Summary
Chris Obrien is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience automating and operating large-scale infrastructure across telecom, enterprise software, and managed services. Based in Cambridge, Ontario, he is Terraform and AWS certified and has held leadership roles from IT Operations Manager to Senior DevOps Engineer at companies like Alstom, Dejero, and CGI. He excels at bridging development and operations—having early responsibility for R&D-to-production handoffs at Research In Motion—and designs highly available nation-wide services. Comfortable across Unix/Linux, virtualization, storage, monitoring and cloud IaC, he focuses on repeatable automation that reduces toil and risk. Notably, his background includes both deep infrastructure engineering and departmental IT management, giving him a rare blend of tactical execution and strategic oversight.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programmer / Analyst, Computer Programmer / Analyst at Conestoga College