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Ionela Petrea

Ionela Petrea

Chicago,IL

Summary

With over 5 years of experience as a DevOps professional, I have developed a deep understanding of AWS and a passion for automating CI/CD pipelines. My expertise includes designing and managing infrastructure with Terraform and deploying and configuring AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, and Lambda. I am committed to ongoing learning and development and thrive in collaborative environments where I can work with developers and stakeholders to deliver high- quality applications.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

System Engineer

Basis Technologies
Chicago, ILLINOIS
11.2023 - 06.2024
  • Applied Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles to deploy, monitor, and optimize the performance of Kubernetes clusters, resulting in a 20% reduction in provisioning time
  • Deployed AWS instances using Terraform, reducing provisioning time for seamless applications management across multiple environments
  • Automated the creation of IAM resources (ex
  • Users, roles, policies) using Terraform, leading to a decrease in onboarding time and eliminating manual errors
  • Established AWS S3 Lifecycle management strategies and enforced precise retention policies, resulting in a notable 15% decrease in costs
  • Improved monitoring with Grafana and Prometheus achieving a 99.9% uptime rate
  • Oversaw CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, resulting in a 30% increase in deployment quality and speed
  • Implemented a disaster recovery strategy with AWS Backup, enhancing system resilience by lowering recovery time (RTO) and recovery point (RPO) objectives, minimizing data loss and downtime during failures
  • Implemented automation strategies using Salt Stack to orchestrate configuration management, software deployment, and system monitoring, optimizing efficiency and reducing manual intervention by 50%
  • Engaged in on-call shifts, responding to incidents promptly, troubleshooting issues, and maintaining system availability and performance to meet service level objectives and ensure customer satisfaction

DevOps Engineer

Change Healthcare
Chicago, ILLINOIS
11.2019 - 09.2023
  • Set and configured Prometheus and Grafana to collect and visualize metrics in Kubernetes cluster
  • Created and maintained automated CI/CD pipelines for deployment using Jenkins while automating the deployment process, reducing manual work by 75%
  • Managed local deployments in Kubernetes, created local clusters and application deployments into containers for testing environment
  • Created Terraform modules for automating the provisioning of our infrastructure, reducing MTTR substantially
  • Configurated security measures, including IAM roles, security groups, and encryption, to protect sensitive data, maintaining a robust security posture across all infrastructure components
  • Integrated DevOps practices using Jenkins to automate build, test, and deployment processes, streamlining development workflows and increasing deployment frequency
  • Orchestrated containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes, ensuring scalability, and fault tolerance, reducing deployment time
  • Established robust monitoring solutions using CloudWatch and CloudTrail to maintain system visibility and performance optimization
  • Participated in the migration of the data from on-premises to the AWS cloud platform
  • Secure data using AWS Key Management Service (KMS) and manage credentials with AWS Secrets Manager

Education

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration

DeVry University
Chicago
02.2019

Skills

  • Cloud & Architecture: AWS, Serverless, Microservice
  • Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS EKS, AWS ECR
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation
  • CI/CD: Jenkins
  • Configuration Management: Salt, Helm, Ansible
  • Code Management: Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
  • Monitoring & Logging: Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, EFK, AWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Zabbix
  • Security: Cloud Security, Fault Tolerance (FT), Disaster Recovery (DR), SSL/TLS, WAF, AWS CM
  • Networking: TCP/IP, UDP, VPN, SSH, DNS
  • Scripting: Bash, Python
  • Project Management Frameworks: SDLC, Agile, Jira, Kanban, Confluence, Trello

Certification

  • Terraform Associate (003) June 2023
  • Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) December2022
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA) September 2022

Timeline

System Engineer

Basis Technologies
11.2023 - 06.2024

DevOps Engineer

Change Healthcare
11.2019 - 09.2023

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration

DeVry University
Ionela Petrea