Dominic James
Cumming,United States
Summary
I am a passionate Leader of DevOps and Security with more than 15 years of hands-on experience. I am proficient in building automated, scalable, secure and highly available architectures in the cloud and on-premise. I have a substantial history of successfully creating and troubleshooting a variety of complex systems.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Manager, Lead DevOps and Security/IT
Wonderschool
Remote, San Francisco, CA
10.2022 - Current
- Crafted infrastructure in GCP Cloud Foundation to support transition from Heroku monolith application to microservices and GKE/Kubernetes.
- Developed & orchestrated CI/CD platform to codified terraform IaC GitHub Actions pipeline.
- Crafted Gitops orchestration for Continuous Delivery for GKE app deployments.
- Implemented Continuous vulnerability scanning monitoring when it comes to security scanning incorporated into CI/CD pipelines.
- Orchestrated packer builds in CI/CD in AWS/GCP.
- Provided engineering direction and oversight through the entire software development and IT dept.
- Responsible for technical assessment of new business initiative, initial high-level.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation within the organization.
architecture and technical design, estimation of effort in terms of timeline and cost. - Collaborate with development teams, product managers, and other stakeholders to assess current SDLC practices and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to the software development process as needed.
- Monitor and measure the effectiveness of process improvements and provide regular reports to senior management.
- Participate in daily meetings to discuss progress on projects and development objectives.
- Evaluate and recommend tools and technologies that can enhance the efficiency and quality of the software development process
- Led the entire SOC 2 audit process, overseeing all phases from planning to execution, resulting in successful attainment of SOC 2 Type 2 compliance.
- Implemented comprehensive security controls and protocols to ensure adherence to SOC 2 standards, fostering a culture of compliance and risk mitigation across the organization.
- Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams to conduct risk assessments, identify vulnerabilities, and implement remediation strategies, enhancing the company's security posture.
- Developed and maintained documentation for policies, procedures, and controls, facilitating transparency and accountability in compliance efforts.
- Spearheaded initiatives to achieve compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), ensuring the protection of sensitive student data and maintaining regulatory compliance.
- Implemented an Kong API Gateway solution to streamline and secure communication between internal and external services, enabling teams to efficiently manage and monitor API traffic.
- Collaborated with development teams to design and deploy the Kong API GW infrastructure, ensuring scalability, reliability, and adherence to security best practices.
- Conducted training sessions and provided documentation to educate teams on the usage and benefits of the Kong API GW, promoting adoption and alignment with organizational objectives.
- Worked closely with stakeholders to define and enforce API governance policies, maintaining consistency and compliance across API endpoints.
Lead Manager DevOps
Alogent
Remote, Atlanta, CA
03.2020 - 10.2022
- Crafted infrastructure to support transition from on-pre monolith application to microservices and kubernetes
- Developed & orchestrated CI/CD platform to codified terraform IaC CircleCi and Github Action pipeline
- Developed and automated building kubernetes clusters from scratch using ansible for installing and configuring & terraform provisioning the nodes
- Implemented measure's to identify and resolve security events
- Orchestrated packer builds in CI/CD in AWS and Vsphere
- Continual education and mentoring my DevOp engineers on expanding industry best practice's and design
- Provided engineering direction and oversight through the entire software development life-cycle
- Responsible for technical assessment of new business initiative, initial high-level architecture and technical design, estimation of effort in terms of timeline and cost
- Architecting/deploying/operating solutions built on AWS and VCloud
- Organized and curated recurring team-wide technology talks with goal of bringing distributed team members closer together and share useful information about changes and solutions
- Participate in daily meetings to discuss progress on projects and development.
- Maintained corporate responsibility by staying up-to-date with laws affecting human resource training programs.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Terbium Labs ( Company Closed )
, Remote
11.2018 - 01.2020
- Designed infrastructure for production, staging, and development environments in a commonly configurable manner to allow rapid deployment using Terraform with a Gitlab CI workflow
- Orchestrated Gitlab CI packer builds using an ansible hardening script to provision AWS AMIs images
- Actively monitored and reported on cloud spend
- Participated in technology conference's to discuss our platform and meet technology providers
- Developed and managed on-prem monitoring obserability using prometheus, grafana and ELK.
Senior DevSecOps Engineer
Greensky Inc
Alpharetta
01.2017 - 11.2018
- Worked closely in software developer and DevOps to debug software and system security issues
- Worked closely with development, operations and project managers to create secure builds and deployments across multiple life cyles
- Automated security deployments across the infrastructure in AWS using sensible tools like rapid7, endgame and jask for threat detection, exploitation and vulnerability assessment
- Incident responses using splunk cloud
- Used chef cookbooks to deploy secure measurements into our environments.
Senior Systerm Engineer DevOps
Greensky Inc
Alpharetta
01.2017 - 05.2018
- Configured nginx load-balancers and proxies for RESTful APIS
- Automated deployments by writing an Ansible playbook installing/configuring a Kong API
- Cluster using PostgresSQL DB
- Provisioned AWS infrastructure using chef and terraform for Tomcat web applications
- Worked with business and development teams to plan deployment timeline, devops engineering teams to prepare for production releases using jenkins
- Ran jenkins jobs for builds deployments and creating git repos for vcs.
Senior Linux System Engineer
LexisNexis a Choice Point Inc
Alpharetta
04.2014 - 01.2017
- Day-to-day management of systems and support and demonstration including software and hardware upgrades, YUM, RPM packages updates and patch management and infrastructure design in mixed Linux/UNIX environment e.g
- Openssh, openssl, apache and OS patches via yum/rpm
- Configured and troubleshoot dozens of Linux/VM servers by creating new file systems (ext4 ext3 and etc)
- Maintaining and administration of Linux servers (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu), and various applications
- System specification, configuration, Process monitoring and automation, account and control access management
- Installed and configured of Solaris and Linux servers using jumpstart and kickstart installation and periodic Patch Upgrading using live upgrade
- Bash, for loop scripting for regular system automation tasks, resource system performance
- Resolved config issues and problems regarding NFS mounts, NIS maps, user ids, rpminstalls, driver installs
- Experience with virtualization technologies like Installing, Configuring and administering
- VMware ESX/ESXi and created, managed VMs (virtual server) and also involved in the maintenance of the virtual server.
System Administrator
LexisNexis a Choice Point Inc
Alpharetta
05.2012 - 04.2014
- Installed, configured and monitored veritas cluster server, creating service groups adding resources and enabling features
- Installing, configuring and implementing lvm, and raid technologies using various tools
- Applied OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities
- Managing, supporting, troubleshooting, securing Solaris, CentOS and Red Hat Linux servers in our large enterprise network 1000 + users
- Setup Environment for kickstart installation environment to automate the Linux installation process with pxe boot
- Created and managed VMs in Vsphere (virtual server) and also involved in the maintenance of the virtual server.
Unix Senior Support Engineer
LexisNexis a Choice Point Inc
Alpharetta
05.2008 - 05.2012
- Act as a point of contact to coordinate efforts to provide resolution of production,systems, and application problems during outages or other production related issues as they occur
- Read, analyze, and diagnose errors generated in debug logs, systems error logs, etc.Take corrective actions to resolve issues based on analysis and providealerts/notifications to customer service, support personnel, and management
- Provide technical assistance to application programmers or DBAs to ensure thatsystems and applications run per standards and requirements (i.e.; OSstandards, schedule release requirements, monitor system utilization, etc.)
- Utilize support tools and utilities to monitor environments for performance,reliability, and stability during daily operations, application code releases, systemssoftware releases, security patch releases, or service pack releases
- Maintain Web servers such as Apache and tomcat
- Maintain shell scripts, maintain file permissions, and maintain user securityand passwords
- Communicate and enforce procedures that measure and provide forprogramming solutions to applications/programming groups
- Regulate supported environments through the enforcement of defined ChangeManagement
- Methodology (CMM) procedures
- Execute, and enforce corporate and departmental goals, methodologies and procedures.
UNIX Production Support Engineer
LexisNexis a Choice Point Inc
Alpharetta
05.2007 - 05.2008
- Act as a point of contact to coordinate efforts to provide resolution of production, systems, and application problems during outages or other production related issues as they occur
- Read, analyze, and diagnose errors generated in debug logs, system error logs, etc
- Take corrective actions to resolve issues based on analysis and provide alert/notification to customer service, support personnel, and management
- Provide technical assistance to application programmers or DBAs to ensure that systems and applications run per standards and requirements (i.e.; OS standards, schedule release requirements, monitor system utilization, etc.)
- Utilize support tools and utilities to monitor environments for performance,reliability, and stability during daily operations, application code releases, system software release, security patch release, or service pack release
- Maintain shell scripts, maintain file permissions, and maintain user security and password
- Communicate and enforce procedures that measure and provide for programming solutions to applications/programming groups
- Regulate supported environments through the enforcement of defined Change Management
- Methodology (CMM) procedures
- Execute, and enforce corporate and departmental goals, methodologies and procedures.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Network and Communications Management
DeVry Institute of
Technology
05.2006
Associate of Science - Computer And Information Systems Security
Georgia Military College
Augusta, GA10.2003
Skills
- Git
- Linux systems administration
- Kubernetes
- Observability
- Mobile IOS
- Docker
- Containerization/virtualization
- CI/CD
- Bash
- NodeJS
- Terraform
- SCA / DAST Scanning
Certification
- [Mirantis Certified Administrator for OpenStack] 2015
Timeline
Manager, Lead DevOps and Security/IT
Wonderschool
10.2022 - Current
Lead Manager DevOps
Alogent
03.2020 - 10.2022
Senior DevOps Engineer
Terbium Labs ( Company Closed )
11.2018 - 01.2020
Senior DevSecOps Engineer
Greensky Inc
01.2017 - 11.2018
Senior Systerm Engineer DevOps
Greensky Inc
01.2017 - 05.2018
Senior Linux System Engineer
LexisNexis a Choice Point Inc
04.2014 - 01.2017
System Administrator
LexisNexis a Choice Point Inc
05.2012 - 04.2014
Unix Senior Support Engineer
LexisNexis a Choice Point Inc
05.2008 - 05.2012
UNIX Production Support Engineer
LexisNexis a Choice Point Inc
05.2007 - 05.2008
Bachelor of Science - Network and Communications Management
DeVry Institute of
Technology
Associate of Science - Computer And Information Systems Security
Georgia Military College
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