Derek Ogletree

Site Reliability Engineer

An experienced Site Reliability Engineer with a strong background in managing infrastructure on AWS with Terraform. Passionate about enhancing developer experience and driving organizational reliability practices. Proven track record in incident management, on-call rotations, and cross-functional collaboration.

Work

Site Reliability Engineer

Magnopus
Remote
  • Managed infrastructure and supporting tools for cloud-hosted services in a mobile/web-based AR/VR app, scaling to support millions of users.

  • Developed and delivered CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation using open-source tools, shell programming, and source control.

  • Created and maintained environments for engineering teams to engage in product platform development for internal projects.

  • Assisted in creating infrastructure for the 'Connected Spaces' project, recognized in TIME’s Best Inventions of 2022.

Sr. Systems Engineer

Motorola Solutions
Remote
  • Spearheaded the adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform, improving infrastructure scalability and reliability.

  • Developed a proof-of-concept for synthetic monitoring to support FedRAMP certification initiatives on Azure GovCloud.

  • Created architectural documentation for POCs, promoting forward-thinking design for cloud migration.

  • Advocated SRE principles across the organization through incident management training and disaster recovery exercises.

Cloud Systems Developer

Cloudreach
Remote
  • Guided clients in leveraging cloud solutions to implement efficient, scalable, highly available, and secure infrastructures.

  • Conducted datacenter-to-cloud migrations using Terraform and other tools.

  • Developed an enterprise-level 'Minimum Viable Cloud' using Terraform, CloudFormation, and Cloud Custodian for a major consumer credit organization.

  • Implemented a multi-account cloud environment for a global eyecare client, using Terraform for scalability testing before AWS migration.

DevOps Technician

Criteo
Ann Arbor, MI
  • Migrated systems monitoring platform from Nagios to Datadog, enhancing functionality and maintainability.

  • Codified AWS environments with CloudFormation to improve scalability, security, and versioning.

  • Enhanced AWS production environments to meet SOX compliance by overhauling permissions, logging processes, and cross-account policies.

Technical Support Engineer

Barracuda Networks
Ann Arbor, MI
  • Diagnosed and resolved issues with VPN and Spam Filter appliances powered by Apache, nginx, Java, and MySQL.

  • Provided best practice deployment for both physical and virtual environments.

Volunteer

Education

Eastern Michigan University

Information Assurance/Network Security
– Present

M.Sc. Candidate

Eastern Michigan University

Psychology/Criminology

B.Sc.

Certificates

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional

AWS SysOps Administrator Associate

AWS Certified Developer Associate

GCP Associate Cloud Engineer

Skills

Infrastructure

  • Terraform
  • Docker
  • Ansible
  • Automation

DevOps

Multi-Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Monitoring & Tuning

  • Datadog
  • Grafana
  • Nagios
  • PagerDuty

CI/CD

  • TeamCity
  • AzureDevOps
  • Jenkins

Capacity & Disaster Planning

Presentations & Demos

  • Workshops
  • Training

Mentorship

  • Incident Management
  • Blameless Postmortems

Security & Auditing

Cloud-Native Experience