LENORA SPAHN
Hanover,PA
Summary
Senior DevOps Engineer with 8+ years of experience designing, automating, and operating cloud platforms in production environments. Specializes in CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, and multi-cloud systems. Proven track record of improving reliability, reducing operational overhead, and optimizing cloud costs through automation. Known for ownership, pragmatic problem solving, and building platforms that scale and remain stable under real-world load.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior DevOps Engineer
BMC Software
01.2025 - 12.2025
- Led and owned cloud cost optimization and FinOps initiatives across multiple cloud providers and production environments, improving resource utilization and reducing unnecessary spend at enterprise scale.
- Designed and standardized Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Ansible to deliver consistent, secure infrastructure across teams and environments.
- Built automation to eliminate manual operational workflows, improving deployment reliability, recovery time, and end-to-end operational ownership of production systems.
- Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines and partnered with application, security, and operations teams to support production systems, on-call operations, incident response, and controlled change management in compliance-driven environments.
Senior DevOps Engineer
T2 Systems
04.2023 - 08.2024
- Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines supporting development-to-production workflows, improving deployment reliability and release cadence.
- Migrated automation, monitoring, and platform configuration into Git-based repositories to improve version control, traceability, and audit readiness.
- Established standardized, reusable CI/CD and monitoring patterns across services, improving environment consistency, platform reliability, and reducing deployment-related incidents.
- Migrated automation, monitoring, and platform configuration into Git-based repositories to improve version control, traceability, and audit readiness.
- Contributed to platform architecture decisions related to CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and observability tooling.
- Served as a technical point of contact for DevOps and platform-related questions across multiple teams and mentored engineers on CI/CD and infrastructure automation practices.
DevOps Engineer
Deloitte Consulting
11.2020 - 04.2023
- Automated complex production go-live workflows using Kubernetes and NGINX ingress, saving 160+ engineering hours annually.
- Built and maintained end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, and Git, reducing manual infrastructure configuration by over 80%.
- Deployed and operated highly available containerized workloads on Amazon EKS in production environments.
- Provisioned and managed AWS infrastructure including EC2, S3, RDS, and ELB entirely through Infrastructure as Code.
- Developed automation and tooling using Python and Bash to streamline deployments, monitoring, and operational tasks.
- Recognized as a DEI Champion for contributions to Deloitte’s Ohio Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Sounding Board.
Skills
CI/CD Architecture and Automation
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
Cloud Platform Engineering
Kubernetes and Containerized Systems
Reliability Engineering and High Availability
Observability, Monitoring, and Incident Response
Cloud Cost Optimization (FinOps)
Compliance-Driven Environments (FedRAMP)
Certification
- AWS Solutions Architect – Associate, Amazon Web Services, 01/01/21•
- DevOps Engineering on AWS, ExitCertified (Tech Data), 03/01/21•
- Packer Terraform, ExitCertified (Tech Data), 04/01/21•
- Docker Kubernetes, ExitCertified (Tech Data), 04/01/22•
Timeline
Senior DevOps Engineer
BMC Software
01.2025 - 12.2025
Senior DevOps Engineer
T2 Systems
04.2023 - 08.2024
DevOps Engineer
Deloitte Consulting
11.2020 - 04.2023
Technology
Terraform, Ansible, AWX, Infrastructure as Code
AWS, OCI, GCP, Azure, VMware vSphere
Kubernetes (EKS, OKE), Docker, NGINX, Rancher
Jenkins, ArgoCD, Azure DevOps
Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, Gogs
Grafana, Zabbix, CloudWatch, Dynatrace, New Relic, PagerDuty, X-Matters
Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS)
Python, Bash, AWS CLI
FedRAMP, audit readiness, change control
Certifications/ Courses
- AWS Solutions Architect – Associate, Amazon Web Services, 01/01/21
- DevOps Engineering on AWS, ExitCertified (Tech Data), 03/01/21
- Packer Terraform, ExitCertified (Tech Data), 04/01/21
- Docker Kubernetes, ExitCertified (Tech Data), 04/01/22
Security Clearance
Secret Clearance, Transfer of Jurisdiction in Progress, Department of Defense (DoD), 05/01/22