Zack Hall
Kent,WA
Summary
Reliable and versatile DevOps Engineer with experience in Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps ideologies and multiple languages. Self-motivated learner who is always willing to learn new skills to help the team. Skilled and passionate about making processes and work easier through automation.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
DevOps Engineer 3
Costco Wholesale
10.2022 - Current
- Lead Engineer on Enterprise Refunds related projects. This includes implementing a Blue-Green deployment strategy, migrations and replacing the existing application with a modernized version.
- Designed and wrote a pipeline for creating infrastructure and maintaining state using Terraform in Azure DevOps.
- Created an automated solution for deploying and configuring a containerized monitoring solution for all Costco warehouses.
- Led efforts on onboarding all Point of Sale teams to the same version control system.
- Mentor second level and team members on IaC and other best practices around automation.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
LexisNexis
01.2022 - 10.2022
- Supported and enhanced team owned services (Terraform Enterprise and HashiCorp Vault).
- Maintained Terraform modules that were used across the enterprise by multiple business units.
- Served as a point of contact for code reviews and approving pull requests.
- Maintained a JIRA ticket queue for daily support requests.
- Wrote and applied infrastructure code to add Datadog monitoring and alerting to our existing team supported infrastructure.
- Designed and implemented an application to handle alerting when elevated permission exceptions are obtained by users.
- Redesigned AWS account creation from manual to automated process.
- Implemented a knowledge base/documentation site for our internal team leveraging Microsoft Sites.
Software Developer 2
Costco
09.2019 - 01.2022
- Deployed one of the first production applications utilizing Azure at Costco (Enterprise Refunds).
- Developed interfaces using Java to integrate cash recycler transactions into warehouse transaction log.
- Wrote and tested multiple scripts using PowerShell or Python to aid in software updates, installs or compliance reporting.
- Leverage existing databases to reduce the amount of manual tasks for team members.
Functional Analyst 1
Costco
01.2019 - 09.2019
- Responsible for planning, testing and implementing automation solutions using PowerShell throughout Point of Sale.
- Led development of automating PCI/SOX compliance reporting.
- Designed and overhauled second level support team's daily audit process to become almost entirely automated. This effort saved the team around 3 hours per day.
- Performed root cause analysis to determine issues affecting POS devices or infrastructure.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Business Administration - Information Systems
California State University - Fullerton
Fullerton, CA05.2017
Skills
- Azure DevOps
- Linux
- Windows/Windows Server
- Azure
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Helm
- PowerShell
- Python
- Bash
Timeline
DevOps Engineer 3
Costco Wholesale
10.2022 - Current
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
LexisNexis
01.2022 - 10.2022
Software Developer 2
Costco
09.2019 - 01.2022
Functional Analyst 1
Costco
01.2019 - 09.2019
Bachelor of Arts - Business Administration - Information Systems
California State University - Fullerton
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