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<h1 class="mb-0">Hans
<span class="text-primary">Knecht</span>
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<p class="lead mb-5">Providing ten+ years of infrastructure and DevOps experience coupled with application
development to provide iterative, scalable, infrastructure as code for both legacy and modern applications.
Experienced at migrations to and from the cloud, designing on-premises cloud as a service to allow
self-controlled, easy to use, private cloud environments, and designing application and infrastructure in the
cloud.
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<h2 class="mb-5">Experience</h2>
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<h3 class="mb-0">Principal Site Reliability Engineer</h3>
<div class="subheading mb-3">Mission Lane</div>
<p>Making Software Reliable</p>
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<li> Architected, built, and maintained Central Logging System (Elastic, fluentbit/fluentd, Kibana) </li>
<li> Significant contributor/maintainer on k6 operator project (Golang/Kubernetes) </li>
<li> Wrote and maintained helm chart for standard API/app deployment significantly increasing speed of
deployment, ease of deployment/stand up, ease of configuration, roll out of new features and upgrades
saving significant man-hours. Used by 200+ applications </li>
<li> Abstracted Istio, Prometheus, Flagger, and more into the helm chart to enable higher developer
efficiency and effectiveness. </li>
<li> Introduced and rolled out progressive delivery using Flagger to improve reliability of releases for
all
critical services </li>
<li> Provided technical leadership to SRE team and broader organization </li>
<li> Provided architecture input, helping teams ideate and build new solutions and services </li>
<li> Incident command on during incidents of various levels, impact, and scope. </li>
<li> Automated Security in the SDLC to provide developers feedback early in the process of development.
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<li>Created Architecture Guild to help facilitate good architecutral decisions, shift architecture left,
train new architects, and build the engineering culture at Mission Lane</li>
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<span class="text-primary">2020 - Present</span>
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<h3 class="mb-0">DevOps/Cloud Consultant</h3>
<div class="subheading mb-3">Knechtions Consulting</div>
<p>Providing flexible and experienced DevOps support to small and medium companies</p>
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<li>Architected and Automated backup and DR solutions covering EFS, EC2, and RDS in AWS</li>
<li>Managed AWS Policies, Config, and IAM, to bring into AWS Partnership Compliance</li>
<li>Wrote and published security scalable scanning tools in python utilizing Prowler as the basis</li>
<li>Wrote and architected a multi-account scanning posture for security scans from a variety of tools from
AWS and OSS</li>
<li>Integrated 3rd party Authentication into AWS (including writing and building wrappers around cli
tooling for aws cli usage)</li>
<li>Managed multiple teams of DevOps engineers</li>
<li>Managed Client expectations</li>
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<span class="text-primary">2018 - Present</span>
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<h3 class="mb-0">Senior DevOps Engineer</h3>
<div class="subheading mb-3">Capital One Financial</div>
<p>Helping to lead the DevOps transformation, both cultural, and technological.</p>
<ul>
<li>Managed CICD Pipelines for ~75 applications built in Node and Java</li>
<li>Architected and Supported ECS and EKS infrastructure at scale in AWS using Terraform</li>
<li>Shortened the feedback loop between Security, Infrastructure, Business Teams, and the Developers to
allow for faster and more Agile development.</li>
<li>Transformed infrastructure from manual creation to IaaC to allow for immutable and automated
deployments.</li>
<li>Cut AWS costs ~90% for the team</li>
<li>Created effective and manageable alerting for the team</li>
<li>Provided Effective Technical and People Leadership for SRE/Platform team</li>
<li>Built a world class team providing scalable and effective solutions to improve the developer
experience, improve the security posture, and provide guardrails for proper infrastructure and
application management</li>
<li>Published technical articles for covering Docker and Terraform on the <a
href="https://medium.com/capital-one-tech">Capital One Tech Publication</a></li>
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<span class="text-primary">2018 - 2020</span>
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<h3 class="mb-0">DevOps Engineer</h3>
<div class="subheading mb-3">Kinsale Insurance</div>
<p>Lead DevOps transformation to change culture and make everyone's lives easier.</p>
<ul>
<li>Created Bamboo Pipelines that allowed for instant rollout after automated testing, quality gates, and
approvals.</li>
<li>Improved Site Resiliency by changing application installation from manual to automatic to allow for
drastically shortened TTR</li>
<li>Helped connect efficiency applications to allow for more efficient information gathering and analysis
by developers and business.</li>
<li>Created a scalable Centralized Logging Solution using GrayLog that allows for secure and easy log
aggregation.</li>
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<span class="text-primary">August 2017 - November 2018</span>
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<h3 class="mb-0">Senior Systems Administrator</h3>
<div class="subheading mb-3">Digital Harbor LLC</div>
<p>Led a team of 3 across multiple continents to provide IT, Cloud, and Virtualization expertise to the
whole company.</p>
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<li>Built and Architected HA Server Clusters using Proxmox VE (KVM) to move the company from 30 baremetal
servers and to scale to 280+ VMs</li>
<li>Built and Maintained XEN, VMWare, and RHEL Hypervisors for testing and lab environments</li>
<li>Built and Architected a Backup and DR for all business-critical data to ensure four nines uptime</li>
<li>Built and Maintained an AD System across locations and integrated into applications for single sign-on
</li>
<li>In charge of ensuring regulatory Compliance for HIPAA and FISMA</li>
<li>Configured DLP for HIPAA, PII and PIA on both Firewalls and Endpoints</li>
<li>Managed AWS team for infrastructure side (2 people). Site-Site VPNs, AMIs, VPCs, networking and
orchestration</li>
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<span class="text-primary">July 2016 - July 2017</span>
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<h3 class="mb-0">Virtualization and Cloud Engineer</h3>
<div class="subheading mb-3">Digital Harbor LLC</div>
<p>Managed and improved Datacenter and Cloud infrastructure to provide maximum uptime and reliability.</p>
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<li>Helped worked to maintain and improve AWS infrastructure architecture.</li>
<li>Setup Splunk Sys Log aggregation software for system monitoring</li>
<li>Created a MediaWiki for internal documentation</li>
<li>Set up and configured Chef and Ansible for deployment automation of both applications and OS
configuration Management</li>
<li>Setup status pages for services, outages and workflows using JavaScript, python, PHP, HTML, CSS</li>
<li>Setup and installed SCCM to automate server and workstation deployments, configure and update
workstations, monitoring, and controlling EndPoint protection</li>
<li>Configured and managed Zabbix, Trend Micro, ShadowProtect, CarbonBlack, JIRA (tomcat) and Confluence.
</li>
<li>Created and maintained HA Hyper-V Servers using Storageless and shared storage clusters</li>
<li>Developed and maintained three internal sites using apache and Nginx to do reporting, onboarding, and
alert generation. Configured them inside a virtual environment to be able to fail over to a new
hypervisor</li>
<li>Managed Ubuntu and Debian VMs for internal tools and websites (300 users)</li>
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<span class="text-primary">July 2015 - July 2016</span>
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<h3 class="mb-0">Level 3 Support and Junior Systems Administrator</h3>
<div class="subheading mb-3">CSS Corp</div>
<p>Provided high quality support, automation, and technical expertise</p>
<ul>
<li>Provided general troubleshooting and helpdesk support</li>
<li>Provided AD and Exchange Administration and support</li>
<li>Provided Network Monitoring and troubleshooting</li>
<li>Created automation PowerShell scripts for the offboarding process and simple databases for reporting
tools</li>
<li>Managed Linux Server uptime and windows server uptime</li>
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<span class="text-primary">October 2014 - July 2015</span>
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<h3 class="mb-0">Small Business Systems Administrator</h3>
<div class="subheading mb-3">Sweden Stockholm Mission - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints</div>
<p>Provided comprehensive logistics plans and implementation to increase effectivity and cut costs.</p>
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<li>Managed End User Machines</li>
<li>Setup and Managed Network storage</li>
<li>Setup and Managed Printers</li>
<li>Managed SMARTBoards</li>
<li>Managed cell phones for remote users spread across a large geographic area</li>
<li>Designed and implemented new network and IT solutions to increase effectiveness 30% within the Main
Office</li>
<li>Negotiated High-Value contracts to increase quality of work and decrease costs by 50,000$ annually
</li>
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<span class="text-primary">October 2013 - October 2014</span>
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<h3 class="mb-0">Computer Operator and Helpdesk</h3>
<div class="subheading mb-3">University of Utah Library</div>
<p>Technical support for the University of Utah in regards to online classes</p>
<ul>
<li>Provided end user support</li>
<li>Proctored Exams</li>
<li>Wrote an optimization algorithm for test registration</li>
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<span class="text-primary">October 2011 - September 2012</span>
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<h3 class="mb-0">Brigham Young University</h3>
<div class="subheading mb-3">Information Systems</div>
<p>GPA: 3.53</p>
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<span class="text-primary">August 2014 - May 2017</span>
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<div class="subheading mb-3">AWS Solutions Architect - Associate</div>
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<div class="subheading mb-3">AWS SysOps Administrator - Associate</div>
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Scalable, Infrastructure as Code
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Site Reliability
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Cross Functional Teams
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Agile Development & Scrum
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<p>Apart from being a DevOps Engineer, I enjoy a variety of hobbies. In the winter, I am an avid skier and
reader. During the warmer months, I enjoy free climbing, and kayaking.</p>
<p class="mb-0">When indoors, I follow a number of sci-fi and fantasy genre movies and television shows, I'm an
avid gamer, and I spend a large amount of my free time exploring the latest technology advancements in the
DevOps and Cloud world.</p>
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