DeMarco Wright
Washington,DC
Summary
Highly skilled Azure Cloud Engineer with a proven track record in designing, deploying, and managing Azure-based cloud solutions. Expert in ensuring high availability, performance, and scalability of cloud systems, and well-versed in IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and Azure security best practices. Experienced in collaborating with diverse teams for cloud service integration adept at troubleshooting, resource optimization, and spearheading continuous improvement and dedicated to harnessing cloud technologies for effective business transformation and growth.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Cloud Engineer
Uber
02.2016 - Current
- Established new environments within Azure DevOps for production releases tailored to specific requirements.
- Managed deployment of various components in environments including UAT, SYS, and Pre-Prod based on development team requests.
- Executed post-release tasks, including obfuscating lower environments for upcoming releases using ILM tools and shell scripts.
- Conducted daily and sprint-end deployment operations.
- Facilitated production releases for databases, deploying necessary DDL changes and data corrections.
- Addressed and resolved issues identified in post-regression testing across multiple environments.
- Configured multi-tenancy environments utilizing Yarn pools and HDFS quota for applications like Impala, Yarn, HBase, ensuring static resource partitioning.
- Implemented dynamic resource pools for Impala and Yarn applications.
- Handled cluster maintenance, including node creation and removal, using Cloudera Manager Enterprise.
- Developed Ansible scripts to automate routine operational tasks.
- Set up High Availability (HA) configurations for services such as Oozie, HDFS, Impala, Hive, and Sentry.
- Participated in daily checkpoint meetings with Scrum teams, testing teams, and the Release Manager to ensure project alignment and efficiency.
Azure Engineer
Hyatt
12.2015 - Current
- Created, updated and maintained Azure security standards and best practices across Azure domain.
- Worked with developers to integrate resources within projects using Azure and Azure DevOps.
- Maintained and built VMs and containers through Azure and Azure Kubernetes Services.
- Created, updated, and maintained dev-ops scripts to manage, distribute, and secure company data.
- Utilize Nagios Monitoring and splunk logs to troubleshoot server issues and third-party SFTP connections, and vendor system access.
- Setting up new applications in Azure DevOps for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline creation.
- Implementing tools like SonarQube in conjunction with Azure DevOps for code quality assurance, ensuring code meets Quality Gate standards before build approval.
- Handling deployment of components across various environments such as Development, QA, UAT, Staging, and Production based on requests from development teams.
- Establishing new projects in GIT, including standard branch creation and management.
- Setting up and customizing new environments as per specific requirements, along with decommissioning QA environments when necessary.
- Conducting routine deployments, including daily updates and sprint-end rollouts.
- Assisting with production releases, particularly in deploying database changes and data corrections.
- Addressing and resolving bugs found during post-regression testing in various environments.
- Participating in daily checkpoint meetings with Scrum teams, testing teams, and the Release Manager.
Senior Cloud Engineer
ORACLE
01.2011 - 12.2015
- Ensure adherence to compliance standards and best practices in cloud security. Assist in implementing security measures to protect data and applications in the Oracle Cloud environment.
- Regularly monitor Oracle Cloud environments to ensure optimal performance. Perform routine maintenance, updates, and patches to maintain system health and security.
- Resolve DB issues regarding 12c databases and 10g weblogic problems.
- Connected through Jumpbox server to VM machine to fix issues related to cloud base storage files.
- Work on IFC related issues regarding third-party connectivity.
- Utilized code and modern cloud-native deployment techniques to design, plan, and integrate cloud computing and virtualization systems.
- Participated in system development life cycle from requirements analysis through system implementation.
- Wrote and maintained custom scripts to increase system efficiency and performance time.
- Oversaw development and maintenance of organization computer systems and intranet.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Systems Security
University of Maryland - University College
Hyattsville, MD05.2014
Skills
- Azure Infrastructure Management
- Cloud Security
- DevOps Practices
- Scripting and Automation
- Database Management
- Networking
- Disaster Recovery and Backup
- Compliance and Governance
- Jenkins
- Rundeck
- Powershell
- SQL
- CyberARK
- RDP
Timeline
Cloud Engineer
Uber
02.2016 - Current
Azure Engineer
Hyatt
12.2015 - Current
Senior Cloud Engineer
ORACLE
01.2011 - 12.2015
Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Systems Security
University of Maryland - University College