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Joe Behrens

Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Summary

As a Senior DevOps Engineer I have over 15 years of experience in designing, developing, and deploying cloud-based solutions using a wide variety tools and frameworks. My mission is to help companies adopt DevSecOps culture and processes, automate their infrastructure and application lifecycle, and improve their operational efficiency and reliability. I have successfully delivered multiple projects across different domains and platforms, such as manufacturing, oil & gas, healthcare, retail, and education, using AWS and Microsoft Azure. I am passionate about solving puzzles through code and architecture, and I am constantly learning new skills and technologies to enhance my capabilities.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior DevOps Consultant

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Professional Services
09.2019 - 07.2025
  • Provided DevOps consulting services to Amazon Web Services customers through Professional Services engagements.
  • Collaborated on stages of systems development lifecycle from requirement gathering to production releases.
  • Translated customer requirements into written use cases.
  • Offered input for complex documents to support client-ready final versions.
  • Troubleshot incidents reported by end-users to schedule system changes and identify permanent solutions.
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC) development primarily using AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) in Python and Typescript, as well as CloudFormation and Terraform.
  • Created CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline or other third party tooling (Jenkins, Team City, Azure DevOps) that will pull from source, build the application, run security scans, run unit and integration tests, and deploy the application into AWS Accounts.
  • Created custom tooling for activities such as account vending or account migration with custom front ends written in Vue or React along with API Gateway or Python Flask for back-end interface and authentication through AWS Cognito or other authentication providers (Okta, Azure AD. Ping, Auth0).
  • Created and contributed to articles and blogs that are shared within AWS and the AWS partner network.
  • Mentored junior DevOps Engineers.
  • Containerization with Docker, Finch, and Kubernetes (Amazon EKS).
  • Wrote unit, integration and acceptance tests using PyTest, Jest, JUnit, and NUnit.
  • Cost Optimization and custom reporting/alerting around cloud cost.
  • Wrote custom Jupyter Notebook extensions.
  • Created custom data visualization and augmentation dashboards using Streamlit in Snowflake.
  • Primary developer for a trivia game utilizing GenAI with Anthropic's Claude model via Bedrock and Lambda Streaming for generating questions and answers on the fly. The game was presented at Re:Invent in a floor booth with hundreds of people playing.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Medtronic
01.2019 - 09.2019
  • Write Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using modular and scalable patterns via Terraform, CloudFormation, and ARM Templates.
  • Write CI build definitions and CD deployment pipeline definitions.
  • Write automated tests against the IaC to run within the pipeline.
  • Write custom scripts in Python, PowerShell and .NET to extend automation written in IaC.
  • Managed AWS assets and integrated multiple AWS resources into solutions appropriate for company projects.
  • Developed continuous improvements and implemented solutions to existing infrastructure, tools and processes.
  • Created proofs of concept for innovative new solutions.

DevOps Manager

RBA, Inc.
05.2014 - 12.2018
  • Management of DevOps infrastructure, processes, tools, and software solutions primarily through the Microsoft stack using Visual Studio, TFS/VSTS/Azure DevOps and Azure cloud services.
  • Configuring, patching and maintaining tools and environments, including build controllers, build servers, deploy targets and configurations.
  • Onboarding new projects for continuous integration and deployment. Writing scripts and packages used to enhance DevOps capabilities and ALM maturity.
  • Approximately 50 projects have been created new or converted from manual unique deployments to consistent automated deployments.
  • Consulting with clients to help create build and deployment automation and become more mature DevOps organizations.
  • Primary cloud architect on multiple Azure PaaS deployment projects.
  • Wrote a custom portal in C# to display a list of all pull requests across all TFS projects as the default TFS portal only shows this on a project by project basis.
  • Created multiple custom TFS tasks for the TFS marketplace to add functionality that was missing from available tasks.
  • Accomplished multiple tasks within established timeframes.
  • Cross-trained existing employees to maximize team agility and performance.

Systems Administrator

Network Guidance 2.0 LLC
04.2011 - 05.2014
  • Responsible for monitoring and maintaining servers and clients for over 30 customers amounting to approximately 100 servers and 750 workstations.
  • Automated multiple customer processes and monitoring providing cost savings and peace of mind to both NG2 and the customer.
  • Installed important security and functionality patches to maintain optimal protections against intrusion and system reliability.
  • Drove continuous improvement of IT governance processes.
  • Completed reports detailing network and systems performance and downtime issues.
  • Worked with users to determine areas of technology in need of improved usability.
  • Identified and resolved network congestion issues and bottlenecks.
  • Led server infrastructure development, quality assurance, staging and production systems.
  • Monitored networks and network devices to resolve technical problems quickly.

Education

Master of Software Engineering -

North Dakota State University
01.2019

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

Western Governors University
01.2017

Nanodegree - Full Stack Web Developer

Udacity

Computer Science

Loyola Marymount University

Skills

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Scripting languages (Bash, PowerShell, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript)
  • Release management
  • System administration
  • Version control systems
  • Continuous integration
  • Virtualization technologies
  • Containerization technologies
  • Agile development methodologies
  • Technical design documentation
  • Cybersecurity best practices
  • Full-stack development

Certification

  • Amazon Web Services Security Specialty
  • Amazon Web Services Developer - Associate
  • Amazon Web Services SysOps Administrator - Associate
  • Amazon Web Services DevOps Engineer - Professional
  • CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
  • Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect - Associate
  • Sitecore Certified Platform Associate Developer
  • Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE): Cloud Platform and Infrastructure

Awards

  • International Honour Society; Sep 2018, North Dakota State University,
  • Star of Excellence; Feb 2016, RBA, Inc.

Timeline

Senior DevOps Consultant

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Professional Services
09.2019 - 07.2025

Senior DevOps Engineer

Medtronic
01.2019 - 09.2019

DevOps Manager

RBA, Inc.
05.2014 - 12.2018

Systems Administrator

Network Guidance 2.0 LLC
04.2011 - 05.2014

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

Western Governors University

Nanodegree - Full Stack Web Developer

Udacity

Master of Software Engineering -

North Dakota State University

Computer Science

Loyola Marymount University

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