Tyler is available for hire

Tyler Bailey

Verified Expert in Engineering

DevOps Developer

Hamilton, ON, Canada

Toptal member since April 27, 2020

Expertise

AWS DevOps AWS RDS DevOps Cloudflare AWS Ubuntu AWS IAM Docker Agile Development Terraform Linux

Bio

Tyler has a diverse DevOps background with 14+ years of hands-on experience building infrastructure as code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, leveraging configuration management, and automating/optimizing mission-critical deployments. Tyler has worked for small and large businesses over the years and always enjoys a new challenge.

Portfolio

Revvity

Amazon, Amazon EC2, Amazon EFS, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), GitHub...

Random Games

Terraform, Jenkins, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon EFS...

PerkinElmer

Amazon, Terraform, AWS IoT, IoT Security, AWS Elastic Beanstalk...

Experience

Amazon - 12 years
Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 12 years
DevOps - 12 years
Linux - 12 years
Docker - 7 years
Terraform - 5 years
AWS Fargate - 5 years
GitLab CI/CD - 4 years

Availability

Full-time

Preferred Environment

Amazon Web Services (AWS), GitLab, Kubernetes, Python, Docker, Terraform, Amazon, Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon RDS

The most amazing...

...project I've done was migrate a NASDAQ/S&P 600 company's web infrastructure from Rackspace to AWS, reducing their bill by over 75%.

Work Experience

Principal CloudOps Engineering Lead

2023 - PRESENT

Revvity

Worked as a technical lead for CloudOps operations across products.
Migrated the organization over to AWS SSO through AWS Control Tower.
Set up CrowdStrike across products and resolved vulnerabilities.

Technologies: Amazon, Amazon EC2, Amazon EFS, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), GitHub, Linux, Web Security, IoT Security, DevOps, AWS DevOps, Amazon RDS, AWS Certified Solution Architect

Terraform Expert

2022 - 2023

Random Games

Created AWS infrastructure through the use of Terraform.
Integrated Datadog as a monitor solution for all aspects of the project.
Set up the project with high availability in mind with failover.

Technologies: Terraform, Jenkins, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon EFS, Amazon EC2, Amazon CloudWatch, Datadog, AWS CloudFormation, AWS IAM, AWS VPN, AWS ALB

Principal CloudOps Engineering Lead

2022 - 2023

PerkinElmer

Worked as a technical lead for CloudOps operations across teams.
Migrated the organization over to AWS SSO through AWS Control Tower.
Set up CrowdStrike across products for vulnerability scanning.
Set up Snyk across products and support developers to resolve vulnerabilities.

Technologies: Amazon, Terraform, AWS IoT, IoT Security, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS Fargate, Amazon CloudWatch, RHEL, Windows, GitHub, Jira, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon RDS, Amazon EC2, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EFS

DevOps Manager

2021 - 2022

PerkinElmer

Led the DevOps team across the software platforms department.
Empowered the DevOps team to increase the velocity of deploying our releases while decreasing technical debt and improving the quality of our software.
Hired, coached, mentored, and gave the DevOps team feedback and hands-on career development.
Set and managed expectations with other engineering and operational teams.
Coordinated with the management and external stakeholders or customers.

Technologies: Amazon, Jira, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS IAM, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon EC2, Amazon EFS, Amazon RDS, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), AWS ALB, AWS VPN, AWS IoT, AWS ELB, AWS CLI, GitHub

Senior DevOps Engineer

2020 - 2021

Perkin Elmer

Built out highly available ECS Fargate clusters for various medical-related microservices.
Provisioned Kubernetes clusters with Terraform, Rancher, and RKE in a cloud-native manner.
Created the proof of concepts for AWS IoT for on-prem data collection.

Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Integration (CI), Amazon EC2, MQTT, Internet of Things (IoT), GitHub, AWS Fargate, ECS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon, Amazon EKS, AWS CLI, Amazon RDS, AWS IAM

DevOps Engineer

2019 - 2020

Parallel Digital Studio

Migrated a NASDAQ/S&P 600 company's web infrastructure from Rackspace to AWS, reducing costs by more than 75%. The infrastructure, using Terraform and container-based applications, was built, tested, and deployed through GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
Developed the CI/CD or continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines with Gitlab CI and AWS CodePipeline.
Created custom Git-hosted Terraform modules to encapsulate application-specific cloud resources to set up and tear down various environments.
Stood up ELK or Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash monitoring and log aggregation stacks.
Automated processes using scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, and Bash.

Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), ELK (Elastic Stack), Python, GitLab, Docker, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CLI, Amazon RDS, AWS IAM

Contract DevOps Engineer

2019 - 2019

StormFree Cloud Corporation

Worked with a remote DevOps team to help build Turnkey solutions on AWS using Kubernetes, Ansible, and Packer.
Deployed microservices to Kubernetes through custom Helm charts while deploying microservices through custom Helm charts.
Hardened and secured the base infrastructure Docker containers using Packer.
Built and maintained high-performance, high-availability Kubernetes clusters.

Technologies: Docker, Ansible, Packer, Kubernetes, AWS CLI, Amazon RDS, AWS IAM

Operations and DevOps Engineer

2014 - 2019

Postmedia Network

Helped migrate over 100 small and medium-sized community websites across Canada from on-prem to AWS in a month. The infrastructure was built out and configured with Ansible and deployed via Jenkins.
Assisted in building and testing the infrastructure of applications that power some of the largest media websites in Canada, including Nationalpost.com.
Built a web crawler with Scrapy to collect SEO metrics on our websites to better inform the newsroom on how our content performs and how to improve key metrics.
Monitored and diagnosed server issues using products such as AppDynamics, Grafana, Nagios, Amazon CloudWatch, and New Relic.
Automated MySQL upgrades, including optimizations to server and database instances and scripted Windows and Linux server migrations.
Created multiple iterations of site speed projects to improve website performance, focusing on ATF above the fold.
Created internal and external tools to significantly reduce cost, save time, and streamline processes.

Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, Jenkins, Python, Ansible, AWS CLI, Amazon RDS, AWS IAM

Experience

Migrated a NASDAQ/S&P 600 Company's Web Infrastructure

https://www.daveandbusters.com/

Migrated a NASDAQ/S&P 600 company's web infrastructure from Rackspace to AWS, reducing their bill by over 75%. Infrastructure was created with a GitOps approach using Terraform and containers-based applications built, tested, and deployed through GitLab CI/CD pipelines.

Infrastructure Setup and Migration of 100+ Small-medium-sized Sun Media Community Websites

https://torontosun.com/

Helped migrate 100+ small-medium-sized community websites across Canada from on-prem to AWS in a month. Infrastructure was built out and configured with Ansible and deployed via Jenkins. Worked with multiple stakeholders, including developers, QA, product, and project managers.

Node.js Anagram Application Built and Deployed with Terraform on AWS

https://github.com/draalin/anagram-app-infrastructure

An example Node.js Anagram application built and deployed with Terraform onto AWS. Using GitHub Actions as our CI/CD pipeline to manage the deployment of our infrastructure and application.
The infrastructure contains a standalone VPC, public and private subnets, auto-scaling capabilities, and a single point of entry handled by an application load balancer.

Serverless Architecture with AWS, Terraform, and GitHub Actions

https://github.com/draalin/tylerbailey.com

A live working example of serverless architecture built out with Terraform, deployed to GitHub Actions (CI/CD) onto AWS. Using a combination of Lambda functions and API Gateway to handle any dynamic requests. At the same time, keeping the front end hosted on S3 with CloudFront in front.

AWS Infrastructure for SimplicityLab420

https://www.perkinelmer.com/category/laboratory-automation-solutions-in-cannabis-hemp

Through a combination of Terraform, CloudFormation, and GitHub Actions built the infrastructure for SimplicityLab420 which is a dedicated Cloud-based laboratory execution system and is a part of the larger workflow of Laboratory Automation Solutions in Cannabis & Hemp.

Cloud Migration of Microservices

Migrated and re-built the infrastructure from one cloud platform to another for the PKeye Mobile Operations Monitor, which provides researchers with around-the-clock access to their automated liquid handling workstation by integrating on-deck cameras with the PKeye™ cloud-based platform.

Unioverse NFT

https://www.unioverse.com/

A web-based project using various AWS services deployed through Terraform and Jenkins. It is a website for the video game industry where users can choose their own heroes in a sci-fi world through various NFTs.

Education

2012 - 2014

Bachelor of Technology Degree in Computing and Information Technology

McMaster University - Hamilton, Ontario

2007 - 2011

Ontario College Advanced Diploma in Network Engineering and Security Analyst

Mohawk College - Hamilton, Ontario

Certifications

JULY 2020 - PRESENT

Certified Rancher Operator: Level One

Rancher Labs

JUNE 2019 - JUNE 2022

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Skills

Libraries/APIs

Node.js

Tools

AWS Fargate, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, Docker Compose, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS CLI, AWS IAM, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, ELK (Elastic Stack), Grafana, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), NGINX, Git, Subversion (SVN), Docker Hub, Tmux, Istio, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), Amazon EKS, Amazon WorkSpaces, Beanstalk, AWS Directory Service, GitLab, Packer, GitHub, MQTT, Jenkins, Ansible, Kibana, Jira, Typekit, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS ELB

Paradigms

DevOps, Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Deployment, Load Testing, Continuous Integration (CI)

Platforms

Amazon, Docker, Ubuntu, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS ALB, Kubernetes, Linux, Debian, AWS IoT, Blockchain, CrowdStrike, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Rancher, Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Apache2, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), New Relic, Windows

Languages

Python 3, Bash Script, Bash, Python, YAML, JavaScript

Storage

Amazon EFS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Datadog, Elasticsearch, Amazon DynamoDB, MongoDB, MariaDB, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)

Frameworks

Next.js, React Native

Other

Infrastructure as Code (IaC), AWS DevOps, DevOps Engineer, Amazon RDS, AWS VPN, Cloud Migration, Cloudflare, Autoscaling, Load Balancers, AWS CodePipeline, Web Servers, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Linux Server Administration, VM, Consul, Web Application Firewall (WAF), GitOps, Elastic Load Balancers, IT Security, Networks, IIS, ECS, Internet of Things (IoT), IIS 10, CI/CD Pipelines, Serverless, Lambda Functions, Web Security, IoT Security, RHEL

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