Justin Conover

DevOps & Cloud Engineer

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner and HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate, passionate about building scalable, automated infrastructure. I specialize in CI/CD pipelines, containerization with Docker & Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code.

Technical Skills

Cloud Platforms

AWS Azure

CI/CD

Bamboo GitLab CI GitHub Actions ArgoCD

IaC & Config Mgmt

Terraform Ansible CloudFormation Puppet

Containers

Docker Kubernetes OpenShift

Monitoring

Prometheus Grafana AWS CloudWatch CloudTrail X-Ray

Scripting

Python Bash

Security

AWS IAM Security Groups NACLs

Databases

MySQL PostgreSQL

Middleware

WebSphere Open Liberty

Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services

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HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

HashiCorp

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Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Microsoft

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Featured Projects

AWS EKS Infrastructure Automation

A fully automated deployment of a Kubernetes cluster on AWS using Terraform and Ansible.

Terraform AWS Kubernetes
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Azure Multi-Environment Microservices Platform

A comprehensive microservices platform on Azure with automated deployment, GitOps, and multi-environment support.

Azure Terraform Kubernetes ArgoCD
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Kubernetes Homelab Automation

A complete homelab setup on mini PCs running Ubuntu, automated with shell scripts.

Kubernetes Ubuntu Cilium
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DevOps AI Assistant - RAG

A production-ready AI assistant powered by local LLMs with Retrieval-Augmented Generation for DevOps documentation.

Python FastAPI Ollama Docker
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Legacy Java Modernization to OpenShift

Modernizing enterprise Java workloads from IBM WebSphere to containerized Open Liberty on Red Hat OKD/OpenShift with GitOps.

OpenShift Open Liberty ArgoCD Ansible
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Work Experience

Senior Infrastructure & Automation Engineer

CDK Global | Remote

October 2015 - Present

  • Automated AWS infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and configuration management using Puppet and Ansible, reducing deployment times by 80% and improving system reliability by 40%.
  • Leading infrastructure automation initiatives and cloud migration projects. Establishing DevOps best practices across development teams. Improved system reliability by 40% through infrastructure automation and monitoring improvements.

Senior Systems Administrator

Getty Images | Seattle, WA

2014 - Aug 2015

  • Managed and optimized cloud infrastructure on AWS.
  • Implemented automation with Puppet and Ansible to streamline operations and reduce manual tasks.
  • Collaborated with development teams to enhance application performance and reliability.

Senior Systems Engineer

Costco | Issaquah, WA

2012 - 2014

  • Implemented Puppet Enterprise for configuration management and automated provisioning, while managing WebSphere Application Server and IBM HTTP Server environments.

Senior Systems Engineer

Federal Reserve Bank | Kansas City, MO

2009 - 2011

  • Administered WebSphere Portal/Application Server (6.x–7.x) with automated deployments, migrations, and security configuration on Red Hat Linux.

Senior WebSphere Administrator

Sprint.com | Overland Park, KS

2006 - 2009

  • Led production support for Sprint’s largest IBM WebSphere/SPDE installation (24 nodes, 300 JVMs) supporting $1M+ daily revenue.
  • SME for WebSphere Application & Portal Server across Windows, Linux, and AIX; installed, configured, scaled, and applied fix packs.
  • Automated deployments and administration with scripting (Bash, Jython, wsadmin), managing security (SSL, LDAP) and J2EE app releases.

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