Rob Herrera

Experience

1. Senior Devops Engineer

   Patientpay

   Jan 2025 — Present

   Designed and maintained scalable AWS environments (EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, and Route 53) with a focus on security and cost optimization.• Built and optimized CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and Bitbucket Pipelines, enabling faster, more reliable deployments.• Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and configuration management through Ansible and Helm.• Implemented monitoring and alerting solutions using Datadog and OpsGenie to ensure high system availability.• Collaborated closely with developers to streamline code releases, improve observability, and drive DevOps best practices.• Led initiatives for system performance tuning, root-cause analysis, and proactive issue prevention.• Contributed to adoption of new cloud and container technologies, improving performance and operational efficiency.Highlights:• Reduced AWS hosting costs by ~20% through optimization strategies.• Enhanced deployment reliability by automating testing and release workflows.• Strengthened system security processes, aligning infrastructure with PCI compliance standards.

Education

• Boise State University

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science

Skills

• Security
• Top Secret
• Military Training
• Military Experience
• Java Programming
• Force Protection
• Comptia a+ Certification
• Networking
• Management
• Government
• Dod
• National Security
• Active Directory
• Unix
• Information Assurance
• Command
• Afghanistan
• Comptia Network+ Certified
• Weapons
• Automation
• Intelligence Analysis
• Java
• Security Clearance
• System Administration
• Army
• Comsec
• Counterterrorism
• Red Hat Linux
• Leadership
• Defense
• Military
• Operational Planning
• Military Operations
• Shell Scripting
• Intelligence
• Programming Languages