Benjamin Lawson
Atlanta,GA
Summary
Results-driven DevOps Engineer with over 5 years of hands-on experience in designing, implementing, and managing scalable cloud infrastructures in AWS and Azure environments. Proven ability to automate CI/CD pipelines, manage container orchestration, enforce security policies, and optimize performance across complex systems. Adept at integrating DevOps best practices to improve delivery speed, system reliability, and operational efficiency
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
Work History
DevOps Engineer
Memorial Hermann Hospital
08.2024 - 04.2025
- Designed and provisioned scalable AWS infrastructure using Terraform, incorporating services like EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Route 53, and Lambda.
- Automated application deployments using Groovy, YAML, and Bash scripts to streamline environment provisioning.
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Maven, and Tomcat, enhancing build automation and deployment reliability.
- Integrated quality and security gates (SonarQube, JaCoCo, JFrog) into CI pipelines to enforce code quality standards.
- Deployed Kubernetes clusters using AWS EKS across multiple availability zones to achieve high availability.
- Configured alerts and performance metrics with CloudWatch, improving system observability and response time.
- Managed configuration tools such as Ansible and Docker for containerized infrastructure management.
- Leveraged GitHub and Bitbucket for source control and GitOps workflows; familiar with multi-OS deployment.
- Collaborated across Development, QA, UAT, and Production environments during release cycles.
- Utilized JIRA for tracking epics, bugs, and tasks on Kanban boards.
DevOps Engineer
Children’s Hospital
10.2023 - 06.2024
- Set up CI/CD pipelines and integrated tools such as Maven, GitHub.
- Manage user accounts for Jenkins Servers.
- Created Dockerfile and automate Docker image creation using Jenkins and Docker Compose.
- Created Jira tickets to assign for monitoring project and blockers.
- Created quality gates in SonarQube dashboard and enforced in the pipelines to fail the builds when conditions were not met.
- End to End automation for all build and deployments.
- Prepared and presented SCM best practices for implementing continuous integration for the team.
- Worked on integrating GIT into the continuous Integration (CI) environment along with Jenkins.
- Promote security policies, procedures, and standards with vendors.
- Ensured proper data migration among disparate systems.
- Provide secure data exchange for data at rest and data in motion.
- Created Ansible playbooks as the primary mechanism for provisioning in Ansible to define automation tasks using YAML format to establish Continuous Delivery pipelines.
- Additionally, executed Ansible scripts to provision development servers.
- Proficient in constructing pipelines for distributed stream processing utilizing Kafka, while utilizing Prometheus and Grafana for metrics evaluation.
- Integrated Docker container-based test infrastructure into the Jenkins CI test flow.
- Implemented a build environment that seamlessly integrated with GIT and JIRA.
- Created a Jenkins pipeline that facilitated the building of all microservices and publishing to Docker Hub, followed by deployment to Kubernetes.
DevOps Engineer
Delta Airlines
12.2022 - 09.2023
- Configured Bitbucket webhooks to trigger Jenkins builds, accelerating delivery cycles.
- Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Maven, GitHub, and Jenkins.
- Automated container builds and deployments using Docker, Docker Compose, and Jenkins pipelines.
- Created and tracked JIRA tickets to manage sprint tasks and resolve blockers.
- Established SonarQube quality gates to ensure coding standards and reduce technical debt.
- Delivered end-to-end automation for build and deployment workflows across multiple environments.
- Advised development teams on SCM best practices and CI standardization.
- Integrated Git version control with Jenkins to ensure seamless code delivery.
Education
Bachelor Of Science - Chemistry
Associate Degree - Computer Science and Information Technology
PMP - Project Management Professional
Skills
- Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure
- Operating Systems: MacOS, Windows, Unix/Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Ubu
- DevOps Tools: Maven, JIRA, SonarQube, Nexus, Artifactory, Jen TeamCity, Slack, Datadog
- Build Tools: Maven, Gradle, Jenkins
- Versioning Tools: Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab
- Infrastructure as Code: Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation
- Containers: Docker, Kubernetes
- Web Servers: Apache Tomcat, WebLogic 9x/10, Nginx
- Networking & Cloud Services: EC2, VPC, S3, Route 53, ELB, EFS, EBS, AMI, ECS, Lo
- Programming Languages: Java, JavaScript, Bash, Python, Groovy
- Security: IAM, Security Groups, SSL Certificates
- Monitoring Tools: Datadog, Nagios, Grafana, Azure Monitor
Timeline
DevOps Engineer
Memorial Hermann Hospital
08.2024 - 04.2025
DevOps Engineer
Children’s Hospital
10.2023 - 06.2024
DevOps Engineer
Delta Airlines
12.2022 - 09.2023
Associate Degree - Computer Science and Information Technology
PMP - Project Management Professional
Bachelor Of Science - Chemistry
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