SaaS based FinTech with $1.5 trillion AUM: Hands-on Product Owner and leader of 16-member Cloud Engineering, ProdOps, AWS Security engineers & DevOps teams, responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable secure and efficient cloud infrastructure while implementing best practices for security, disaster recovery and compliance. Also responsible for developing cloud adoption/migration strategy, infrastructure as code (IaC) and automated deployment of services/applications to Cloud. Successful implementation a cloud operation framework, with a focus on automation, scalability and performance reducing deployments from 3 days to 2 hours. Managed budget of $1 million.

• Led AWS cost optimization initiative with savings plans, reserved instance management, etc.
• Refined IaC development/deployment lifecycle for smaller iterative releases of code.
• Established KPI’s and operational benchmarks using the DevOps Research & Assessment (DORA) framework.
• Collaborate and work with various cross-functional teams and stakeholders to influence strategy, drive org designs, contributions, and prioritization.
• Led AWS Security Engineers in collaboration with CS to increase AWS Security Hub score across organization from 12%-> 78% (and growing), utilizing NIST and CIS frameworks, implementing through IaC.
• Designed, built, and deployed acustom remote access tool for teams to use to connect to EC2 instances using a custom interface built on .NET called Remoteler.

Hands-on leader of multiple departments including Azure Engineers (4), DevOps (3), Security (2) and HelpDesk (3), developing strategy, including policies, procedures, tools and metrics to align the infrastructure and service operations teams with RenPSG’s strategic goals. Lead the planning, design, and implementation of enterprise-level infrastructure and services deployed into Azure Cloud environment. Responsible for overseeing the internal infrastructure, cloud infrastructure and operations as well the service operations team.

• Lead the strategy, planning and execution of all cloud infrastructure initiatives.
• Design/maintain long-term roadmap for core service capabilities and recommended initiatives.
• Coordinate across product/engineering teams to widely socialize teams’ priorities across all products.
• Redesigned Azure DevOps pipelines to include security scanning tools and automated processes
• including testing, security scanning and email reports.
• Establish and implement processes for the ongoing proactive management and maintenance of cloud solution infrastructure, including patch management of all software.

Manage team of 16 infrastructure/DevOps engineers of a $2BN+ enterprise with over 1200 servers; including Exchange clusters, SQL clusters, VMWare clusters, Web/API farms and various other servers to run the enterprise. Led 4 DevOps Engineers and 4 developers. Refined the SDLC process and developed processes to ensure successful continuous deployments using TFS/Jenkins/Octopus Deploy/Nuget. Designed and implemented multiple complex environments for Dev, QA, UAT and various project environments. Acting DBA, managing multiple SQL server clusters encompassing 2008-2016. Designed, implemented and migrated all 2008 SQL physical SQL servers onto virtual 2016 SQL servers using AlwaysOn Availability with over 200 databases.

• Managed/Led conversion 2008 SQL Cluster to SQL 2016 AlwaysOn consisting of over 200 db’s.
• Led team to successful large-scale Oracle upgrade.
• Act asarchitect on complex projects following standard frameworks, TOGAF.
• Manage multiple engineers (16+) responsible for 900+ servers on VMWare and Azure Cloud Arch
• Manage clustered Citrix NetScaler load balancers.
• Designed and wrote PowerShell/PowerCLI scripts for automation of tasks.
• Manage Azure DevOps, SVN, GIT, Jenkins & Octopus Deploy/NuGet for CI/CD, SDLC process.