Jamie Lowry
Orange County, CA • jamie@jamielowry.com
linkedin.com/in/jamie-lowry • jamielowry.com
Senior Systems Engineer | Infrastructure Automation | DevOps | SRE
Senior Systems Engineer with 10+ years in engineering roles and 15 years in technical environments, delivering org-wide infrastructure platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and developer enablement tooling. Deep expertise in AWS and proficiency with cloud-agnostic automation tools. Known for driving platform adoption through technical training, documentation, and hands-on support.
Core Competencies
Infrastructure Automation
AWS
Terraform
Kubernetes (EKS)
Helm
Argo Workflows
Jenkins
Chef
Istio
cert-manager
HashiCorp Vault
Python
Bash
Go
CI/CD Pipelines
Developer Enablement
Professional Experience
Senior Systems Engineer – Platform Engineering
Airbnb – San Francisco, CA (2019 – Present)
- Designed and built Kubernetes-based compute platform (EKS) used company-wide for deploying internal workloads, integrating Istio service mesh, cert-manager for certificate management, and External Secrets Operator for secure secret handling
- Maintained and evolved organization-wide Helm chart supporting all workload types, embedding platform standards and integrations for networking, security, and observability
- Led rollout of Argo Workflows for container build and deployment pipelines, enabling ephemeral, scalable builds in Kubernetes
- Developed secure image build process using Argo Workflows and AWS SDKs: dynamically creates ECR repositories, configures replication policies, applies lifecycle rules, and signs images with Sigstore Cosign
- Partnered with security teams and external pentesters to audit critical systems, implementing improvements to meet or exceed recommendations
- Drove platform adoption and enablement: authored documentation, built training series, hosted office hours, and supported developer onboarding
Systems Engineer – Infrastructure Automation
Airbnb – San Francisco, CA (2015 – 2019)
- Wrote foundational infrastructure-as-code in Terraform to provision AWS resources, and implemented configuration management with Chef
- Designed and maintained Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for diverse workloads, including developing Jenkins shared libraries for standardized deployments
- Created automated provisioning workflows and integrations with internal tools using Python and AWS SDKs
- Managed deployments for AWS-hosted services supporting multiple business units, implementing monitoring, logging, and alerting
Senior IT Specialist
Chartboost – San Francisco, CA (2014 – 2015)
- Managed WLAN configuration, device management (Casper JSS), and automated client configurations with custom scripts
- Implemented monitoring with Sensu, Observium, Datadog, and PagerDuty
- Used Puppet for configuration management across internal systems
IT Administrator
Counsyl – South San Francisco, CA (2013 – 2014)
- Designed and implemented automated IT onboarding processes during rapid company growth
- Managed Google Apps Enterprise and MDM platforms
Genius, Trainer, Specialist
Apple, Inc. – Various California Locations (2006 – 2012)
- Delivered technical support and customer training for Apple products
- Mentored staff on service techniques and in-store technical training
Education
California State University, Fullerton – Bachelor's Degree, Art History (2011)