Nathan Dow
New York,NY
Summary
Critical thinking engineer with extensive understanding of high availability architecture and concepts. A purpose-driven professional and reliable team player who works independently on multiple projects implementing customer solutions.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Consulting DevOps Engineer (Remote)
Berkley Technology Services, LLC
01.2024 - 09.2024
- Develop, document, and deliver solution for managing Terraform modules at scale
- Implement cloud security standards in Terraform using OPA and GitHub actions
- Work along-side AI engineering groups to deploy Azure AI Studio, Open AI, Search Service, and more in compliance with security standards
- Create reusable solution for restoring Splunk data from AWS S3 Glacier storage
- Deploy and manage several AKS clusters using Terraform, Helm, and GitHub Actions
- Reduce cost of ingested log data in Azure Log Analytics by ~45%
Consulting DevOps Engineer (Remote)
Lakeside Software
09.2023 - 12.2023
- Developed Terraform templates to create and manage Azure resources including App Services, Function Apps, Managed Identities, Key Vaults, and more
- Innovate Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines to deliver software quickly and effectively
- Create Powershell scripts to create and manage automated backups of vSphere virtual machines and deploy legacy C# software
- Document created software and processes for future teams
Lead DevOps Engineer (Remote)
CreateMe Technologies
10.2020 - 09.2023
- Developed pipelines and practices to manage Azure infrastructure as code using ARM and Bicep templates
- Drafted and updated operations and maintenance documentation to correspond to cloud assets within overseen architecture
- Led team of five engineers AWS EKS and Azure AKS, to GCP GKE migration for production services with minimal downtime
- Reduced cloud spending by 65% while maintaining system uptime
- Monitored automated build and continuous software integration process to drive build/release failure resolution
- Developed testing and deployment pipelines in Azure DevOps that could be easily applied to any project with minimal effort
- Migrated Azure App Services to Kubernetes including infrastructure integrations with API Management, Key Vault, Storage Accounts, and more
- Ensured system uptime using scalability best practices of Kubernetes deployments as well as GKE autoscaling features
Consulting Engineer (Remote)
CloudBolt Software Inc.
09.2018 - 07.2020
- Created and maintained integrations with third party products including, but not limited to, AWS, GCP, BlueCat, Puppet, Terraform,
Azure, vCenter, OpenShift, and Ansible - Develop Terraform templates and processes within CloudBolt allowing customers to manage their infrastructure while enforcing CI/CD best practices
- Work with customers to define their desired processes and procedures with the goal of automating their virtual infrastructure creation and management
- Assist customers in the process of setting up new CloudBolt instances as well as troubleshooting existing instances
- Create detailed documentation of all processes and procedures for research, new development, and
customer interactions - Plan and execute training classes to teach customers skills required to develop and administrate CloudBolt instances in their environment
- Contribute to Python code bases in GitHub following all development processes and guidelines
Senior DevOps Engineer (Hybrid)
Watermark Insights
11.2014 - 04.2018
- Introduce and develop docker containers to software teams to solve scalability issues
- Create, maintain and optimize fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using Jenkins, Octopus Deploy, Shell and Powershell
- Create, implement, test and maintain modules and manifests within organizations Puppet code base to manage virtual infrastructure
- Implement Kubernetes as a service mesh container solution
- Directed onsite training for users to maximize productivity and introduce new technologies such as Docker, Jenkins, Git, AWS, and more.
- Consistently maintain PCI compliance across all existing physical and virtual architecture
Applications Engineer
American Axle and Manufacturing
10.2012 - 10.2014
- Utilize Microsoft SCCM, Windows Batch, and Visual Basic to silently deploy software while minimizing client downtime and network bandwidth usage
- Configure, manage and report on global license servers by writing C, Shell, Visual Basic and Windows Batch scripts
- Respond to customer requests via telephone, email and tickets
Education
Associate of Applied Science - Computer Programming
Monroe County Community College
Monroe, MISkills
- Kubernetes
- Bash/Shell Scripting
- Python
- Networking
- Project Management
- Infrastructure as Code
- Software Containerization
- Cloud Management (Azure & AWS)
- Web Server Management
Specific Technologies
Active Directory/LDAP, Terraform, Ansible, AWS, Azure, Bash, C#, CentOS, C/C++, Docker, Elasticsearch, GCP, Git, Gitlab CI, IIS, Jenkins, Kibana, Kubernetes, Linux, Logstash, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft SQL Server, Nagios, NginX, NodeJS, NPM, PostgreSQL, Powershell, Python, SAML, Shell scripting, SQL, SSH, Ubuntu, VIM, Windows
Timeline
Consulting DevOps Engineer (Remote)
Berkley Technology Services, LLC
01.2024 - 09.2024
Consulting DevOps Engineer (Remote)
Lakeside Software
09.2023 - 12.2023
Lead DevOps Engineer (Remote)
CreateMe Technologies
10.2020 - 09.2023
Consulting Engineer (Remote)
CloudBolt Software Inc.
09.2018 - 07.2020
Senior DevOps Engineer (Hybrid)
Watermark Insights
11.2014 - 04.2018
Applications Engineer
American Axle and Manufacturing
10.2012 - 10.2014
Associate of Applied Science - Computer Programming
Monroe County Community College
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