Paige Marek | Extended Resume

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Write Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK in TypeScript and team-created DSL written in Ruby
Create Python scripts using AWS SDK for Python (Boto3) to make non-IaC changes or gather information on AWS accounts
Manage Chef code for configuration management in AWS cloud environments
Perform systems administration (upgrading, configuration, and troubleshooting) for developer tools including Jenkins, Artifactory, GitHub Enterprise, and TeamCity
Produced team onboarding documentation including best practices that team has adapted and broke down each process into consumable portions for learning
Assisted with remediation of large security incident, rotating secrets and documenting recommended pathways to migrate secrets out of code to AWS Secrets Manager for other teams

Architected and developed cloud-based solution for log streaming using AWS Kinesis and CloudWatch to forward application logs to customer endpoints
Upgraded severely outdated Ansible codebase to latest version and tested all necessary module and process changes in development environment prior to production deployment to ensure transition occurred smoothly
Developed AWS API to create/expire/rotate/migrate encryption keys for customers that were stored in AWS Parameter Store and incorporated API calls into customer instance creation, migration, and deletion processes
Regularly worked with product engineering to integrate new features into customer instances or remediate security vulnerabilities using automation
Team lead for US-based members and helped organize project work, documentation, and perform in-depth code review for co-workers

Improved customer application upgrade process using Ansible automation, decreasing time to complete upgrades and offering continuous insight into progress by integrating a chat ops component /li>
Continuously evaluated manual work processes by operations team and created automation for the most time-consuming tasks
Saved thousands a month in cloud costs by introducing automation and tagging processes to tear down instances in our dev and sandbox environments

Created Bash, PowerShell, and Python scripts as needed to automate tasks performed regularly and improve administrative experience
Made several improvements to virtual infrastructure, e.g., moved vCenter clusters away from standard switching to distributed switching, upgraded ESXi versions, maintained update templates and configured DRS automation
Migrated existing servers to latest Ubuntu and CentOS LTS distributions and setup Apache, NGINX, uWSGI, and other services from scratch

Managed primary application servers used by the company for publication subscriptions and improved user experience while decreasing tickets related to poor performance by 80% by standardizing all server environments
Configured WSUS and approved updates monthly across 20 physical locations for hundreds of workstations and dozens of servers
Set up two-tier certificate authority hierarchy to allow internally signed SSL certificates

Administered DC, DHCP, DNS, file and print servers at fourteen different client organizations
Executed network migrations, reconfigurations and integrations to improve performance
Assisted with mail migration from onsite Exchange to Office 365 by creating necessary PowerShell scripts

Created PowerShell scripts to automatically update third party applications with remote monitoring software
Managed five client organizations as primary contact for all IT matters; made regular on-site visits
Routinely executed server patching and maintenance for Windows 2003, 2008 and 2012 servers