Supplemental Health Care
Feb 2024 — Present
DevOps & Platform Lead
Remote · Salt Lake City, UT
- Lead a team of 5 engineers owning DevOps strategy, platform engineering, and cloud infrastructure reliability for a healthcare staffing organization — driving Agile/Scrum ceremonies, reporting quarterly to the Head of Engineering, and delivering 90% of initiatives on time.
- Architected and automated scalable Azure infrastructure with Terraform across 20+ environments spanning Container Apps, Web Apps, VMs, Azure SQL, and Virtual Networks — zero configuration drift, auto-scaling absorbing 10x traffic spikes at 99.9% uptime.
- Delivered $250K+ in annual Azure cost savings through compute reservation optimization, Application Insights trace and retention tuning, and AKS consolidation.
- Built reusable Terraform modules (Azure, Auth0, Airbyte) that cut code duplication 75%; automated IAM provisioning with enforced Azure Policy for 100% policy compliance.
- Introduced agentic AI into the workflow — using LLMs to build, deploy, and orchestrate Infrastructure as Code, with a review process ensuring AI-generated applications met security, coding-standard, and multi-stage QA requirements.
- Engineered a Redis caching layer that cut a hot-path response from 2–5 seconds to under 100ms.
- Enabled HIPAA, SOC 2, and PCI readiness using Drata for automated evidence collection; locked down VNets with NSGs, private endpoints, and Private Link via Terraform-enforced network segmentation.
- Implemented secure VPN infrastructure (SAML-integrated Point-to-Site and Site-to-Site via Azure VPN Gateway) for 150+ remote users at 99.9% uptime, plus custom Strongswan VPNs supporting 50+ partner organizations with zero security incidents.
- Built a client-facing SFTP ingestion pipeline (Azure Blob, Entra ID auth, managed identities, Azure DevOps CI/CD) with ETL into Synapse and Apache Superset analytics — processing 40,000+ files monthly.
- Stood up observability with Azure Monitor, App Insights, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Event Grid alerting; hardened frontends with App Gateway and Front Door WAF rules — 15% response-time improvement.