Resume

Cloud, Platform, and Systems Engineering Experience

Senior infrastructure engineer with deep experience across OpenStack, Terraform, public cloud, automation, data systems, and enterprise platform operations.

Experience

Senior Systems and Cloud Engineer • Travis County Central Health

June 2024 – Present

  • Architects and operates secure, scalable hybrid cloud infrastructure using Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices.
  • Leads initiatives across Azure, AWS, and GCP, including migrations, networking, identity, and platform standardization.
  • Supports VM-based and containerized workloads across OpenStack and public cloud platforms with a focus on performance and cost optimization.

Cloud Database Engineer • TEKsystems

February 2022 – May 2024

  • Designed and provisioned MongoDB Atlas and PostgreSQL infrastructure using modular Terraform under strict change governance.
  • Worked across Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and MongoDB Atlas providers.
  • Built Python automation and supported containerized workloads across AKS, GKE, EKS, ECS, Fargate, and Cloud Run.

Cloud Engineer II / Cloud Data Engineer • Rackspace

August 2018 – February 2022

  • Contributed to highly available OpenStack design and operations spanning compute, networking, and storage services.
  • Implemented Terraform and Ansible workflows to standardize multi-cloud provisioning and cloud networking.
  • Supported GKE, AKS, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Hadoop, and a broad set of distributed data platforms for enterprise clients.

Linux System Administrator • ERCOT

September 2017 – August 2018

  • Managed large-scale Linux operations, cloud migrations, orchestration tooling, and Kubernetes support for application teams.
  • Helped migrate over 1,000 servers from on-premises infrastructure to cloud platforms.

Earlier Roles

2014 – 2017

  • Technology Analyst at Kestra Financial.
  • System Administrator at IGT.
  • Technical Support at Eagle Eye Networks.

Core Skills

  • Cloud architecture across AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid environments
  • OpenStack operations, networking, storage, and workload placement
  • Terraform, Ansible, Python, Bash, CI/CD, and automation engineering
  • Containers and orchestration across Kubernetes and cloud-native services
  • Platform reliability, performance tuning, and cost optimization

Certifications

  • Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
  • Microsoft AZ-900
  • LPI Linux Essentials
  • HE.NET IPv6 Certified Sage

Contact

  • build@jasondclark.io
  • (512) 968-5024
  • Pflugerville, Texas
  • jasondclark.io