Zachary Armstrong

Principal Cloud Engineer @Jobcase, Inc

Denver, CO, US

Responsible for the day-to-day operations of all Jobcase properties, including over 600 EC2 instances, 150 RDS instances, hundreds of domains. • Lead Cloud Engineer for migration from physical hosted environment to AWS for a company we acquired. • Developed automation for monitoring, deployments, and more. • Leader of a team of 4 Senior Cloud engineers, providing mentorship, training and guidance as needed. • Migrated infrastructure from Amazon Linux 1 to Amazon Linux 2; optimized ansible playbooks to be more efficient, easily updated, and reliable. • Architected CMS system, leveraging WordPress deployed to S3/CloudFront, eliminating the risk of exposing WordPress to the internet. • Migrated MySQL 5.6/5.7 baremetal to MySQL 8 RDS. • Collaborated closely with managers and lead engineers providing guidance and leveraging my cloud expertise to ensure their products/microservices launched successfully, were monitored properly, and had the capacity to scale as needed.

Rochester Institute of Technology

Information Technology, Entrepreneurship