George Ramos Jr.

** **** **** ***** *****, NY ***80 201-***-**** adyfwl@r.postjobfree.com

Senior DevOps Engineer

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Highly skilled and results-driven DevOps professional with a strong background in software development, system administration, and cloud technologies. Possesses extensive experience in implementing and managing DevOps methodologies to enhance software delivery, streamline operations, and optimize infrastructure. Adept at designing and maintaining continuous integration and deployment pipelines, automating processes.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Deployment Tools

Jenkins

Packer

Saltstack

Terraform

Code Commit

Code Pipeline

Terraform Modules

Artifactory

Python

Jinja/YAML

Bash Scripting

Compute/Containers

EC2, Application/Network load balancing, Autoscaling Policies

ECS Fargate/EKS

Elastic beanstalk, Lambda

S3

Docker, Kubernetes

Monitoring

Datadog

Splunk Cloud

CloudWatch

Nagios XI

New Relic

PagerDuty

Xmatters

Big Data/Databases:

AWS Neptune

RDS MySQL

RDS PostgreSQL

RDS MS SQL Server

AWS Glue

AWS Snowflake

Databricks

AWS Elasticache

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior DevOps Engineer, 08/2019 to Present

Dunn & Bradstreet Co. – Short Hills, NJ

Developed YAML/Jinja templates using Saltstack configuration management to provision Linux operating system and application configurations.

Developed Terraform deployment scripts to provision (ECS) Elastic Container Service clusters, managed task definitions and service deployments for microservice applications.

Deployed multi-tier microservice applications using (ECS) Elastic Container Service, SQS (Simple Queue Service), Lambda Triggers and AWS EventBridge Scheduler.

Configured (ECR) Elastic Container Registry repositories to store container images for various microservices configured IAM access policies to the repositories and used ECR container images to deploy ECS/EKS microservices.

Leveraged Lambda Layers to integrate custom snowflake connector libraries into python environments to allow lambda function connectivity to Snowflake.

Migrated 50+ bitbucket repositories to GitHub using GitHub actions.

Configured Multi-Branch Jenkins jobs, wrote Jenkinsfiles to configure deployment of Java artifacts into Artifactory repositories.

Setup and configured monitoring and logging solutions, such as Amazon CloudWatch, Datadog to gain visibility into the ECS/EKS cluster's performance, resource utilization, and application logs.

Developed reusable terraform modules for AWS Neptune database, ECS, EC2 provisioning.

Deployed and configured Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) clusters in AWS, including cluster setup, configuration, and maintenance.

Senior Systems Engineer, 08/2015 to 08/2019

Dunn & Bradstreet Co. – Short Hills, NJ

Wrote bash scripts that leveraged saltstack grains data to generate security audit reports to determine the installation and activation of security monitoring agents.

Coordinated patch management schedules for Linux and Windows Servers in multiple environments.

Resolved YUM package manager dependency conflicts, configured Artifactory YUM repositories.

Wrote packer HCL files to create Standard AMIs for EC2 Provisioning and Operating System patching.

Leveraged Packer built AMIs in terraform deployments to provision EC2 servers.

Resolved MySQL Proxy service issues on RedHat/CentOS Linux related to stale pid files, WebSocket permissions and database reachability.

Configured syslog, Catalina log forwarder rules on RedHat/CentOS7 to send Java application and system logs to the centralized Splunk Cloud logging system.

Leveraged lambda s3 triggers to create file delivery automation workflows using python scripts to parse trigger events with s3 object creation events and copy files to client s3 buckets.

Created custom IAM policies to ensure secure access to AWS S3 buckets as well as other AWS resources.

Configured RedHat log shipping rules set up rules to forward logs to Splunk Cloud.

Provisioned VMs in VCenter and conducted offline migration of VMs from legacy VMware ESXi hosts.

Leveraged AWS (SMS) Server Migration Services to migrate 900+ virtual machines into AWS. Configured IAM role permissions to use the SMS Connector for VM discovery, installed SMS Connector on ESXi Vcenter host and configured SAN storage and network settings for connectivity to AWS.

Configured Datadog Monitoring Dashboards for various Production environments and configured Datadog Alerts for the Incident Response team.

Participated in an On-Call rotation schedule for various production applications, followed incident management protocols.

System Engineer, July 2014 – August 2015

Mediaspa LLC. - White Plains, N.Y

Migrated over 100 ecommerce applications hosted in colocation datacenters to AWS Cloud.

Built and configured Windows IIS servers in AWS, configured ColdFusion middleware application service.

Built AWS network infrastructure, configured VPN gateways to AWS VPCs.

Provisioned new web servers, installed Apache and Magento e-commerce platform on Linux CentOS6/7 to host new e-commerce websites.

Built Elasticache Clusters to cache frequently visited product page queries on various ecommerce web sites.

Monitored and setup CloudWatch alerts of cache performance, such as cache hits, misses, and evictions

Used a variety of encryption tools to ensure encryption of EBS volumes/snapshots. Leveraged KMS customer managed keys to automate cross-region snapshot replication for disaster recovery readiness.

Updated and configured inbound/outbound policies on SonicWall Firewalls to address whitelisting of customer Ip addresses and allowing traffic for VIPs assigned to new customers.

Managed Active Directory domain controllers, Created group policy objects for provisioning new laptops.

Successfully diagnosed RedHat Linux Operating System issues this included OS level network configuration, reconfiguring bond interfaces, adjusting SELINUX context policies, setting up default masks, troubleshooting application issues service issues.

Worked with security teams to patch Linux kernels and remediate operating system and middleware vulnerabilities.

Made architectural suggestions based on AWS architecture best practices, drafted AWS diagrams using lucid charts, Built infrastructure for development use case scenarios.

Provisioned new customer AWS accounts, Implemented security best practices for VPC and perimeter/trusted subnet architecture. Configured VPN Gateways to client sites, setup security group rules.

Built custom SCP Policies to manage access levels to resources within customer accounts.

Installed and configured Plesk Web panel for backend management of ecommerce websites.

Built and managed Bitvise SFTP server for windows, managed daily SFTP account setups and permissions.

Remediated PCI DSS security mandates, setup log management system, administered Alert Logic SIEM,

Installed alert logic agents on Linux servers, ran vulnerability scans and remediated vulnerabilities.

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS:

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Rockland Community College, Suffern, NY, Associate degree in business administration 2002

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