Justin Jennings
DevOps Engineer
Savannah,TN
Summary
Highly motivated, driven, and detail-oriented DevOps engineer with both private and government experience, who is seeking a dynamic and rewarding remote or onsite position to lend technical skills to help build, support, and maximize a successful organization's critical cloud and on-premises infrastructure, DevOps, and reliability practices.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
Work History
DevOps Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton, BAH
Remote, Remote
03.2023 - Current
- Worked with cross-functional design teams to create software solutions that improved overall functionality and performance.
- Monitored automated build and continuous software integration process to drive build/release failure resolution.
- Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.
- Implemented best practices to protect data and assets.
- Collaborated with team to analyze system solutions based on client requirements.
- Established course of action and led efforts for monitoring software transition from Datadog/New Relic to Dynatrace
- Utilized various tools and platforms, including Jenkins, GitHub, Terraform, Docker and others to maintain CI/CD pipelines
DevOps Engineer Intern
Idevopsio
Remote, Remote
08.2021 - 03.2023
- Mentored DevOps interns on creation and use of Kubernetes manifests for multiple technologies within both AWS and Azure.
- Modified Kubernetes GitHub Action build & deployment pipelines to load pipeline variables as environment variables from JSON metadata file.
- Added persistent storage for: Nifi, MongoDB, Nginx, OrientDB, and Tomcat Kubernetes deployments.
- Troubleshoot, diagnosed and resolved Kubernetes deployment errors and issues both in pipelines and in deployments; leading to successful application deployments.
- Configured and setup Azure backend to integrate with templated Terraform deployment pipeline, which deploys templates form folder-catalog structure.
- Designed, built, and validated several GitHub actions Kubernetes Build and Deploy Pipelines including: Nifi, Tomcat, CouchDB, RabbitMQ, Redis, Neo4j, and OrientDB .
- Built IAC using Terraform to deploy: QuickSight, MemoryDB, Neptune, Azure Storage Container, Redshift, Elasticsearch, EKS, Elasticache, Azure PostgresSQL, Azure Containers, Azure Redis, and AKS in both Azure and AWS.
- Created bash script to audit Kubernetes pods for liveness probes and report which pods in which namespace had probes in their spec.
- Created bash script to audit Kubernetes pods for readiness probes and report which pods in which namespace had probes in their spec.
- Created bash script to audit Kubernetes pods for resources requests and report which pods in which namespace had requests in their spec.
- Created bash script to audit Kubernetes pods for resources limits and report which pods in which namespace had limits in their spec.
- Created python script to produce audit report of Kubernetes pod report of if liveness and readiness probes are enabled.
- Created python script to produce audit report of Kubernetes pod report of if resource requests and limit are enabled.
Process Leader
Kimberly-Clark
Corinth, MS
03.2015 - 03.2023
- Led troubleshooting efforts to maintain efficient operations, including various computer and mechanical systems. This increased uptime and efficiency by close to 20%. Liaised with other technicians and engineers to define process and device performance targets. Trained operators on process and proper procedures of operation.
- Observed safety practices and upheld standards
- Supervised manufacturing process of many different meltblown products, including absorbent mats, wiper-grade material, and face mask filter media.
- Scheduled appropriate number of employees to complete production line tasks
- Read worker logs, product processing sheets or specification sheets to verify records adhered to quality assurance specifications
- Developed and enhanced personnel work instructions to clear up confusion and boost performance
- Observed safety practices and upheld standards.
- Inspected products and machines to maintain quality and efficiency
Instructor Sensor Operator
United States Air Force, USAF
Holloman Air Force Base, NM
11.2008 - 09.2014
- Performed pre-flight and post flight aircraft and sensor inspections.
- Obtained 2000+ combat flight hours in both MQ-1 and MQ-9 air frames.
- Operated infrared and low light television sensor systems and illuminating equipment.
- Assembled target information and hostile defense locations to plan for missions.
- Identified issues with sensor equipment and conducted troubleshooting methods for resolution.
- Met with other crew members to plan missions prior to flight and review results following completion.
- Photographed specific areas of interest for intelligence purposes.
- Practiced and drilled for numerous wartime and peacetime emergency situations requiring rapid response.
- Instructed students on various systems in aircraft and tactics, techniques, and procedures for accomplishing mission goals.
- Identified issues with sensor equipment and conducted troubleshooting methods for resolution
Education
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
University of Massachusetts - Lowell
Lowell, MA 03.2019 - 05.2020
Bachelor of Arts - Liberal Arts And General Studies
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 05.2016 - 05.2018
Skills
Terraform
Python
AWS
Git
Jenkins
Linux
Kubernetes
Github Actions
Ansible
Docker
Troubleshooting
Mentoring
Linux Administration
Project planning
Meeting participation
Developer collaboration
Effective communication
Solutions deployment
Agile
Timeline
DevOps Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton, BAH
03.2023 - Current
DevOps Engineer Intern
Idevopsio
08.2021 - 03.2023
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
University of Massachusetts - Lowell
03.2019 - 05.2020
Bachelor of Arts - Liberal Arts And General Studies
Arizona State University
05.2016 - 05.2018
Process Leader
Kimberly-Clark
03.2015 - 03.2023
Instructor Sensor Operator
United States Air Force, USAF
11.2008 - 09.2014