Cloud Infrastructure Data Center

Daniel Bath

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Professional Summary

I am looking for a Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps or DevSecOps position as an Engineer or Architect using Azure/AWS through Terraform/Cloudwatch with best practice CICD. I wish to contribute to an organization which encourages a well communicating team of friendly professionals. My values are self learning, cooperative communication and documentation, positive and friendly daily cooperation with my superiors and peers, and taking direction from more experienced members. I consider myself friendly in nature, easy to work with, and a good listener.

Skills (Scale 1-10)

● AI Ops / Event Correlation (3)

● Kibana / Graylog / Elastic (4)

● IaC Terraform /Cloudformation (5)

● Team player / Team building (9)

● Budgeting / planning (8)

● Data center management (8)

● Bare metal builds & support (9)

● AWS Gov Cloud / GCP / Azure (5)

● AWS S3 / RDS / EKS / EC2 (6)

● CICD Automation Skills (5)

● Network security (8)

● Scripting skills / MS SCCM (6)

● FFMpeg / ATSC 3 (7)

● AI / Deep Learning / Nervana (2)

● Splunk / OpsGenie / New Relic (7)

● Puppet / Ansible / Chef (5)

● Jenkins / CircleCI / TeamCity (7)

● Docker / runC / Containers (7)

● Airwatch / Mobile Devices (6)

● VMWare / Citrix / Proxmox (7)

● Layers 1-7 & Infiniband (7)

● Kubernetes / Helm / Prometheus (6)

● NGINX / Apache / HAProxy / IIS (8)

● NodeJS / Lambda (5)

● Linux / Windows / OSX (9)

● Visual Basic / PowerShell (3)

● C++ / GO / Bash / Python (4)

● MSSQL / PostgreSQL (8)

● MongoDB / CouchDB / Redis (7)

● Kafka / RabbitMQ (4)

● DNS / TCPIP / CCSP (9)

● Threat Modeling (6)

● OWASP-Zap / DevSec Tools (3)

● Confluence /JIRA/ServiceNow (7)

Work History

Cloud Automation Engineer, January 2024 to June 2025 Plus3 IT Systems Reston VA

Terraform, EKS, Kubernetes, AWS

● Participated in daily AWS Gov Cloud Automation tasks to support client needs.

● Developed Terraform for NOAA Department of Space Commerce for Dev, QA, MVP EKS environments.

● Implemented well architected multi-account AWS environments and Organizations.

● Developed Terraform for NOAA Department of Space Commerce for email, DNS, Storage, S3

● Ceph, Luster, HPC Clusters, Proxmox, Corporate DNS to AWS Sub Domains

● Zero Trust, Appgate, Istio for K8s, Aerospace AWS Gov Cloud L4 designed architecture

● Analyzed and optimized AWS cloud costs using tools like AWS Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor, and Kubecost.

● Implemented FinOps best practices to monitor, report, and reduce unnecessary cloud spending.

● Designed and managed cost-efficient AWS architectures (EC2, Lambda, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3).

● Automated scaling policies, reserved instance management, and spot instance usage for cost savings.

● Developed Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform, Terragrunt and Spacelift for repeatable, optimized deployments.

● Improved observability and monitoring (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana) to detect inefficiencies.

● Collaborated with engineering and finance teams to align cloud usage with budget goals.

● Implemented right-sizing strategies for compute, storage, and databases.

● Optimized containerized workloads (Docker, Kubernetes) for cost-performance balance.

● Enforced tagging policies and cost allocation for accountability.

● Security optimization (IAM, encryption, least-privilege access). DevOps Engineer, September 2021 to June 2023

Didja Inc Los Altos CA

Terraform, Bash, Channel Automation, Kubernetes, Jenkins

● Participated in daily DevOps tasks to support FFmepg on Kubernetes clusters.

● Document automated tasks for other engineers to use. DevOps Engineer, July 2020 to November 2020

WinMax Milpitas CA – Contracted to Yolabs of Panasonic 90 Day Short Term Project

● Participated in daily DevOps tasks to support Prototype Kubernetes Build.

● Build documentation for OpsGenie for Dev Teams to learn and follow recommended usage.

● Integrated TeamCity with examples for pipeline builds for SAST and DAST. DevOps Engineer, March 2018 to June 2020

Codeworks Brookfield WI – Contracted to GE Healthcare Pewaukee, Wisconsin

● Participated in daily DevOps tasks to support Field Force Automation.

● Participated in daily DevOps tasks to support STeP Program.

● Managed AWS with EKS and Swarm.

● Managed and automated Jenkins, Sonarqube, Coverity, MongoDB, Scalr, Docker.

● Implemented New Relic Monitoring and Alerts for 4 Programs for AWS EC2 Instances.

● Implemented new security layers with Qualys.

● Build new environments with Terraform

● Work on DevOps for Java Microservices Teams

● Worked with OpenStack, CoreOS and Kubernetes POC DevOps Architect, May 2017 to March 2018

cPrime San Mateo CA – Contracted to Kohls Corporation Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin

● Participated in daily DevOps tasks to support 1200 physical store locations.

● DevOps engineering to bring online new Kohl's In-Store solutions (Mobile Point of Sale, Wayfinding, Returns Lockers, In-Store Messaging).

● Participated in design, build and support activities for existing and new projects in AWS, GCP.

● Built out new MySQL Architecture with ProxySQL, MHA, Consul for replication cluster.

● Container creation and management for Docker with Kubernetes orchestration.

● Jenkins automation for existing and new projects. Devops Manager / CTO, January 2002 to May 2017

Tek365 Brookfield WI

Deployed and managed 100s of environments for clients deployments, assisted with server security and management. Example are Duncraft, Penn Tennis Racquet, Guitar Center, Global Tel Media, Craft Wholesalers, Ethel M Chocolates, Tropical Foods and many more.

● Created SearchNow service which used BigData to compile and return results from product data sets.

● Created Hadoop based data indexer, sort of a poor mans Splunk to digest discrete logs from millions of agents that report and correlate.

● Founder of the Docker user group in Milwaukee Wisconsin on Meetup.com, familiar with and tested with Docker Swarm, CoreOS, RancherOS, Kubernetes, Mesos for several client projects.

● Developed and maintained cloud scale hardware and service stack for "Twitter like" platform for a client using load balanced Apache Tomcat, Java, MySQL Cluster.

● Built Infiniband HPC clusters with VMWare, Docker Containers, and OpenStack Cloud, migrated to AWS Cloud 100s of images and services.

● Managed large corporate IT infrastructure upgrades with thousands of laptops rollouts, hundreds of virtual and physical servers.

● Completed 75+ large scale IT projects to include payment systems, ecommerce systems, shipping systems, ERP & CRM systems.

● Founded www.catalogs.com, a sales and marketing online portal for shopping, managed compute clusters, data clusters, and business operations.

● Managed firewall, security, and network monitoring and servers both on- and off-site.

● Implemented company policies, technical procedures, and standards for preserving the integrity and security of data, reports, and access.

● Developed and maintained cloud scale Microsoft Exchange hosted service with Zix email encryption integration and cloud scale Zimbra services with Zix email encryption integration backup and archiving.

● Trained junior members of the IT team regarding network security and troubleshooting of critical infrastructure.

● Ensured network, system and data availability and integrity through preventative maintenance and upgrades.

● Developed work-flow charts and diagrams to ensure production team compliance with client deadlines.

● Monitored network performance and provided network performance statistical reports for both real-time and historical measurements.

Infrastructure Architect, January 1996 to December 2001= Carolina Internet

● Managed clients servers, databases, server clusters, application monitoring, server monitoring, network monitoring through deployments, shell scripts, monitoring and patching.

● Selected server and switching hardware for clients needs.

● 24/7 emergency response onsite as needed to monitor and support clients.

● eCommerce integration for clients in C++, iHtml, ASP, Coldfusion, Javascript, Perl.

● Shipping systems integration which UPS used for demo purposes at major showcase events. US Army National Guard – Oconomowoc, Wisconsin & Ocala Florida Sergeant E5, 1989-2005, 2002-2004

● NSA and FBI background check for Top Secret security clearance, Inactive at present, would require recertification.

● US Army Infantry trainer for dozens of allied countries in training, aware of culturally sensitive issues.

● Helped build a key team that played a role in the creation of the first National Guard enhanced infantry brigade in Florida.

Education

Information Technology, 1987-1991

Attended University of Wisconsin (Waukesha, Racine, Milwaukee) Graduated Catholic Memorial High School, Waukesha Wisconsin 1980-1984

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