Senior Solutions Architect + DevSecOps Tech Lead

Washington DC Metro | TS/SCI CI Poly | DoD 8570/8140 Compliant

>> BLUF
>> CORE COMPETENCIES
DevSecOps & CI/CD [█████████░] 95%
Crisis & Outage Management [█████████░] 95%
Technical Leadership [█████████░] 92%
IL5 / IL6 / JWICS [█████████░] 92%
Linux Administration [█████████░] 90%
Container Orchestration [████████░░] 88%
Jenkins & GitLab CI Pipelines [████████░░] 88%
Cloud Infrastructure [████████░░] 85%
Infrastructure as Code [████████░░] 85%
STIG / ATO Compliance [████████░░] 85%
AWS GovCloud / C2S / SC2S [████████░░] 85%
Python / Bash / Groovy [███████░░░] 80%
>> RECENT EXPERIENCE
OCT 2024 - PRESENT SENIOR SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT / TECH LEAD
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• Technical lead for a flagship agency modernization program across IL5, IL6, and JWICS serving 1,000+ users
• Drove enterprise-wide migration from Atlassian to GitLab across dozens of mission teams
• Designed cloud-hosted Linux workstation capability for air-gapped multi-domain environments
• Architected CI/CD and GitOps pipelines aligned to Continuous ATO requirements
• Final escalation point for critical production incidents across all three classification domains
MAR 2024 - OCT 2024 SENIOR DEVOPS ENGINEER
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• Consolidated 7 Jenkins jobs into a single pipeline, cutting cross-domain deployment time from 90 minutes to under 5
• Researched and mitigated 200+ STIG findings across 9 services in direct support of a federal ATO
• Served as primary OpenShift SME across 5 teams and 10 active defense projects
• Standardized containerization by consolidating 15 Dockerfiles into a single file per service
• Authored DevOps documentation adopted as the authoritative reference across multiple teams
JUN 2021 - NOV 2023 SENIOR DEVOPS ENGINEER
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• Sole DevOps engineer supporting six cross-functional teams across all DevOps and QA functions
• Built a self-service demo platform used by the CEO for Fortune 500 presentations, directly enabling a major partnership
• Automated a Linux cluster test environment processing 400 million files across exabyte-scale storage systems
• Conducted a 24-hour cybersecurity audit for a federal customer with no existing playbook, securing a critical contract
• Implemented company-wide monitoring across dozens of hosts with 200+ Grafana dashboard metrics
MAY 2020 - JUN 2021 DEVOPS ENGINEER II
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• Sole DevOps engineer for five Agile teams, managing on-premise and cloud infrastructure end-to-end
• Led microservices migration to Docker, optimizing build-test-deploy cycles across all development environments
• Developed the organization's Information Security Policy and conducted network-wide vulnerability assessments
• Designed and executed a comprehensive backup and disaster recovery plan for critical business continuity
• Grew the DevOps team through recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding new engineers
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