Evan Rauner

About Evan Rauner

IT professional with 8 years of experience implementing, maintaining, and optimizing mission critical solution deployments across various interdependent systems. The focus of my current role is delivering SaaS products on cloud based infrastructure.

Experience

1. Site Reliability Engineer

   Medallia

   Jun 2021 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Platform and Automation Tooling TeamAs an SRE at Medallia, I work at the intersection of operations and development, applying a process-oriented approach to streamline and automate workflows. My primary focus is on automating the provisioning and deployment pipeline for a multi-tenant Java application called Express (MEC). I manage infrastructure across cloud and on-premises environments, utilizing Kubernetes, Docker, and Python.Key Achievements- Modernized the MEC (DCR) deployment process by adopting Helm and ArgoCD for managing standard Kubernetes resources- Facilitated the adoption of DevOps and GitOps methodologies within the MEC SRE team- Maintained and contributed to a Python-based scripting pipeline for automating operational tasks- Actively participated in the MEC production services on-call rotation, ensuring service continuity and customer satisfaction.Skills and Technologies- Scripting: Python/Bash/Go- CI/CD: ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, Argo Events, Jenkins, Git- Containerization and Orchestration: Kubernetes (CKA certified), Docker, containerd- Cloud: Managing services across Kubernetes clusters in cloud/on-premise environments- Release Management: Collaborating with the release management team to improve the deployment process- API Integration: Interfacing with various services via APIs enabling integration and communication between disparate systems.

Education

• Oklahoma State University

  Bachelors, Management Information Systems and Services

  2012 — 2016