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Harris Jones

@harrisjones

Cloud engineer at Amex designing Azure infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for cloud-native and hybrid applications.

At Amex, I design and manage Azure infrastructure, including secure networks, AKS environments, and Terraform modules. I also build Azure DevOps pipelines for provisioning, deployment, validation, and security scanning.

Previously at Amex, I engineered and supported large-scale OpenShift installations, integrated clusters with CI/CD tools, and automated operations with Ansible Tower. I also worked on application deployments to AKS and OpenShift.

At ADP, I worked on AWS and Azure infrastructure and CI/CD, including migrating more than 100 applications from on-premises environments to AWS. I created Python scripts for AWS instance operations and automated builds and deployments.

Earlier, I worked in DevOps, build and release engineering, and Linux administration at Target, VERIZON, and Prudential Financial. My certifications include AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, and Microsoft Azure architecture and security certifications.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Sr. Infrastructure/Sr. Cloud Engineer

Current

Amex

Jan 2024 - Present (2 years 9 months)

Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for multiple applications and services. Automate build, test, and deployment processes to improve release velocity and reliability.

CI CD Azure Terraform Kubernetes Docker Azure DevOps ARM Templates azure monitor Azure Active Directory GCP Hyper V PowerShell YAML Maven NPM NuGet GitHub AWS

Sr. Infrastructure Engineer/ OpenShift Administrator

Amex

Mar 2018 - Jan 2024 (5 years 10 months)

Engineer solutions using OpenShift containers and maintain and support large OpenShift installation. Design, deploy, and maintain Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform clusters.

DevOps / Cloud Engineer

ADP

Oct 2017 - Feb 2018 (4 months)

Responsible for building up the infrastructure from scratch using high level architecture. Made multiple POCs on Code-Build, SonarQube, and Serverless Infrastructures within AWS.

AWS Jenkins Terraform SVN GitHub Tomcat XML OpenStack JBoss Jira Confluence Ansible Python Docker Kubernetes Azure VSTS PowerShell Code Deploy CloudFormation IAM S3 Glacier Cloudwatch Chef SonarQube Maven Bamboo

DevOps Engineer

Target

Aug 2015 - Sep 2017 (2 years 1 month)

Worked in a team that involved different development teams and multiple simultaneous software releases. Participated in weekly release meetings with Technology stakeholders to identify and mitigate potential risks.

AWS Git Jenkins Maven Puppet Docker Ansible Splunk Web Logic Tomcat Python Perl Ruby OpenStack XML JBoss Nagios Nginx Marathon EC2 Cloudwatch

Build and Release Engineer

Verizon

Jul 2013 - May 2015 (1 year 10 months)

Integrated Nginx with Postgres DB within a single network using Docker-compose for monitoring app data logs. Strong experience with SCM methodology practices, process improvement, and toolsets using IBM RTC.

Docker Jenkins Maven Chef IBM RTC Kubernetes Tomcat Nginx YAML XML OpenStack JBoss ServiceNow Docker Compose Docker Swarm

Linux Administrator

Prudential Financial

May 2012 - Jun 2013 (1 year 1 month)

Responsible for 100 servers for their maintenance, troubleshooting, disk management, their availability and different applications running on them. Monitored system operation efficiencies and services such as HTTP, FTP, MySQL etc. with Nagios.