John Lyons

DevOps Engineer

Sparrows Point, Maryland, United States

About

DevOps Engineer. UMBC graduate with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business Technology Administration.

Experience

  • DevOps Engineer at Iris® Powered by Generali
    Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos

    • Design and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform across services such as ECS, Lambda, RDS, IAM, VPC, and more • Build and manage CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to streamline deployments and improve release reliability • Automate infrastructure provisioning and operational tasks to enhance scalability and reduce manual intervention • Collaborate with security teams to address vulnerabilities and strengthen the security posture of cloud systems • Implement observability and monitoring using AWS CloudWatch and Datadog to ensure system health, performance tracking, and proactive issue resolution • Develop internal DevOps tooling and reusable infrastructure modules to standardize practices and accelerate development • Contribute to system documentation and process transparency to support team collaboration and onboarding • Support cross-functional engineering teams with infrastructure guidance, deployment support, and operational insights

  • Yahoo (Baltimore, Maryland)
    • DevOps Engineer II
      Jul 2021 - Apr 2025 · 3 yrs 10 mos

    • DevOps Engineer
      Apr 2019 - Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos

      • Manage production services at vast scale and their associated infrastructure and tools • Support the operability roadmap to improve the availability, performance, scalability and efficiency of the services by implementing monitoring, automation, redundancy, capacity and business continuity planning • Troubleshoot system and network problems to improve system performance and reliability • Implement and maintain monitoring to provide complete transparency to application and system state, history, trends and insights • Participation in on-call rotation - drive incident resolution, live troubleshooting and impact mitigation

    • DevOps Intern II
      Dec 2018 - Mar 2019 · 4 mos

  • Computer Technician at Computer Installations Etc. Incorporated
    2012 - Jan 2017 · 5 yrs 1 mo

    Retail company offering a wide range of computer services, including virus removal, repair, networking and data recovery. • Build new custom desktop computers from scratch • Diagnose and repair malfunctioning Windows and Mac-based personal computers • Manage corporate website and social media accounts