Joel Woodbury
Lehi,UT
Summary
Results-driven Site Reliability Engineer with a robust background in diverse business-to-business sectors, including medical services, insurance, higher education, and investment management. Proficient in navigating complex ecosystems, particularly in Linux and public cloud environments such as AWS. Demonstrated expertise in CI/CD systems and deployment processes, with a strong commitment to coaching engineers on application readiness for production, ensuring successful deployments and effective disaster recovery and rollback procedures. Passionate about enhancing operational efficiency and reliability through innovative solutions and collaborative teamwork.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Aumni - JPMorgan Chase
06.2022 - Current
- Helped Aumni platform as it grew until we were acquired by JPMorgan Chase.
- Principal engineer for complete migration from our previous ci/cd system (Codefresh to Harness).
- Worked with Terraform and AWS to create and update infrastructure at Aumni using IAC best practices (used Atlantis for backend).
- Worked with a small team to manage all operations for the product.
- Supported everything from AWS infra, Terraform best practices, and monitoring.
- Worked with Security team to address CVE and compliance issues as they arose.
- Managed a diverse ecosystem of products/resources including ECS, RDS, Lambda, EKS, and Bedrock.
- Demonstrated new product features and functionality to project stakeholders.
Site Reliability Engineer
Kuali
05.2016 - 06.2022
- Helped to design, test, and buildout AWS infrastructure for containerized production environment.
- Wrote scripts to provision AWS resources, and monitor for problems, and cloudformation templates for repeatability.
- Used codepipeline and cloudformation to enable self service of development resources via git.
- Built Salt-Master and configured salt-cloud to provision resources.
- Wrote numerous custom exec modules in python (salt) to automate container workflows in ECS.
- Assisted with troubleshooting docker files, writing build scripts, debugging containers in production etc.
- Worked with AWS sdk and AWS CLI to automate and achieve more repeatable outcomes.
Web Operations Team Lead
Xactware
09.2015 - 05.2016
- Helped other development groups plan their migration to new datacenter resources and modernization of app process.
- Assisted with the planning of annual budgets and forecasting hardware and software requirements.
- Assisted with the decommissioning of legacy datacenters and helped to bring new sites online.
- Helped to manage the workload of other team members, and assisted with blockers.
Web Systems Engineer II
Xactware
09.2013 - 09.2015
- Wrote tooling scripts in Powershell, BASH, Ruby, and Python to make it easier to manage production applications and provide logging, or monitor critical services.
- Wrote cookbooks to manage nearly all windows production offerings in OpsCode Chef and Powershell, and used git to make all products deploy faster and more consistently. Used Pester to write tests for products to ensure deployment consistency and catch errors.
- Configured Sonatype Nexus to host repositories for development, and configured Team City to allow for continuous integration. Set up LDAP authentication and created initial groups and permissions.
- Worked with RedHat Linux and Windows Server 2012 to support java web apps running on tomcat, and .Net applications running on IIS.
- Helped to support, deploy, and manage several web applications used by major national brands to perform core business functions. Worked with strict SLAs to provide high availability and performance.
- Helped to scale our Splunk monitoring. Setup deployment servers to ease configuration management and greatly reduced the effort required to add new monitors and inputs.
Operations System Administrator II
AdvancedMD
10.2011 - 09.2013
- Worked with our Configuration Management team to make our product faster, more reliable, and easier to maintain. Worked with MSSQL to perform day to day tasks like writing basic queries to collect information a customer needed from the database, created and moved databases, added them to backup jobs etc. Worked with NetAPP filers to create/grow luns and attach them in windows using snapmanager.
- Assumed a leadership role in a major dept project to add flexible reporting to the web application. Deploying the project was a big task that involved installing and configuring a detached domain as well as SSAS, PPS, BISM, and Sharepoint servers.
- Worked with our Nagios monitoring system to implement templates which greatly improved the utility of the tool. Adding new hosts and services to monitoring went from being a 4 hour task to a 5 minute task.
- Wrote Powershell to automate repeat tasks like exports, backups, etc.
- Automated data export process to provide encrypted backups to end users.
Skills
- AWS IAM
- CodePipeline
- Cloudformation
- Codebuild
- ECS
- EKS
- ELB
- Route53
- VPC
- Elasticbeanstalk
- Build Codefresh
- Harness
- Jenkins
- CircleCi
- AWS:CodeBuild
- TeamCity
- BASH
- Ruby
- Python
- Powershell
- Node
- Automation Atlantis/Terraform
- Kubernetes
- Github Actions
- Chef
- SaltStack
- Puppet
- RunDeck
- Docker
- VMWare
- Disaster recovery
- Incident management
- System monitoring
- Containerization technologies
- Continuous deployment
- Continuous integration
- Linux administration
- Configuration management
Timeline
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Aumni - JPMorgan Chase
06.2022 - Current
Site Reliability Engineer
Kuali
05.2016 - 06.2022
Web Operations Team Lead
Xactware
09.2015 - 05.2016
Web Systems Engineer II
Xactware
09.2013 - 09.2015
Operations System Administrator II
AdvancedMD
10.2011 - 09.2013