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Shawn Doherty

Infrastructure DevOps Engineer

Email: shawndoherty24238@gmail.com

Address: Hopkins, MN 55343

Phone: (978) 861-0777

SUMMARY

Infrastructure DevOps Engineer with 8 years of experience designing, automating, and managing enterprise cloud and hybrid infrastructure across Microsoft Azure, AWS, and GCP. Expert in network design, network protocols, capacity planning, system administration, server management, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM/Bicep, Ansible), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), CI/CD automation, ELK Stack, Nagios monitoring, OpenStack, and cloud security compliance (HIPAA, SOC2, GDPR).

Proven record of improving uptime to 99.99%, reducing MTTR by 35%, and leading knowledge-sharing initiatives to standardize cloud operations using ITIL framework practices.

TOP SKILLS

• Deployment Management: Blue-Green, Canary, Rolling Updates

• Architecture Patterns: Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, Serverless / FaaS

• IaC: Terraform, Terragrunt, ARM Templates, Bicep, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Ansible

• Azure Services: VNet, Subnets, NSG, Azure Load Balancer, Application Gateway, Azure NetApp Files, Azure Backup, Site Recovery, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Azure AD

• AWS Services: EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, KMS, GuardDuty, Route53, ALB/NLB, Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudFront

• GCP Services: Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage, IAM, VPC, Pub/Sub

• Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, GKE

• CI/CD & Automation: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Argo CD, Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline, Bash, Python

• Configuration Management: Ansible, Puppet

• Monitoring, Logging & Observability: Datadog, Sumo Logic, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, CloudWatch

• Security & Compliance: IAM, KMS, GuardDuty, Prisma Cloud, Encryption/Key Management, HIPAA

• Distributed Systems & Messaging: SQS/SNS, Kafka, Lambda, EventBridge

• Programming & Scripting: Python, Node.js, Bash, YAML/JSON

EDUCATION

University of Minnesota

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

CERTIFICATES

• IBM Ecosystem Cloud Native Developer – IBM

Issued July 2025 - Expires July 2028

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• IBM MQ on AWS Cloud Developer Essentials – IBM

Issued July 2025 - Expires July 2028

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SKILLS

Blue-GreenCanaryRolling UpdatesMicroservicesEvent-DrivenServerlessTerraformTerragruntARM TemplatesBicepCloudFormationPulumiAnsibleAzureVNetAzure ADAWSEC2EKSRDSS3IAMKMSGuardDutyRoute53LambdaDynamoDBCloudFrontGCPCompute EngineGKECloud StorageVPCPub/SubDockerKubernetesJenkinsGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDArgo CDAzure DevOpsAWS CodePipelineDatadogSumo LogicPrometheusGrafanaELK StackCloudWatchPrisma CloudHIPAASOC2GDPRSQS/SNSKafkaEventBridgePythonNode.jsBashYAML/JSON

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Senior DevOps Engineer

Maxwell Health

Jun 2024 - May 2026

Boston, MA

  • Designed and automated multi-region cloud infrastructure across AWS and Microsoft Azure (VNet, NSG, Subnets, EC2/VMs, RDS/Azure SQL, EKS/AKS, Route53, Azure DNS) using Terraform, ARM, Bicep, and Ansible, achieving 99.99% uptime.
  • Led migration of HIPAA-compliant production workloads from AWS to Azure, implementing hybrid connectivity, encryption standards, identity governance, disaster recovery, and data center management; reduced provisioning errors by 60%.
  • Containerized 40+ healthcare services using Docker and Kubernetes (AKS/EKS), enabling microservices architecture, blue-green and canary deployments, and reducing release downtime by 45%.
  • Developed IaC pipelines with Terraform, ARM, Bicep, and Ansible integrated with Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions, cutting manual provisioning by 70% and ensuring compliance with ITIL practices.
  • Architected centralized monitoring and logging using ELK Stack, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Prometheus, Datadog, and Nagios, reducing MTTR by 35% and improving capacity planning.
  • Strengthened cloud security posture with IAM, Azure AD RBAC, KMS encryption, GuardDuty, and automated compliance validation; authored internal runbooks and standardized security processes.

DevOps Engineer

AngelList

Jul 2022 - Jun 2024

San Francisco, CA

  • Managed multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP supporting 50+ production workloads; implemented capacity planning, server management, system administration, and automated lifecycle provisioning with Terraform, Pulumi, and CloudFormation.
  • Migrated GCP workloads to AWS, re-architecting network protocols, VPC design, IAM policies, storage, and compute to reduce costs by 30% and improve performance by 25%.
  • Designed reusable IaC modules for AWS services (VPC, EC2, IAM, ALB/NLB, RDS, S3, Auto Scaling), standardizing deployments and improving governance.
  • Modernized monolithic applications into Docker and Kubernetes (EKS/GKE), implementing rolling deployments and event-driven microservices, improving scalability and reliability.
  • Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI and Jenkins, integrating infrastructure provisioning with automated application deployments, runbooks, and ITIL-aligned change management workflows.

DevOps Engineer

Gust

Oct 2020 - Jun 2022

New York, NY

  • Architected AWS and GCP infrastructure supporting high-availability financial systems across Linux environments, improving uptime from 99.0% to 99.9% and optimizing network performance.
  • Implemented IaC using Terraform and automated configuration management for compute, networking, and identity services; improved server management efficiency by 40%.
  • Deployed Kubernetes clusters (EKS/GKE) supporting microservices and serverless (FaaS) workloads integrated with SQS/SNS messaging; authored internal documentation for operational standards.
  • Built CI/CD pipelines and implemented blue-green deployments, reducing release failures by 40% and standardizing environment promotion.
  • Implemented monitoring, logging (ELK Stack, CloudWatch), IAM hardening, encryption, vulnerability scanning, and SOC2 compliance, supporting ITIL framework-based incident response and operational excellence.

Backend Developer

Concord

Oct 2018 - Sep 2020

Hopkins, MN

  • Worked on migrating legacy PHP/LAMP monolithic applications to Python-based microservices architectures to improve scalability and maintainability.
  • Developed RESTful APIs and backend services using Python frameworks such as FastAPI and Django for e-commerce, booking, and financial platforms.
  • Processed and optimized large-scale transactional and financial datasets using PostgreSQL, improving query performance and data reliability.
  • Built event-driven and asynchronous backend workflows for payments, notifications, and background job processing.
  • Contributed to backend modernization efforts by converting Laravel/PHP services into containerized Python microservices integrated with PostgreSQL and cloud-native environments.