Jonathan Mendoza

About Jonathan Mendoza

Currently a DevOps Engineer at Peraton. Demonstrated leadership and technical experience.…

Experience

1. Senior Devops Engineer

   Peraton

   Mar 2025 — Present

   Manage and maintain Ansible-based Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for automated deployment of microservices to our Kubernetes clusters, across multiple networks- Designed and implemented an Ansible-based blue-green deployment switchover process aimed at significantly reducing transition time and complexity. The solution includes automated load balancer re-routing and dynamic ConfigMap updates within a Kubernetes cluster- Built reusable Ansible roles and tasklists to standardize the provisioning and management of Application and Network Load Balancers, with the goal of streamlining and unifying deployment across our infrastructure- Developed an Ansible playbook and role to fully automate the creation and registration of GitLab runners, streamlining CI/CD pipeline setup and reducing manual configuration time- Work with Jenkins CI/CD pipelines daily, which includes troubleshooting issues to maintain continuous delivery, as well as managing it to improve pipeline reliability and performance- Administer and maintain a self-hosted Red Hat Identity Management (IdM) solution, serving as the primary internal DNS resolution and user identity management solution for our entire infrastructure, across multiple networks- Manage and maintain Kubernetes clusters using Rancher, including deploy, configuration, and ongoing cluster health monitoring to support containerized workloads

Education

• Virginia Tech

  Bachelor's Degree, Business Information Technology

  2013 — 2017