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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 – PresentHivoltg 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 – 2023Choice 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 – 2021Plexus 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 – 2017Zocdoc
- •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 – 2015TriVita
- •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 – 2012PulteGroup
- •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