Summary
Overview
Work History
Skills
Professional Development
Timeline
Generic

Jonathan Morales

Miami,Florida

Summary

Skilled Platform Engineer with over 12 years of experience in managing robust, scalable cloud-based platforms. Possess strong background in troubleshooting complex technical issues and implementing innovative solutions to optimize platform performance. Demonstrated strengths include skillful use of automation tools, solid understanding of CI/CD principles, and adeptness in a variety of programming languages. Previous work has consistently resulted in improved system efficiency and reliability.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

SR CLOUD PLATFORM ENGINEER

UKG, INC
WESTON FL
10.2022 - Current
  • Tackle and enhance bugs resolution from Kubernetes operators, controllers that are implemented for k8s.
  • Create python application that manage the user separation process from k8s namespace's with integration with Kubernetes Cronjob and Bit Bucket APIs.
  • Administer, provision, upgrade and manage capacity for a portfolio of over 200 Kubernetes clusters operating on Rancher platform on private cloud and GKE on Google Cloud that handle active production workloads for our SaaS offering
  • Actively participate in war room escalation to triage issue and engaged in on-call rotation responsibilities using PagerDuty
  • Oversee Lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters via Argo CD and helm charts to release Kubernetes upgrade via Git-ops model for both On-Prem private and Google Public cloud.
  • Conduct daily reviews of the platform uptime checks, Grafana dashboard from SLI/SLO/SLA perspective.
  • Maintain Terraform resources for Rancher Platform that support on- prem Kubernetes.
  • Collaborate with Architect team and implement a multi-phase Kubernetes ingress system switchover from Ha-proxy to an in-house solution incorporating Istio, calico and envoy load balancing with autoscaling capabilities.
  • Contribute to executing a large-scale update to support multi API version of Kubernetes version for on-prem and Google Cloud, while aligning with end-of-life cycle stipulated by Google GKE offering.
  • Developed a custom Golang application operating as a cron-job for on- demand tasks, InfluXDB custom metrics for ETCD backups from on-prem clusters.
  • Management of Rancher platform that handle the orchestration, user role and identity management, of k8s cluster from of our internal cloud (Openstack)
  • Performed root cause analysis of system failures in order to debug complex problems efficiently.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

UKG
Remote, FL
10.2018 - 10.2022
  • Lead Pivotal Cloud Foundry to Kubernetes platform for Internal time products.
  • Developed Python App for migrating Hashicorp/Vault secrets.
  • Created an automation that perform migration over 300
  • microservices application.
  • Wrote and implemented Terraform/Ansible automation for the migration of legacy application from on-prem to GCP for Windows Applications.
  • Implemented Python scripts for Rabbit API interactions, JWT token management, and monitoring with InfluxDB and Grafana.
  • Planned yearly Operation Capacity for time production applications.
  • Participate on bi-weekly rotational shift as Incident commander in order to triage issues, for different products team and services.

Skills

  • Cloud Platform: Google AWS, Azure
  • Programming: Python, Golang, Bash, PowerShell
  • Databases: Mongo DB, MySQL(Percona) , MSSQL, PostgreSQL
  • GKE, Rancher Docker, PCF(Pivotal Cloud Foundry), Packer, Vagrant, Helm
  • Network Stack: F5 Load Balancers
  • Application Performance Monitoring: Dynatrace AppMon, Data Dog
  • Operating System: Windows Server, Linux RHEL and CentOS, Amazon Linux
  • Identity Management: OKTA, Gsuite, AWS Identity, Microsoft Federation Services
  • Serverless Infrastructure: AWS Lambda
  • ArgoCD, Teamcity, GitHub-actions, Jenkins, CA Chef, GitLab, Ansible, Bitbucket, Artifactory, Terraform
  • Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow,
  • Web Technologies: Nginx, IIS, Tomcat,

Professional Development

  • Google Associate Cloud Engineer
  • AWS Certified Solution Architect
  • AWS Cloud Practitioner
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Mongo DB DBA administration and AEM administration
  • Adobe Experience Manager 6.2 Administration

Timeline

SR CLOUD PLATFORM ENGINEER

UKG, INC
10.2022 - Current

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

UKG
10.2018 - 10.2022

Similar Profiles

CREATE PROFILE
Jonathan Morales