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Merveen Martin

Merveen Martin

San Andreas,TX

Summary

Dynamic Platform & DevOps Manager with proven success, driving feature adoption and enhancing infrastructure management through Terraform Cloud and Sentinel policies. Adept in team leadership and secrets management, I excel in automating processes and improving compliance, ensuring robust and secure environments for development and operations.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

PLATFORM & DEVOPS MANAGER

LJ Teq Solutions LLC
08.2021 - Current
  • Developed strategies for driving adoption of new features within existing customer base.
  • Developed and maintained a comprehensive platform strategy, including roadmaps, product plans and customer requirements.
  • Led a Team and monitored the infrastructure using HCP Terraform Cloud, including modular workspace management and reusable IaC patterns.
  • Designed Sentinel policies in HCL to enforce provisioning and security compliance across environments.
  • Provisioned and managed Terraform projects and workspaces, automating infrastructure lifecycles and access policies.
  • Resolved state drift and imported legacy infrastructure into Terraform using terraform import, improving audit and tracking.
  • Designed and implemented HCP Vault integrations for dynamic credential management.
  • Azure Role-based short-lived credentials.
  • GitHub Ephemeral access tokens for secure automation.
  • SQL Server Time-bound database credentials.
  • Designed and implemented PagerDuty call out procedure.
  • Integrated PagerDuty via SAML, MS Teams, and automated alert escalations.
  • Created major incident workflows, onboarding processes, and all resources were Terraformed for repeatability.

Devops Automation Engineer

Rackspace Managed Hosting
02.2015 - 08.2021

Kubernetes:

  • Supported and maintained Kubernetes clusters for development and QA teams.
  • Troubleshot runtime issues, scaling problems, and ensured service uptime for dev/test environments.
  • Assisted in onboarding and tooling for containerized deployments.

ServiceNow Developer:

  • Developed and customized ServiceNow workflows, modules, and user-facing features to support internal operations and client support.
  • Certified ServiceNow Administrator; managed platform governance and upgrades.

Software Development Engineer in Test:

  • Served concurrently as a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET):
  • Developed end-to-end test automation using Java, Selenium, Serenity, and Python/Ruby scripts.
  • Integrated testing with CI/CD pipelines, improving deployment quality and reducing defect leakage.

Education

Master of Computer Applications -

University of Madras

Skills

  • Team leadership
  • Team collaboration
  • Quality control management
  • IaC & Policy-as-Code
  • Terraform Cloud
  • HashiCorp Vault
  • Sentinel
  • HCL (HashiCorp Configuration Language)
  • Secrets Management
  • PowerShell Scripting
  • Azure
  • AWS (Basic)
  • GitHub Actions
  • Kubernetes
  • Jenkins
  • ServiceNow Development
  • Java
  • Python

Certification

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate 003

HashiCorp Certified: Vault Associate 003

Certified ServiceNow Administrator

Azure Fundamentals

Timeline

PLATFORM & DEVOPS MANAGER

LJ Teq Solutions LLC
08.2021 - Current

Devops Automation Engineer

Rackspace Managed Hosting
02.2015 - 08.2021

Master of Computer Applications -

University of Madras
Merveen Martin