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Hi, I am Bill

Bill Schenk

Lead Cloud Engineer at HireVue

I am a passionate IT Professional with over 15 years of working experience. I enjoy learning and tinkering with all things tech

AWS Certified Cloud Practioner
AWS Certified Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Terraform Certified Associate
Collaborative
Mentorship
Problem Solving

Skills

Experiences

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HireVue

January 2022 - Present

Deployment, configuration, and management of a global infrastructure of cloud services to support the HireVue platforms using DevOps tools and automation.

Lead Cloud Engineer

October 2024 - Present

Responsibilities:
  • Migration ofEC2-hosted MS SQL Server clusters to Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server to enhance scalability, manageability, and performance.
  • Designed, implemented, and managed scalable, secure, and highly available cloud solutions on AWS, leveraging services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and VPCs.
  • Spearheaded the infrastructure-as-code (IaC) initiative, developing and maintaining reusable Terraform modules for consistent and automated provisioning across environments.
  • Led the migration of existing AWS CloudFormation templates to Terraform, ensuring seamless functionality and improving infrastructure manageability.
  • Led cross-functional teams to develop and enforce cloud governance policies, ensuring compliance with security and operational standards.
  • Monitored, troubleshot, and optimized cloud performance using AWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and third-party tools like Datadog or Splunk.
  • Provided mentorship and technical leadership to junior engineers, conducting code reviews and fostering a culture of innovation and best practices.
  • Developed disaster recovery and business continuity strategies, leveraging AWS services like Backup, S3 Lifecycle Policies, and cross-regional replication
  • Documented infrastructure design patterns, workflows, and operational procedures to ensure knowledge sharing and team alignment.
Sr. Infrastructure Engineer

January 2022 - September 2024

Responsibilities:
  • Manage and remediate issues related to ISO27001, SOC2 and FedRAMP Audits
  • Architect and deploy new infrastructure utilizing Terraform and Terragrunt
  • Maintain, configure and update infrastructure using Salt and Ansible
Amobee

July 2019 - Dec 2021

Baltimore, MD

Technical Lead for Amobee IT team for all core services and infrastructure. In charge of deployment, configuration, and management of a mixed Windows and Linux environment in AWS and on-premise. Design, implement and project manage global infrastructure utilized by Amobee users.

Systems Engineer

July 2019 - Dec 2021

Responsibilities:
  • Deployment, configuration, and management of a global infrastructure of AWS services for corporate tools. Utilize Meraki virtual networking appliances to provide office site-to-site connections to AWS regions utilized for IT tools and services.
  • In charge of deployment, configuration, and management of Cisco Meraki networking infrastructure in corporate offices and AWS regions.
  • Monitor and maintain systems and services using cloud and on-premise monitoring tools, backup services and configuration management tools.
  • Planning and implementing the migration of all on-premise services to cloud-hosted solutions including the migration of VMware and Hyper-V services to AWS.
  • Deployment, configuration and management of Atlassian services including Jira Server and Confluence Server.
  • Team lead and project manager for core IT projects that improved the infrastructure and security posture of Amobee services.
  • Provide expertise and mentorship to IT team to complete infrastructure projects and improve technical skillsets.
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University of Maryland - SESYNC

January 2017 - July 2019

Annapolis, MD

Head of IT responsible for all IT systems and services hosted and deployed at SESYNC including high performance computing resources, administrative and production services, and networking infrastructure. Worked with SESYNC Data Science team to provide cyberinfrastructure support and consulting services to researchers and staff.

Assistant Director of Cyberinfrastructure

January 2017 - July 2019

Responsibilities:
  • Managed IT employees to execute cyberinfrastructure projects and tasks. Spearheaded staff to deploy systems and services and provided senior expertise when needed.
  • Coordinated with UMD departments on campus to provide 10Gb networking directly from campus via Maryland Research network. Worked with UMD staff to host off-premise systems for higher availability and off-site backup services.
  • Drafted long-term IT services for SESYNC including timeline for system upgrades and system replacements, deployment of new services, and retirement of old equipment.
  • Led procurement efforts with a variety of vendors to quote and purchase software, services and infrastructure to support SESYNC operations.
  • Lifecycle Management of Linux infrastructure using open-source tools such as Puppet and Foreman. Migrated existing services under new management infrastructure.
  • Designed and implemented new Storage Spaces Direct hyperconverged virtualization infrastructure for use by SESYNC researchers for Windows and Linux services.
  • Deployed new VMware infrastructure and oversaw migration of services to new infrastructure.
University of Maryland - SESYNC

January 2012 - January 2017

Annapolis, MD

Responsible for design, deployment, and management of a mixed cyberinfrastructure environment to support core business services and research computing including virtualization technologies, networking, windows, and Linux services,. Worked with SESYNC employees and researchers to provide a variety of computing services to support research activities by deploying an agile and flexible infrastructure that can adapt to the needs of the users.

Sr. Systems Administrator

July 2016 - January 2017

Systems Administrator

January 2012 - July 2017

Responsibilities:
  • Head of IT responsible for all IT systems and services hosted and deployed at SESYNC including high performance computing resources, administrative and production services, and networking infrastructure. Worked with SESYNC Data Science team to provide cyberinfrastructure support and consulting services to researchers and staff.
  • Responsible for developing an Active Directory to support over 1000 researchers in a mixed Linux/Windows environment
  • Operated and administered Ubuntu Linux infrastructure via Foreman and Puppet. Tasks included writing puppet modules and profiles for deployment of various services, installation of new services and migration of infrastructure to new management infrastructure.
  • Managed and maintained the network infrastructure including VLANs, routing, ACLs, and 10Gb networking.
  • Leveraged scripting and configuration technologies such as PowerShell, Bash, and Puppet to automate tasks to improve operational efficiency.
  • Designed and deployed Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor based virtualized computing clusters that resulted in the expansion of the organization’s research computing capacity.
  • Produced and implemented Windows Storage Spaces for file storage and SOFS deployment for SMB 4.0 storage resulting in improved and redundant Hyper-V virtual machine storage.
  • Built out core Windows infrastructure including Systems Center services, WSUS/MDT, and core file and print services.
  • Deployed VMware ESXi and vCenter infrastructure on iSCSI storage to host core Linux and Windows services.
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University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies

May 2009 - December 2011

Annapolis, MD

Responsible for core infrastructure project work and issue triage to assist institute staff and researchers.

System Administrator

May 2009 - December 2011

Responsibilities:
  • Collaborated with UMIACS systems staff to deploy, manage, and administer Windows and Linux services to support center labs and researchers.
  • Worked as Help Desk operator during assigned shifts to oversee student staff and provide end user support.

Education

University of Maryland University College
2011
B.Sc. in Computers and Network Security
University of Maryland College Park
2006-2010
Computer Science