Stephen Stubbs

Background

About Stephen Stubbs

Devops Engineer professional experience: • Create and maintain fully automated CI pipelines for code deployment using Jenkins • Actively monitor deployment analytics utilizing Splunk for log aggregation, alerting, dashboard building • Assist in managing, scaling, and provisioning clusters in Kubernetes; specifically in EKS on AWS • Improved code quality across application development by implementing SonarQube code analysis to block specific vulnerabilities and created custom logic to enact a grace period for developers to fix critical tech debt. • Wrote python and shell scripts to perform various functions such as querying GitHub API to pull metrics for management and automated repo creation based on inputs from Service Now API • Built and deployed Docker + Podman containers including custom execution environments in Ansible Automation Platform and development containers for Jenkins build agents. • Facilitated after-hours service deployments and hot fixes by coordinating with business users and QA testers to ensure no main application down time • Worked on setting up artifact depositories in Artifactory to securely store packaged applications along with Xray scanning for vulnerabilities of external dependencies inside our CI/CD pipelines • Employed modern practices of Infrastructure as Code by utilizing Terraform for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure in AWS such as EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancers (ELB), Elastic Block Storage (EBS), and security groups • Wrote playbooks in configuration management tool Ansible for tasks such as service installation/monitoring on build agents, automated tool installs/upgrades, and scheduled Jenkins database backups • Assisted with repository creation and administration in GitHub including troubleshooting developer issues • Comfortable in Linux systems with experience in RHEL and some Ubuntu/CentOS • Familiar with TCP/IP protocols and their implementations • Facilitated upgrades/maintenance of many DevOps tools including GitHub, Ansible Automation Platform, Ansible Automation Hub, Sonarqube, Docker, Artifactory, and Xray