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Scott Nyce

@snyce

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Senior DevOps/Platform engineer focused on AWS automation, observability, and secure, repeatable operations.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to build practical AWS infrastructure tooling—deep observability, security/compliance automation, and Terraform-driven repeatable operations—ideally with teams that value safe on-call practices and AI-assisted diagnostics.

I’m a Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer with 20+ years across Linux, SRE, AWS, Terraform, observability, and automation. My focus is building practical tooling that makes operations work faster, safer, and easier to repeat, especially for multi-account environments.

In my recent work at Cisco, I’ve delivered reusable Terraform patterns and state migration across AWS accounts, expanded observability across DNS/proxy/serverless log sources, and built VPC flow log diagnostics for egress issues, silent drops, and firewall misconfigurations. I also led an annual AWS firewall review across 15 accounts and supported SOC 2 and ISO 27001/27017/27018 with CIS benchmarking and CVE triage, while creating MCP servers and AI-assisted workflows for infrastructure diagnostics, evidence gathering, and repeatable operations.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior DevOps Engineer

Current

Cisco

Mar 2020 - Present (6 years 3 months)

Built infrastructure automation, observability, and security operations across multi-account AWS using Terraform modules and Splunk log routing. Created VPC flow log diagnostics for egress issues and firewall misconfigurations, and led an annual AWS firewall review across 15 accounts while supporting SOC 2 and ISO 27001/27017/27018 and CVE triage.

AWS Terraform Splunk VPC Flow Logs IAM Observability Python Security Compliance SOC ISO 27001

Senior DevOps Engineer

TiVo

Oct 2018 - Dec 2019 (1 year 2 months)

Deployed AWS microservices and applications with Terraform across multiple workspaces and reduced configuration drift by porting manually deployed services to Terraform. Built Docker-based internal tooling and managed AWS infrastructure across EC2, S3, CloudWatch, CloudFront, Route53, VPC, and IAM.

AWS Terraform Docker EC2 S3 Cloudwatch Cloudfront Route 53 VPC IAM

Site Reliability Engineer

Apple

Jan 2015 - Oct 2018 (3 years 9 months)

Developed a Python-based Hadoop HDFS monitoring suite covering block stats, node health, JVM metrics, and disk capacity. Created HDFS rack location tooling, ZooKeeper quorum checks, and certificate expiration monitoring, and contributed Puppet manifests for Linux monitoring checks.

Site Reliability Engineering Python HDFS Monitoring ZooKeeper Puppet Linux JVM Metrics Disk Capacity Certificate Monitoring

Sr. Linux Systems Engineer

TiVo

Sep 2011 - Jan 2015 (3 years 4 months)

Served as technical operations lead for international MSO deployments and domestic VOD infrastructure. Led x509 certificate migration across customer environments and built automation tooling in Python, Fabric, and Ansible.

Linux Operations Leadership X509 Python Fabric Ansible Automation VOD MSO Infrastructure