Nick Dinel

Background

About Nick Dinel

Site Reliability Engineering manager with extensive experience enabling IT transformation through DevOps best practice. Managed a highly technical team of SREs who provided all DevOps services for the enterprise including CICD via Jenkins shared libraries, IAC across dozens of GCP and AWS projects, APM, etc. Supported transformation of dozens of legacy applications to cloud native micro services based architectures leveraging cloud best practice. Supported dozens of mission critical applications at scale, ensuring availability, performance, and security. Previous experience as a systems engineer with over seven years spent designing, deploying and administering complex mid-range, storage and network infrastructure in mission critical environments. Deep cross functional knowledge in areas such as private cloud, Hadoop and Big Data. Ability to work autonomously and effectively on problems of high technical difficulty. Acted as lead infrastructure architect for large financial services company accountable for all IT infrastructure solutions in the data center. Strengths: • DevOps/SRE Transformation - Designing and implementing best practice for the enterprise • Public Cloud, both AWS and GCP at scale • Kubernetes, specifically GKE • Infrastructure as code - Terraform pipelines via Jenkins for large scale infrastructure • Scripting, automation - Groovy, python etc. • Security/Compliance - deep knowledge of securing cloud environments, compliance requirements etc. • Ability to learn rapidly and autonomously • Strong communicator and presenter. At ease discussing complex topics