DevOps Architect
January 2025 – Present
Led cloud infrastructure automation and platform resilience for Compass, a residential real estate technology company, focusing on secure, repeatable AWS provisioning and application delivery.
Tech Stack: AWS, Terraform, CloudFormation, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Puppet, Git, SonarQube, Python, Bash, Nginx, Wireshark
- Led end-to-end AWS infrastructure automation using Terraform and CloudFormation to provision EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, ELB and Lambda resources, improving provisioning repeatability and reducing manual errors.
- Designed and enforced CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and AWS CodePipeline, integrating Docker, SonarQube, Nexus and Git to accelerate release cadence and ensure quality gates before production deploys.
- Implemented observability using CloudWatch dashboards, centralized log groups, and alarms to monitor live traffic, resource utilization, and application health across environments for faster incident detection.
- Deployed and managed containerized applications with Docker and Kubernetes, implementing rolling updates and blue/green deployment patterns to achieve zero-downtime application upgrades.
- Automated server provisioning and configuration management with Ansible playbooks and Puppet modules to eliminate configuration drift across dev, staging, and production environments.
- Implemented cloud security controls—IAM roles/policies, GuardDuty, VPC security groups and network ACLs—and built disaster recovery and backup frameworks with automated failover/failback runbooks to meet business continuity SLAs.
Senior DevOps / Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
May 2024 – January 2025
Operated multi-region AWS platform infrastructure for Capital One, supporting regulatory and availability requirements for the VIRTRU application and related data services.
Tech Stack: AWS EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, Route53, CloudWatch, CodePipeline, Terraform, Helm, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Airflow, Splunk, PagerDuty, Python, Bash, Git
- Engineered multi-region active-active failover architecture using Route53 health checks, cross-zone ELB balancing and Auto Scaling policies to meet organizational uptime and regulatory requirements.
- Built and maintained infrastructure CI/CD using Jenkins, Terraform and AWS CodePipeline to automate infrastructure changes with complete audit trails and controlled rollouts across environments.
- Provisioned and managed EKS clusters using Terraform and Helm charts, enabling automated, repeatable deployments and zero-touch application rollouts for the VIRTRU app.
- Implemented observability and alerting pipelines with Splunk, CloudWatch and PagerDuty, creating dashboards and automated incident response workflows to reduce mean time to resolution.
- Provided on-call platform support and automated deployment runbooks, cutting deployment time by 40% and reducing human error during production change windows.
- Led region-level failover exercises and chaos engineering drills to validate disaster recovery playbooks and identify single points of failure in distributed platform components.
AWS Solution Architect
October 2022 – April 2024
Led AWS migrations and infrastructure automation for Realogy, migrating on-premises BI and application workloads to cloud-native architectures while enforcing enterprise governance.
Tech Stack: AWS, Terraform, CloudFormation, Jenkins, Docker, ECS, CodePipeline, Ansible, Git, SonarQube, Kafka, Spring Boot, JFrog Artifactory
- Migrated on-premises BI applications to AWS, designing VPC architectures with public/private subnets, NACLs, NAT Gateways and route tables to meet networking and security needs.
- Automated infrastructure lifecycle using Terraform and CloudFormation stacks to enable repeatable, auditable environment provisioning aligned to corporate governance.
- Built CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, integrating Docker, Git, and AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild/CodeDeploy to deploy containerized services to ECS and improve release consistency.
- Implemented AWS CloudWatch monitoring for traffic, logs and resource metrics and integrated SNS for automated alerting to operations teams.
- Automated configuration management across server fleets using Ansible playbooks to reduce configuration drift and manual remediation work.
- Designed and deployed disaster recovery and backup environments with automated failover/failback runbooks to meet RPO/RTO targets for critical applications.
Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer
January 2021 – October 2022
Designed and operated resilient AWS infrastructure for a distributed financial data platform, delivering high availability, observability, and automated recovery across multiple teams.
Tech Stack: AWS, EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, CodePipeline, Lambda, Terraform, Helm, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Airflow, Splunk, PagerDuty, Python, Bash, Git, Spark, EMR
- Designed multi-AZ AWS deployments, Auto Scaling groups and ELB configurations to achieve 99.9% availability SLAs for a distributed financial data platform.
- Defined and architected a new data analytics platform for global Solutions Architects, including scalable Data Lake and Data Warehouse designs to support growing analytics needs.
- Provisioned Airflow infrastructure to automate ETL and data pipeline deployments and onboarded 10+ teams to the platform to standardize pipeline execution and scheduling.
- Implemented a comprehensive observability stack using Splunk, CloudWatch and PagerDuty for log aggregation, anomaly detection and on-call incident workflows.
- Executed multi-region failover procedures including Route53 DNS failover, cross-region S3 replication and RDS read-replica promotion to validate disaster recovery readiness.
- Automated deployment runbooks with Python and Bash, reducing manual deployment time by 40% and enabling self-service release capabilities for multiple development teams.
Amazon Web Services
Dallas, TX
Solution Architect (DevOps)
June 2019 – December 2020
Provided DevOps and infrastructure architecture guidance to AWS customers, managing build/release processes and advising on Well-Architected patterns for cloud deployments.
Tech Stack: AWS, EC2, EKS, EMR, S3, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Splunk, Kafka, Chef, Git, Python, Bash, Maven, Helm, PagerDuty, JFrog Artifactory
- Managed enterprise CI/CD and build pipelines using Jenkins, Maven and ANT across customer projects to improve deployment reliability and consistency.
- Provisioned highly available EC2 infrastructure with Terraform and CloudFormation and extended providers via custom Terraform plugins to meet customer-specific needs.
- Deployed and operated Kubernetes clusters for containerized customer workloads, managing pods, services, ConfigMaps and rolling deployments to enable zero-downtime upgrades.
- Participated in disaster recovery exercises to create cross-AZ replicas and configured CloudWatch alarms for comprehensive infrastructure monitoring.
- Configured Splunk add-ons and DB integrations for centralized log aggregation and real-time analytics across customer environments.
- Mentored customer engineering teams on DevOps best practices, IaC patterns and container strategies aligned to the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
Cloud Infrastructure Architect
March 2019 – July 2019
Implemented Azure cloud infrastructure and centralized observability for Amgen, a biotechnology company, focusing on secure connectivity and scalable container platforms.
Tech Stack: Azure, AKS, Azure AD, ExpressRoute, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Splunk, Jenkins, Python, Chef, Git, OpenShift
- Designed Azure infrastructure including AKS clusters, VNets, Azure AD integration and ExpressRoute connectivity to support secure, high-performance workloads.
- Automated Azure resource provisioning using Terraform modules for resource groups, networking, compute and RBAC policies to ensure consistent deployments.
- Deployed containerized workloads with Docker Compose and Helm, implementing pod autoscaling and zero-downtime deployment strategies for production services.
- Built Splunk architecture for centralized logging and real-time monitoring of cloud control plane services, creating dashboards and anomaly detection alerts.
- Automated infrastructure operations using Ansible Tower and Python SSH-based playbooks for configuration management and continuous deployment orchestration.
- Enforced security and governance through RBAC policies, network controls and IaC best practices to meet internal compliance standards.
JP Morgan Chase
Wilmington, NC / Greater NYC
DevOps Engineer / Infrastructure Architect
May 2017 – February 2019
Built and operated enterprise Linux infrastructure and automated CI/CD systems for JP Morgan Chase, supporting global banking applications and platform teams.
Tech Stack: RHEL, Oracle Linux, VMware vSphere, Jenkins, Puppet, PuppetDB, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, KVM, Bash, Python, Git
- Built and operated RHEL Linux infrastructure fleet, performing system configuration, performance tuning and prioritized incident resolution across the environment.
- Designed and implemented enterprise CI/CD using Jenkins and Puppet to enable continuous integration, automated testing and consistent deployments for .NET and Java teams.
- Developed Puppet modules and manifests to automate deployment and lifecycle management across 500+ nodes, enforcing consistency and reducing manual intervention.
- Managed container adoption with Docker and Kubernetes, supporting teams in containerization strategy, image lifecycle and registry operations.
- Administered DNS, web, mail and DHCP services and managed user directories using LDAP/NIS to support global enterprise operations.
- Implemented HAProxy load balancer configurations and platform automation to improve service availability and scaling for production web services.
Johnson & Johnson
Greater New York City
DevOps Engineer
January 2016 – April 2017
Operated global AWS and on-prem infrastructure for Johnson & Johnson, focusing on monitoring, configuration management, and large-scale Linux server operations.
Tech Stack: AWS, CloudFormation, EC2, ECS, ELB, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Jenkins, Puppet, Docker, Nagios, Centrify, EMC Networker, Python, Bash, Git
- Provisioned AWS infrastructure with CloudFormation to automate EC2, ECS, ELB, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, VPC and IAM resource lifecycles for application workloads.
- Deployed Nagios monitoring with custom checks across 2,000+ Linux servers and integrated monitoring with Jenkins and Puppet for continuous operations.
- Managed Puppet infrastructure upgrades and refactored modules to leverage new capabilities while integrating HAProxy load balancing for high-availability services.
- Configured AWS GuardDuty within a centralized master account and integrated alerting with Slack for real-time security notifications.
- Performed large-scale Linux administration tasks including VMware VM provisioning, Solaris LDOM/ZFS management and network troubleshooting with IPTables/NMAP.
- Implemented authentication and access controls using Centrify and performed system hardening to improve the overall security posture of production systems.
Change Healthcare
Fort Worth, TX
Linux / Cloud Engineer (Intern)
May 2015 – December 2015
Built and automated Linux infrastructure for healthcare systems at Change Healthcare, focusing on server provisioning, automation and monitoring for clinical and administrative services.
Tech Stack: AWS, EC2, CloudFormation, Jenkins, Ansible, Chef, Docker, Nexus, Git, ELK Stack, OpenShift, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Linux RHEL, Bash, Control-M
- Designed and built Linux system infrastructure for Health Systems environments including new server builds, VM provisioning and firewall/network configurations.
- Authored Ansible playbooks to automate Tomcat and Apache installation and configuration, reducing manual setup time across environment tiers.
- Built real-time monitoring dashboards using the ELK Stack to ensure high availability of cloud control plane services and detect infrastructure anomalies.
- Deployed EC2 instances using Jenkins-driven CI/CD pipelines with Chef and AWS CloudFormation to standardize environment provisioning.
- Managed end-to-end deployments and code promotions across DEV to PROD and coordinated with firewall teams on DMZ server rules and network segments.
- Provided operational support for applications and collaborated with cross-functional teams to meet compliance and uptime requirements.