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Jack Dong

Jack Dong

Sydney,NSW

Summary

I am a Certified AWS Solution Architect (SAA) and Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) with more than 2 years hands-on experience in automating application build via CI/CD pipeline and deployment of AWS and Azure infrastructures via various automation tools. Being a positive team player with can-do attitude, all the team members enjoy working with me. My technical skillsets include the following points:


  • Extensive experience in AWS services including EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, IAM, VPC, Route53, ALB etc.
  • Managing Docker orchestration and containerization using ECS, Kubernetes (EKS, AKS)
  • Experience in designing and building CI/CD pipelines via Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, Azure DevOps.
  • Experience in Iac: Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK
  • Hands-on experience in Monitoring (CloudWatch, Prometheus,
    Grafana) and Logging (ELK stack)
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities

Overview

2
2
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

DevOps Engineer

Avengers
09.2022 - 08.2023


  • Collaborated within a startup team to architect, develop, and deploy a highly reliable and scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) web application using AWS services.
  • Actively participated in Agile iteration planning, daily standup reporting, and post-iteration retrospective meetings, fostering efficient teamwork and continuous improvement.
  • Containerized the backend components into Docker images and pushed them to AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR), enabling seamless future rollbacks and deployments.
  • Utilized Git and Bitbucket for efficient source code management, ensuring version control and collaboration within the team.
  • Developed Terraform scripts and modules for building development, staging, and production environments, enabling infrastructure provisioning as code and ensuring consistency across environments.
  • Implemented AWS security groups, network ACLs, and encryption to enhance data protection, and ensured adherence to industry-specific compliance requirements.
  • Deployed and managed Kubernetes clusters in AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), incorporating features like persistent volumes with AWS Elastic File System (EFS), autoscaling with Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA), budgeting with Kubecost, and secure secrets management with HashiCorp Vault.
  • Wrote Jenkins CI/CD pipeline scripts to automate build and deployment processes, using Helm for Kubernetes orchestration.
  • Deployed Snyk within Jenkins for vulnerability testing of container images, enhancing security in the CI/CD workflow.
  • Worked with AWS Logs agent and created metric filter for CloudWatch log groups.
  • Implemented and maintained production monitoring and alerting solutions using AWS CloudWatch and AWS-managed Grafana, ensuring real-time visibility into application and infrastructure health.
  • Employed Elasticsearch and Kibana (ELK stack) for log aggregation and real-time analysis, enabling the rapid detection of anomalies, errors, and security incidents.
  • Customized Kibana dashboards and visualizations to provide clear insights into system performance and security events.

DevOps Engineer

JobPin
07.2021 - 08.2022


  • Leveraged AWS S3 for efficient frontend deployment and employed AWS CloudFront for content distribution, enhancing the availability and performance of web assets.
  • Configured backend applications using AWS Container Services, including ECR and ECS Fargate, with auto-scaling policies spanning multiple Availability Zones (Multi-AZ) for increased reliability and scalability.
  • Automated the build and deployment process for JobPin web application by integrating Jenkins CI/CD pipeline with Terraform, ensuring consistent and repeatable infrastructure deployment.
  • Integrated Vault for secure and secret management during the CI/CD process.
  • Integrated SonarQube into the CI/CD pipeline and collaborated closely with developer teams to identify and remediate code quality issues and vulnerabilities.
  • Designed and implemented Blue/Green deployment strategies for Amazon ECS, ensuring zero downtime during the release of new features and updates.
  • Automated instance configuration tasks using Ansible Playbooks, simplifying the management and maintenance of infrastructure resources.
  • Orchestrated the entire CI/CD process for Hackathon project by Azure DevOps, including source code management, container image creation and storage in Azure Container Registry (ACR), and AKS deployment.
  • Maintained Terraform configurations for AKS clusters to accommodate scalability and redundancy requirements.
  • Utilized Helm to package, version, and deploy applications to AKS, streamlining application lifecycle management.
  • Troubleshooted build issues and coordinated with Dev teams to fix issues.

Education

Graduate Certificate - DevOps

TechWorld
Sydney, NSW
05.2021

Diploma - Project Management

Warwick Institute of Australia
Sydney, NSW
11.2020

Master of Science - Electrical Engineering

University of New South Wales
Sydney, NSW
07.2017

Skills

  • DevOps Principles, Software Development Lifecycle, and Agile Methodologies (Jira)
  • Container Technology: ECS, ECR, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, EKS, AKS
  • CI/CD: Jenkins and AWS CodePipeline, Azure DevOps
  • Iac (Infrastructure as Code): Terraform, AWS CloudFormation
  • AWS Services: EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, EBS, EFS, Route53, Auto-Scaling, Load Balancer, VPC, Lambda, API Gateway, AWS CLI
  • Azure Services: Active Directory, AKS, Key Vault, Storage, Azure CLI
  • Monitoring and Logging: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK( Fluentd, Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana)
  • Security: Snyk, SonarQube
  • Configuration tool: Ansible
  • Operating System: Linux
  • Version Management: Git,
    GitHub, Bitbucket
  • Languages: Python, Shell, Go,
    JavaScript

Certification

AWS Certified Solutions Architect (SAA)
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Timeline

DevOps Engineer

Avengers
09.2022 - 08.2023

DevOps Engineer

JobPin
07.2021 - 08.2022

Graduate Certificate - DevOps

TechWorld

Diploma - Project Management

Warwick Institute of Australia

Master of Science - Electrical Engineering

University of New South Wales
Jack Dong