Hi, my name is

Andrew.

I am a SRE with 9+ years of experience

I enjoy solving infrastructure problems, improving reliability, and working closely with development teams to keep things running smoothly.

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About Me

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Site Reliability Engineer with experience spanning systems administration, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and observability.

I’ve spent most of my career working across the full infrastructure stack, from server administration to managing large-scale Kubernetes environments and cloud migrations.

Here are a few of my skills:
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • IaC
  • CI/CD
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Python
  • Ruby on Rails

Experience

Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Oracle
Aug 2024 - March 2026
  • Contributed to and helped drive Kubernetes migration efforts from AWS to OCI, including cluster provisioning, configuration, management and observability.
  • Managed Kubernetes cluster lifecycle across Dev, Non-Prod, and Production environments, overseeing clusters ranging from small-scale to 250+ worker nodes, ensuring clusters remained current, stable, and compliant with Oracle security standards.
  • Utilized Terraform to deploy, configure, and maintain cloud infrastructure including Kubernetes clusters, MySQL instances, and Redis instances on OCI.
  • Maintained and debugged Spinnaker CI/CD pipelines, resolving pipeline failures and updating configurations to support application deployments across Kubernetes clusters.
  • Served as the primary point of contact for internal development teams, providing troubleshooting assistance and owning the end-to-end change management and deployment process for application releases.
Site Reliability Engineer II
Oct 2022 - Aug 2024
  • Developed and maintained Python automation pipelines for onboarding tasks and multi-product deployments.
  • Built and maintained a Ruby on Rails application enabling end-users to auto-generate Jira tickets, reducing manual overhead.
  • Managed operations, deployments, and monitoring for multiple products running on AWS EKS clusters.
  • Wrote Python scripts to extract and process data from MySQL databases for operational reporting.
  • Developed and maintained Power BI dashboards to visualize project tracking metrics.
Site Reliability Engineer - Cerner Corporation
May 2022 - Oct 2022
  • Built, managed, and maintained multiple Kubernetes clusters on Oracle Linux VMs.
  • Configured application-level monitoring and alerting with New Relic and Splunk across Kubernetes environments.
  • Contributed new features and UI improvements to an internal automation tool within the React framework.
System Engineer II
Oct 2019 - May 2022
  • Delivered ongoing system implementation, support, monitoring, and maintenance of Cerner’s Remote Hosted solutions and infrastructure for hospital systems.
  • Served as the Subject Matter Expert for IBM WebSphere, providing Tier 3 on-call support for WebSphere enterprise applications across Cerner’s client base.
  • Developed PowerShell scripts to automate log collection and centralization, streamlining the troubleshooting process for the team.
  • Created documentation and training materials for a new cloud-based application support model, enabling client teams to manage environments more independently and reduce troubleshooting resolution time.
System Engineer
Jul 2017 - Oct 2019
  • Provided system implementation, support, monitoring, and maintenance of Cerner’s Remote Hosted solutions, services, and infrastructure for hospital systems.
  • Led client adoption, planning, and change management for major Cerner EHR Platform upgrades, ensuring smooth transitions across hospital system environments.
  • Carried out code deployments, tech stack upgrades, infrastructure refreshes, and assisted in piloting new technologies and processes.
  • Administered RHEL/Oracle Linux and Windows Server 2008/2012/2016/2019 environments as well as integrating third-party solutions including IBM Websphere, Citrix XenApp, SQL Server, SAP Business Objects and Kofax Document Imaging.
  • Developed deep expertise across multiple solutions, serving as the team’s primary resource for troubleshooting and technical assistance.

Education

2013 - 2017
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology
Georgia Southern University
GPA: 3.5 out of 4.0

Major: Information Technology

Minor: Computer Science

Projects

Website DevOps Project
DevOps AWS IaC CI/CD Terraform Ansible Github Actions Automation
Website DevOps Project
Creating a Personal Website to learn AWS and DevOps Principals such as CI/CD, IaC, etc.
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