Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

JOSE CALDERON

Professional Summary

Results-driven Infrastructure Analyst with extensive experience in Terraform and Azure DevOps. Proven ability to design and implement CI/CD pipelines, enhancing deployment efficiency. Strong collaborator, adept at troubleshooting and optimizing cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability and security across multi-regional configurations. Passionate about leveraging emerging technologies for innovative solutions.

Professional Experience

Infrastructure Analyst 11/2024 to Current

Battelle Columbus, Ohio

Designed, implemented, and managed CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps Pipelines

Collaborated with developers to automate build, test, and deploy processes, ensuring code quality and consistency

Provisioned, configured, and maintained cloud infrastructure within Azure, including virtual machines, networking, storage, and databases utilizing Linux

Developed and maintained infrastructure-as-code (IaC), by leveraging tools like Terraform

Assisted adjacent teams by utilizing RDP to help troubleshoot issues

Worked closely with developers and operations staff to troubleshoot production issues and ensure swift resolution

Worked across a large number of groups to ensure project completion for a wide variety of projects

Cloud Engineer 10/2023 to 06/2024

Chipotle Columbus, Ohio

Deployed, configured, managed and maintained cloud-based infrastructure and services in a secure, highly available manner leveraging DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code

Collaborated with dedicated Terraform teams, contributing to provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure

Used Terraform in Azure environments, integrating it with services like Nerdio and B-series virtual machines

Leveraged experience with multi-regional configurations, data protection and BC/DR

Administered cloud configurations, related solutions, and define standards across multiple cloud platforms

Owned and administered cloud tenants providing guidance and assistance as appropriate

Particularly focused with defining, documenting and implementing standards for existing and new capabilities, managing access and keys, cost management/licensing, and operational needs

Deployed, configured, and administered Windows and Linux operating systems as virtual machines, including Azure Virtual Desktop

Conduct research into emerging technologies and trends such as cloud/fog/edge, IoT, advanced analytics, and AI/ML

AWS Cloud Engineer 01/2022 to 05/2023

Accenture Columbus, OH

Identified and remediated single points of failure and security risks by utilizing SGs

Displayed sound understanding of networking protocols (VPN, Subnet, route table) and load balancing (ALB and NLB)

Recommended design changes to production systems by leveraging: EC2, EBS, and Snapshot

Wrote and maintained custom scripts in Terraform, JSON, Python and Go to increase system efficiency and performance time

Deployed multiple database services (RDS, MariaDB, AWS Lake Formation) to: create, administer, and protect data

Analyzed data using queries and BI tools/dashboards to create business solutions for stakeholders

Created multiple IAM roles and IAM policy services in compliance with the clients security concerns

Partnered closely with technical stakeholders to implement security (API Gateway), operational (WAF), compliance and privacy-related (KMS) controls as part of cloud blueprints

Collaborated with development and operations teams to develop practical CI/CD solutions and custom modules utilizing Lambda and CloudFormation

Automated, deployed and managed containerized applications utilizing EKS

Monitored and tested application performance to identify potential bottlenecks in middleware, develop solutions and collaborate with developers on solution implementation

Software QA Engineer 07/2021 to 12/2021

Careerist Columbus, OH

Tested Web and Mobile (iOS, Android) applications

Tracked and reported issues with Jira

Developed, maintained and executed test cases using TestRail

Performed Black-box, smoke, functional, UI and regression testing

Responsible for compatibility testing on a variety of platforms and devices

Participated in daily SCRUM and sprint planning

Skills

Terraform

Microsoft Azure

Azure DevOps

Azure Virtual Desktop

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Bash

Linux

RDP

ServiceNow

Python

Confluence

Jira

GitHub

Nerdio

Education

Bachelor of Arts: International Studies 06/2007

Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio

Military Experience

Logistics Officer

United States Marine Corps

May 2008 – Nov 2012

Certifications

Terraform Associate

AWS Solutions Architect

AWS Cloud Practitioner

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