Rony Sejas

Washington, DC
sejas.rony@gmail.com
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About Me

Senior IT Engineer and Enterprise Architect with 10+ years of experience supporting large-scale federal IT environments, including GSA and USPS. Proven track record leading enterprise modernization and cloud transformation initiatives, designing cloud-ready solutions that reduce system dependencies and improve operational efficiency. Demonstrated success maintaining 99.9% system availability across mission-critical applications through advanced monitoring, root cause analysis, and performance optimization using Splunk and Datadog. Extensive experience administering and supporting Linux-based systems, and managing enterprise infrastructure across development, test, and production environments. Strong background in FISMA-compliant operations, including vulnerability remediation, API key management, SSL/TLS lifecycle administration, and Identity and Access Management (IAM). Recognized for leading disaster recovery (DR) failover exercises, strengthening system resilience, and collaborating with cross-functional Agile teams to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing solutions aligned with federal mission objectives.

Experience

Enterprise Architect

IBM

  • Project: Halley’s Comet : Operations (Ops)
  • Contractor for the GSA (General Services Administration)
  • Provide Comprehensive transformation management support to General Services Administration (GSA) office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) to modernize and streamline the GSA Federal Acquisition Services (FAS) portfolio, reduce the dependencies where possible of system and environments, and to improve efficiencies and align the application portfolio with the business needs of the organization. The formation focus includes operationalizing adaptive and agile development to increase efficiency and reduce O&M costs over the period of performance, achieving cost savings through a more efficient portfolio of applications, and architecting solutions which maximize the reuse of GSA’s software assets & platforms and develop “Cloud-ready” applications.
  • Administering, Configurating, Upgrading, Implementing, and supporting Splunk Server Infrastructure in RHEL 7 & 8.
  • Experience in Splunk 7.x and 8.x products, Distributed Splunk architecture and components including search heads, indexers, forwarders.
  • Engage in application monitoring to assist in identifying and addressing application performance or availability issues
  • Ensuring data security, privacy, and compliance by implementing best practices and industry standards, including data encryption, access controls, and auditing.
  • Implemented database schema changes and performed data migrations as needed.
  • Developed optimized SQL queries for reporting and analysis purposes, RFA
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and implement database solutions to meet business needs.

Jan 2024 – Present


Mid DevOps Engineer

Octo Consulting

  • Project: Halley’s Comet : Operations (Ops)
  • Contractor for the GSA (General Services Administration)
  • Provide Comprehensive transformation management support to General Services Administration (GSA) office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) to modernize and streamline the GSA Federal Acquisition Services (FAS) portfolio, reduce the dependencies where possible of system and environments, and to improve efficiencies and align the application portfolio with the business needs of the organization. The formation focus includes operationalizing adaptive and agile development to increase efficiency and reduce O&M costs over the period of performance, achieving cost savings through a more efficient portfolio of applications, and architecting solutions which maximize the reuse of GSA’s software assets & platforms and develop “Cloud-ready” applications.
  • Administering, Configurating, Upgrading, Implementing, and supporting Splunk Server Infrastructure in RHEL 7 & 8.
  • Experience in Splunk 7.x and 8.x products, Distributed Splunk architecture and components including search heads, indexers, forwarders.
  • Engage in application monitoring to assist in identifying and addressing application performance or availability issues
  • Ensuring data security, privacy, and compliance by implementing best practices and industry standards, including data encryption, access controls, and auditing.
  • Implemented database schema changes and performed data migrations as needed.
  • Developed optimized SQL queries for reporting and analysis purposes, RFA
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and implement database solutions to meet business needs.

Jan 2021 - Jan 2024


Senior Engineer

Sevatec

  • Contractor for the GSA (General Services Administration)
  • Provide Comprehensive transformation management support to General Services Administration (GSA) office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) to modernize and streamline the GSA Federal Acquisition Services (FAS) portfolio, reduce the dependencies where possible of system and environments, and to improve efficiencies and align the application portfolio with the business needs of the organization. The formation focus includes operationalizing adaptive and agile development to increase efficiency and reduce O&M costs over the period of performance, achieving cost savings through a more efficient portfolio of applications, and architecting solutions which maximize the reuse of GSA’s software assets & platforms and develop “Cloud-ready” applications.
  • Administering, Configurating, Upgrading, Implementing, and supporting Splunk Server Infrastructure in RHEL 7 & 8.
  • Experience in Splunk 7.x and 8.x products, Distributed Splunk architecture and components including search heads, indexers, forwarders.
  • Engage in application monitoring to assist in identifying and addressing application performance or availability issues
  • Ensuring data security, privacy, and compliance by implementing best practices and industry standards, including data encryption, access controls, and auditing.
  • Implemented database schema changes and performed data migrations as needed.
  • Developed optimized SQL queries for reporting and analysis purposes, RFA
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and implement database solutions to meet business needs.

Jan 2020 - Jan 2021


Skills

Programming Languages & Tools


Motivated About

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud
  • Infrastructure as Code: (Terraform)
  • Team Collaboration: JIRA & Slack

Skilled In

  • Linux
  • RHel 7 & Rhel 8
  • Windows
  • Sybase, MySQL, PostgreSQL
  • Splunk
  • Log Monitoring
  • Log Analysis
  • Disaster Recovery & Planning

Competent About

  • Programming/Scripting: Python, Bash, HCL, SQL
  • CI/CD: GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline
  • Serverless Technology: AWS Lambda, AWS ECS, Docker, DynamoDB

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