Greg Pirker

Senior Cloud Database Engineer @Thermo Fisher Scientific

Guiding the DevOps staff as “Technical Team Lead” ensuring our landscape is crafted with precision and scale. • Providing vision for our data center migration efforts and the pathways to their eventual home in the Cloud. • Championing the vision of our “Cloud First” mentality in and amongst our service partners. • Crafting the security constructs necessary to govern “least privileged access” to Cloud Services • Participating on a team that devises network topologies and tags necessary to automate service delivery • Building the policies & constructs necessary to encrypt data at rest and in-flight • Devising the tag structure and policies/procedures DevOPs engineers use to manage a diverse landscape • Architecting a framework that allows for dynamic deployment of DBaaS using one body of code • Mapping out the use of cold storage and the tags, lifecycle policies, privileges & encryption policies that allows for their efficient use • Searching for new ways to manage our ever-expanding landscape using Ansible, Python/boto3, TerraForm, etc. • Coding the alpha/beta version of playbooks/recipes necessary to deploy Infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code. This is done using a variety of lab environments that best allow the code base to interact with the various facets of our LOBs, allowing one body of code to manage many end points. • Serving as primary educator, author, content creator for SOPs as they relate to the creation/consumption of our architecture • Serving as one of the primary engineers responsible for devising the code/constructs/policies that allow for the dynamic resizing of Cloud services as a cost saving measure. • Fomenting the relationship between Compliance and the Cloud Database Team to create policies/procedures that assure compliance with our regulatory bodies. We are working towards a Compliance as Code model for managing the gap between reality and expected Compliance.