Services

Increase on-demand access to production, development, and test environments that allow you to innovate better, accelerate delivery of the application and streamline delivery to production. I design and implement infrastructure in the cloud to serve your business needs of today and tomorrow.

I specialize in designing Web-scale architectures that are load-balanced, auto-scaled, self-healing, and cost-effective. You pay for only the resources you need while still responding to spikes in demand.

Managed Cloud Services Managed Cloud Services

I embrace the Infrastructure as Code philosophy to ensure infrastructure that is self-documenting, versioned, secure, and tailored to your business needs.

Web Application Monitoring and Alerting Web Application Monitoring and Alerting

Gain the insights into your applications to identify performance bottle-necks, understand resource requirements, automatically scale if and when needed, and alert appropriate stakeholders.

Application Deployment Support Application Deployment Support

I can work with your developers to develop your application's build and deployment pipeline.

Cost Management & Optimization Cost Management & Optimization

The auto-scaled architectures I create are already optimized for cost and performance however, managing costs is a continuous process. I evaluate your costs and provide recommendations based on resource usage and needs.

Tools and Skills

  • Cloud Infrastructure: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Proxmox
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, Packer, Puppet
  • Monitoring & Observability: Zabbix, Datadog, ELK Stack, Grafana
  • Linux: Debian/Ubuntu, Red Hat/Fedora/Amazon Linux, Alpine, Gentoo
  • Scripting & Automation: Bash, Python, PHP

Highlighted Projects

Smartcar, Mountain View, CA

smartcar.com

  • Multi-account AWS infrastructure (RDS (PostgreSQL), ECS, CloudFront, ElastiCache and more) using Terraform, OpenTofu, and Terragrunt, ensuring high availability and operational consistency.
  • Enforced cloud best practices across right-sizing, cost optimization, auto-scaling, and regulatory compliance within SOC 2, GDPR, and CCPA frameworks.
  • Refactored a legacy Terraform codebase, improving modularity, maintainability, and long-term team scalability.
  • AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) across a multi-account AWS environment, centralizing access management and strengthening the overall security posture.

XY Planning Network, Bozeman, MT

archive.xyplanningnetwork.com

  • Greenfield AWS infrastructure provisioned with Terraform, Packer, and Puppet.
  • Ubuntu-based AMIs for Go application and Faktory (ruby) job Scheduler.
  • Logging with Timber.

FloSports, Austin, TX

flosports.tv

  • Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, Packer, and Puppet building auto-scaled infrastructure for PHP and NodeJS-based applications.
  • Centralized logging with rsyslog, Filebeat, and log analytics with the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana).
  • System metrics, analytics, and dashboards with Datadog.
  • Deployment pipelines with Jenkins and Amazon CodeDeploy.

ZipList, Reston, VA

  • Ubuntu-based AMIs for highly available, scalable Ruby-on-Rails application.
  • Configuration management with agent-less Puppet.
  • Centralized logging with Syslog-ng and monitoring/trending with Zabbix.

Digital Architecture Group, Lakeland, FL

  • Migrated hardware-based High-Availability clusters to multi-zone, load balanced Web clusters using AWS EC2 and RDS.
  • Configuration management with Puppet.
  • Collaborated with developers to prototype and benchmark system architectures to ensure performance and capacity met expectations.
  • QA, staging, and production infrastructure for PHP-based applications using CentOS/Red Hat and Gentoo Linux.

Contact Me

Email: josh@cloudopsgroup.com