Austin Arlint
austin@arlint.dev | (406) 218-6028 | GitHub: github.com/aarlint | arlint.dev
Position: Experienced Senior DevOps Engineer
Years of Experience: 10+ years
Specialties:
- Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, Bare Metal)
- Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- IAC (TF, Ansible, Git)
Skills:
- Technical Languages: Python, GoLang, Ansible
- Technical Tools: GitOps, CI/CD, GitHub Actions
- Proficient with Rancher
- Expert in deploying and managing hundreds of Kubernetes clusters
- Skilled in automation scripting and container management
- Skilled in IAC - Terraform and Ansible
Technical Skills:
- Kubernetes: 5+ years in production
- Rancher: 2+ years
- Terraform: 2+ years
- Helm Package: Usage and development, 3 years
- Python: 5+ years
- Ansible: 5+ years
Professional Experience:
RAFT - Senior DevSecOps Engineer
2023 - Present
- Team: CNAP on Platform One (Software Factory, Air Force)
- Responsible for BigBang deployments and upgrades.
- Migrated KeyCloak Identity Management with zero downtime from CNAP to P1 Common Services.
- Managed IAC of P1 Common Services with Terraform for AWS govcloud
- Developed Flux configuration for production and staging EKS environments.
- Developed and maintained Terraform pipelines for feature changes and deployments, used by 5+ engineers.
- Deployed and managed Hashicorp Vault with PKI.
- Converted Atlantis and Terragrunt IAC to vanilla Terraform with GitLab Pipelines for AWS infra.
- Developed custom EKS Terraform module for AWS GovCloud.
NTT - Senior Application Developer and Operator
2019 - 2023
- Deployed and managed hundreds of Kubernetes clusters (EKS, AKS, Standalone) using Rancher Server.
- Deployed AWX (ansible tower) on K8s and managed and developed 100s of playbooks for 3 engineering teams.
- Using Ansible-Runner containers and Knative I developed a remote ansible runner which terminated upon completion eliminating resource usage outside of runtime.
- Developed containerized applications using Go, Python, Node.js, Django, and Vue.js.
- Created CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for Core Systems DevOps.
- Developed an Automation Platform Application in Django using containers, AWX, Rancher, and HashiCorp tools.
NTT - Senior Application Developer and Operator
2016 - 2019
- Designed and maintained all deployment, maintenance, and upgrade automation for 1500+ systems (Windows/Linux) using Ansible and GitOps.
- Integrated Ansible playbooks with Jenkins to reduce support times.
- Reduced VM creation/deployment from half a day to 10 minutes.
- Designed automation to rebuild and restore over 1300+ VMs as part of an emergency systems recovery in 2020; served as technical lead with a team of 15 for three weeks to restore all systems.
Education:
- Utah State University
BS, Management Information Systems, 2009 - 2013
Certifications: