Vann Parker
Willow Grove,PA
Summary
Dynamic Site Reliability Engineer with a proven track record at Coalfire, excelling in AWS services and incident response. Spearheaded security enhancements and automated CI/CD pipelines, significantly improving system reliability and compliance. Passionate about leveraging cloud technologies and fostering team collaboration to drive innovative solutions.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER
Coalfire
03.2024 - Current
- Assisted Advisory clients in maintaining government-facing cloud applications through regular maintenance of cloud instances, RDS databases, and AWS networking services, ensuring optimal performance and compliance.
- Analyzed server logs and service metrics to identify potential problems in production environments in RHEL, Ubuntu, Splunk, and CloudWatch.
- Conducted root cause analysis of system outages or performance degradation incidents.
- Led security vulnerability scanning and remediated vulnerabilities, enhancing system security and compliance posture.
- Supported FedRAMP audits by collecting evidence and interpreting security guidelines, facilitating successful audit outcomes.
- Built Client AMIs using Packer and deployed new infrastructure via Terraform.
- Assisted in the creation and testing of new Ansible roles and playbooks for automation of security based benchmarks, server patches.
DEVOPS ENGINEER
Penn Mutual
07.2022 - 12.2023
- Deployed cloud resources using CloudFormation/Formica, enhancing infrastructure with EC2, S3, Route53, ACM, and RDS.
- Automated operational tasks, including testing and renewing expiring SSL certificates, improving security compliance.
- Maintained and monitored Atlassian Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket applications, ensuring optimal performance and user accessibility.
SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER II
Business Insider
07.2021 - 07.2022
- Develop automated responses/remediation and address the underlying issues that generate alerts.
- Design and implement monitoring infrastructure.
- Expanded observability, enhancing decision making and minimizing time to resolution.
- Work towards the continual improvement of systems performance, reliability, and compliance.
- Created, maintained, and improved CI/CD pipelines, facilitating efficient deployment processes.
- Developed, tested, and debugged automation tooling and code, streamlining manual processes.
- Enhanced process documentation by clarifying steps and guidelines.
- Work with development for containerization and container orchestration Incident response handling and root cause analysis.
CLOUD ENGINEER
NewRez LLC
12.2020 - 07.2021
- Established secure cloud environments to protect sensitive data and maintain service integrity.
- Developed and implemented cloud service policies to ensure compliance and security.
- Managed technology requests to align with cloud infrastructure needs.
- Monitored service availability to ensure consistency and reliability.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
David's Bridal
08.2020 - 12.2020
- Created and maintained CDCI pipelines for product teams, streamlining deployment processes.
- Developed and maintained infrastructure using Terraform to support scalable deployments.
- Acted as point of contact for all production infrastructure incidents, facilitating timely resolution and communication.
- Helped to ensure quality, velocity, and adherence to architectural designs and the software engineering standards of the company.
- Resolved technical issues on a timely basis to help ensure the continuous productivity of the team.
- Work closely with the Product owner and/or business liaison on the team to understand all functional requirements and help to ensure that your work meets the customer and business objectives of the project.
DEVOPS ENGINEER
Modis/UnitedHealth Group
Horsham, USA
02.2020 - 07.2020
- Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines for .net, SQL Server, and Windows, streamlining deployment processes.
- Collaborated with software engineering and infrastructure teams to automate workflows, enhancing team autonomy.
- Work within Agile scrum teams for troubleshooting application issues.
DEVSECOPS ENGINEER
Infinite Blue
Collegeville, USA
10.2019 - 02.2020
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and processes.
- Design and implement build, deployment, and configuration management.
- Define and implement security standards.
- Developed automation tools that streamlined support processes, reducing response times.
- Monitored system metrics to identify trends, informing proactive adjustments to system performance.
- Performed root cause analysis to resolve issues in production systems, enhancing reliability.
ASSOCIATE ENGINEER
David's Bridal
Conshohocken, USA
08.2018 - 10.2019
- Created and maintained infrastructure using Terraform to support scalable and reliable deployments.
- Creation and maintenance of CDCI Pipelines for Product teams.
- Ensured quality and adherence to architectural designs and software engineering standards to meet project objectives.
- Work closely with the Product owner and/or business liaison on the team to understand all functional requirements and help to ensure that work meets the customer and business objectives of the project.
- Act as the point of contact for all production infrastructure incidents and events.
- Resolved technical issues promptly to maintain continuous productivity of the team.
Education
Some College (No Degree) - Information Technology
Southern New Hampshire University
OnlineSkills
- AWS Services
- Azure Services
- GCP
- Kubernetes
- EKS
- Docker
- Packer
- Git
- GitHub Actions
- Jenkins
- Terraform
- Dynatrace
- Monitoring
- Prometheus
- Splunk
- HashiCorp Vault
- Jaeger
- Flux CD
- Bash
- PowerShell
- Database
- MongoDB
- MySQL
- MS SQL
- Oracle
- Incident response
- Disaster recovery
- Containers
- Jira
- Incident response
- Disaster recovery
- CI/CD pipelines
- IBM WebSphere
Certification
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer, 10/04/24
Timeline
SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER
Coalfire
03.2024 - Current
DEVOPS ENGINEER
Penn Mutual
07.2022 - 12.2023
SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER II
Business Insider
07.2021 - 07.2022
CLOUD ENGINEER
NewRez LLC
12.2020 - 07.2021
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
David's Bridal
08.2020 - 12.2020
DEVOPS ENGINEER
Modis/UnitedHealth Group
02.2020 - 07.2020
DEVSECOPS ENGINEER
Infinite Blue
10.2019 - 02.2020
ASSOCIATE ENGINEER
David's Bridal
08.2018 - 10.2019
Some College (No Degree) - Information Technology
Southern New Hampshire University