Samuel Mason

Site Reliability Engineer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-mason-38214a87
678-549-2086
samuelmason5@gmail.com
Kennesaw, GA
Willing to relocate: Anywhere
Authorized to work in the US for any employer

Experience

Site Reliability Engineer — FIS

Atlanta, GA
  • Develop version controlled Terraform modules for automated cloud infrastructure provisioning
  • Implement and manage configuration as code for scalable infrastructure configuration using Ansible
  • Create golden images with Hashicorp Packer to reduce VM setup time
  • Build and maintain software deployment pipelines for safe, fast, and reliable deployments
  • Implement and review monitoring and alerting to ensure SLOs are met
  • Continuously review application performance and work with development teams to improve application reliability
  • Evaluate and enforce error budget policies to guide application back to stability
  • Resolve and perform root cause analysis on incidents to identify areas of improvement for application reliability and performance
  • Maintain knowledgebase of all support and troubleshooting processes
  • Create automation tools and scripts to reduce manual toil and improve system reliability
  • Implement domain center failover automation for disaster recovery strategy

Support Analyst — System Innovators

Jacksonville, FL
  • Developed and documented troubleshooting tools to eliminate toil for support teams
  • Resolved production and test environment incidents with end user administrators
  • Provided support to end users and system admins for the vendor application installation, upgrade, and maintenance
  • Collaborated with support and development teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues related to the vendor application
  • Built knowledgebase documentation to assist end users in common troubleshooting situations

Student Technician — Georgia Southern University

Statesboro, GA
  • Provided IT support to the faculty, staff, and students at the university
  • Performed computer and printer setup and troubleshooting
  • Performed hardware and software maintenance
  • Supervised and trained assistants in partnership with local technical college

Intern - Database Administrator — CSX Technology

Jacksonville, FL
  • Learned mainframe database administrator role and responsibilities on IBM DB2 in a z/OS environment
  • Deployed application database changes as requested by application developers
  • Assisted with database duplication eliminations, and performed database maintenance
  • Assisted in database design and implementation in partnership with local non-profit organization

Education

B.Sc. Information Technology
Georgia Southern University - Statesboro, GA
2013 - 2016

Certifications