Multitasking IT Support & DevOps Engineer

DEVOPS SOFTWARE ENGINEER PROFILE

Experienced DevOps / build release engineer with a proven track record of administering multiple projects. Excellent analytic, communication and leadership skills. Recognized by senior management for strong work ethic and the ability to resolve highly complicated systems and customer-related issues.

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

Languages: UNIX and Linux Shell Scripting (BASH), SQL, Satellite Control Language, Microsoft (MS) Batch Script, Perl/Perl Tk, php, python, groovy, HTML/XML

Platforms / Operating System (OS): AWS: EKS Clusters / EC2 / S3 / IAM; Windows NT/10/11, UNIX (Solaris 8), Red Hat Linux 5.x/6.x, CentOS, Ubuntu

Software Version Control: Atlassian Jira, BitBucket, Confluence and Crowd; Gitlab; GitHub; TeamForge CollabNet; Subversion (SVN)

Software and Applications: Jenkins CICD, Bamboo CICD, Ansible, AWS, AWS Lambda, Apache Tomcat, Maven, Maven Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus, Prometheus Grafana Monitoring, Docker, Kubernetes, VMware vSphere, ELK, SonarQube, Eclipse, MS Visual Studio, Oracle, Rhapsody, ThoughtWorks Go, MS Build, NuGet, MS IIS Web Deploy, .Net core, Terraform, Databricks

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Booze Allen Hamilton Consulting,

Washington, D.C. December 2022 – May 2025

Senior DevOps Infrastructure Engineer / Administrator

Led the design and implementation of enhancements to the CICD automation build and delivery pipeline infrastructure for IRS EDP clients. Front-end work consists of implementing and assisting the enterprise CICD Shared Library Github groovy source code repository to execute templated Jenkins CICD pipelines. The primary upgrade consisted of a Podman (Docker) image build; Nexus Repository management of build images; SonarQube threshold reporting within the Jenkins CICD pipeline and image deployment to AWS Elastic Container Repository. Final delivery script setup through Jenkins pipelines to AWS EKS cluster dev/test and preprod environments with Kubernetes deployment.

Assisted with research and evaluation on the onboarding of new client CICD pipelines such as feasibility of Databricks functionality with Terraform as Infrastructure as Code in our existing pipeline structure. Initial testing of Bamboo Databricks notebook payload pipeline with BitBucket reporting testing completed. Also, research and test implementation to execute Docker python code library-based containers to support Databricks CLI deployments on Bamboo agents as runners.

Researched into SonarQube SAST enterprise software implementation scope for Databricks python code analysis. Working with enterprise CICD team to perform initial onboard new client testing.

Senior Amazon Cloud Workspaces Infrastructure Engineer / Administrator

Primarily deliver the administration, implementation, testing, upgrades, troubleshooting and maintenance of multi-Tenant users’ AWS Windows Workspace desktop environments. Some duties include:

●Automation development for the configuring, deploying and support of AWS Windows Workspaces desktops with Cloud based Terraform Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scripts.

●Implementation and maintenance of AWS Workspaces Standard Operating Procedures and Standards within FAS Cloud Services (FCS) Security requirements for multi-tenant user environments

●AWS Console Administrative Operational implementation and support of Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Workspaces configuration with Subnets for various tenant accounts.

Judge Group Consulting (contractor for Environmental Protection Agency),

Wayne, Pennsylvania December 2021 – November 2022

Lead Software DevOps Engineer / Linux Administrator

Led the process for the Production build, release, and deployment of EPA’s API packages public dashboards for the Scientific Computing & Data Curation Division (SCDCD).

●Implement and execute fully automated Jenkins CI/CD build, release, and deployment with docker container processing from the BitBucket and GitHub source code repositories as IaC (Infrastructure as Code) to Quality Assurance (QA) / Staging (User Acceptance Testing) and Production environments.

oImplement and utilize Docker Swarm replication for failover protection.

oDeployment thru HA Proxy services with Ansible playbooks.

oPrometheus Alert Manager for node and dashboard alerts.

oAdministrator of the Portainer.io docker orchestration tool.

●Linux infrastructure administrator on the CICD pipeline servers: QA / Staging and Production servers that contain the DevOps tools and API release packages. Assist in the maintenance and maintainability of the servers that are both VMs (Virtual Machines) and Red Hat Linux machines.

Trion Group, LLC Company, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania June 2019 – December 2021

Lead Software DevOps Engineer / Linux Administrator

Led the process for the Production build, release, and deployment of micro service packages to the corporate Plan Benefits website for direct customer consumption. Documentation in Confluence development site.

●Implement and execute full Jenkins CI/CD build, release, and deployment processing with ansible playbooks from Git repository to Development / Quality Assurance (QA) / Staging (User Acceptance Testing) and Production environments. Integrated CI/CD with JIRA agile ticketing system.

●Lead Linux infrastructure administrator on the Development/ QA / Staging and Production servers that contain the microservice release packages. Development servers maintained on AWS EC2 instances.

●Responsible for maintaining the stability of essential monitoring tools such as Elasticsearch-Logstash-Kibana (ELK) and Springboot Eureka across Development/ QA / Staging and Production servers.

EnTech Consulting, Malvern, Pennsylvania September 2017 – May 2019

Lead Software Build and Release Engineer

Led the process for Quality Assurance (QA) / User Acceptance Testing (UAT) build, release, and deployment of financial loan servicing .NET release packages for direct customer server implementation.

●Implement full Jenkins CI/CD for deployment of all NuGet release candidate packages.

●Primary contact to deploy SQL script packages for client release.

●Primary initial contact to guide triaging of any build and release errors or failures.

●Also, setup the CI process for other java-maven development software clients for AWS deployments

MIT Lincoln Labs (Odyssey Systems consulting), Lexington, Massachusetts April 2017 – September 2017

Lead Senior Software Build and Release Engineer

Led the process for unclassified Quality Assurance (QA) build, release, and deployment processing of the release candidate software tools packages for satellite control and detection. The software team develops the mission critical decision support tools to perform key functions such as outer space rapid event detection.

●Led the continuous integration (CI) Jenkins build and release process of production release artifacts.

●Migrated and upgraded the maven repository manager system to a new Nexus OSS 3.x repository.

●Developed a Jenkins CI build Automation production project for maven eclipse-tycho OSGI bundles.

eBay radial.com, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania 2013 – 2017

Senior Software Build and Release Engineer

Led the Quality Assurance (QA) build, release, and deployment processing of the eBay legacy store production candidate software packages within an agile, java development lifecycle.

●Implemented a new continuous integration (CI) Jenkins server for the build, release, and deployment of software packages for QA testing as a production release candidate.

●Enhanced pipeline deployment by linking a new, continuous delivery (CD) RunDeck server.

●Implemented the Jenkins CI/CD process to self-provision through an Atlassian Crowd security and Jira ticket system as a fully automated, self-contained production build, release, and deployment pipeline.

●Managed the simultaneous major and minor build releases processes.

●Acted as primary role in triage of any build, release and deployment errors or failures.

●Implemented SonarQube tool for source code metrics as part of the build and release process.

a)Administrator in implementing the SonarQube 5.x on a RedHat server with various plugins for Java code.

b)Assisted with the development of the Measures; Rules; Quality Profiles and Gates reporting.

c)Implemented the Jenkins build process: plugins; integration with Sonar and maven post build Sonar reports.

●Developed SVN audit script for release control purposes to verify branch file content locked status records maintained in a proprietary Oracle database table.

●Migrated the full production Jenkins CI server to a new remote server with very limited downtime.

●Administrative development and maintenance of the SVN and Sonatype Nexus repositories.

QUALIFICATIONS

●Knowledge of the Capability Maturity Model Integration in Software Engineering Institute concepts.

●DOD Top Secret Clearance [2017]

EDUCATION

Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts

Bachelor of Arts Degree in Applied Mathematics

Complemented course requirements with graduate level courses in math.

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