Mike Hoskins

Lexington, KY area with preference for remote work.

me@deadlysyn.com | https://deadlysyn.com

Objective

Seeking a role as a Senior or Staff Engineer where I can apply 30 years of experience building and scaling mission critical infrastructure and cloud native services to accelerate innovation and deliver value for the business.

About Me

I believe DevOps culture and SRE principles enable rallying around shared outcomes; increasing productivity while simultaneously improving quality of life. I am well-versed in Agile, Lean Product, GitOps and Infrastructure as Code.

Humble, collaborative, and continuously learning; I am pragmatic in my work style and technology choices. Having worked fully remote for over a decade, I am highly effective at asynchronous collaboration.

Experience

April 2022-December 2023 | Sr. Site Reliability Engineer | Lattice (https://lattice.com)

• Templatized infrastructure deployment (8x decrease in "time to new service")
• Deployed ArgoCD to orchestrate complex web of monolith and microservice dependencies
• Scaled global Kubernetes footprint in complex regulatory environment

January 2020-March 2022 | Sr. DevOps Engineer | Sonatype (https://sonatype.com)

• Automated employee onboarding (reduced hours of manual work to minutes)
• Built API allowing teams to self-manage AWS access (eliminated ticket wait time)
• Scaled and secured core infrastructure services and developer tooling

January 2018-December 2019 | Sr. Site Reliability Engineer | Pivotal Labs (Acquired)

• Developed SRE curriculum for internal and customer training
• Kept Fortune 100 digital transformation objectives on-track and on-budget
• Automated PaaS and cloud native application deployment to AWS, GCP, Azure and vSphere

Past Roles

• 2007-2017 | Infrastructure Architect | Cisco, Security Technology Business Unit (https://cisco.com)
• 2006-2007 | Sr. Infrastructure Engineer | IronPort (Acquired)
• 2004-2006 | Sr. Infrastructure Engineer | E2open (https://e2open.com)
• 2000-2004 | Technical Operations Manager | Televoke (Acquired)
• 1999-2000 | UNIX Systems Engineer | QWEST (https://centurylink.com)
• 1997-1999 | UNIX and Network Administrator | SEI Data (https://seidata.com)

Key Skills

• Disciplines: Lean, Agile, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering
• Languages: Bash/Shell, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, Node.js, Go
• Cloud Platforms: Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, vSphere
• Containers and Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes/EKS, OpenStack, Cloud Foundry
• Infrastructure as Code: CFEngine, Puppet, SaltStack, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Kustomize, Helm
• Observability: Nagios, Sensu, Prometheus, Graphite, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, Datadog, PagerDuty
• CI/CD: Concourse, Drone, CircleCI, FluxCD, Jenkins, Gitlab, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD
• Data: MySQL, PostgresSQL, Redis, Aurora/RDS, DynamoDB, Elasticache

Recent Training

• HashiCorp Vault Operations Professional (2023)
• HashiCorp Vault Associate (2022)
• HashiCorp Terraform Associate (2021)
• Go Programming Language Comprehensive Course (2021)
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (2020)
• AWS DevOps Engineer (2020)
• Building Web Services in Go (2019)
• Complete Node.js Developer Course (2019)
• Advanced Full-Stack Web Development (2019)