Dylan Dover

DevOps Architect who operationalized Infrastructure as Code and real-time monitoring across federal-compliant cloud environments, owning stability, automation, and cost discipline for multi-team production systems. Most recently architected end-to-end site-reliability workflows at a mid-size healthcare technology company, integrating CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, Prometheus, and CloudWatch to deliver measurable uptime and resource efficiency gains. Brings proven DevSecOps and FinOps rigor to federal modernization programs requiring FedRAMP- and NIST-aligned operational frameworks.

DevOps Architect at CareBridge (2021-10 – 2026-07)

• Architected Infrastructure as Code deployments with Terraform and AWS CloudFormation across production and dev environments supporting 11 agile teams, standardizing repeatable, version-controlled infrastructure delivery and cutting manual provisioning time ~18 hrs/week
• Established real-time CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana dashboards for multi-layer infrastructure and application health monitoring (OS, app, DB), integrating alerting thresholds and automated incident escalation workflows that reduced mean-time-to-resolution 31%
• Drove FinOps cost-optimization framework adoption, delivering right-sizing recommendations, budget-threshold alerts, and monthly forecasting reports that trimmed AWS spend ~26% while maintaining SLA performance across all production workloads
• Owned end-to-end CI/CD pipeline modernization with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD, integrating DevSecOps scanning gates (SAST/DAST, container image signing) and achieving 94% automated deployment success rate across containerized microservices
• Led incident and event management operations, producing monthly RCA documentation, system-performance reports, and ticket-resolution metrics tracking CPU, memory, disk utilization across 340+ VMs and PaaS components
• Implemented 24×7 monitoring and supplemental after-hours event-capture workflows, ensuring system-health data collection without requiring on-call response and enabling next-business-day triage of non-critical alerts
• Collaborated with product, security, and data-engineering teams to validate cloud-resource capacity forecasts, billing accuracy, and TCO analysis supporting multi-year migration roadmaps and contract renewals
• Mentored mid-level DevOps engineers on GitOps patterns, Terraform module design, and ITIL-aligned change-management practices, conducting code reviews and runbook documentation sessions twice weekly

Senior DevOps Engineer at Optum (2019-05 – 2021-09)

• Designed and deployed Azure Monitor and Datadog instrumentation for hybrid-cloud production environments serving healthcare operations across 6 states, establishing baseline performance metrics and automated anomaly detection that caught 89% of incidents pre-customer-impact
• Automated cloud-resource provisioning and configuration-management workflows using Terraform, PowerShell, and Bash scripts, reducing environment-standup time from 9 days to under 36 hours and enabling on-demand dev/test capacity
• Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines with GitLab and Jenkins, integrating security-scanning gates and automated rollback logic for multi-stage deployment across containerized and VM-based workloads
• Conducted monthly cost-optimization reviews leveraging AWS Cost Explorer and Azure Cost Management, delivering right-sizing recommendations and reserved-instance purchase strategies that cut infrastructure spend 19%
• Executed daily system-health checks and maintained operational runbooks, SOPs, and incident-escalation playbooks aligned with ITIL change-control and problem-management processes
• Partnered with application-development and security teams to integrate DevSecOps tooling (static analysis, vulnerability scanning, secrets management) into CI/CD workflows, reducing security-finding backlog 43% across the release cycle

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at HCA Healthcare (2016-07 – 2019-04)

• Migrated on-premises healthcare workloads to AWS and Azure, owning infrastructure design, network segmentation, and compliance validation under HIPAA and HITRUST frameworks across 14-month tenure
• Deployed and maintained monitoring infrastructure using CloudWatch, New Relic, and custom Python-based health-check automation, providing visibility into EC2, RDS, and S3 resource utilization and cost trends
• Contributed to containerization and orchestration pilot projects, testing Docker-based deployment workflows and Kubernetes cluster configurations for future microservices adoption
• Supported incident-response and root-cause-analysis activities for production outages, documenting findings and remediation steps in a centralized ticketing system and contributing to post-incident review sessions
• Collaborated with network, database, and application teams to validate capacity-planning forecasts and coordinate maintenance windows, ensuring minimal disruption to clinical and administrative systems

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science – Vanderbilt University (2012-08 – 2016-05)