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Daniel McDonough

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Apr 2024 — Present

Atlanta, GA

MagMutual Insurance Company

Site Reliability Engineer · Infrastructure / Platform

Designed and implemented a fully isolated GCP layout for dev, QA, UAT, and production across 12 projects using Terraform and Terragrunt. GCP / GKE Terraform / Terragrunt
Deployed and maintained 10+ GKE clusters supporting internal tooling and application workloads, including infrastructure automation with AWX and ArgoCD. GCP / GKE Kubernetes ArgoCD / GitOps
Migrated DNS and perimeter security from manual processes to Terraform-managed GitOps pipelines using GitHub Actions. Terraform / Terragrunt GitHub Actions Networking Security / IAM
Replaced long-lived cloud credentials with Workload Identity Federation and least-privilege IAM in a HIPAA-regulated environment. GCP / GKE Security / IAM
Built and maintained Terraform-managed site-to-site VPN and DNS peering between on-premises systems and GCP. Terraform / Terragrunt Networking
Created reusable Ansible role for Linux systems to join Active Directory using Kerberos and supporting GSSAPI, reducing access issues. Ansible Linux Security / IAM
Identified and corrected a latent production access failure caused by unsafe filesystem permissions on a long-running production VM, preventing a permanent OSLogin lockout during a planned migration. Linux Security / IAM
Migrated 30+ GCP load balancers to 4 gateways, saving over $1,000 per month and reducing overhead by utilizing URL masks on serverless Netowrk Endpoint Groups. GCP / GKE Cost optimization

Oct 2022 — Jan 2024

Charleston, SC

Red Boundary Research

Senior DevOps Engineer

Designed CI-driven E2E test harness (GitHub Actions + Terraform + AWS) that provisions ephemeral VPC/ECS environments to validate endpoint agent behavior across supported deployment topologies. AWS Terraform / Terragrunt
Integrated Datadog for service monitoring and Elasticsearch for centralized log aggregation and analysis. Observability
Introduced CI/CD workflows to replace manual deployments, improving release reliability and reducing operational friction. GitHub Actions

Oct 2017 — Feb 2021

Atlanta, GA

The Weather Company (IBM)

Senior DevOps Engineer

Reduced annual AWS spend by $355K+ through EMR spot-instance migration, reserved-instance strategy for the Qliksense cluster, and systematic right-sizing. AWS Cost optimization
Deployed and operated Kubernetes workloads on EKS using Terraform and Helm, supporting large-scale analytics pipelines with centralized logging via Elasticsearch. AWS Kubernetes Terraform / Terragrunt Observability
Diagnosed and recovered a production Cassandra cluster failure using custom recovery scripts. Linux Observability

§ education

2014

Coastal Carolina University

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

2013

Coastal Carolina University

Bachelor of Science · Chemistry

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