Lake Wylie
South Carolina.
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Juan Mejias
Professional Summary
Senior Site Reliability Engineer with over 12 years of experience designing, operating, and scaling highly available, distributed systems that support business critical, high traffic workloads. Deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and incident response. Proven ability to partner across engineering and product teams to embed reliability, resilience, and operational excellence throughout the software development lifecycle. Calm, systems oriented operator with a strong track record of learning and improving complex systems at scale..
● SRE & Cloud Infrastructure: Extensive experience in building and managing scalable platforms with a focus on IasC (terragrunt, tofu) reliability and performance.
● Networking: Strong working knowledge of TCP/IP, BGP, DNS, TLS, and HTTP/S protocols, with practical experience in CDN and caching technologies.
● Automation & Scripting: Proficient in Python and Shell scripting for automating processes and infrastructure management.
● Big Data Technologies: Hands-on experience with distributed analytic processing technologies, including Apache Flink, Spark SQL, EMR, Hive, and PostgreSQL.
● Containerization: Skilled in Docker and Kubernetes for deploying and managing containerized applications.
● Monitoring & Observability: Expertise in monitoring tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, and splunk for performance and reliability insights.
● Collaboration & Communication: Strong ability to work collaboratively across teams and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders. EXPERIENCE
Imperva, Thales, Fully remote — SRE Engineer
June 2019 - Oct 2025 (Thales acquired Imperva in December 2023)
● Spearhead the design and automation of Kubernetes-based, Lambda and EMR platforms (EKS), enabling efficient deployment of streaming data pipelines.
● Implement and maintain monitoring solutions using Datadog and Prometheus, improving visibility into infrastructure performance and operational health.
● Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize service reliability and efficiency, leveraging expertise in networking, infrastructure, and data processing.
● Work extensively with big data technologies, including Apache Flink, Spark, EMR, PostgreSQL, and Hive, to support real-time analytics and data transformation workflows.
Distil Networks, San Francisco — DevOPs Engineer
May 2017 -Present (Acquired by Imperva in June 2019)
● Administration and management +500 Linux/unix and networking platforms bare metal and cloud virtualization (AWS).
● Scripting and automation of +100 processes (Python, Shell and Ruby).
● Setup from scratch Rundeck server to manage +500 machines.
● Automation through and management (Terraform, Chef/knife, Rundeck, Salt).
● Troubleshooting, configuration and management of web server/reverse proxy (Nginx, Apache).
● Admin and management Security and IT (Open VPN, LDAP, Yubikey, GPG).
● Create and maintain +50 chef recipes to automate server and apps deployments. Vodafone, Ireland — VoLTE Testing Engineer
Sep 2015 - Aug 2016
● Designed and implemented an SNMP server to monitor network performance, achieving significant improvements in availability metrics. Amazon, Ireland — DC Linux & Hardware Eng.
Feb 2015 - Sep 2015
● Diagnosed and resolved Linux server and networking issues, ensuring high system uptime and operational reliability.
Ericsson, Spain — DPI Verification Engineer
Oct 2012 - Feb 2015
● Supported global customer units by troubleshooting and resolving configuration issues, software bugs, enhancing verification processes and system efficiency. EDUCATION
Central University of Venezuela — MS in Electrical Engineering Dec 2007, Caracas, Venezuela.
MS in Electrical Engineering, Communication Specialization.