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Summary
Hands-on platform and reliability engineer (CKA-certified) who builds and operates multi-tenant cloud infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and strong observability practices. Experience supporting customer production cloud environments end to end, from Terraform-provisioned infrastructure through incident response, root-cause analysis, and blameless postmortems. Background in security engineering brings a security-minded default to platform design, IAM, and access control. Comfortable owning ambiguous problems and building automation-first solutions in fast-moving environments.
Experience
Versaterm
DevOps Engineer I Remote Jan 2026 - Present
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation for containerized public-safety applications in a regulated SaaS environment.
- Develop Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) modules to standardize cloud provisioning and reduce deployment friction across engineering teams.
- Identify workflow bottlenecks and ship tooling improvements that increase developer velocity and deployment reliability.
Arctic Wolf
Concierge Security Engineer II Jul 2024 - Jan 2026
- Supported customer production cloud environments (AWS and on-prem), diagnosing and remediating 100+ infrastructure and IAM misconfigurations to improve reliability and security posture.
- Automated triage and operational workflows in Python with SIEM query optimization, reducing mean investigation time.
- Served as a first responder for production incidents — triage, root-cause analysis, and written postmortem reporting to customers and engineering.
- Partnered with engineering to improve logging pipelines, observability, and detection coverage across large-scale systems.
Triage Engineer I Apr 2024 - Jul 2024
- Analyzed 200+ weekly events, correlating host, network, and cloud telemetry across large-scale, multi-tenant environments.
- Built reusable detection queries and automated investigation playbooks aligned to MITRE ATT&CK, reducing manual operational toil.
Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals
Security Specialist Aug 2023 - Apr 2024
- Managed endpoint security and vulnerability scanning across enterprise infrastructure in a healthcare setting, supporting compliance and operational uptime.
Projects
Kubernetes Platform Engineering Homelab
- Automated VM provisioning and image creation with Terraform and cloud-init on Proxmox; deployed k3s with Cilium CNI, Traefik, and MetalLB.
- Implemented ArgoCD GitOps pipelines for declarative, drift-detected application deployment — mirroring production CI/CD practices.
- Designed VLAN-segmented network architecture (subnets, routing, firewall policy) for workload isolation, mirroring production EKS/ECS patterns.
AI Inference Platform
- Built and operated a GPU-accelerated inference platform (Ollama + Open WebUI) serving LLMs to internal users — hands-on experience supporting AI-enabled workloads.
- Debugged container networking and service exposure to keep the AI workload reliably available.
Certifications
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- CompTIA Security+
- CompTIA CySA+
- CompTIA Network+
- Hack The Box Certified Defensive Security Analyst (CDSA)
- Blue Team Level 1 (BTL1)
Education
- Brigham Young University — B.S. Bioinformatics, 2023
Core Skills
Cloud & Kubernetes: AWS, Kubernetes (CKA; k3s/EKS), Docker, containerization & orchestration IaC & GitOps: Terraform (OpenTofu-compatible), ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, CI automation Observability & Reliability: Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Elastic, SIEM, incident response, root-cause analysis, blameless postmortems, on-call Languages & Scripting: Python, Bash, Go (familiar) Systems & Networking: Linux/Unix administration, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S, load balancing, cloud security best practices, IAM