Jim Gronowski

About Jim Gronowski

Jim has over 20 years of experience in tech, bridging the gap between people and technology. His background includes network engineering, cybersecurity, cloud computing, DevOps, microservices, and more. Jim currently manages a team responsible for building and maintaining multiple software-as-a-service applications with infrastructure that spans the globe.Engineering manager/SRE/Cloud Engineer/DBA with broad experience in designing and building highly available systems in the cloud. Jim focuses on creating reliable, resilient, and observable infrastructure-as-code that\'s flexible and reusable. Jim enjoys mentoring junior team members and leading by example to help build high-performing teams. Current focus/experience: AWS, Terraform, Rancher/Kubernetes, CI/CD, Information Security, Cybersecurity, Cloud Cost Management/Finops, SOC2/ISO27001 compliance

Experience

1. Associate Director, Site Reliability Engineering

   Veson Nautical

   Jan 2025 — Present

   Quarterly and annual planning- Budgeting- Cloud cost management / finops- Cross-engineering coordination on large-scale projects and initiatives- Disaster recovery planning / testing - Cybersecurity hardening and resiliency

Education

• University of Arizona - Eller College of Management

  BS, Management Information Systems, Minor in Computer Science

  1999 — 2003

Skills

• San/Nas Storage
• Network Administration
• Virtualization
• High Availability Clustering
• Vpn
• Storage Area Networks
• Security
• Pci Dss
• Voip
• Data Center
• System Administration
• Vlan
• Load Balancing
• Ipsec/Ssl Vpn
• Haproxy
• Windows Azure
• Open Source
• Esxi
• Network Security
• Openvpn
• Vmware
• Pci Standards
• Switches
• Redis
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Iam
• Iscsi
• Spam Filtering
• Replication
• Microsoft Exchange
• Sql
• Firewalls
• Linux
• Open Source Software
• Active Directory
• Routing
• Amazon Ec2
• San
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Lan-Wan