Curriculum vitae

Jarrod Moore

Summary

Platform engineer with a track record of owning and scaling cloud infrastructure at growth-stage companies. Experienced working as the senior or sole operations engineer, delivering secure, compliant, and highly automated platforms that grow with the business. Known for bringing rigour and reliability to fast-moving environments without slowing them down.

Skills Focus and Technical Expertise

Cloud

AWSGoogle Cloud Platform

Infrastructure & Automation

PulumiTerraformCloudFormationAnsibleSaltStackPuppetPackerDockerKubernetes

CI/CD

GitHub ActionsJenkinsArgoCDFlux

Languages

PythonGoBashRuby

Monitoring & Logging

DatadogPrometheusGrafanaInfluxDBGraylogELK

Databases

PostgreSQLMySQLMariaDBRDSAurora

Security & Compliance

SOC 2IAMSELinuxcheckov

AI Developer Tools

Claude CodeCursorOh My Pi

Version Control

GitJujutsu

Professional Experience

  1. ProfitPeak

    Aug 2025 — Current

    Founding DevOps Engineer

    Sydney, Australia

    • Built the platform engineering function from scratch, setting standards for infrastructure, production architecture, CI/CD, access control, observability, resilience and cloud cost governance
    • Designed and implemented a greenfield multi-account AWS architecture with clear security, operational and compliance boundaries
    • Reduced monthly AWS spend by 50% through architectural improvements, cost optimisation and ongoing infrastructure governance
    • Built the Databricks platform foundation from scratch, automating workspace provisioning, secure storage, encryption, access control and team governance
    • Led the SOC 2 operational workstream, establishing audit logging, access controls, encryption standards, secrets management and security governance
    • Built reusable Pulumi component libraries embedding security, compliance, cost attribution and operational best practices by default, with guardrails that let AI agents autonomously develop improvements to the library
    • Established GitHub Actions as the company's primary CI/CD model, building reusable workflows and custom actions for secure self-service delivery
    • Architected auto-scaling self-hosted GitHub Actions runners on ECS for secure deployment, database migration and operational workflows in private AWS networks
    • Automated AMI build pipelines using Packer and Salt, improving deployment consistency and eliminating configuration drift
    • Built cost-conscious Datadog observability, providing actionable visibility across infrastructure and applications while maintaining operational efficiency
    • Extended platform infrastructure standards to GCP, supporting deployment of workloads via Pulumi
    • Developed the workflows and guardrails that let AI agents handle ops work on their own, keeping it documented, tested and to standard

  2. Deckard Technologies

    Jan 2020 — Nov 2024

    Principal Platform Engineer

    Sydney, Australia

    • Architected and implemented a secure, scalable AWS infrastructure supporting multi-region deployments with auto-scaling and self-healing capabilities
    • Developed a Python SDK enabling developers to manage cloud resources with Pulumi, reducing dependency on the platform team for infrastructure operations
    • Redesigned S3 storage architecture for tens of millions of small files, implementing automated archival to Glacier that eliminated a critical disaster recovery gap while significantly reducing storage costs
    • Designed and implemented an EC2 image pipeline and ECS cluster build process, enabling developers to run GPU-powered ML/AI workloads on AWS Batch and ECS/Fargate
    • Designed and implemented an event-driven CI/CD notification system using Python and AWS Lambda, providing real-time insights into build failures, root causes, and potential business impacts
    • Led implementation and integration of Drata to automate security and compliance workflows, establishing the foundations that enabled the company's successful SOC 2 certification
    • Fostered knowledge-sharing through internal workshops, driving adoption of best practices and cross-team collaboration

  3. TripAdvisor

    May 2019 — Jan 2020

    Senior Systems Engineer

    Sydney, Australia

    • Provisioned and managed thousands of instances and deployments using AWS Auto-scaling groups, Lambda, Jenkins and Puppet
    • Architected and maintained deployment pipelines to provision and configure workloads on Kubernetes using Helm charts
    • Managed metrics infrastructure at scale using Prometheus, Zookeeper and Thanos

  4. Learnosity

    Nov 2014 — Apr 2019

    Senior DevOps/Systems Engineer

    Sydney, Australia

    • Designed a self-healing, auto-scaling deployment system using SaltStack, CloudFormation, Packer, and Troposphere, supporting 500,000+ concurrent users
    • Promoted for leadership impact, fostering collaboration and upskilling through an internal knowledge-sharing forum
    • Architected Kubernetes clusters with full RBAC in an auto-scaled environment
    • Implemented monitoring solutions (Datadog, Grafana, InfluxDB) for proactive system health management
    • Enforced security compliance by developing and applying SELinux policies for in-house applications
    • Architected and implemented a centralised logging platform (Graylog, MongoDB, Elasticsearch) across multiple data centres

    SaltstackUbuntuPythonMySQLApacheTomcatIcinga

  5. NTT Communications ICT Solutions

    Mar 2013 — Nov 2014

    DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer

    Sydney, Australia

    • Designed and implemented a zero-touch physical hardware provisioning system that reduced machine build times by 150%, allowing engineers to rack hardware and walk away
    • Automated infrastructure provisioning with Puppet and The Foreman, developing reusable modules used across infrastructure teams to meet security and compliance requirements
    • Engineered highly available DNS infrastructure using InfoBlox and BIND
    • Delivered technical training and mentoring on Puppet best practices and infrastructure-as-code

    PuppetForemanCentOSRHELSUSE Enterprise LinuxMySQLApacheTomcatZabbixRubyRuby on Rails

  6. News Limited

    Aug 2012 — Mar 2013

    UNIX Systems Administrator

    Sydney, Australia

    • Configured and tuned Apache and Tomcat installations using Puppet to support Australia's top news websites
    • Maintained an infrastructure with over 400 servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS using Puppet
    • Developed a dashboard application in Ruby on Rails with drag-and-drop widgets to give visibility of both incidents affecting production infrastructure and the work done to rectify said incidents to management
    • Developed scripts using Ruby on a regular basis to perform tedious but regularly performed tasks in bulk and shared useful scripts with colleagues
    • Worked on-call as 2nd level support to resolve technical issues in a timely manner
    • Mentored new employees to quickly get them up to speed with day-to-day tasks and the company’s standard procedures
    • Configured site caching and security settings with Akamai for the company’s masthead websites
    • Carried out regular database administrator tasks with MySQL databases
    • Performed day-to-day administration tasks such as making DNS changes, troubleshooting network problems, performing application upgrades, building custom RPMs, rebuilding servers, etc.

    PuppetForemanCentOSRHELMySQLApacheTomcat

  7. Flex Point Systems

    Dec 2011 — Apr 2012

    Systems Engineer

    Izumo, Shimane Prefecture, Japan

    • Developed web applications in PHP for a number of clients
    • Delivered presentations to colleagues on new technologies and best practices in Japanese
    • Administered the company’s Linux development servers
    • Performed day-to-day duties such as providing translation services, assisting management with their workloads, doing research and phone calls in Japanese

  8. News Limited

    Aug 2010 — Sep 2011

    UNIX Systems Administrator

    Sydney, Australia

    • Configured and tuned Apache and Tomcat installations using Puppet to support Australia's top news websites
    • Maintained an infrastructure with over 400 servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS using Puppet
    • Developed design requirements, migration plans and support documentation for upgrade of Confluence, JIRA, Bamboo, Crowd and Crucible installations to new server infrastructure and was commended for putting in extra work to ensure the upgrade went as smoothly as possible
    • Configured site caching and security settings with Akamai for the company’s masthead websites
    • Carried out simple database administrator tasks with MySQL and Oracle 11 databases
    • Performed day-to-day administration tasks such as making DNS changes, troubleshooting network problems, performing application upgrades, building RPMs, rebuilding servers, etc.

    PuppetForemanCentOSRHELMySQLApacheTomcat

  9. Ardec International Pty. Ltd.

    Mar 2008 — Jul 2010

    Systems Administrator

    Sydney, Australia

    • Provided technical and desktop support to 50 employees using Windows and Linux systems
    • Maintained Nagios and Cacti monitoring setup and wrote scripts to extend Nagios’ functionality
    • Developed systems in Python from end-to-end and leveraged the OpenStreetMap.org data set, Mapnik map renderer and TileCache systems to provide a sustainable, effective mapping solution to end-users across the company’s line of products
    • Deployed and maintained production websites and infrastructure running on Apache, Tomcat and PostgreSQL
    • Administered Confluence wiki and JIRA bug tracker and carried out upgrades of said applications
    • Carried out security patching for 200+ Windows Server 2003, Debian, CentOS and OpenBSD servers
    • Upgraded Cisco Call Manager server software and diagnosed issues with approximately 30 IP phones
    • Managed users and provided technical support for Active Directory and Exchange 2007 servers running Windows Server 2003
    • Delivered presentations to colleagues on new technologies and business practices
    • Performed day-to-day administration tasks such as upgrading servers and network hardware, troubleshooting network problems, rebuilding desktops, writing Bash/Python scripts, etc.

  10. Wirasoft Pty. Ltd.

    Jul 2007 — Mar 2008

    Systems Administrator

    Sydney, Australia

    • Developed websites for clients using Java, the Spring Framework, Hibernate, BEA Weblogic, Maven and JasperReports
    • Ran workshops to instruct clients about the use of products and services sold by my employer

Education

  • University of SydneyBachelor of Science(Computer Science)Degree conferred on 24th October 2007
  • Hurlstone Agricultural High School (Selective School)Completed in 2003

Certificates & awards

  • CELTA English Teaching Certificate, Navitas English — Completed on 28th July 2010
  • JLPT Certificate Level N4 — Completed on 5th December 2010
  • Japanese Certificate III, TAFE Ultimo Campus — Completed on 4th December 2010

Extra-curricular Activities

  • Organised and hosted charity event for Drawtism 2009, raising funds for people with Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Volunteer work for Bankstown Handicapped Children's Centre 2005-2006
  • Guest speaker for Autism Awareness Week at Sydney Parliament House with an audience of 200, 2004
  • Guest speaker for Autism Spectrum Australia Rick Damelian Honda Race Day Fundraiser, 2004

Interests

  • I am very interested in learning Mandarin Chinese, Korean and Japanese, as well as learning about East Asian cultures
  • When I have the time, I also enjoy reading and playing tennis