Jerry Beassem
Development
TX, United States
Skills
DevOps
About
Jerry Beassem's skills align with Programmers (Information and Communication Technology). Jerry also has skills associated with Consultants and Specialists (Information and Communication Technology). Jerry Beassem has 9 years of work experience.
Work Experience
Senior DevOps Engineer
Intuitive Cloud
March 2021 - Present
- • Automate daily backup to AWS S3 • Create and maintain Shell scripts to automate manual operations tasks on AWS EC2 • Develop and implement a strategy to scan vulnerabilities in GitLab CICD Pipelines • Define and implement GitLab naming conventions • Define GitLab artifact storage policy and automate GitLab storage clean up task • Create Ansible playbook to Automates software updates on Linux VMs • Update and maintain existing Ansible playbooks • Automate various manual tasks using GitLab API • Integrate backup shell scripts with Microsoft Team and Alert Manager. • Create a Lambda function to resize images uploaded to an S3 bucket. Upon upload, the Lambda function triggers, retrieves the image, resizes it to a specified dimension using a Python imaging library like Pillow, and saves the resized image back to the S3 bucket. CICD & AZURE DEVOPS • Manage and configure CICD pipeline using CircleCI • Design and implement build, deployment, configuration changing using DevOps best practices and tooling • Build out initial pipeline to create a Liquibase execution container to allow the database team in executing their Liquibase changes via CI/CD • Migrate pipeline from TravisCI to CircleCI • Migrate pipelines from GitHub to GitLab • Configured and managed continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) workflows using Azure Pipelines. • Leveraged Azure DevOps dashboards and reports to monitor build and deployment status, identify bottlenecks, and optimize performance. • Implemented security measures, such as secure secrets management and role-based access control, to protect sensitive information within the pipeline. • Assisted in troubleshooting and resolving build and deployment issues, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure prompt resolution. • Designed and implemented Azure DevOps build and release pipelines to automate software builds, deployments, and testing processes. KUBERNETES • Implement Python-based configuration management solutions such as Ansible or SaltStack to automate server provisioning and configuration tasks • Build a PoC implementation of ArgoCD in Kubernetes Dev Cluster to compare between WeaveFlux and ArgoCD tooling • Deployed ArgoCD into each Kubernetes clusters to replace and enhance the functionality of Weaveflux • Implemented ArgoCD SOPS encryption in a customization workflow • Create an Architecture Design Record (ADR) decision to make planning decision surrounding our Continuous Delivery methods • Update all manifests to adhere to yamllint standard which require a new indentation method Upgrade all manifest to latest version of flux2:0.214.1 • Add metadata. namespace feld to all Kubernetes resources • Implement monitoring & observability for Weave Flux in Kubernetes cluster • Setup EKS logging ingestion to Datadog • Configure log filtering in Kubernetes clusters before ingesting logs in Datadog • Migrate Grafana to Kubernetes cluster • Deploy & manage Legacy SaaS platform in AWS EC2 instances • Develop & maintain container-based application in multiple environment • Develop & implement a migration roadmap to Kubernetes • Implement IaaS using Terraform to deploy AWS resources • Design and implement Terraform enterprise
Senior DevOps Engineer
Volly
October 2019 - March 2021
- • Designed and implemented Terraform for AWS infrastructure provisioning • Create Terraform modules to provision AWS resources such as networking, S3, compute resources, R53, ASG, VPC endpoints, CloudWatch, ALB, ECS Far gate, Lambda, AWS SSM, IAM, AWS Certificates, AWS Storage Gateway • Designed and implemented Chef Server and Chef Automate for configuration management • Create Chef cookbooks for application deployment • Implement DevOps best practices in infrastructure as code • Create AWS architecture diagram for new applications • Lead DevOps training and knowledge sharing across the team • Refactoring of monolithic applications to a Microservices and Component based architectures • Setup Continuous Integration pipeline to build the micro service and push the docker container image to the private docker registry • Worked on deployment automation of micro services to pull image from the private docker registry and deploy to eks cluster using GitLab ci. • Designed and Implemented a Continuous Integration & Delivery pipeline with GitLab ci and AWS • Building/Maintaining eks clusters and manifests • Designed and implemented a file processing workflow • Migrated code repositories from Bitbucket to Gitlab and trained offshore developers to use source control best practices • Deployed through terraform and configure Jenkins running in ECS Fargate docker container • Refactored Terraform modules to use workspaces and cross account provisioning • Provides AWS support to offshores developers • Configured Datadog monitoring agents, SLAs, and escalation process in production environment • Integrate a chatbot with messaging platforms like Slack or Facebook Messenger using AWS Lambda. Write Python code to process incoming messages, trigger relevant actions or responses, and communicate with external APIs or services as needed
Senior DevOps Engineer
Disney Feature Animation
September 2015 - October 2019
- Infrastructure Provisioning • Deploy highly available applications in ECS clusters using Terraform scripts in QA and Prod environments • Provision AWS Application infrastructure using Terraform • Deploy highly available applications in ECS clusters using in house deployment tools • Work with App Team to create dockerized applications • Configure health check monitor for each application services • Configure and deploy Redis caching using Terraform • Create and maintain IAM roles using Terraform • Designed, build, and run Tomcat application and Infrastructure cookbooks using Chef • Work on Hashicorp vault creation and setup application passwords using vault. • Create AWS lambda batch Jobs and scheduled jobs based on the user's requirements • Automated infrastructure provisioning using Ansible • Worked on Ansible setup, managing hosts file, using YAML, authoring various playbooks and custom modules with Ansible. Worked with Terraform to create AWS components like EC2, IAM, VPC, ELB, Security groups. Architecture Design • Review/Ensure AID follow reference architecture Standards and make architectural recommendations if necessary. • Worked with application team to create or modify Cloud Architecture Diagrams • Executing designs and editing templates passed from Architecture Teams CICD • Configure and maintain application variables in Nimbus • Work with CICD Team to create application pipeline • Deploy application Docker image to ECS cluster • Worked with developers to automate code dependencies identification in CICD Pipelines • Implemented Jenkins pipeline for CICD • Developed build and deployment scripts using Ant, Maven as build tools and automated the build and deploy processes using Jenkins to move from one environment to another environment. • Infrastructure code management using GitHub DNS • Configure Route 53 DNS • Configure Akamai routing for external guest facing applications • Work on Akamai (Content Delivery Network) for defining multiple certificates and registering multiple URLs cache purging, whitelisting, adding a new digital property to an existing subject alternative name certificate and SSL certificate deployed on Akamai. Operation & Monitoring • Participate in L2/L3 Oncall rotation on monthy basis • Worked closely with various Business Units to troubleshoot issues while providing excellent customer support • Involved in software configurations, releases, debugging, troubleshooting operational issues in production environments • Performance monitoring of CPU, Memory, Disks, and network of multiple services using AS Cloud watch metric logs • Managed Change Control process by creating and reviewing changes, test and roll back plan • Performing day to day operational support such as SSL Certificate Renewals across multiple SSL providers, DNS reviews, Firewall requests • Experience with analysis of logs and performing root cause analysis • Environment: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Jenkins, Linux, NodeJS, MongoDB, Jira, Bitbucket • Automated and coordinated Security Patches, OS hardening using Ansible • Configured and monitored systems performance using CloudWatch • Implemented PagerDuty • Implemented Nagios • Configured Splunk for multiple applications with data onboarding process • Automated manual day to day activities using Bamboo • Provided Splunk operational support Security: • Enforced Security best practices and compliance in conjunction with security risk experts • AWS cost saving and security enhancement • Implemented security remediation based on Red Lock findings • Automated and coordinated Security Patches, OS hardening using Ansible • Engineering service improvements in AWS including reducing technical debts, Vulnerability remediations and resolving recurring issues
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