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DevOps Engineer

Sapiens

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Portville, NY, USA~10 yrs in the field
["Amazon Web Services","CI/CD","DevOps","Linux","Terraform"]
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About

A top performer in AWS Solutions Architecture and DevOps engineering, specializing in cloud infrastructure and system reliability. Successfully led large-scale migrations such as IBM Netezza to AWS Redshift [1] and optimized SRE best practices at major firms like Apple [2]. Demonstrates strong expertise in AWS, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code tools like Terraform, enhancing system performance and security across diverse environments. Core skills include AWS, DevOps methodologies, and automation, applied to drive efficiency and scalability in cloud solutions.

Experience

About 10 yrs of professional experience, estimated from the roles below (overlaps counted once).

  1. AWS Senior DevOps Engineer

    Sapiens

    Jan 2019Jan 2021

    • Systems Administrator & Systems Engineer related work involved with support UAT and Production Environments in AWS, Azure, and VmWare • Automate tasks such as automatically created a support database from production which automatically deidentified client sensitive data • Built and Automated an AWS disaster recovery setup from AWS US- East-1(Virginia) to US-East-2 (Ohio) which failed over individual or all client applications, infrastructure, DNS, etc. • Provision AWS Infrastructure and manage configuration management for 2 Tier application architecture with Terraform and Ansible • Setup and Configure Jboss applications for Sapiens Coresuite products with Jboss domain setup. • Deploy and manage Jboss applications with Jenkins • Managed AWS Cost and Performance Optimization project • Managed and implemented all managed services systems including security tools, monitoring & alerting, patch management, security scanning, etc.

  2. WS Senior DevOps Engineer

    Surge Forward

    Jan 2017Jan 2018

    • Contracted to handle primary work involved with AWS Cloud Engineering, automation, and DevOps work. • Assisted with their database and data warehouse migrations from on premises to Amazon Web Services • Developed bash scripts to handle ETL workloads to convert and load data from IBM Netezza to Amazon Redshift. • Subject Matter Expert on all questions and planning around moving existing services and products to AWS

  3. Cloud Trainer

    Cloud Trainer

    Jan 2017Jan 2017

    • Authored and developed Cloud and DevOps training for topics that included AWS, Azure, GCP, IoT, and DevOps

  4. Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer

    Hansen Technologies

    Jan 2016Jan 2017

    • Systems Administrator & Systems Engineer related work involved with support UAT and Production Environments in AWS, Azure, and on-premise infrastructure • Lead Engineer responsible for planning, completing, and overseeing the AWS migration of the client’s enterprise online energy billing solutions to AWS • Worked on post migration activities with AWS cost and performance optimization • Responsible for implementing and managing a new CI/CD with Jenkins to mitigate downtime due to ongoing deployment issues

  5. Cloud Engineer & Managed Services Supervisor

    Flexential (Formerly InetU)

    Jan 2013Jan 2016

    • Systems Administrator & Systems Engineer related work involved with support servers on AWS, Azure, and VmWare • Supervised a team of 10 direct reports and responsible for full supervision of operations while on shift • Responsible in developing policies, employee career path development, and department initiatives • Built and supported AWS client infrastructure including cloud migrations and new client engagements • Involved with Pre-sales and sales calls with new and existing clients. Gathered client requirements and developed and implemented project proposals from start to completion of the project

  6. DevOps Engineer

    Hanover Engineering

    Jan 2010Jan 2013

    • Implemented and managed a CI/CD pipeline to support geospatial application deployments • Built and administered Geospatial Web Servers on AWS Infrastructure and Microsoft SQL Server databases • Built an application development team to build geospatial web applications for natural gas clients and field personal

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