Jayson Rawlins

Jayson Rawlins has a diverse work experience in the field of cloud engineering, site reliability engineering, and DevOps. Jayson has worked as a Senior Cloud Engineer at Defiance Digital since 2022. Prior to that, they worked as a Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Pearson from 2021 to 2022.

From 2020 to 2021, Jayson served as a Senior DevSecOps at LeaseQuery, where they gained experience in creating PowerShell scripts, utilizing Terraform/TerraGrunt, and writing Jenkins Pipelines for application deployment.

Before that, Jayson worked as a Cloud Engineer at Disney Parks, Experiences, and Products from 2019 to 2020. In this role, they developed Terraform for provisioning AWS services and utilized tools like Chef, AppDynamics, CloudWatch, and Splunk for operational support.

From 2018 to 2019, Jayson was a Senior DevOps Engineer at the American Automobile Assoc (AAA), where they contributed to migrating applications, developed using Jenkins/Ansible/CloudFormation, and collaborated with the development team to improve AWS networking architecture.

At AAA National, Jayson worked as a DevOps Engineer from 2017 to 2018, where they coded in multiple languages and frameworks, engineered algorithms, and collaborated on migrating On-Premise to AWS cloud solutions.

Jayson also worked as a Software Developer from 2016 to 2017, where they wrote scalable REST APIs and configured web servers in Nginx/Tomcat. Jayson started their career at AAA National as a GIS Data Analyst in 2005 before transitioning to various roles such as Programmer/Analyst and Software Developer.

Overall, Jayson Rawlins has a strong background in cloud engineering, site reliability engineering, and DevOps, with experience in infrastructure automation, application deployment, and AWS cloud solutions.

Jayson Rawlins has a strong educational background in the fields of Information Technology and Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Jayson obtained a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from the University of Central Florida, completing their studies from 2010 to 2019. Prior to this, they earned a Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Wayne State University, where they studied from 1999 to 2002. Jayson also holds an Associate of Science (A.S.) degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, which they obtained from Schoolcraft College between 1995 and 1998.

In addition to their formal education, Jayson has obtained several certifications to enhance their skills and knowledge. Jayson completed the Lacework Shield Academy and achieved the Lacework Service Partner Associate certification through Lacework in February 2023. In December 2022, they earned the Lacework Shield Associate (Tech Enablement - Level 2) certification from the same institution. Furthermore, Jayson is a Hashicorp Certified Terraform Associate, having obtained this certification from HashiCorp in October 2022.