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Christopher Harris

DevOps, Cloud Operations and SRE Leader

chris.harris@hivoltg.com | Phoenix, AZ

Summary

Hands-on engineering leader with 30+ years of infrastructure, cloud, platform, and technology-operations experience. Deep expertise across AWS, DevOps, platform reliability, incident-response, observability, automation, and production-operations.

Technical Capabilities

  • Cloud platform engineering leadership (AWS)
  • CI/CD governance, standardization & IaC
  • Platform reliability & SRE disciplines
  • Monitoring, observability, and capacity planning
  • Incident command, escalation, RCA & prevention
  • Production readiness & release controls
  • Vendor-to-internal knowledge transfer
  • Runbooks, documentation & team mentoring

Professional Experience

Founder & CEO / Principal Cloud Architect

2023 – Present

Hivoltg Technology Services

  • Leads product architecture, cloud deployment, operational reliability, and release readiness.
  • Works on AI-enabled SaaS and field-service platforms, including the Guardian Home Check ecosystem.
  • Designs reusable authentication, scheduling, notification, client-portal, and evidence-trail patterns.
  • Directs vendor coordination, backlog prioritization, security posture, and release-quality governance.

Manager, Cloud Platform Engineering

2021 – 2023

Choice Hotels International

  • Led AWS platform engineering for internal and external APIs supporting global hospitality systems.
  • Led an Elasticsearch-to-Amazon OpenSearch migration across discovery, compatibility, architecture, security, testing, cutover, and stabilization.
  • Coordinated development, QA, product, security, operations, application owners, and stakeholders.
  • Established monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, access controls, documentation, and internal ownership.
  • Transferred platform knowledge and operational responsibility from vendors to internal engineering teams.

DevOps Supervisor / Platform Reliability Leader

2017 – 2021

Plexus Worldwide

  • Supervised DevOps and infrastructure operations for global e-commerce platforms.
  • Established CI/CD practices, infrastructure automation, and self-service workflows.
  • Implemented monitoring dashboards, diagnostic runbooks, RCA discipline, and recurrence prevention.
  • Mentored engineers in troubleshooting, automation, and operational ownership.
  • Reduced MTTR by 30% through improved monitoring, diagnostic runbooks, root-cause analysis, and faster escalation response.
  • Helped sustain 99.9% uptime for global e-commerce platforms through proactive monitoring and escalation discipline.

Senior Systems Administrator

2015 – 2017

Zocdoc

  • Operated and troubleshot customer-facing AWS and VMware infrastructure across EC2, ECS, S3, Lambda, CloudFormation, VPC, VPN, and Direct Connect.
  • Supported PostgreSQL- and MongoDB-backed environments, production telemetry, backups, capacity changes, and incident recovery.
  • Served as an escalation engineer for complex application, operating system, networking, identity, and data-transfer failures.
  • Used Datadog and LogicMonitor to improve visibility into service health, infrastructure performance, and emerging production risks.

Senior Systems Administrator

2013 – 2015

TriVita

  • Administered VMware, Hyper-V, Windows Server, SQL-related infrastructure, storage, backup, networking, and enterprise monitoring platforms.
  • Restored revenue-critical services during a peak-sales outage through rapid diagnosis, manual scaling, coordination, and post-incident remediation.
  • Managed production changes, recovery procedures, capacity planning, and final-escalation troubleshooting across application and infrastructure layers.

Senior Systems Engineer

2005 – 2012

PulteGroup

  • Supported enterprise VMware, Windows Server, Dell server, Cisco network, backup, storage, and manufacturing technology environments.
  • Maintained integration between centralized systems and production-floor equipment, including troubleshooting, calibration support, and recovery.
  • Led infrastructure upgrades, incident resolution, vendor coordination, documentation, and operational improvements across distributed locations.

Earlier Professional Experience

Database Administrator at Hi-Health; Systems Consultant at Venturi Staffing Partners; IT Specialist at Las Vegas Golf & Tennis; IT Manager at Advanced Marketing Seminars; Mainframe Production Control Operator at Western Geophysical / Central Boekhuis BV.

Certifications & Education

Professional Certifications

  • • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
  • • Microsoft Certified Professional
  • • CompTIA A+

Education & Service

  • • Business Administration - Ottawa University
  • • Electronics & Electricity - Pittsburg State University
  • • Business Computer Systems - National Institute for Advanced Studies (Netherlands)
  • • Combat Engineer, U.S. Army National Guard