Ed Arias
Sr. DevSecOps Engineer
Timberlake,NC
Summary
DevSecOps-minded engineer seeking a challenging role delivering software solutions via automation, and improving processes while enabling team growth.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certificates
Work History
Sr. DevSecOps Engineer
RMS Computer Corp
Remote, NC
05.2021 - Current
- Responsible for overall reliability/availability of Boeing's CI/CD tool-chain apps.
- Provision server hardware and support upgrades of COTS as well as support planned maintenance.
Manage application certificates and application F5 load balancing group. - Responsible for application CVE mitigation, system architecture, maintaining disaster recovery plans and joining table top exercises.
- Manage capacity and performance to scale infrastructure to meet demand.
- Triage and resolve issues within several production and testing environments.
- Maintain infrastructure, alerting, and monitoring via Splunk and Nagios.
- Collaborate with stakeholders and product owners around workflow impediments.
DevSecOps Engineer III
Technica Corp
Remote, TX
11.2019 - 05.2021
- Kubernetes Application Team lead; responsible for container image updates, testing and applying patches to deployed K8s workloads.
- Responsible for maintenance and optimization of GitLab CI/CD pipelines to run 20% faster with less stages.
- Maintain Development/Test VMs on VSphere/ESXi hosts.
- Established system-wide Prometheus observability stack for team and stakeholder use (Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana, Promtail) to simplify system metrics and overcome production issues.
Kubernetes Application Engineer
Mission Services Inc.
San Antonio, Texas
12.2018 - 11.2019
- Led field support for 100+ USAF cyber operator units' on-premise Kubernetes apps.
- Troubleshoot and configure ESXi hosts which host K8s application.
- Performed troubleshooting of erratic system behaviors and configurations on Elastic (ELK) pipeline, Docker image quirks.
- Provided troubleshooting of Ansible playbooks and Kubernetes deployments/statefulsets.
Lead Linux / Windows Engineer
Mission Services Inc
San Antonio, TX
12.2018 - 11.2019
- Led support team servicing 100+ USAF operator units using on-premise Kubernetes apps.
- SME to cyber operators and staying abreast of current trends relating to supported product stack.
- Developed runbook to troubleshoot VMWare ESXi deployment issues.
- Managed cross-functional team through all stages of the SDLC.
- Stood up ServiceNow ITSM framework for USAF.
Lead System Administrator
ECS Federal
San Antonio, TX
12.2017 - 12.2018
- Supervised overall Pacific-region activities for US Defense Health Agency (DHA) Medical Health System project; respond to outages, service degradation.
- Provided managed Tier 3 Print and DHCP services for 16 DoD hospital sites using VMWare VCenter to provision hosts in data center and SCCM to manage patching and maintenance.
- Created automated security SCAP scans and remediated discrepancies with PowerShell scripts.
- Automated reporting of server on-boarding process.
- Created scripts where none are available to reduce administrative overhead.
Systems Administrator
Data Systems Analysts Inc.
Randolph AFB, TX
10.2015 - 12.2017
- Provided technical systems support for 83 remote DoD installations worldwide; 24/7/365 operating production environment.
- Maintained and upgraded application servers hosted onsite within Randolph AFB data center.
- Developed runbook to isolate root cause of technical issues (software bugs, errors, and data integrity) on production and test databases; offer workarounds and/or alternatives.
System Administrator 2
Northrop Grumman
Randolph AFB, TX
03.2014 - 10.2015
- Managed 22 on-site servers running Windows Server 2003 and / or 2008R2, and utilized SQL to update and query information from TIMS (Training Integration Management System) database.
- Support planned maintenance of application servers, coordinate with Randolph AFB data center admins for access and rack allocation.
- Training Management System POC; ensuring aircrew and instructors are able to access training DB resources.
- Resolved urgent client issues on production and testing databases.
Data Center Operations Technician
Atos IT Services
San Antonio, TX
06.2012 - 03.2014
- Managed and installed shelves, power strips, rails, servers, switches and other equipment.
- Troubleshot, repaired, and modified broken and malfunctioning IT equipment.
- Maintained SLA throughout issues and tracked projects via Jira.
- Collaborated with software and network engineering teams on supporting Cisco routers, switches, and fibre infrastructure.
- Upgraded internal system components, including CPUs, memory, hard drives, and network cables.
Education
Associate of Arts - Economics
St Philips College
San Antonio, TX 03.2010 - 06.2012
Skills
Active US Clearance
Timeline
CompTIA Security+
07-2023
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
05-2023
Sr. DevSecOps Engineer
RMS Computer Corp
05.2021 - Current
DevSecOps Engineer III
Technica Corp
11.2019 - 05.2021
Kubernetes Application Engineer
Mission Services Inc.
12.2018 - 11.2019
Lead Linux / Windows Engineer
Mission Services Inc
12.2018 - 11.2019
Lead System Administrator
ECS Federal
12.2017 - 12.2018
Systems Administrator
Data Systems Analysts Inc.
10.2015 - 12.2017
System Administrator 2
Northrop Grumman
03.2014 - 10.2015
Data Center Operations Technician
Atos IT Services
06.2012 - 03.2014
Associate of Arts - Economics
St Philips College
03.2010 - 06.2012
Certification
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Accomplishments
- 2023 - AzureDevOps K8s pipeline project for Atlassian Apps.
- 2022 - Implemented Ansible playbooks to ensure automated Bitbucket upgrades.
- 2022 - Automated multi-environment Artifactory upgrade from v6.10 to v7.31.13.
- 2021 - Developed a dynamic multi-node performance monitoring solution using Ansible roles.