Lead DevOps Engineer
Best Western
Aug 2023 - Current (2 years 9 months)
• Managed AWS infrastructure hosting high-traffic, public-facing websites by optimizing ELB, EC2, RDS, and Route 53, ensuring scalability, security, and high availability. • Designed and implemented cloud cost optimization strategies, including EC2 right-sizing, S3 lifecycle policies, autoscaling groups, and unused resource cleanups, achieving over 30% reduction in AWS expenditures. • Developed Java Spring Boot microservices integrated with AWS Lambda and RDS, improving request throughput by 25%. • Led enterprise-wide Kubernetes adoption, establishing standards for Helm-based templating, node affinity, taints/tolerations, and autoscaling policies, resulting in improved resource utilization and platform stability. • Standardized multi-c