Ethan Bayliss

Cloud/Platform Engineer

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Professional Summary

  • Strong Linux background, daily experience with Bash and Linux tooling
  • Strong interest and experience in deploying a consistent, repeatable environment using tools across IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation and Pulumi)
  • Ability to reduce development friction through CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions and Jenkins
  • Able to sleuth complex technology environments and break down large issues into manageable pieces for troubleshooting
  • Experience with both AWS and Azure but a strong preference for AWS
  • A competent independent worker that can deliver solutions and handle stakeholders along the way
  • Personable nature and an excellent communicator

    • Career History

    Platform Engineer

    Mar 2025 to Present
    Fortescue
      Ongoing

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    Cloud Engineer (6 Month Contract)

    Sep 2024 to Mar 2025
    The U Group & Co
      Individual contributor on the Machine Learning team. I was responsible for delivering two solutions to simplify the Machine Learning team’s workflow: A custom Machine Learning Training Pipeline for one of their ML models and a simplified ML Inference Pipeline which aimed to evaluate ML inference accuracy and KPIs
      AWS services: EC2, Step Functions, Lambda, ECS, S3 and SQS

    • Developed Python program to schedule Docker containers on locally attached GPUs inside of EC2 and run local inference
    • Made and owned all design decisions relating to both the Inference Pipeline and Training Pipeline
    • Implemented Huggingface Transformer’s training scripts
    • Used Pulumi IaC to implement solutions and maintained other projects in AWS CDK as required

    DevSecOps Engineer

    Sep 2024 to Mar 2025
    Trade Ledger
      Individual contributor on the DevSecOps team of only two people. I was responsible for providing operational support to developers in both Europe and Australia. Trade Ledger is a financial technology startup providing a business lending platform for banks across the globe.

    • AWS and Azure: Maintained and configured EKS/AKS clusters deployed via Terraform
    • Provided operational support for software developers in Europe across our Kubernetes clusters and their Java application containers interactions with AWS and Azure
    • Through a migration from AWS to Azure, became the in-house technical Azure SME while a consulting company led the project

    Cloud Engineer

    April 2021 to May 2023
    Australian Finance Group
      Individual contributor on a Cloud Engineering team at AFG. I was responsible for providing developer and operational support while juggling project work for continuous improvement of the cloud environment. I was a member of a high-performing team who are continuously pushing for the best for the developers.

    • Wrote IaC and supported environments across Terraform and CloudFormation
    • Strong AWS background across both serverless and traditional services (EC2/ASG, CloudFront, Load Balancers, Lambda, RDS DBs)
    • Maintained an environment of Amazon Linux, CentOS and RHEL machines with Puppet config mgmt.
    • Provided excellent communication to both technical and non-technical stakeholders in the business
    • Participated in on-call rotation and became a technical contact for all businesses critical services during incidents

    Network Engineer

    January 2020 to April 2021
    ISA Technologies (Network Buildouts)
    • Exposure to complex network design in large enterprise environments (Royal Perth Hospital + other large hospitals)
    • Rack and stack network equipment onsite for government clients. Cisco routers, switches, WLC and WAPs

    Education

    Bachelor of Technology (Computer Systems and Networking)

    Graduated 2022
    Curtin University

    Certifications

    • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Credential ID LF-fr236yvuwj
    • AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate Credential ID 2B1LHK9JHNF4QDWQ
    • Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate Credential ID 7E5037-1E11TB
    • Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate Credential ID 2775M3-E723F3