Summary
Brad Rhodes is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 13 years of experience in building resilient, automated delivery systems across Windows, Linux, and Kubernetes environments. Based in the Greater Chicago Area, he excels at practical automation—authoring PowerShell solutions that updated 2,000+ servers with zero downtime and automated user lifecycle management for 4,000+ accounts. At Paylocity he manages TeamCity/Octopus pipelines, F5 load balancing, Rancher-run Kubernetes clusters, and has developed self-healing remediation scripts for Kubernetes-on-Windows instability. He also designed metadata and API-driven tooling to make deployments more supportable and auditable, reducing the need for specialized tribal knowledge. Always seeking new systems to learn, he prefers onsite or hybrid roles and brings a knack for turning operational complexity into robust, low-friction processes.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Management, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Management at North Central College