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Jason Nye

Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering & Platform Engineering

Raleigh, NC | Remote-First

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About

Site Reliability & Platform Engineering leader with over a decade of experience directing high-scale global infrastructures on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Proven track record of leading and mentoring cross-functional SRE teams through rapid growth and organizational change, delivering over $2.5M in annual cloud and observability cost savings through strategic resource optimization.

Adept at guiding engineering teams to architect and scale complex Kubernetes environments (EKS/GKS) while transitioning SRE functions into self-service Platform Engineering practices. Passionate about driving organizational maturity in DevSecOps and leveraging emerging AI technologies to empower engineers and eliminate operational toil.

Key Achievements

AWS Cost Optimization

Reduced AWS costs by $1.8 million and observability costs by $540,000 through strategic optimization and resource consolidation.

Kubernetes Leadership

Migrated 400+ Kubernetes nodes to AWS EKS, coordinated consolidation of multiple clusters into unified deployment.

Team Development

Managed and mentored teams of 6-12 Site Reliability Engineers, rebuilding team dynamics through organizational change while maintaining project delivery.

Platform Engineering

Modernized DevOps tooling for 38+ developers across 8 teams, transitioning from Jenkins/Artifactory to GitHub Actions, AWS ECR, and ArgoCD.

AI-Driven Efficiency

Pioneered use of Claude AI to build on-call hand-off application and leveraged Gemini to accelerate daily tasks, reducing operational toil.

Global Scale

Maintained platform stability for 22 million children across 27,000 schools in 3 continents, supervising 1,600+ Kubernetes nodes.

Core Competencies

Leadership & Management

Team management, strategic planning, mentorship, cross-functional cooperation, conflict resolution, decision-making, cultural awareness.

Infrastructure & Cloud

AWS (EKS, RDS, Aurora), Kubernetes, DevOps, Terraform, Infrastructure-as-Code, Datadog, Observability, Cost Optimization.

DevSecOps & Compliance

Security culture, SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO compliance, incident management, vulnerability assessment, identity management.

Process Optimization

Agile methodologies, continuous improvement, process optimization, project management, stakeholder management, risk management.

Education & Certifications

MBA Information Assurance
University of New Mexico, 2010

BBA Management of Information Systems
University of New Mexico, 2008

ITIL v4 Foundations Certification