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Abel Galvan

United States/Remote

Summary

Efficient and independent DevOps Engineer with a wide array of skills and an experience of 7+ years. Highly professional and a strong team player.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience

Work History

DevOps Engineer

Indiana Toll Road
10.2021 - 09.2022
  • Created monitors using Zabbix to ensure continuous uptime.
  • Managed Azure CI/CD pipeline build scripts and resolved build issues for engineers.
  • Implemented Powershell scripts.

AWS Cloud/Systems Engineer

Engine (Balihoo)
04.2018 - 08.2021
  • Performed Bamboo instance migration to cloud hosted solutions.
  • Mitigated security risks by auditing security policies and taking corrective action to enforce secure deployments.
  • Owned release process for backend instances and frontend deployments.
  • Eliminated redundant services and tools saving over $700,000 USD in annual costs.
  • Administered Jira access for engineers.
  • Create and manage Bitbucket repos.

DevOps Engineer

Conversant LLC
06.2014 - 04.2018
  • Managed and maintained Bamboo in-house instance for over 20 engineers.
  • Resolved CI/CD pipeline issues.
  • Provisioned and maintained Bitbucket and Git repos.
  • Performed deployments regularly across two data centers in the United States and Europe housing over 1,000 servers.
  • Administered AWS instances ranging from DynamoDB & S3 to compute instances such as EC2 and IaC (terraform) releases for VPC and CloudWatch.
  • Defined access policy for IAM users.
  • Declared ReGex structures for extracting ELK logs and enabled observability through Kibana.
  • Provision, update and maintain Linux server instances using Puppet, including managing package upgrades.

IT Technical Support Specialist

Chicago White Sox
04.2010 - 10.2010
  • Administered all stadium network connected devices.
  • Handle support requests for resolving user access issues.
  • Setup and configure software on work computers.

IT Support Specialist

International Academy Of Design & Technology
11.2007 - 11.2009
  • Create security isolation layers using Deepfreeze (ephemeral user sessions) and VMware.
  • Provision Windows images for use in class computers for students and staff.
  • Manage a group of 11 student workers to assist with technical tasks.
  • Inventory campus computers and servers using Data-Maxx Technologies.

Network Administrator/Computer Technician

United States Marine Corps
01.2000 - 01.2004
  • Repaired crucial communication links while under fire during combat to identify enemies and friendly forces.
  • Responsible for deploying and managing an inventory of 120 computers for combat pre-deployment.
  • Owned all roles and tasks for resolving technical issues for a battalion of 1,000 Marines in active deployment.
  • Enforced user access policies and performed routine security audits.
  • Managed inventory of all electronic assets within the battalion.

Education

Bachelor of Science -

Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, IL

Skills

  • Puppet, Salt, Bamboo, SolarWinds, Zabbix, ELK, Splunk, Nagios, PagerDuty, Site24/7, Datadog
  • Powershell, Bash, Python, Ruby
  • Puppet, Jenkins, Terraform, Docker, VMware, Salt
  • Bitbucket/Git, Jira, Confluence
  • AWS/Azure Cloud

Timeline

DevOps Engineer

Indiana Toll Road
10.2021 - 09.2022

AWS Cloud/Systems Engineer

Engine (Balihoo)
04.2018 - 08.2021

DevOps Engineer

Conversant LLC
06.2014 - 04.2018

IT Technical Support Specialist

Chicago White Sox
04.2010 - 10.2010

IT Support Specialist

International Academy Of Design & Technology
11.2007 - 11.2009

Network Administrator/Computer Technician

United States Marine Corps
01.2000 - 01.2004

Bachelor of Science -

Illinois Institute of Technology

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