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Jay Clark

Senior Technical Lead, DevOps
Birmingham,AL

Summary

Senior DevOps engineer with a passion to optimize the Software Development Lifecycle by helping teams deliver quality code to production as efficiently as possible. Im looking to make a positive impact on my team and customers, while learning new technology and working with new people

Overview

5
5
years of post-secondary education
9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Technical Lead, DevOps

Therapy Brands
Birmingham, AL
01.2019 - Current
  • Built and Led a team of 6 DevOps Engineers that supported 18 different software teams.
  • Implemented common and extensible CI/CD pipelines using Git, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes.
  • Performed multiple colo -> cloud and cloud -> cloud migrations, while using the opportunity to implement standard DevOps practices.
  • Implemented JumpCloud SSO across the company to boost security and ease of management.
  • Responsible for architecting cloud solutions for new and existing products.
  • Implemented monitoring standards across all brands using Grafana, InfluxDB, Prometheus and Telegraf. Helped developers instrument the applications to output custom metrics.
  • Implemented centralized logging for all brands using Sumologic.
  • Implemented PaloAlto PrismaCloud to all cloud accounts to help meet healthcare industry compliance standards.
  • Led a HiTrust Certification for one of the brands.
  • Owner of 18 AWS and 4 Azure Accounts with billable assets totaling over $200k/month.

Senior DevOps Engineer

TheraNest LLC
Birmingham, AL
10.2017 - 12.2018
  • Led effort to implement a containerized and autoscaling infrastructure.
  • Implemented CI/CD Pipeline to utilize feature branch deployments.
  • Implemented Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
  • Made absolutely beautiful dashboards for the team to keep tabs on the running environments.
  • Helped build and implement E2E testing using selenium, nodejs, protractor. (mainly helped here with the automation of it running and reporting actionable results on feature branch deployments.)

DevOps Engineer

Influence Health
Birmingham, AL
01.2015 - 10.2017
  • Helped build and implement CI/CD pipelines using Teamcity and Octopus Deploy.
  • Solved complex hosting issues due to having a single-tenant application model.
  • Provided network and tier 3 support.
  • Led large effort to save cloud hosting costs totaling $250k/yr savings
  • Assisted with new client implementations and on-site installs.

Systems Administrator

Education Partners
Birmingham, AL
08.2011 - 12.2014

Education

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering

The University Of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL
08.2006 - 04.2011

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Skills

Linux/Docker/k8s

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Quote

There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.
Seth Godin

Timeline

Senior Technical Lead, DevOps

Therapy Brands
01.2019 - Current

Senior DevOps Engineer

TheraNest LLC
10.2017 - 12.2018

DevOps Engineer

Influence Health
01.2015 - 10.2017

Systems Administrator

Education Partners
08.2011 - 12.2014

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering

The University Of Alabama
08.2006 - 04.2011
Jay ClarkSenior Technical Lead, DevOps