Deon Zoss

SRE/DevOps Engineer

Optimize, Innovate, and Automate

About

I build and break things.

Currently, I'm a DevOps Engineer at NMI, I provision and help maintain our k8s clusters, services, and infrastructure.

In the past, I've had the opportunity to work as a Systems/DevOps Engineer at a high-frequency trading firm Sunrise Futures

Based out of Scottsdale, AZ

Experience

2021 — Present

SRE/DevOps Engineer NMI

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Build and maintain critical financial services, across the whole product. Work closely with cross-functional teams, including developers and product managers.

KubernetesAnsibleLinuxGitlab CI/CDEnvoyLinkerdGCP/GKEPythonFlux/ArgoCDPrometheusGrafanaDockerHelm/KustomizeVaultTerraformDockerArtifactory
2019 — 2021

Systems/DevOps Engineer Sunrise Futures

Sunrise Futures logo

Led infrastructure and automation initiatives for a high-frequency trading firm. Managed and optimized trading systems infrastructure, implemented monitoring solutions, and developed automation tools to improve system reliability and performance. Collaborated with trading teams to ensure low-latency execution and system stability.

PythonBashDockerJenkinsLinuxMonitoringAutomationHigh-Frequency Trading

Projects

Portfolio Website

This is my portfolio website that I built with AI using Next.js and Tailwind CSS. The site is hosted as a container in AWS ECS, spun up with Terraform. The container is built using a Github Actions workflow.

AWSCursorGithub ActionsDockerTerraform
Portfolio Website

Writing