Robert Puffe

DevOps Engineer | Building Reliable Infrastructure

Lead DevOps strategy and platform operations with a focus on automation, security, and cross-team delivery alignment. Passionate about building scalable cloud infrastructure and empowering development teams through robust CI/CD pipelines.

Experience

DevOps Engineer

Eldermark
Mar 2024 – Present

Lead DevOps strategy and platform operations across Eldermark's AWS environments, focusing on automation, security, and cross-team delivery alignment.

  • Manage multi-account AWS environments covering infrastructure provisioning, networking, IAM, and lifecycle management
  • Architect and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, and Terraform to standardize delivery across products
  • Implement infrastructure and container security practices that meet compliance and reliability requirements
  • Collaborate with leadership on company-wide technical initiatives including Jira migrations, AI proof-of-concept tooling, security audits, and penetration-test remediation
  • Drive adoption of AI-based tools to improve development efficiency and code quality
  • Work with engineering and QA leadership to establish consistent release, rollback, and monitoring standards

System Administrator

Eldermark
May 2021 – Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Responsible for the end-to-end administration of both AWS and on-premise infrastructure supporting multiple internal and customer-facing products.

  • Managed DevOps responsibilities, overseeing environment and pipeline management
  • Led successful transition of DevOps team to in-house, resulting in improved efficiency and cost savings
  • Successfully migrated workloads to AWS using EC2, S3, Transfer Family, and Terraform
  • Collaborated closely with development and QA teams to establish and maintain environments
  • Led project to consolidate multiple Office 365 and Google Workspace environments into a single shared Office 365 tenant

IT Specialist

Eldermark
Sep 2016 – May 2021 · 4 yrs 9 mos
  • Led the successful project to transition teams to remote work during the pandemic, ensuring uninterrupted productivity
  • Managed Office 365 including user provisioning, licensing, and security
  • Planned and executed the rollout of Microsoft Teams
  • Maintained Dynamics 365 instance including customizations and reporting
  • Managed Windows Server and network infrastructure in datacenters, offices, and cloud environments
  • Maintained customer databases including creating, managing backups, and routine management tasks

Earlier Experience

2012 – 2016
  • Central Business Systems — Document Management Specialist, Computer Repair Technician
  • RadioShack — Store Manager
  • Built foundation in technical troubleshooting, small business IT consulting, and team leadership

Skills

AWS Compute & Containers

ECS EC2 Lambda Docker AWS Copilot Fargate

AWS Data & Storage

RDS Aurora PostgreSQL DynamoDB S3 Transfer Family

AWS Networking & Security

VPC Route 53 CloudFront API Gateway Cognito IAM ACM Secrets Manager

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform Terraform Cloud CloudFormation AWS Copilot CLI

CI/CD Pipelines

GitHub Actions AWS CodePipeline AWS CodeBuild Git GitHub

Observability & Monitoring

CloudWatch CloudWatch Alarms Elastic APM SNS Notifications Log Monitoring

Scripting & Automation

Python Boto3 Bash PowerShell Liquibase

Systems & Platforms

Linux Windows Server Jira Office 365 LaunchDarkly

Contact

robertpuffe@gmail.com LinkedIn GitHub robertpuffe.com