Bachelor of Science & Cloud Computing - Multi Cloud

2019 - 2022

Western Governors University, Salt Lake City, Utah

At WGU I studied Cloud Computing and achieved my Bachelors of Science as well as the following certifications within the span of 15 months:

• AWS Solutions Architect Associate
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Fundamentals
• CompTIA Secure Cloud Professional – CSCP, Cloud Admin Professional – CCAP, Secure Infrastructure Specialist – CSIS, IT Operations Specialist – CIOS, A+, Security+, Cloud Essentials+, Cloud+, Project+
• Linux Professional Institute LE-1: Linux Essentials
• ITIL® Foundation Certification ITIL4

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

2022 - Present

Centene Corporation

• Responsible for building innovation in the areas of distributed system flow and resilience, and continuous feedback and delivery
• Creating efficiency and cultural transformation through the curation of new systems and capabilities.
• Leverage various technologies to improve feedback and delivery by deploying containerized systems and services in support of operational efficiencies, and work with teams to build self-supported, sustainable operational ecosystems.
• Coordinate and assist teams in building competencies with infrastructure using object-oriented programming and configuration management domain specific language
• Build platforms that teams can leverage to accelerate innovation in the areas of reliability, scalability, and velocity.
• Design and maintain software development and CI/CD DevOps Pipelines.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, operations, and application support teams to adopt new approaches to their work as well as analyzing system performance and reliability and making necessary recommendations.
• Write code to automate processes that meets customer needs.
• Experience troubleshooting in large scale enterprise networks
• Experience with working on virtualization technologies (Hyper-v, VMWare)
• Experience or familiarity with using observability platforms such as Dynatrace, Splunk, DataDog, Grafana, Elk
• Experience with data and no data solutions (RDBMS, No SQL(SQL Server, Hadoop, etc.))
• Participate in an on-call rotation
• Participate in high severity, customer impacting issues
• Utilize your breadth of expertise as an SRE and engage with engineering teams struggling to maintain reliable and performant services
• Participate as an influential partner with the problem management team helping set priority and being a technical leader in post incident reviews
• Participate with IT and engineering teams to maintain a knowledge repository that will contain application technical mapping and previously identified issues and symptoms
• Partner with IT and engineering teams to identify gaps in observability, either missing telemetry or alerting
• Partner with the Reliability Architecture team on influencing the adoption of standards for items like proper health checks, application diagnostics, partner training opportunities, and additional diagnostic tooling

Cloud Engineer

2021 - 2022

Impact Networking

• Employ terraform infrastructure as code to architect Cloud application migration from Mendix to Azure
• Created CI/CD pipelines using Github Actions and Azure DevOps to develop and standardize release pipelines.
• Manage and administer the cloud presence and hybrid infrastructure to lead the continual change for cloud integration.
• Architect DevOps to implement Azure Kubernetes service containerization solution for developer environment.
• Experience with Docker, Helm, Python, Bash, powershell, NGINX, SQL to architect Kubernetes and related containerized environment.
• Perform Cloud infrastructure cost optimization and governance following guidelines and best practices to reduce Cloud budget by over $15k per month.
• Implemented Cloud security architecture best practices to improve security posture and Azure security score.
• Created change management automation system using PowerApps, Power Automate, and HTML for database creation, management approval and email auto generation.
• Develop scripts to automate the deployment of resource stacks and associated configurations.
• Build out, implement, and manage both development and production cloud environments - including Azure cloud computing, Azure Storage, and Office 365 productivity environments.
• Regularly evaluate cloud applications, integrations, and software with focus on security.
• Respond to technical issues in a professional and timely manner both in-person and via phone/email.

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