
About Me
Results-driven Platform Engineering Manager with an additional 12 years of financial services experience, and leadership. Specializing in building and managing secure, scalable, and highly available infrastructure. Proven ability to lead and develop high-performing teams, optimize automation, and implement cost-efficient solutions. Seeking a challenging SRE, Platform Engineering, or DevOps management role to leverage extensive technical and analytical skills.
Email
mtnilsen@gmail.com
Phone
+1 973-464-0262
Address
NYC Metro Area
Professional Skills
Team Lead
Terraform
Ansible
DevOps
Docker
Kubernetes
Management
AWS
SRE
CI-CD
Git
Jira
Work Experience
Head of TechOps at Curbside SOS
Sep 2023 - Present
Lead a team of SREs. Implemented infrastructure as code (AWS, Terraform, Docker, VPC, ECS, EKS, EC2, RDS, Redis). Reduced cloud spend by 50%. Set up AWS infrastructure in line with best practices. Supported infrastructure needs for developer and platform teams. Drafted architecture framework. Set the direction for tech adoption.
Sr. DevOps Engineer at Brevan Howard
Mar 2022 - May 2023
Implemented infrastructure as code (AWS, Terraform, Docker, VPC, ECS, EKS, EC2, RDS, Redis). Automated monitoring configuration with Ansible, and DataDog. Built out BPipe for ingestion of large volume of data from Bloomberg. Supported infrastructure needs for developer and data management teams. Built out KDB and Deephaven infrastructure. Drafted architecture framework. Drove microservice adoption. Configured multi account AWS environment with: VPC networks, network peering, security groups, DNS, RBAC, etc.
VP Principal DevOps Engineer at BNY Mellon
Apr 2020 - March 2022
Advanced Agile adoption, SDLC & Architecture best practices. Manged release schedule and maintain infrastructure. Implemented automation in SDLC process. Enforced security best practices for deployments, architecture and code. Served as Agile and DevOps champion, helping other teams to improve their workflows. Maintained private cloud infrastructure. Created architecture diagrams in compliance with company and industry guidelines. Added new private cloud datacenter. Created template for public cloud adoption. Wrote new guidelines for architecture approval process. Reengineered static deployments to be dynamic with autoscaling.
Sr. DevOps Engineer at R3
Sep 2019 - Jan 2020
Improved and maintained existing Terraform library. Improved and maintain existing Ansible library. Improved automation and issue mitigation. Used Jira for managing IT infrastructure and development projects. Started DevOps team in NYC. Maintain on prem and cloud infrastructure (Azure). Create documentation and “how to” guides for deployment and configuration of resources. Code review/testing
Sr. DevOps Engineer at CareDox
Feb 2019 - Aug 2019
Implemented infrastructure as code (AWS, Terraform, Docker, VPC, ECS, EKS, EC2, RDS, Redis). Set up monitoring solutions with Datadog and CloudWatch. Responsible for automation of cloud infrastructure management (AWS, Terraform, Ansible). Used Jira for managing IT infrastructure and development projects (AWS). Managed team of engineers to ensure on time delivery of new applications and features. Infrastructure migration (AWS, Terraform, Ansible). System patching and management of Linux VMs (Centos, Debian, Arch). Troubleshooting of all cloud infrastructure, networking, availability, and performance degradation. Managed AWS resources to control cost and optimize resource utilization. Conducted cloud security audits & mitigation (AWS, CloudCheckr). Optimized cloud resource utilization. Set up guardrails to ensure HIPAA compliance, and enforce best practices. Code review on Github, and CI/CD pipeline management with Circle. Build out user friendly custom Terraform modules for reusability, and consistency. Escalation management with Datadog, CloudWatch and Pager Duty.
Sr. DevOps Engineer at Boomer Digital
Jul 2017 - Feb 2019
Implemented Infrastructure as code (AWS, Terraform). Code review on Github, and CI/CD pipeline management with Concourse. Automated management of cloud infrastructure (AWS, Terraform, Ansible). Used Jira to manage IT infrastructure and development projects (Digital Ocean, AWS). Managed team of engineers to ensure on time delivery of applications and features. Responsible for infrastructure migration to the cloud (Digital Ocean, AWS, Terraform, Ansible). Managed security audits & mitigation solutions (Digital Ocean, AWS). Optimized cloud resource utilization (Digital Ocean, AWS). Managed cloud resources (Digital Ocean, AWS). New business development. Created and presented POC proposals. Reporting on project development. Ad Hoc IT management.
Co Owner at Nilsen Holdings
Jul 2012 - Jul 2017
Financial Advisor at Merrill Lynch
Jan 2016 - Jul 2016
CFO at Orion Trading Institution S.A
Feb 2004 - Jun 2012
Director at Top Unit Management
Jan 2003 - Feb 2004
Training Director at FOREX Wealth Builders Int.
Jan 2003 - Jan 2004
Education
Degree in Business & Accounting from Næringsakadamiet, Bergen Norway
2002 - 2003
Certificate in Social Science from The State Resource & Adult Learning Center, Oslo Norway
1998
Certifications
AWS DevOps Engineer Professional from AWS
AWS Solutions Architect Associate from AWS
AWS SysOps Administrator Associate from AWS
Docker Certified Associate from Docker
Python from Cornell University