Thomas Owens

DevOps Engineer


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Summary

DevOps professional adept in Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm charts, and GitHub Actions. Experienced in automating deployment, disaster recovery, and troubleshooting open source tools. I am focused on innovation and collaborative teamwork.

Skills

AWS

ArgoCD

Renovate

Microservices

YAML

Vault

Amazon EKS

Helm Charts

Ansible

Github Actions

Terraform

Consul

Work Experience

Booz Allen Hamilton

Platform Engineer

2022 - Present

  • Utilized Terraform for infrastructure management while using ArgoCD to manage tooling.

  • Proficient in leveraging Helm charts to streamline and automate application deployment processes within Amazon EKS clusters, optimizing resource utilization and ensuring consistent and reliable deployments.

  • Implemented and leveraged GitHub Actions as our go-to automated approach for cluster buildouts.

  • Designed and implemented an automated release process using github actions and Renovate.

  • Utilized Velero for disaster recovery as a baseline then hook it into ArgoCD for automation.

  • Upgrade and troubleshooting open source tooling such as Appdynamics, Consul, Grafana, Prisma-cloud, Prometheus, Sonarqube, and Vault.

  • Mentor new personnel on the team to facilitate onboarding process.

  • Deliver demonstrations and technical presentations to the end customer.

Mitel

DevOps Engineer

2021 - 2022

Deploy IAC using Terraform
Config management using Ansible
Troubleshooting Linux/Window based systems
Demonstrated an ability to work in a SAFe Agile framework

Millennium Battery Express

General Manager / IT

2015 - 2021

Conduct day-to-day operations of the business
Generate financial reports
Establish and maintain the business technology and network
Implement disaster recovery plan
Set up and maintain HTML/CSS website

Millennium Battery Express

Route Manager

2009 -2015

Built routes, managed customers, handled consignments and inventory

Millennium Battery Express

Delivery Driver

2007 - 2009

Customer inventory management, invoicing, and bill remittance

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certification December 2021


Certified SAFeĀ® 5 Practitioner - May 2021


Education

Adrian Cantrill's AWS Certified Solutions Architect Course

October 2020 - February 2021

Hanahan High School

August 2002 - May 2006