Christopher Joe
Upper Marlboro,MD
Summary
Ambitious and goal driven candidate with experience in information technology, specifically cloud technology. Skilled in a variety of IT software and hardware. Effective verbal and written communication skills. A leader as well as a team player. A problem solver and diligent worker. Strong organizational skills and able to learn quickly. Responsible with a strong sense of personal sacrifice for corporate progression. Strong business acumen and significant organizational design expertise. Committed to identifying innovative technologies to increase the efficiency of business and operations in ever-evolving technical environments.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
DevSecOps Engineer
Seneca Resources
12.2023 - Current
- Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to automate code integration, testing, and deployment processes
- Integrated SonarQube for continuous inspection of code quality and security, ensuring compliance with industry standards
- Conducted vulnerability scanning and software composition analysis using tools like Grype and Syft to improve the security and compliance of containerized applications.
- Implemented and managed various DevOps tools to streamline development workflows, improve system reliability, and reduce operational overhead
- Utilized Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IAC) to provision and manage entire infrastructure, ensuring consistency and scalability
- Collaborated with development and operations teams to foster a culture of security and best practices in software development
- Conducted regular security assessments and audits to identify and mitigate potential vulnerabilities and risks.
- Provided input to team lead regarding areas for process and procedural improvement.
Cloud Engineer
Teledyne Brown
03.2022 - 12.2023
- Build and improve reliability and performance of cloud applications and cloud infrastructures deployed on Amazon Web Services
- Migrate existing services from physical on-premises data centers to AWS cloud
- Actively manage, improve, and monitor cloud infrastructure on AWS
- EC2, S3, and RDS, including backups, patches, and scaling
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable Linux based EC2 instances
- Create and attach volumes onto EC2 instances and make sure all attached volumes have EBS snapshots initialized
- Apply Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing to create high availability and fault tolerance to EC2 instances
- Provision user accounts using IAM in collaboration with enterprise Active Directory
- Perform full AMI backups for all provisioned instances for critical workloads
- Utilized CloudWatch and Nagios logs to monitor AWS environments
- Setup continuous integration with Jenkins and make use of wide range plugins available to setup smooth developer friendly workflows.
Cloud Engineer
SHRM
08.2016 - 03.2022
- Leverages cross-functional experiences and soft skills to gather functional and non-functional requirements from clients and stakeholders
- Utilize gathered requirements and data to create secure, fault-tolerant, and highly available solutions
- Migration of infrastructure, data, and applications out of legacy data centers into cloud and hybrid environments (public and private)
- Utilizing CloudWatch and Datadog to monitor applications and servers in cloud including system health indicators, trend identification, and anomaly detection
- Implement Serverless Architecture utilizing API Gateway, AWS Lambda, and Dynamo DB
- Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full stack of development tools and technologies
- Build and test agile and cost-effective hosting solutions
- Implement scalable, high-performance hosting solutions that meet need of today's corporate and digital applications using both private and public cloud technologies
- Perform Linux administration and production support for various applications in RedHat and Ubuntu environments when needed.
Linux Admin
Modest Tech. Solutions
02.2014 - 08.2016
- Work at strategic level with project managers and architecture team influencing, designing, and delivering service improvements and business change
- Liaising with security team to ensure company security standards are enforced
- Installing Red Hat Linux using kickstart and applying security policies for hardening server based on company policies
- RPM and YUM package installations, patch and other server management
- Diagnose and resolve problems associated with DNS, DHCP, VPN, NFS, and Apache
- Installed and configured Apache tomcat servers and deployed web-apps
- Installation of SSH and configuration of keys bases authentication
- Creation and maintenance of user accounts, passwords, profiles, initialization of file permissions and customizing shell environment setup for users
- Experience performing LVM tasks such as creating physical volumes, volume groups, logical volume, and file system
- Install configure and renewal SSL certification for sites
- Handled network packet analysis by using TCP/IP and related protocols
- TCP, UDP, IP, HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, and FTP
- Monitor system resources, logs, disk usage, scheduling backups and restore
- Participate in disaster recovery planning, implementation, and testing
- Address L1/L2 issues and debugging problems for engineering handoff
- Provided 24/7 level call production support on rotation basis
- Familiar with switch, firewall, server, and routers.
Education
North Carolina Central University
Durham, NC05.2008
Skills
- AWS (EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, RDS, IAM, Route 53, OpenSearch, CloudWatch, CloudTrail)
- Windows
- CentOS/RedHat
- Windows Server
- Office365
- Azure DevOps
- Apache
- JIRA
- Confluence
- GitHub
- Ansible
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- MySQL
- Aurora
- DynamoDB
- Microsoft Active Directory
- PowerShell
- Symantec Ghost
- Group Policy
- VMware
- Identity Access Management
- Azure PowerShell
- Cost Optimization
- Containerization Technologies
- Cloud security
- Cloud Architecture Design
- DevOps principles
Certification
- AWS Solutions Architect - Associate
- Red Hat RHCSA (In progress)
Clearance
Active Secret
Timeline
DevSecOps Engineer
Seneca Resources
12.2023 - Current
Cloud Engineer
Teledyne Brown
03.2022 - 12.2023
Cloud Engineer
SHRM
08.2016 - 03.2022
Linux Admin
Modest Tech. Solutions
02.2014 - 08.2016
North Carolina Central University
- AWS Solutions Architect - Associate
- Red Hat RHCSA (In progress)
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