EMILY BENNETT
Senior DevOps Engineer
Seattle, WA · e.bennett@email.com · (555) 762-4419
Summary
Senior DevOps engineer with 8+ years automating cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for high-traffic platforms. Reduced deployment time by 88% and cut monthly AWS spend by $180K through rightsizing and autoscaling.
Experience
Senior DevOps Engineer · Netflix
2020 - Present
- Migrated legacy deployment pipeline to GitOps using ArgoCD, cutting deploy time from 45 minutes to 4 minutes across 60+ services
- Redesigned Kubernetes autoscaling policies, reducing monthly AWS compute spend by $180K annually
- Built a self-service infrastructure platform with Terraform modules, cutting new environment provisioning from 3 days to 2 hours
- Leads a 5-engineer platform team owning a Helm chart library used by 40+ product repos
- Runs chaos testing with Gremlin across 12 tier-1 services, holding failover coverage at 94%
DevOps Engineer · Capital One
2017 - 2020
- Implemented Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines for 25 microservices, reducing release cycle from biweekly to daily
- Reduced production incident MTTR by 60% by building Prometheus/Grafana alerting with automated runbooks
- Codified 200+ AWS resources in Terraform, eliminating manual console changes across 4 accounts
- Hardened container images against CIS benchmarks, closing 180 open findings ahead of a PCI audit
Systems Administrator · Rackspace
2015 - 2017
- Administered 400+ Linux servers, patching CentOS and Ubuntu fleets on a monthly schedule
- Automated user provisioning and log rotation with Bash and Ansible, saving 12 hours weekly
- Cut ticket backlog 35% with Nagios disk, memory and service checks across 3 data centers
Education
B.S. Computer Engineering — Georgia Institute of Technology · 2017
Skills
Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, AWS, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, Python, Helm, GitOps
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, Amazon Web Services
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), The Linux Foundation
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate, HashiCorp
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), Red Hat
Projects
Open-source Prometheus exporter for ArgoCD sync health, 800+ GitHub stars
Cost-anomaly Slack bot on the AWS Cost Explorer API, flagging spend spikes within 6 hours
Kubernetes upgrade runbook automating 1.24 to 1.29 rollouts across 6 clusters, zero downtime
Languages
English (Native), Spanish (Conversational)
