email: seth@seth-mccombs.com
linkedin.com/in/sethmccombs
DevOps, Kubernetes and containers, SRE, build automating, all sorts of cloud infra and container stuff
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GCP
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AWS
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Docker &
containerd
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Kubernetes
- Python
- GoLang
- Associates in Applied Science, Entrepreneurial Business
- Monroe Community College Rochester, NY - 2011
Senior Engineer - Core Infrastructure
November 2022 - Current
- Managed GCP based Cloud Infrastructure
- Migrated manually provisioned resources to automated Terraform using Atlantis
- Transition from GCP CloudBuild to GitHub Actions
- Oversaw build-out of GKE based Kubernetes clusters for production workloads
- Deployed ArgoCD for deployment of all Kubernetes based components
Tech Lead - Kubernetes and Containers
Sep 2022 - November 2022
San Francisco, CA
- 1 of 3 Tech Leads on the DevOps team:
- Tasked with being first point of contact should our teammates need assistance
- Focused on knowledge sharing and documentation throughout the team and engineering org
- SME on Kubernetes and Container based platforms
(continued prior responsibilities as Senior Engineer on DevOps team)
Senior DevOps Engineer
Apr 2022 - Sep 2022
San Francisco, CA
- Built and maintained cloud infrastructure with Terraform and in-house Cloudformation tooling
- Managed CI/CD and Build Systems including:
- Jenkins
- CircleCI
- Spinnaker/ArmoryCD
- Lead engineer on EKS based Kubernetes migration
- Istio rollout
- Migration of VM based services to containers and into Kubernetes
Software Development Engineer III - Site Reliability Engineering
Aug 2021 - Apr 2022
Pleasanton, CA
- Working alongside the Public Cloud Team supporting the Kubernetes based platform
- Managing overall system health, working with application engineering teams to meet agreed on platform SLOs.
- Coordinating, automating and owning upgrades/patching of both Workday stack and underlying OSS platform (Kubernetes, Istio, Calico)
- Assist with onboarding services to the platform, coordinating with application teams, architects and product managers.
Software Development Engineer III - DevOps and Cloud Orchestration
Nov 2020 – Aug 2021
Pleasanton, CA
- Member of the Cloud Orchestration team, working on Kubernetes based platform running in the AWS AND GCP public cloud
- Designing and developing platform and tools to enhance resiliency and adoption of the Workday solution.
- Support build-out of new environments and regions, automating solutions across teams
Infrastructure Engineer
Dec 2019 – Nov 2020
San Francisco, CA
- Member of Cloud Infra team tasked with maintenance and oversight of all Cloud environments in AWS and IBM Cloud
- Responsible for automation around Kubernetes clusters and underlying VMs, storage, databases, etc
- Lead engineer supporting the company's build and deploy environment engineered around Jenkins
- Assisted all dev teams in company with migrations off freestyle builds to groovy pipeline scripts
- Managed VM and docker based build agents for running Jenkins jobs.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Feb 2019 – Nov 2019
San Francisco, CA
- SRE tasked with oversight of all cloud infrastructure
- Converted existing hand provisioned AWS infra to Infrastructure as Code
- Oversaw transition to full containers and Kubernetes environment from standard VMs
- Brought systems with little or no monitoring to higher levels of visibility with Cloud Provider metrics and OSS tooling
- Scripted common tasks (python) with the goal of increasing availability and decreasing recovery time
- Standardized tooling and infra around accepted open source solutions
Veracode/SourceClear (acquisition)
DevOps Engineer
May 2018 – February 2019
San Francisco, CA
- Transitioned to full time DevOps role split between VeraCode and SourceClear.
- Oversaw all IT integrations from SourceClear side.
- Responsible for VeraCode’s CI/CD platform (GitLab based)
- Helped spearhead introduction of Kubernetes into VeraCode
- Managed SourceClear’s multiple Kubernetes clusters, including upgrades and migrations.
IT Ops Engineer
November 2017 – May 2018
San Francisco, CA
- Supported office of startup software security company.
- Resolved all issues with on site systems.
- Automated onboarding process and led selection of new MDM solution.
- Oversaw company-wide LDAP, 2FA and G-Suite instances.
- Launched cloud ASA to unify VPN infrastructure.
- Supported fully cloud based infrastructure on the AWS, built on Docker containers and Kubernetes orchestration.
IT Business Relationship Manager
February 2016 – November 2017
San Francisco, CA
- Oversaw the build-out of San Francisco Innovation Lab in relation to technology infrastructure.
- Served as liaison between Sutherland’s Digital wing (mainly Sutherland Labs) and the technology teams that make up the larger organization.
- Managed all on site technology needs
- Architected solutions for research sessions on site and remote
- Covered all technology procurement and administered on site IT asset management.
- Traveled internationally to support meetings including those including the highest-level executives within the organization (continuing responsibility from previous role)