DevOps Lead
Platform and infrastructure steward for Eldermark's AWS environments, leading DevOps work that usually splits across release engineering, infrastructure architecture, and platform engineering. A lot of the job is connecting dots: catching risky infrastructure and deployment changes before they become operational issues, and keeping releases moving across teams while making the platform more self-service, more secure, and less reactive.
- Own AWS infrastructure for two SaaS products (8 accounts spanning 10 environments) and help support two additional product platforms
- Redesigned the CI/CD pipeline architecture and rebuilt hand-created pipelines as reusable Terraform modules, cutting roughly 20 minutes of downtime from every production deployment
- Build and maintain 20+ pipelines with GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, and Terraform, including staging promotion flows and automated builds for shared ECR base images
- Replaced a manual, multi-system environment refresh process with a push-button CodePipeline, saving hours of work per refresh and removing human error from production database restores
- Built a deployment tracking system on Lambda and CodePipeline events that notifies Teams and updates Jira automatically, so nobody has to chase release status
- Drove the company's initial adoption of AI development tools, from early proofs of concept to everyday use that improves development efficiency and code quality
- Respond to production infrastructure issues and review changes early in the SDLC to catch architecture and deployment risks before they reach an environment
- Implement infrastructure and container security practices that meet compliance and reliability requirements
- Collaborate with leadership on company-wide initiatives including Jira migrations, security audits, and penetration-test remediation