Mark Bennett

• Lead efforts to enhance developer experience by driving automation, enabling true self-service platforms, and democratizing infrastructure-as-code to accelerate innovation and value delivery across the Engineering organization.
• Designed and implemented a self-service platform enabling teams to quickly and consistently create microservices with deployment pipelines to GKE, empowering them to innovate and deliver value faster.
• Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines, reusable Golden Path templates, and deployment solutions using tools such as CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Docker, Google Artifact Registry, Helm, and Kubernetes.
• Automated GKE version upgrades, ensuring zero downtime and maintaining an acceptable position in compliance frameworks such as SOC2 and NIST 800-53.
• Migrated infrastructure and services from AWS and Azure to Google Cloud Platform, consolidating cloud providers to improve operational efficiency and reduce cost.
• Enhanced observability and production support with tools such as Datadog, Honeycomb, PagerDuty, and Slack.
• Advocated for and practiced Test-Driven Development and Trunk-Based Development to ensure consistent, predictable, and resilient infrastructure solutions with tools such as Terraform, GitHub Actions, and Codecov.

Design and implement cloud infrastructure and services as a contracted consultant to provide customers with the infrastructure required to run secure, scalable, fault-tolerant, resilient services. Technologies: Terraform Open Source, Kubernetes, Azure, Azure DevOps

Operated as a Technical Lead for a team of six Infrastructure Developers to provide guidance on platform architecture decisions and managed executive customer expectations and relationships. Also operated in the capacity of an Infrastructure Developer and designed and implemented cloud service solutions used by Software Engineers to deploy services. Technologies: Terraform Open Source, Kubernetes, Azure, Azure DevOps

Responsible and accountable for security vulnerability remediation for thousands of devices. Responsible for maintaining existing on-premises hardware for use by multiple unique business departments. Responsible for PRA Group's maiden voyage into Cloud to solve for unique business requirements. Technologies: Terraform Open Source, kOps, CircleCI, GitHub, AWS, Datadog, Atlassian, Citrix, VMware, LANDesk, Microsoft Windows Server