Devops Engineer Senior

John Boggs

Senior DevOps Engineer

************@*****.*** Whitesburg, KY, 41858

linkedin.com/in/johndboggs

PROFILE

Results-oriented Senior DevOps Engineer with 10 years of proven expertise in architecting and optimizing cloud-native infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines across enterprise-scale systems. Demonstrated success in accelerating deployment cycles, embedding DevSecOps, and leading cloud transformations using AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Committed to enabling high-performance development teams and delivering resilient, scalable systems. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior DevOps Engineer

Kroger (Retail)

07/2022 – Present Cincinnati, OH

•Spearheaded the complete automation of deployment pipelines for over 20 microservices, accelerating release cycles by 60% and significantly reducing manual intervention.

•Architected and implemented robust Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, standardizing multi-environment provisioning across multiple AWS accounts and regions.

•Integrated advanced monitoring and observability stacks with Prometheus and Grafana, enabling proactive detection of anomalies in containerized workloads.

•Led the migration of critical legacy applications to Kubernetes clusters, utilizing custom Helm charts and service mesh architectures to enhance scalability and resiliency.

•Championed DevOps best practices across cross-functional teams, enforcing CI/CD governance policies that improved code quality and deployment reliability.

•Designed and tested disaster recovery frameworks that reduced mean time to recovery (MTTR) by 5%, ensuring business continuity for mission-critical services. DevOps Consultant

Master Card (Fintech)

01/2020 – 06/2022 St Louis, MO

•Engineered resilient CI/CD pipelines for 15+ microservices, embedding automated security checks to maintain 99.99% system availability and strict compliance with industry audit standards.

•Deployed containerized applications on AWS EKS, leveraging Helm charts and blue-green deployment strategies to achieve zero-downtime releases.

•Integrated automated security scanning tools such as Checkmarx and ZAP directly into the CI workflow, optimizing vulnerability detection with threshold-based gates for faster, safer releases.

•Provided hands-on mentorship to development teams on best practices for containerization and cloud-native deployments, standardizing images with hardened golden AMIs.

•Led infrastructure security hardening initiatives, culminating in a successful SOC 2 Type II compliance audit completed in under three months.

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DevOps Engineer

Contino (Consulting)

02/2015 – 12/2019 New York, NY

•Delivered end-to-end DevOps transformation projects for Fortune 500 clients in finance, retail, and media, modernizing software delivery pipelines and cloud infrastructure.

•Designed and deployed self-healing, auto-scaling infrastructure using ELB and ASG configurations, boosting system fault tolerance and reducing downtime by 80%.

•Developed and maintained secure, production-ready container images with zero known vulnerabilities, automating patch management and continuous compliance checks.

•Conceived and launched an internal developer portal that consolidated service catalogs, monitoring dashboards, and logging tools, significantly enhancing developer productivity and operational visibility.

EDUCATION

Bachelor's degree

University of Georgia

04/2010 – 07/2014

SKILLS

Cloud

•AWS

•GCP

lac

•Terraform

•AWS CloudFormation

Orchestration

•Kubernetes

•Helm

•EKS

•Istio

Scripting

•Python

•Bash

•YAML

CI/CD

•GitLab CI

•Jenkins

•GitHub Actions

Containers

Docker

DevSecOps

•SonarQube

•OWASP ZAP

•Checkmarx

•Aqua Security

Monitoring

•Prometheus

•Grafana

•ELK

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