equipment and software upgrades to increase clients’ productivity.
- Responsible as system admin for Active Directory, MS exchange, and provided desktop support.
Technical Lead
Confidential, Austin, Texas
Responsibilities:
- Led a team of technicians to: inventory, repair, image, upgrade 100% of PC stock for resale
- Developed a streamlined system for processing electronics inventory for sales in a warehouse environment
- Company goal to bridge the digital divide and provide technology to underprivileged youth
Engineering Intern
Confidential, Roseville, MN
Responsibilities:
- Transmission planning w/PSS/E (power flow, contingency analysis)
- Determining and maintaining generating unit accreditation information, assisting the GRSP and other committees.
- Optimizing and automating data flow in DB environment using scripts.