Summary
Highly motivated and experienced Cloud Engineer with 15+ years of expertise in end-to-end solution architecture. Strong skills in cloud application automation and orchestration, cloud services, and network management. Proven ability to plan, design, install, configure, and optimize IT infrastructures for high availability and performance.
Experience
Site Reliability Engineer, Equifax Canada
July 2019 – Present
- Architected, designed, developed, and orchestrated CI/CD implementation on AWS & GCP.
- Created automation solutions using Terraform & Jenkins for Infrastructure as Code.
- Designed and implemented CI/CD workflows and application builds/updates using Jenkins.
- Containerized applications for Kubernetes and deployed to EKS/GKE in a service mesh environment.
- Administered and supported the Jenkins cluster for Canadian application developers.
- Developed Python scripts using Boto3 for SRE tools (e.g., tagging management).
- Ensured cloud security compliance and remediation aligned with organizational policies.
- Used Ansible & Packer to predefine configurations and create golden images.
- Optimized Elasticsearch domains and migrated indices across accounts.
- Ran GCP Dataproc & Dataflow jobs.
- Conducted code commit pull requests, peer reviews, and merges.
- Explored and evaluated cloud-native and cloud-agnostic technologies.
- Provided pre-production to production deployment support for all Canadian application teams.
Cloud/DevOps Engineer, Rogers Communications
March 2019 – June 2019
- Practiced Agile framework, focusing on automated solutions.
- Architected, designed, developed, and orchestrated CI/CD implementation for LOBs.
- Automated infrastructure management using Python, Boto3, AWS CLI, Lambda, and Bash.
- Implemented CI/CD workflows using Jenkins seeds, JobDSL, and pipelines.
- Integrated GitHub API event-based payloads with Jenkins pipelines.
- Created and integrated Slack API applications into the CI/CD workflow.
- Leveraged AWS CloudFormation, CodeDeploy, and Service Catalog for CI/CD.
- Explored and evaluated cloud-native and cloud-agnostic technologies.
- Managed source control and implemented governance using Git and GitHub APIs.
- Tested code pull requests, performed peer reviews, and implemented fixes.
Cloud Development Engineer, Cisco
March 2018 – January 2019
Developed & deployed Spot Fleet-based application cluster in AWS using Terraform, Python, and Boto3.
- Automated AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform.
- Integrated automation using Python, Boto3, AWS CLI, Ansible, and Docker.
- Implemented Mesos, Marathon, Chronos, and Zookeeper for distributed applications.
- Deployed Kubernetes clusters for microservices and IoT platforms.
- Created and implemented Cloudinit configurations for cluster nodes.
- Customized Ansible configurations for cluster components.
- Implemented CI/CD using Jenkins and DSL.
- Improved CI/CD pipelines.
- Implemented service discovery, health checks, and key data store configuration using Consul.
- Tested code pull requests, performed peer reviews, and implemented fixes.
- Managed source control using Git and GitHub.
- Created bash scripts and managed configurations using REST APIs, JSON, and YAML.
Cloud/DevOps Engineer, TD Bank
March 2016 – March 2018
Developed a Cloud & DevOps learning strategy and training program for on-shore and off-shore teams.
Architected, designed, developed, and delivered an ASP.NET application to govern OpenStack cloud tenancy.
- Led the team, developed the learning strategy, and executed training.
- Created training materials and exercises.
- Reviewed candidates and conducted technical interviews.
- Managed and created governance policies for environment integration and the DevOps team.
- Developed cloud management tools using C#, SQL Server, IIS, SSRS, ASP.NET, and Visual Studio.
- Supported Mainframe virtualization testing environments.
- Created TOSCA Blueprints using Cloudify.
- Automated platform and application deployments for Windows and JBoss.
- Used DevOps tools (Git, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Nexus, Jira, Cloudify).
- Configured and complied with CI/CD pipelines.
- Configured and implemented Nagios XI for monitoring.
- Recommended process improvements to meet SLAs.
- Managed and updated SLAs.
Network Management Systems Engineer, Bell Mobility
March 2015 – February 2016
Created XML data parsing automation using Java, Eclipse, and PowerShell.
Piloted "Everything you wish after one logon" using AWS, NetScaler, and XenApp/XenDesktop.
- Managed Linux (Redhat) Wireless Network Management Systems (HSPA/LTE).
- Monitored network data flow integrity for ETL processing.
- Managed network elements, data flows, security (Tivoli Identity Manager), and audit trails.
- Planned, designed, and executed performance data and fault alert test cases.
- Performed Oracle SQL tasks