Devin Benjamin
Development
MD, United States
Skills
DevOps
About
Devin Michael Benjamin's skills align with Programmers (Information and Communication Technology). Devin also has skills associated with Consultants and Specialists (Information and Communication Technology). Devin Michael Benjamin has 12 years of work experience.
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Work Experience
Staff DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer
Baltimore, MD, Cloud Operations Management
October 2020 - December 2023
- DC- Legends of Learning Baltimore, MD, Cloud Operations Management: • Skillfully managed operations across multiple United States • AWS and Azure cloud environments, ensuring seamless performance and uptime Experienced in •Virtual Machine Infrastructure (VMI) management and • Kubernetes (K8s) orchestration, adept at designing, deploying, and optimizing scalable and resilient cloud-native applications. AWS EKS / ECS Cluster Management: • Demonstrated expertise in overseeing • EKS and ECS clusters on the AWS platform, ensuring high availability and scalability of containerized applications. Infrastructure as Code (IaC): •Designed and implemented infrastructure using • Terraform, streamlining the provisioning process and enhancing maintainability. CI/CD Pipelines: • Spearheaded the implementation of efficient CI/CD pipelines • usingJenkins, enabling automated and reliable software delivery. L everaged GitHub Actions to establish robust CI/CD workflows and effective repository management. Scripting: •Utilized Python for CI/CD pipeline integration, AWS resource • management, and infrastructure scaling. Proficient in Python libraries for data parsing, API interaction, and component communication. Contributed to a Python-based centralized logging system, ensuring real-time • • analysis and troubleshooting. Implemented robust error handling and conducted code reviews for reliability. Task Management: •Utilized Jira to manage tasks, track progress, and facilitate • seamless collaboration within the team. Documentation: •Maintained comprehensive documentation using Confluence , • ensuring knowledge sharing and project continuity. Monitoring: •Implemented a sophisticated metrics and monitoring solution • usingGrafana and Prometheus, enabling real-time performance tracking and issue resolution. Managed DataDog for holistic metrics and APM monitoring. Ensured peak application performance and user experience. Atlas MongoDB Management: • Proficiently managed Atlas MongoDB instances, • optimizing database performance and ensuring data integrity. Multi-Account Connectivity (AWS) with TGW / VPC Peering: • Efficiently • connected multiple AWS accounts via TGW and VPC peering for seamless communication and resource sharing. Cross-Cloud Connectivity (AWS and Azure) with IPsec Tunnel: • Designed and • implemented secure connectivity between AWS and Azure using IPsec tunnel , ensuring seamless data flow between cloud platforms. Network Management: •Set up a well-structured Landing Zone to effectively • manage network resources and configurations. Logging: •Proficiently managed Elastic Cloud for streamlined log management • and operational insights. Security Controls Implementation: •Collaborating with cross-functional teams • to design, implement, and maintain security controls and best practices aligned with SOC 1, 2, and 3 requirements. Auditing and Documentation: •Assisting in the preparation and documentation • ofsecurity policies, procedures, and practices to ensure they meet SOC compliance standards. Monitoring and Incident Response: •Setting up and configuring security • monitoring tools, as well as actively participating in incident response and resolution to address any security-related issues. Compliance Reporting: •Preparing and providing necessary evidence and • documentation to auditors during SOC audits, ensuring that the organization's security measures are consistently upheld and meet compliance requirements. Continuous Improvement: •Proactively identifying areas for improvement in • security practices and helping to enhance security measures and compliance processes. Team Education: •Conducting training sessions for the team to raise awareness • ofSOC requirements and foster a culture of security and compliance within the organization.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
DevOps
October 2018 - September 2020
- Rising Max Inc United States Team management & multiple Projects handling. • • Install, setup Chefon-premise at enterprise level and maintenance. • Migrate services from on-premise to multiple clouds (Hybrid & AWS) • L everaged Virtual Machine Infrastructure (VMI) alongside Kubernetes (K8s) • for seamless containerized application deployment and management, ensuring high availability and performance in cloud environments. Automatic code deployment & its configuration using chef (•DevOps CI tool) • inside network & at cloud environment with mentoring others in team. Chef auto-deployment of various infrastructure packages like • RabbitMQ • Create, implement, and maintain security policies and data bags to ensure • compliances Write codes on Chef for •auto provisioning infrastructure, installation of • software has and services. Take a lead role in collaboratively maintaining •cookbooks in the Chef • supermarket as well as in the in-house repository Ensure core recipes are supported on multiple •Linux flavors and its platforms. • Be responsible for CI/CD implementation using SCM tools. • Implement different components of infrastructure (Monitoring, Logs • Management, Consolidation tools etc.). Be responsible for • infrastructure planning, scaling, and monitoring process • implementation Source control versioning using GIT. • • Good hands experience using MAVEN and ANT as build tools for the building of • deployable artifacts (jar, war, ear) from source code. Exposed to all aspects of • SDLC (software development life cycle) such as • Analysis, planning, design, developing, testing & implementing it. Cloud to •SaaS Platform like AWS, ServiceNow • Apache web-server installation & it is all configuration deployment with chef • itself. Security implementation of • iptables & login mechanism over LDAP and all this • handled by chef to maintain consistency & stability across infrastructure Make build via •Jenkins & deploy it automatically from it. • L ink applications and its changed nature to CMDB for better supportability • mechanism in place in our such big environment where it has lot of dependencies, like Network/Firewall/DNS/LDAP/DB etc Very strong on •Unix/Linux administration and maintenance skills. • Good hands on various versions of WebLogic installation, configuration and • maintenance. Knowledge of WebL ogic installation of all 3 modes - •GUI, Console and Silent • mode Nice understanding of ear, war, jar WebL ogic deployments - •stage, no-stage, • external stage mode Working experience with •Hypervisor (VMWare) for all virtualization needs. • Python /Bash Scripting for automation and monitoring system processes. • GitLab & Git repository for more automated way for CI/CD deployments. • Manage Infrastructure with AWS IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) & Platform as • a Service (PaaS). Being •GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation compliance) • FollowITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure L ibrary) processes & it's • standards.
Senior DevOps Engineer
January 2015 - August 2018
- CA, CitrusB its United States Driving projects and outcomes with agile working methods • • Working on projects to setup GKE Clusters with multi region using Google • Anthos Automating •infrastructure using Terraform and ansible Demonstrated expertise in •Virtual Machine Infrastructure (VMI) • administration and Kubernetes (K8s) deployment, facilitating efficient resource utilization and scalable application architecture in cloud-based environments. Creating •CI/CD pipelines to automate both infrastructure and application • deployments. Providing support for infrastructure in •AWS, Azure, GCP and VMware for • differentproducts /projects , Monitoring solutions both application and infrastructure etc. • • Working on ELK for centralized logging solution • Helping out in analysis and migration to cloud AWS, Azure or GCP base on • customer requirements Scripting in •Bash, Perl, PHP and VBS for different server related tasks • SetupAsterisk & Flash Media Gateway Connectivity for voice streaming • through Flash Media Server L ocal/Remote Servers in •HE DC, Asterisk, IVR & ATAs management • Conducting Audit & Penetration tests for the Servers • Manage Technical & Customer Support activities • Deploy Intrusion detection system including Network Based Intrusion • Detection, Log File Monitoring, File Integrity Checking using KLAXTON for doorknob rattling
System Administrator
August 2011 - October 2014
- CA, Hotwire United States Driving projects and outcomes with • Agile working methods. • Implementing Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform and CloudFormation. • Automating Linux instances with Ansible and AWS Opsworks • Working with Docker, ECS and Kubernetes on AWS • Worked Elasticsearch, logstash and kibana (ELK) setup for centralized logging, • alerting on errors from logs and helping teams generate dashboards from it. Worked on •Rancher setup on Cloud and On-Prem both along with RKE as the • complete solution. Creating •CI/CD pipelines to automate both infrastructure and application • deployments Responsible for infrastructure in • AWS and VMware for different products
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