Joshua Lowrance
🚀 DevOps Engineer
📜 About Me
DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of expertise, dedicated to empowering developers through automated workflows and robust tooling. Demonstrated mastery in streamlining deployment processes and leveraging advanced DevOps/GitOps methodologies to enhance operational efficiency, reducing deployment times by 70%. Proven track record of building scalable infrastructure as code solutions across multiple cloud platforms, enabling teams to provision and manage resources with confidence and ease.
💻 Technical Skills
☁️ Cloud Platforms
🚀 CI/CD
🐳 Container & Orchestration
🏗️ Infrastructure as Code
⚙️ Configuration Management
💻 Scripting Languages & Shells
🛠️Developer Tools
👷♂️ Work History
DevOps Engineer - Avaya / CTIntegrations
- Streamlined deployment processes by implementing GitOps with GitHub Actions and ArgoCD, achieving 99.9% deployment success rate and reducing deployment time from 2 hours to 15 minutes
- Architected and launched an internal developer platform serving 100+ engineers, enabling self-service infrastructure provisioning across GCP and AWS using Port, Crossplane and ArgoCD, reducing infrastructure request tickets by 85% and cutting resource provisioning time from days to minutes
- Standardized infrastructure as code practices using Terraform and Crossplane, managing 1000+ cloud resources with 100% compliance and achieving 40% cost optimization through automated resource scheduling
Cloud Support Engineer - Amazon
- Engineered and maintained Ansible playbooks automating configuration and diagnostics for 1000+ Amazon Lockers, reducing maintenance downtime by 60% and saving 20+ hours weekly in manual troubleshooting
- Implemented infrastructure as code using Terraform to manage AWS resources across multiple environments, achieving 99% deployment consistency and reducing provisioning time from days to hours
- Developed Python-based CLI tools and automation scripts that eliminated 30+ hours of manual work weekly, enabling engineers to self-serve common tasks like log analysis, access management, and environment setup
Systems Administrator - HealthTronics
- Orchestrated configuration management for 200+ Linux and Windows servers using Ansible, achieving 99.9% uptime and reducing patch deployment time from days to hours across multiple AWS regions
- Automated employee onboarding/offboarding workflows using Python and PowerShell, reducing processing time from 4 hours to 15 minutes while enforcing role-based access controls
- Designed and implemented Python automation framework integrating 15+ third-party APIs (Jira, Slack, ServiceNow), eliminating 25+ hours of manual tasks weekly and standardizing data flow between systems
Support Engineer - Arrive Logistics
- Engineered suite of Python and PowerShell automation tools that eliminated 30+ hours of manual tasks weekly, including user provisioning, log analysis, and system health checks
- Architected and maintained Ansible playbooks managing 100+ Linux and Windows servers, achieving 99.9% configuration compliance and reducing system updates from days to hours
- Revolutionized user provisioning by automating 90% of onboarding/offboarding workflows using Python and PowerShell, ensuring consistent access management
🏆 Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate🤔 Recommendations
Paula Morton · Digital Strategy Director at Avaya
Josh was a great asset to his team during the time we worked together at CTIntegrations and Avaya. Navigating unfamiliar territory and finding our own way, Josh was able to successfully deploy resources in GCP, using a variety of both familiar and new dev deployment technologies. It's clear he has a real passion for forward thinking best practices in DevOps and was a thought leader on the team, when it came to how we would evolve our technology to true CI/CD processes and tech. When faced with a challenge or problem to solve, Josh doesn't back down or give up easily, and stays focused on the prize until he is successful. He is a real team player that his peers can count on to deliver.
Ronny Flaatten · Chief Technical Officer at CTIntegrations
Josh is an incredibly talented engineer, the speed at which he not only learns but master new technologies is impressive. His work ethic is outstanding, and he always delivers! We were in a transformation as a software company and required the team to wear many hats and be able to adapt to new technologies quickly; Josh was an essential part of this transformation, and he never wavered.
Jeff Hunt · Engineering Manager at Arrive Logistics
I can't say enough good things about Josh. He's driven, positive and committed. He brightens up a room when he walks in and stays focused approaching any situation or problem. He keeps an open mind when troubleshooting and tries to look at things from different angles when stuck, which leads to unique and inventive solutions. It was an absolute pleasure working with Josh and any company would be improved having him on their payroll.
👨💻 Projects
Dotfiles
Architected modular dotfiles management system featuring declarative configurations for modern development tools including Neovim, Tmux, and multiple shells (Fish, Nushell). Leveraged Nix and Nix-Darwin for reproducible environment setup, ensuring consistent development experience across any MacBook.
Portfolio Website
Engineered an immersive 3D portfolio website using Three.js and TypeScript, featuring interactive animations and responsive design.
MacBook Configuration with Ansible
Developed comprehensive MacBook configuration automation using Ansible, enabling rapid workstation setup and disaster recovery with 50+ software configurations, dotfiles, and OS preferences. Reduced new machine setup time from days to hours while ensuring consistent development environments.
Geo-Redundant Storage Infrastructure
Engineered fault-tolerant data backup infrastructure using TrueNAS, implementing ZFS replication between geographically distributed sites for disaster recovery. Enabled secure cross-site data synchronization with end-to-end encryption.