Dwan Bryant
DevOps (Top Secret Clearance)
McDonough
Summary
Critical thinking DevOps Engineer with extensive understanding of high availability architecture and concepts. Purpose-driven professional with capacity to be strong team player plus work effectively independently.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certifications
Work History
DevOps Engineer
ARM Consulting
Leesburg
12.2022 - Current
- Established CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins with automated testing and deployment. - Wrote shell scripts for various automation tasks.
- Setup monitoring and logging solutions using Prometheus, Grffana, Cloudwatch.
- Automated deployment and configuration processes using Ansible and Terraform for IaC
- Leveraged AWS services including ELB, EC2, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, AKS, ECS, Lambda, Auto Scaling, Route 53, VPC, CloudFront, and CloudTrail to create a highly available and fault-tolerant infrastructure.
DevOps Engineer
ProNet
Sugar Land
11.2021 - 12.2022
- Successfully completed On-premises to the AWS Cloud migration , leveraging key tools like EC2, ELB, IAM, GIT, Maven, and Jenkins
- Proactively leveraged Terraform, Ansible, SonarQube to deploy the updated infrastructure, enhancing security and performance.
- Transformed application scalability by migrating it to Kubernetes (EKS) and set up high availability.
Junior DevOps Engineer
22nd Century Technology
Smyrna
09.2021 - 03.2022
- Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, reducing deployment time and ensuring smoother software releases.
- Managed and optimized AWS infrastructure for high availability and reliability, utilizing services like EC2, S3, and RDS.
- Utilized AWS CloudWatch for monitoring, setting up alerts for abnormal activities, and quickly resolving issues to maintain system performance and availability.
- Implemented and maintained CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions, automating code integration and deployment processes,
Linux Administrator/Jr. DevOps Engineer
SMS Datagroup
Montgomery
12.2020 - 09.2021
- Streamlined server provisioning by using Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Ansible for configuration management.
- Optimized issue identification and resolution while elevating application reliability through proactive monitoring and alerting resulting in boosted system uptime by 40%
- Automated routine operational tasks using AWS Lambda and Python, reducing manual intervention by 40%.
- Actively engaged in professional development, completing courses in Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS to stay current with industry best practices.
Education
Computer Science
01.2005 - 04.2007
Diploma - undefined
01.1999 - 04.2003
Skills
Jenkins
Additional Information
- (Top Secret Clearance)
PROJECT
- Migration of .NET and Java Applications to AKS
Description: This project main goal is to containerize the Java and Angular applications, and migrate them to production Kubernetes cluster. This project involved dealing with stakeholders and leads from different teams, architect a design strategy to reuse components used by different teams and applications.
Responsibilities: Project Lead
Technologies Used: Docker,Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitLab
- Ansible Automation
Description: This project main goal is automate Rancher Kubernetes setup process, Docker Installations, user creation
Responsibilities: Individual contributor involved in POC'S and R&D
Technologies Used: Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher, RKE, Ansible
- Cloud CICD DevOps Migration
Description: Assisting in the migration of applications to the cloud by designing and implementing cloud-native CI/CD pipelines.
Responsibilities: Individual contributor in performing R&D and POC's. Contributing to cost estimates related to DevOps activities during migration planning and implementation
Technologies Used: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, Github, EKS, ECS, Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda
- Infrastructure automation using CICD - DevOps
Description: Designing and implementing automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration using tools like Ansible, Terraform, and Cloud-specific CLIs. Responsibilities: Individual contributor in performing R&D and POC's. Creating scalable and highly available application solutions on cloud platforms like AWS, Azure using infrastructure-as-code practices.
Technologies Used: AWS, Azure, Terraform, Cloudformation
Certification
CCNA
Timeline
DevOps Engineer - ARM Consulting
12.2022 - Current
DevOps Engineer - ProNet
11.2021 - 12.2022
Junior DevOps Engineer - 22nd Century Technology
09.2021 - 03.2022
Linux Administrator/Jr. DevOps Engineer - SMS Datagroup
12.2020 - 09.2021
Georgia Perimeter College - , Computer Science
01.2005 - 04.2007
Stephenson High School - Diploma,
01.1999 - 04.2003
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