Jayson Rawlins

Jayson Rawlins

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Senior Cloud Engineer at Defiance Digital | AWS Community Builder

  • Education

    • Wayne State University

      1999 - 2002
      Bachelor's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering 3.0

      For my senior project, I designed a high-speed cassette tape to .wav file converter.

    • University of Central Florida

      2010 - 2019
      Bachelor's degree Information Technology 3.3
    • Schoolcraft College

      1995 - 1998
      Associate of Science (A.S.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering 3.7

      Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa

  • Experience

    • AAA National

      Jul 2005 - Nov 2018

      ➢ Coded Java, C#, Python, NodeJS and corresponding unit testing frameworks.➢ Engineered algorithm analysis, spatial formulas and performance analysis.➢ Collaborated on migration of On-Premise to AWS cloud solutions including legacy Tomcat and JBoss applications.➢ Executed system administration, automation using BASH, Jenkins, Ansible and Lambda.➢ Designed Jenkins pipelines using declarative syntax, Jenkins upgrades, plug-in security, Bitbucket integration, web hooks, branch rules, custom scripting. Show less

      • Devops Engineer

        Jun 2017 - Nov 2018
      • Software Developer

        Mar 2016 - Jun 2017
      • Programmer\Analyst

        Jun 2014 - Mar 2016
      • GIS Data Analyst

        Jul 2005 - Jun 2014
    • American Automobile Assoc

      Nov 2018 - May 2019
      Senior DevOps Engineer

      ➢ Migrated On-Premise applications using security best practices and infrastructure as code.➢ Developed Jenkins/Ansible/CloudFormation development using infrastructure-as-code best practices.➢ Collaborated with cross-functional development team members to analyze potential solutions to improve AWS networking architecture.➢ Configured monitoring tools like AWS log groups and Splunk from within EC2 autoscaling groups.

    • Disney Experiences

      May 2019 - Nov 2020
      Cloud Engineer

      ➢ Developed Terraform for provisioning AWS ECS, Fargate, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, IAM Roles, Policies, Security Groups, Route 53, SSL Certs, ELBs, Redis/ElastiCache, and RDS.➢ Created Chef cookbooks, environment files, data bags, attributes, and run lists in a massive production environment.➢ Utilized AppDynamics, CloudWatch, and Splunk to provide operational support for Disney World Park/Disney Land software in AWS, Google Cloud, and on-premise for 1000+ applications.➢ Provisioned machine learning optimizations that resulted in $375,000/year in cost savings.➢ Configured Akamai properties, cloudlet redirects, waiting rooms via web interface and Akamai CLI. Show less

    • FinQuery, Formerly LeaseQuery

      Nov 2020 - Oct 2021
      Senior DevSecOps

      ➢ Created PowerShell scripts deploying Windows Services and Windows IIS Web Applications.➢ Created SQS utilizing Terraform/TerraGrunt.➢ Wrote Jenkins Pipelines for application deployment including AMI creation, AutoScaling and Launch configuration.➢ Maintained and utilized VPC peering in multi account context.➢ Created Fargate services in AWS.➢ Improved reliability of Selenium Grid for Automated Smoke Tests.➢ Configured Aurora AutoScaling, ElasticSearch, ElastiCache for application performance.➢ Configured DataDog for monitoring IIS including Windows events and IIS service logs.➢ Configured OpenVPN Cloud in VPC peering context. Show less

    • Pearson

      Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
      Principal Site Reliability Engineer
    • Defiance Digital

      Nov 2022 - now
      Senior Cloud Engineer
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Hashicorp Certified: Terraform Associate

      HashiCorp
      Oct 2022
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    • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

      Amazon Web Services (AWS)
      Sept 2023
      View certificate certificate
    • Lacework Shield Academy | Lacework Shield Associate (Tech Enablement - Level 2)

      Lacework
      Dec 2022
      View certificate certificate
    • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

      Amazon Web Services (AWS)
      Sept 2023
      View certificate certificate
    • Lacework Shield Academy | Lacework Service Partner Associate

      Lacework
      Feb 2023
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