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Jon Harris

DevOps Architect

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About Me
I have a hunger to learn, and to expand my knowledge.

This has led me from a novice in computers to Linux Admin for a large cloud provider, all the way to a DevOps engineer for a world-class Software Development team.

To say that automation and Linux are passions would be to put it mildly.
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Experiences
  • Led a comprehensive overhaul of GCP deployment mechanisms, improving reliability, repeatability, and scalability across environments
  • Designed, built, and operated multi-cloud Kubernetes infrastructure, managing clusters across GCP and Azure
  • Implemented and maintained end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Google Cloud Build, enabling consistent build, test, and deployment workflows
  • Introduced and configured Jenkins for specialized and legacy workloads where it provided operational or architectural advantages
  • Expanded the platform’s cloud offerings by adding Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to support a single-tenant architecture, including cluster design, networking, and deployment workflows
  • Designed and implemented mechanisms to deploy applications across multiple cloud providers, supporting both multi-tenant and single-tenant use cases
  • Served as the primary point of contact for security, including incident response, investigation, and remediation of security events
  • Conducted proofs of concept for security tooling and practices, influencing platform hardening and operational security posture
  • Developed internal ChatOps tools to streamline operational support, incident response, and collaboration for engineering teams
  • Supported release management and load testing initiatives to ensure production readiness and platform stability
  • Led the design, deployment, and operations of bare-metal Kubernetes clusters in on-premises environments, establishing the organization’s container orchestration platform
  • Migrated existing Docker-based services into Kubernetes, improving deployment consistency, service resilience, and operational scalability
  • Architected and managed on-premises infrastructure, including networking, firewall configuration, and security controls supporting production workloads
  • Planned and executed data center hardware deployments, including server provisioning, capacity planning, and infrastructure lifecycle management
  • Built and maintained Linux KVM virtualization environments, provisioning and managing virtual machines that supported the Kubernetes platform and supporting services
  • Designed and implemented on-premises network architecture, including planning, installation, configuration, and ongoing management of Cisco switching/routing infrastructure and Meraki mesh wireless networks
  • Designed cluster networking and infrastructure integration to support reliable service communication across on-prem environments
  • Partnered with engineering teams to modernize application deployment workflows and improve operational reliability across services
  • Led the architectural transition from on-premises Windows-based infrastructure to a cloud-native platform on AWS, modernizing the organization’s deployment and operations model
  • Designed and deployed Kubernetes-based infrastructure on AWS, enabling scalable containerized application deployments
  • Migrated legacy applications and services from bare-metal Windows servers to Linux container environments, improving operational efficiency and deployment consistency
  • Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines to automate application build, test, and deployment workflows for engineering teams
  • Designed and implemented AWS cloud infrastructure, including networking, compute, and security configurations to support development and production workloads
  • Optimized and modernized legacy infrastructure, improving reliability, performance, and maintainability of production systems
  • Managed AWS accounts, permissions, and operational policies to support secure access and environment governance
  • Onboarded and integrated new DevOps tooling and platform capabilities to improve developer productivity and operational visibility
  • Troubleshot application and environment issues alongside developers, improving service stability and accelerating delivery during the transition to cloud-native infrastructure
  • Mentored and trained DevOps engineers and developers on containerization, CI/CD workflows, and cloud-native operational practices
  • Served as Co-Product Owner for the DevOps platform, helping define tooling strategy, delivery workflows, and infrastructure standards for development teams.
  • Architected and led migration of development and QA infrastructure to AWS, replacing legacy on-premise environments.
  • Designed an automated environment lifecycle strategy enabling on-demand build-up and teardown of Dev/QA environments.
  • Built Terraform-based infrastructure automation to provision complete application stacks in AWS.
  • Led migration of legacy applications from EC2 deployments to Amazon Kubernetes (EKS) to standardize containerized workloads.
  • Developed automated deployment pipelines for legacy applications transitioning into modern CI/CD workflows.
  • Refactored Jenkins infrastructure by migrating all jobs to Jenkins Job DSL seed jobs, enabling full rebuild capability and simplifying pipeline onboarding.
  • Designed and implemented monitoring, reporting, and remediation strategies for newly migrated cloud services.
  • Integrated legacy services into modern DevOps workflows, introducing CI/CD practices and operational automation.
  • Planned and deployed new infrastructure and platform services to support expanding application needs.
  • Mentored and onboarded engineers into DevOps practices, providing training on automation, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code.
  • Collaborated with engineering teams to operationalize DevOps practices across development workflows.
  • Coordinated workload prioritization and delivery planning for DevOps initiatives.
  • Architected standardized CI/CD deployment pipelines to automate and govern production releases across engineering teams.
  • Served as SRE Team Lead, driving reliability initiatives including monitoring strategy, incident management practices, and operational runbooks.
  • Built automated monitoring and remediation pipelines using Sensu, reducing manual operational intervention and improving mean-time-to-recovery (MTTR).
  • Introduced infrastructure testing practices using OpsCode Chef, implementing automated validation to ensure configuration correctness and deployment safety.
  • Mentored and onboarded new SRE and DevOps engineers, establishing operational standards and training on monitoring, alerting, and incident response workflows.
  • Responded to and led resolution of production incidents within an on-call rotation, performing root cause analysis and implementing long-term reliability improvements.
  • Administered TappIn infrastructure
  • Managed 8 VmWare hypervisors with approximately 35 Windows and 20 Linux servers
  • Managed 2 Microsoft Windows Hyper-V 2012 servers, with 10 Windows 2012 servers
  • Designed, developed, and implemented tools to automate server issue mitigation
  • Worked closely with the engineers in resolving issues, streamlining the configuration of multiple server installations.
  • Designed and implemented the new Opscode Chef automation tools
  • Designed MySQL Master/Slave auto-failover solution to minimize downtime should the master ever fail.
  • Designed tools to handle ETL for our HTTP/FTP custom server logs, to import into MSSQL
  • Designed tools to automate alerting on thresholds across multiple SQL servers (MariaDB/Percona/MySQL/MSSQL/SQLite3/etc)
  • Mentored NetSec analyst, as well as acted as L3/4 for MIS and customer support
  • Assisted with DevOps issues for all teams company-wide
  • Was the key player when it came to a migration of our assets from Seattle, WA to San Antonio, TX with a 1-hour scheduled down-time.
  • Front-line and escalation support for thousands of customers worldwide
  • Custom-coded applications to assist chat support and escalation points with day-to-day needs
  • Designed and implemented numerous multi-web head systems utilizing load balancers, varnish, memcached, LSYNCD, and database replication
  • Wrote up extensive documentation and tools for our customers to use to simplify configuration of a new server
  • Trained and mentored fellow administrators where they needed it.
  • Provided exceptional support for all our customers, no matter if they paid $10 or $200,000 a month
  • Acted as the sole escalation point for our server chat support team
  • Tier I & II Support for 16,000 Internet Accounts
  • Designed PHP utilities that were used to assist in everything from inventory to fighting spam.
  • Managed 30+ Physical/Virtual Linux/Windows servers
  • Managed VMWare ESXi Hypervisor
  • Installed coax cable for new CMTS
  • Tested new appliances to see if they were a good fit for our network
  • Assisted in the development/redeployment of our mail system for our internet customers
  • Designed, developed, and implemented a backup solution that saves the company over $10,000 per year on average.
  • Designed, developed and implemented a new system for pushing custom configurations to modems, as well as new firmware to modems
  • Assisted in the development, implementation and deployment of a SIPRNET(http://globalsecurity.org/intell/systems/siprnet.htm), the first one to be active in the entire military
  • Network administrator of a network with over 100 computers, 10 servers, and 300 users
  • Handled classified information, held a Top Secret security clearance
  • After 9/11 worked as Base Security at Naval Submarine Base, Bangor, Washington, while still working in the IT field.
  • Troubleshot legacy systems (AT&T System V Unix/MS DOS), as well as worked on classified communications systems.
Skills

Linux

  • CentOS/RHEL
    Advanced
  • Ubuntu
    Advanced
  • Alpine Linux
    Advanced
  • AWS Linux
    Advanced

Configuration Management

  • Chef
    Advanced

Monitoring/Alerting

  • Sensu/Uchiwa
    Advanced
  • DataDog
    Advanced
  • Prometheus
    Expert
  • CloudWatch
    Good

SQL

  • MySQL/Percona/MariaDB
    Advanced
  • MSSQL
    Good
  • Liquibase

Other Tech Tools

  • Git
    Advanced
  • RESTful APIs
    Advanced
  • OpenStack
    Good
  • AWS
    Advanced
  • Terraform
    Advanced
  • Capistrano
    Good
  • TICK Stack
    Intermediate
  • ELK Stack
    Advanced
  • Many Others
  • Kubernetes
    Advanced
  • AWS EKS
    Advanced
  • Docker
    Advanced
  • Keda
    Good

Cloud Providers

  • AWS
    Good
  • Rackspace Hosting
    Advanced
  • Google Cloud
    Good
  • DigitalOcean
    Advanced
  • Azure
    Intermediate
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