James Anthony Monds
Lead DevOps Engineer
Fort Pierce - Florida
Summary
- Highly motivated, results orientated DevOps Engineer, Solutions Architect offering above 15 years of experience in AWS/Azure/DevOps/Linux Operating System with proficiency in several distributions of Linux including (Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian) and AWS EC2, VPC, EKS, RDS, S3, route 53, IAM, ELB, CDN, cloudwatch, cloudformation, cloudtrail, trusted advisor, direct connect, systems manager, lambda, amazon connect, AWS Developer tools, terraform, docker, containers (Microservices), EBS, EFS, migration, etc. Strong analytical thinking and problem solving skill, good communication skills, technical writing, team management and leadership, Experience in migration of web application and Database, Experience in assessing business requirements at the enterprise level, designing efficient and effective technology solutions for clients. Current interest is in Cloud Strategy, Cloud Migration, and Optimization. I have held positions as DevOps & Cloud Architect, DevOps Engineer & Site Reliability Engineer during my career.
- Cloud administration - Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS
- Cloud computing, operations, support, and services
- Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, and automation in general
- OnBoarding Splunk, Dynatrace, Healthchecks for Cloud Environments
- Infrastructure Management, Application with System Administration & Troubleshooting
- Tomcat/JBoss/Websphere Application Server Administration
- Websphere MQ Administration
- Identified and resolved software licensing issues in support of internal software licensing audit
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
- Root Cause Analysis, Performance Testing
- Project Delivery
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior DevOps Engineer
Microsoft
6 2020 - 6 2024
- Developed CI / CD to standardize the infrastructure and automate the DevOps processes, allowing customers to rapidly build, test, and release code while minimizing errors
- Managed provisioning of AWS infrastructures using CloudFormation and Terraform
- Designed for high availability and business continuity using self-healing-based architectures, fail-over routing policies, multi-AZ deployment of EC2 instances, ELB health checks, auto Scaling, and other modules based on customer's functional and non-functional requirements
- Leveraged Auto scaling groups to right-size EC2 pools to match the level of demand and helped to manage costs by eliminating excess capacity to maintain optimal level of resources
- Democratized advanced technologies in our architecture patterns including leveraging ECS, EKS, Lambda functions, Parameter store, DynamoDB etc
- Released, provisioned and deployed software using Git, Jenkins, terraform and packer (AMIs)
- Completed infrastructure security Assessment for all applications hosted in AWS
- Built high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for customer applications, and performed reviews for architecture and infra builds
- Developed event processing architecture patterns with event trigger, logging, analysis, visualization, notification and responding
- Developed and implemented DDoS-resilient architectures
- Eliminated single point of failure in production architecture designs by deploying service instances (e.g., EC2 or RDS) across two or more isolated AZs based on our customer's actual resiliency and availability requirements
- Designing architecture, deployment, and migration of the Applications from On-prem to the Azure Cloud
- Managed the design, development, and deployment of Azure solutions using Microsoft Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform
- Cloud administration on Microsoft Azure environments
- Onboarded Dynatrace & Splunk for Azure cloud Environments
- Administered Azure Monitoring (Metrics, App insights, Alerts)
- Following best practices in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) using Prometheus, Grafana, Helm and ensure Secure, Scalable, Performant, and Highly Available Service.
- Maintained systems that monitored applications and infrastructure.
- Optimized cloud resource usage by analyzing cost metrics and making recommendations for more efficient configurations.
Senior DevOps Engineer(SRE)
Reno Techs
01.2016 - 05.2020
- Managed provisioning of AWS infrastructures using CloudFormation and Terraform
- Designed for high availability and business continuity using self-healing-based architectures, fail-over routing policies, multi-AZ deployment of EC2 instances, ELB health checks, Auto Scaling, and other disaster recovery models
- Architected and configured Dev/Stage/QA environments in AWS (VPC, subnets, security groups, EC2 instances, load balancer, RDS, Redis, route53, etc)
- Leveraged EC2 Create Snapshot API call to create snapshots of EBS Volumes on scheduled intervals
- Worked on Google cloud platform(GCP) services like Compute Engine, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Stack driver monitoring and cloud deployment manager
- Setup GCP Firewall rules to allow or deny traffic to and from the VM's instances based on specified configuration and used GCP cloud CDN (Content delivery network) to deliver content from GCP cache locations drastically improving user experience and latency
- Experience in IAM (Identity access management) like creation of users under different group names with specific permissions (S3, volume, elb, auto scaling etc.)
- Created Modules for IAM permissions/access
- Manage GCP, API's and Services, BigQuery, CloudSQL, Creation of IAM policies and roles, Creation of Service Accounts and assigning, Composer, Dataproc, GCS (Google cloud storage)
- Created Module and Worked extensively on BigQuery Dataset creations, Table creations assigning respected permissions to the users.
Sr DevOps Engineer
ACE Cloud
03.2014 - 12.2015
- Responsible for Environment Management and deployment automation, provision the infrastructure of Linux environments
- In addition, developing and supporting day to day and weekly release builds and deployments, improving existing infrastructure and services with upgrades, and consolidate existing tools
- Experienced with cloud AWS EC2, VPC setup, instance setup, creating snapshots, AMIs, Elastic IPs and managing EBS volumes
- Designed CI/CD pipelines in the context of a Jenkins orchestration, including the usage of automated build, test/QA and deployment tools Configure jobs and pipelines using Jenkins
- Resolved the problems arising from Build failures and Test failures
- Experienced on GIT activities like creating GIT branches, merging, and granting access to users on different branches and maintaining the repository
- Expertise with UNIX and Windows environments including shell and python scripts
- Enabled each Application is automatically built, packaged, and tested with Git hooks and then deployed to the various environments.
Junior System Administrator(Internship)
CEI
01.2013 - 02.2014
- Developed and supported the software Release Management and procedures
- Responsible for design and maintenance of the GIT Repositories and the access control strategies
- Performed all necessary day-to-day GIT support for different projects
- Implemented & Maintained the Branching and Build/Release strategies utilizing GIT source code management
- Supported Linux /Solaris servers in production / stage / development environment
- Implemented Chef for software deployments like managing and configuring Chef Master Server, updating and creating modules and pushing them to the Chef clients
- Worked on creating the Docker containers and Docker consoles for managing the application life
- Configuring a local Docker hub for storing Docker images internally and using the Docker registry
- Worked on Administration, maintenance and support of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Servers
- Created Terraform modules to create instances in AWS & automated process of creation of resources in AWS using Terraform
- Maintained the interfaces and secure connections between Jenkins and CI/CD tools
- Configured jobs and pipelines using Jenkins
- Configured Elastic Load Balancers with EC2 auto scaling groups
- Integration of Automated Build with Deployment Pipeline
- Currently installed Chef Server and clients to pick up the Build from Jenkins repository and deploy in target environments (Integration, QA, and Production).
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Arizona Western University
Arizona 05.2008 - 05.2012
Skills
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
AWS CodePipeline
AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
AWS Lambda
Amazon EC2 (AWS EC2)
AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM)
Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Amazon EKS
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Kubernetes
VMware
Git
GitHub
CI/CD
Prometheus
Helm
SonarQube
Maven
Tomcat
PowerShell
Linux
K8s
HIPAA
SOC
AWS CloudFormation
AWS Security
AWS Elastic Beanstalk (ELB)
Amazon S3
Terraform
Jenkins
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
Microsof Azure (MS Azure)
Docker
Python
Jira
BitBucket
GitLab
Grafana
Chef
Rancher
Ansible
Data Lakes
Shell
Bash
Purpet
New Relic
PCI DSS
SDLC
Infrastructure Automation
Monitoring and Logging
Configuration Management
Timeline
Senior DevOps Engineer(SRE)
Reno Techs
01.2016 - 05.2020
Sr DevOps Engineer
ACE Cloud
03.2014 - 12.2015
Junior System Administrator(Internship)
CEI
01.2013 - 02.2014
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Arizona Western University
05.2008 - 05.2012
Senior DevOps Engineer
Microsoft
6 2020 - 6 2024
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