Senior Site Reliability Engineer · Platform engineering · Chicago, IL
Golden paths that let application teams get a repo, infrastructure, identity, database access and a deploy, with the manual steps removed.
SOX controls enforced by the pipeline instead of manual review, in a SOX-, HIPAA- and SOC 2-regulated environment.
Shared skills, hooks and MCP integrations, with guardrails and usage tracking, that make AI tools useful on real platform work.
Terraform and HCP Terraform at organization scale, with reusable modules other teams adopt on their own.
Kubernetes in production, SLOs, on-call, and alerts that mean something.
Co-built a self-service golden path: application teams now set up a repository, infrastructure, cloud identity, database access and deployments themselves, with the manual steps removed. I built its workflow orchestrator and provisioning forms, from development through production, and ran the evaluation and migration plan for moving our developer portal to a commercial one.
I found a gap in our ITGC program-change process that made it hard to follow, and built a Python service on my own initiative to close it. It checks production change tickets against audit requirements so developers and managers get changes right and avoid audit findings. It’s now used broadly across CoverMyMeds’ engineering organization.
Moved SOX controls into CI/CD so the pipeline enforces them: separation of duties on production deploys, least-privilege infrastructure apply, isolated compliance workflows, and one scanned pipeline as the only way to publish artifacts. Integrated GitHub Advanced Security ahead of a company-wide deadline, and led GitHub Enterprise SOX compliance as project manager and developer.
Led AI-assisted engineering on the platform team: agent context files across all platform repositories, a shared library of skills, hooks and subagents, packaged as plugins, that encode our runbooks, MCP access to observability data, rollout guardrails with an opt-in usage dashboard, and assistants for onboarding and pre-standup triage.
Brought GitHub organization and repository settings under Terraform and built reusable Azure modules, including Azure Managed Redis with passwordless auth. I run both Terraform Enterprise and HCP Terraform, designed the HCP Terraform access model, and wrote the onboarding guide so teams can self-serve.
Owned upgrades and lifecycle for core developer tooling, including GitHub Enterprise Server, centralized audit logging in Splunk, and retired legacy automation tooling. Moved 100+ alerts from Slack to Microsoft Teams before Slack was retired, built Datadog monitoring for pipeline runners, and served as on-call primary for production AKS.
I mentor new hires and junior SREs, from their first weeks at the company through day-to-day work. I started and ran a weekly hands-on upskilling program, act as a main code reviewer for the team’s infrastructure changes, and introduced team flow practices such as WIP limits.
Helped found the SRE team and brought in SRE ways of working: SLOs for 10+ critical services, on-call, runbooks and root-cause analysis on major incidents. Led the observability rollout across 100+ microservices, with an Ansible pipeline deploying Prometheus, Thanos and Jaeger alongside Dynatrace.
| 2022 — now | Senior Site Reliability Engineer | CoverMyMeds (McKesson) · Remote |
| 2019 — 2022 | Senior Site Reliability Engineer | 84.51° (Kroger) · Cincinnati |
| 2018 — 2019 | Versatilist Engineer | 84.51° (Kroger) · Cincinnati |
| 2016 — 2018 | IT Co-op | 84.51° (Kroger) · Cincinnati |
| 2014 — 2019 | B.S. Information Technology | University of Cincinnati |
Senior and staff platform engineering, site reliability engineering, and DevOps / infrastructure roles, plus lead or manager roles for platform and SRE teams.
Based in Chicago. Open to remote (US), hybrid or onsite in Chicago.
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Gym, home-automation projects that are smarter than me, and working through Chicago’s coffee scene one shop at a time.