Harry Grace's Resume

Harry Grace

DevOps Engineer specializing in AWS infrastructure and automation.

Northridge, CA

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About

DevOps Engineer with expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure, Linux systems engineering, and CI/CD automation. Experienced in CloudFormation, Ansible, GitLab administration, and building scalable, reliable production systems.

Work Experience

Businessolver

Mar 2024 - Present

DevOps Engineer I

  • Led AWS environment provisioning via modular CloudFormation (VPC, subnets, routing, security groups, EC2/RDS) with parameterized stacks and change sets; integrated Ansible for post-provision bootstrapping
  • Linux systems engineering & operations: standardized Amazon Linux/OL8 baselines with Ansible; managed systemd services, SELinux, firewalld, and OS patch cycles; implemented user/sudo & SSH key management, logrotate/auditd, and kernel/network tuning for production reliability
  • Managed and owned GitLab and org-wide CI/CD: administered runners, optimized pipelines (caching, artifacts, parallelization), enforced protected branches and merge checks, and created reusable templates to standardize build/test/deploy across teams; improved reliability and delivery speed
  • Provided 24/7 on-call support for production deployments and incident response; monitored system health, troubleshot critical issues, and coordinated emergency patches to maintain 99.9% application uptime and minimize business impact
  • Administered Java web application deployments across multi-tier environments; managed application server configurations, JVM tuning, database connections, and coordinated blue-green deployments to ensure zero-downtime releases
  • Architected and implemented CI/CD pipelines for microservices and security engineering initiatives; integrated automated security scanning (SAST/DAST), container vulnerability assessments, and compliance checks into deployment workflows, reducing security remediation time by 60%
  • Developed comprehensive Ansible automation scripts for developer team environments, reducing cognitive load and accelerating inner loop development cycles; standardized environment provisioning and configuration management to improve developer productivity and reduce onboarding time
  • Enhanced deployment pipeline robustness and optimized build performance across multiple team environments; implemented caching strategies, parallel execution, and infrastructure optimizations
  • Remote
  • AWS
  • CloudFormation
  • Ansible
  • GitLab
  • Linux

Businessolver

Jun 2023 - Mar 2024

DevOps Intern

  • Developed Ansible plays to automate DKIM creation for a mail server and configured DNS records on AWS Route53, enhancing email security and streamlining domain management processes
  • Improved a critical database server script to ensure automatic restart upon server reboot. Integrated Splunk for real-time alerting, significantly enhancing system reliability and reducing downtime in case of tunnel failures
  • Updated and managed SSL certificates on internal servers, ensuring secure and encrypted communication, and maintaining compliance with security standards
  • Shadowed experienced DevOps Engineers, gaining insights into advanced system administration, automation strategies, and best practices in a real-world technology environment
  • Remote
  • AWS
  • Ansible
  • Splunk
  • Route53

Education

California State University - Northridge

2020 - 2024
BS in Computer Information Technology

California Lutheran University

2008 - 2011
Bioengineering

Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Active
Amazon Web Services • Dec 2022

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

In Progress
Cloud Native Computing Foundation • In Progress

Certified Cloud Native Platform Engineering Associate (CNPA)

In Progress
Cloud Native Computing Foundation • In Progress

Amateur Radio License — Technician Class

Active
FCC • Active

Skills

  • Python
  • Bash
  • YAML
  • AWS CloudFormation
  • Route53
  • ACM
  • EC2
  • RDS
  • VPC
  • S3
  • CloudWatch
  • SSM
  • KMS
  • Ansible
  • systemd
  • Git
  • GitLab
  • SSL/TLS
  • DNS
  • DKIM/DMARC/SPF
  • Splunk
  • Nagios
  • Checkmk
  • Linux
  • Windows
  • macOS

Projects

Automated Resume Deployment with GitHub Actions

Built end-to-end CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions to automatically build, test, containerize, and deploy a Next.js resume application to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Implemented automated Docker image builds with GitHub Container Registry, SSH-based deployment automation, and container lifecycle management with health checks and rollback capabilities.

  • GitHub Actions
  • Docker
  • Oracle Cloud
  • nginx
  • SSH
  • CI/CD

Splunk Cloud Logging & Ingestion Program

Deployed and configured Splunk Universal Forwarders across 150+ DevOps-managed servers for consistent ingestion into Splunk Cloud. Built new monitoring inputs for GitLab instances and remediated misconfigured OSSEC setup.

  • Splunk
  • Universal Forwarders
  • GitLab
  • OSSEC

Containerization Rollout

Authored/updated Ansible roles and plays to deploy containers with parameterized JVM options and environment variables. Implemented environment-specific configuration to eliminate server drift and coordinated change controls for each stage.

  • Ansible
  • Docker
  • JVM
  • Configuration Management

AWS Environment Provisioning & Baseline

Built repeatable dev/stage/prod environments using modular CloudFormation stacks (VPC, subnets, routing, security groups, compute/database layers). Parameterized templates for account/region reuse and authored runbooks enabling self-service provisioning.

  • AWS CloudFormation
  • VPC
  • EC2
  • RDS
  • Ansible
  • Route53