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James Rodriguez

Senior AWS DevOps Engineer at Splunk

Summary

Highly accomplished AWS DevOps Engineer with 6 years of experience specializing in designing, implementing, and maintaining robust cloud infrastructure. Proven ability to automate deployment pipelines, optimize system performance, and enhance scalability on Amazon Web Services. Adept at leveraging tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, and Jenkins to streamline operations and drive efficiency in agile environments.

Experience

Senior AWS DevOps EngineerSplunk
Austin, TXAug 2021Present
  • Led the migration of critical on-premise applications to AWS, reducing operational costs by 20% ($500K annually) and improving system reliability by 30%.
  • Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes, decreasing deployment time by 40% and increasing deployment frequency by 2x.
  • Developed Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform for provisioning and managing AWS resources across multiple environments, improving infrastructure consistency by 95%.
  • Automated incident response workflows using AWS Lambda and CloudWatch, resulting in a 25% reduction in mean time to resolution (MTTR).
  • Optimized AWS EC2 and RDS instances, achieving a 15% improvement in application performance and a 10% reduction in cloud spend.
DevOps EngineerDell Technologies
Round Rock, TXJun 2018Jul 2021
  • Implemented automated scaling solutions for web applications using AWS Auto Scaling Groups and Elastic Load Balancers, handling peak traffic increases of up to 50% without downtime.
  • Managed and maintained containerized applications using Docker and AWS ECS, improving resource utilization by 15%.
  • Contributed to the development of Python scripts for automating routine operational tasks, saving an estimated 10 hours of manual work per week.
  • Monitored and managed production environments using CloudWatch and Grafana, proactively identifying and resolving issues before impacting users, achieving 99.9% uptime.

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Education

The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Science in Computer Science
Austin, TXAug 2014May 2018
  • Graduated Summa Cum Laude with a GPA of 3.9/4.0
  • Awarded the Dean's Scholarship for academic excellence
  • Completed capstone project on serverless architecture with AWS Lambda

Skills

Cloud Platforms
AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, Lambda, EKS, ECS, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, IAM)Azure (Basic)
DevOps Tools
TerraformAnsibleDockerKubernetesJenkinsGitJiraPrometheusGrafana
Programming & Scripting
PythonBashYAMLJSONGo (Basic)
Operating Systems & Databases
Linux (Ubuntu, RHEL)Windows ServerPostgreSQLMySQLDynamoDB