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Jose B

El Salvador

Site Reliability Engineer - Engineering team

$ 7,700/month

10+ yrs exp

As an experienced Site Reliability/Cloud/Devops Engineer with 8+ years of experience in Consulting, FinTechs, and Datacenter industries, I have developed a strong skill set in Kubernetes, IAC with Terraform, Docker, CI/CD, Linux, and Javascript. While I'm highly skilled in these areas, I am also a team player who thrives in collaborative environments. I have excellent communication skills and work professionally with others to achieve our goals efficiently and safely.

Skills

  • Ansible
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Bash
  • Cloud
  • Git
  • Grafana
  • JavaScript
  • Jenkins
  • Kafka
  • Kubernetes
  • New Relic
  • Prometheus
  • Python
  • Terraform
  • Cloud Engineer
  • Cloud Infrastructure
  • CloudM
  • Codefresh
  • Digital Ocean
  • Phyton
  • Reliability Engineering
  • Python/R
  • Python3
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Git
  • Paython
  • javscript
  • Pulumi

Jose B

El Salvador

Site Reliability Engineer - Engineering team

$ 7,700 /month

10+ yrs exp

As an experienced Site Reliability/Cloud/Devops Engineer with 8+ years of experience in Consulting, FinTechs, and Datacenter industries, I have developed a strong skill set in Kubernetes, IAC with Terraform, Docker, CI/CD, Linux, and Javascript. While I'm highly skilled in these areas, I am also a team player who thrives in collaborative environments. I have excellent communication skills and work professionally with others to achieve our goals efficiently and safely.

Skills

  • Ansible
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Bash
  • Cloud
  • Git
  • Grafana
  • JavaScript
  • Jenkins
  • Kafka
  • Kubernetes
  • New Relic
  • Prometheus
  • Python
  • Terraform
  • Cloud Engineer
  • Cloud Infrastructure
  • CloudM
  • Codefresh
  • Digital Ocean
  • Phyton
  • Reliability Engineering
  • Python/R
  • Python3
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Git
  • Paython
  • javscript
  • Pulumi

Site Reliability Engineer - Engineering team

Kinect Consulting
October 2023 - present

As a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and Team Lead at an innovative Information Technology and services company, I play a pivotal role in leading a team dedicated to ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of critical systems and applications. My focus encompasses a wide array of responsibilities, including Cloud Migrations, App Modernization, and holistic workload management. ● Oversee projects spanning multiple cloud providers, ensuring a comprehensive and versatile approach to cloud infrastructure management. ● Create Observability and monitoring systems mostly using LGTM stack( loki,grafana,tempo and mimir) ● Designed and built scalable Kubernetes clusters on the major cloud providers (aws/gcp/azure) for deploying microservices, ● improving application scalability and fault tolerance. ● Specialize in executing complex migrations, upgrades, installations, and configurations within Kubernetes workflows. ● Collaborated with development teams to improve application performance and reliability through performance tuning, load testing, and code optimization. ● Participated in on-call rotations, responding to incidents and performing root cause analysis to prevent recurrence. ● Collaborated with security teams to implement and maintain security controls and ensure compliance with industry standards. ● Create Rancher Kubernetes clusters for on premise using rk2 with ansible.

Cloud Engineer | Team Lead - Engineering team

Waltlabs.io
August 2022 - September 2023

.As a Cloud Engineer Team Lead at an Information Technology & Services company, I specialize in leading a team that collaboratively tackles Cloud Migrations, App Modernization, and Lift and Shift workloads. By working closely with my team members, we ensure that our projects are not limited to one cloud provider and can span across AWS, GCP, and AZURE. Through effective communication and coordination, we leverage tools such as Terraform, Helm, and Codefresh for effective deployment in Kubernetes clusters. My commitment to communication and coordination ensures high-quality solutions for internal and client projects, emphasizing Kubernetes for enhanced scalability and efficiency. ● Participating in support cases and fixing issues for clients on production, with a focus on delivering exceptional customer service. ● Creating and maintaining highly available Kafka clusters with ksql client on Kubernetes. ● Building Big Data pipelines using Codefresh to Databricks environments. ● Performing migrations from development to production, upgrades, installations, and/or configurations. ● Leading and collaborating with team members on technology projects, driving them to success. ● Analyzing performance trends and recommending process improvements to ensure optimal project outcomes. ● Specialize in executing migrations, upgrades, installations, and configurations in kubernetes workflows, ensuring a seamless transition from development to production environments.

Cloud Engineer - Engineering team

Waltlabs.io
December 2020 - August 2022

Cloud Engineer at an Information Technology & Services company especially on Cloud Migrations, App modernization and Lift and Shift workloads. working on projects not limited to one cloud provider AWS/GCP/AZURE using tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD tools like Codefresh to deliver good solutions for internal and client-facing projects. ● Create terraform modules from scratch to build GCP services for projects. ● Create/Maintain highly available Kafka Clusters with ksql client on Kubernetes. ● Create Big data pipelines using Codefresh to Databricks environments. ● Architect a versatile multi-environment pipeline in Codefresh, utilizing a shared variables approach to enhance flexibility and adaptability. ● Drive technology projects to successful completion, with a particular focus on Kubernetes for containerized application deployment. ● Conduct comprehensive performance analysis, proactively identifying trends, and recommending process improvements to enhance overall system efficiency. ● Actively participate in support cases, troubleshooting and resolving issues for clients in production environments, with a specific emphasis on Kubernetes-related concerns.

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - Operations Team

Modusbox Inc
July 2019 - December 2020

Cloud Engineer at a FinTech company working to accomplish financial Inclusion making possible real-time payments and modernizing the interoperability among real-time payment networks. Worked managing a Cloud Native platform solution developed in Azure and AWS using a Microservices Architecture using kubernetes ● Implemented AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto scaling groups. ● Maintained the user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route 53 service in AWS Cloud. ● Deploy infrastructure-as-code within pipelines using Terraform and GitlabCI. ● Built and maintained a solution to set up Kubernetes Clusters from scratch (RKE, Ansible, Bash and Terraform). ● Implement Prometheus/Grafana solution for actual workloads (instances, mysql,services) ● Reduced the 70% of the Release Time (from 1h to 15 mins): ● Designed and developed a CI/CD pipeline using GitlabCI automating hand-made processes. ○ Created a new Workflow to improve the team communications in the operations team ● Automated daily tests of the platform using Newman, Bash and Gitlab CI-CD. ● Implemented Performance and Resilience Tests using Jmeter cluster (Jmeter in-K8s cluster). ● Level 3 support for Mojaloop payment solution Hub which was designed to provide a reference model for payment interoperability, that can be used to overcome barriers that have slowed the spread of digital financial services by creating digital payments platforms that connect all customers, merchants, banks, and other financial providers in a country's economy. ● Created tooling using NodeJS In order to monitor and scrape data from a Kubernetes Cluster ● Establish and ensure infrastructure standards (security, reliability, availability, and scalability. ● Work with multiple DFSP (Digital Financial Services Providers) across Africa building all the networking required for the product to work. ● Participated in On-Call Rotations and bug solutions triages.

DevOps Engineer - Development Team

Serenova
December 2018 - July 2019

DevOps Engineer at a Cloud-Native Contact Center company working to accomplish multi-region production environments for the product, and manage all the live cycle of the cloud native platform solution developed AWS using a Microservices Architecture. ● Designed and developed a new development workflow including automated QA tests. ● Migrate workloads from AWS EC2 workloads to Kubernetes. ● Migrate Jenkins server from running on EC2 instances to proper Kubernetes setup using JenkinsX ● Create terraform modules for infrastructure and import running one to tfstate. ● Created and maintained an AWS environment using ElasticBeanstalk, RDS, EC2, Route53, Cognito, IAM, Kafka in order to maintain a microservices-based project developed in NodeJS.

System Administrator - IT

Grupo Mantech
February 2013 - December 2018

IT manager of a small business. Responsible for the company servers (firewalls, switches, web servers, mail servers) Responsible for the complete configuration of bare-metal servers pools using Hypervisors as Xen Server. My skill set there was based on Linux, VPS, bare-metal servers, and networking (pfsense and Avaya VoIP solutions). ● Implement Ansible on the organization to manage VM’s. ● Develop SMTP and BMS appliances for HVAC and Industrial UPS. ● Create monitoring systems based on Nagios/Centreon ● Create Prometheus dashboards for clients monitored devices. ● Migrate 90% of the workload to open source infrastructure Linux hypervisor, VM, firewalls. ● Migrated company SAP Business One to a Cloud-Based environment using Azure.

Smart Scores

Communication
80
Role Fit
95
Adaptability
70
Problem-solving
70

Smart Skills

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