Scott Elias

As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Paylocity, I have developed and maintained enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, and ArgoCD, which power over 30 microservices across multi-stage environments. My efforts have cut release times by 50% and enabled daily production pushes. I introduced centralized observability tooling with Prometheus, ELK, and New Relic, significantly reducing incident detection lag by 60% and achieving consistent service availability of 99.95%.

Previously, I served as a DevOps Engineer at Amazon, where I engineered region-level infrastructure automation for new AWS commercial zones. I led the deployment of network, compute, storage, and service orchestration components across multiple production-grade regions. My work in optimizing fleet resource allocation through predictive scaling policies eliminated over $1.2 million in annualized over-provisioning, showcasing my commitment to efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

Throughout my career, I have collaborated with QA, SRE, and engineering teams to establish clear SLOs and improve incident response metrics by 40%. I am passionate about creating shared knowledge bases and SOPs to empower support teams, enabling them to resolve over 70% of incoming platform tickets independently.