Devops Engineer Senior

Christopher Stevens Email: *******.******@*****.***

Austin, TX LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/stevens-chrisj Professional Summary

Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer with 15 years architecting and operating large-scale, distributed systems in AWS and GCP environments. Expert in automating infrastructure with IaC, building monitoring solutions, and leading reliability and cost-optimization initiatives. Proven leadership in mentoring engineers and guiding cross-functional teams. Work Experience

Senior DevOps Engineer - Liatrio

June 2023 to March 2025

● Boutique agency supporting airlines and insurance companies.

● Built monitoring and reporting dashboards for compliance attestations.

● Reduced cloud spend by $2M annually in 4 weeks by rightsizing and refining AWS services. Senior DevOps Engineer - Olea Edge Analytics

January 2022 to January 2023

● Startup working to create a smart water grid for leak detection and resource recovery.

● Led the architecture of greenfield GCP infrastructure based on Google Cloud Foundation.

● Built reusable Terraform modules to automated on demand environment vending. Senior Cloud Engineer - Acxiom

July 2021 – December 2021

● Implemented an automated self-service IAM system for 200 AWS accounts and 1000 users

● Refined business requirements for faster feature acceptance and improved metric reporting.

● Mentored and coached teammates on scripting, documentation, and Devops/Agile practices. Security SRE - Atlassian

March 2020 to April 2021

● International company focused on the security of critical infrastructure.

● Deployed OSquery across fleet and automated monitoring reports with OpenSearch.

● Led FedRAMP compliance initiative to open new business opportunities. DevOps Lead - Wellsmith

July 2019 to October 2019

● Startup in the medical research space managing 4 developers across US and Ukraine.

● Led the creation of on-demand ephemeral environments in Kubernetes.

● Reduced cloud compute costs by 40% and improved deployment speed by 95%. Cloud Architect - AdExchange Group

October 2018 to February 2019

● Remote startup in California building platforms in the marketing and SRM spaces

● Created in depth architecture diagrams to reduce miscommunication in design meetings.

● Implemented IAM permission boundaries in AWS and reduced build time by 95%. Senior DevOps Engineer - Whole Foods Market

February 2017 to September 2018

● Contractor to full time supporting inventory control for major grocery store

● Designed CI/CD pipelines and IAM for hundreds of AWS accounts.

● Migrated customer facing API services from monolith to services and ECS containers. DevOps Engineer - Yodle

March 2016 to October 2016

● Large company in the advertising space supporting 50+ developers

● Consolidated six dev team stacks into a standardized pipeline with checks and monitoring DevOps Engineer - Rackspace

June 2014 to December 2015

● Individual contributor on a fast moving team in a large managed cloud company

● Led architecture and deployment of AWS environments for Fortune 500 clients.

● Led training sessions on documentation and DevOps philosophy. Skills

AWS, Ansible, Bash, Bitbucket Pipelines, Chef, CICD, CircleCI, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Coaching, Docker, DynamoDB, ECS, GCP, GitHub Actions, GitOps, IAC, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Lambda, Linux, NewRelic, Okta, OpenSSL, OpenSearch, Python, Serverless, SumoLogic, Terraform, Terraform Cloud, VMWare, Vault

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Sacred Heart University

Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect

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