Lucas Jacob

// Senior DevOps Engineer

I lead teams to build and automate reliable, scalable
infrastructureso teams can ship features faster and stress less.

About Me

Senior DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing, automating, and operating cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. I love turning manual, error-prone processes into reliable, observable, and repeatable systems. When I'm not shipping infrastructure, I'm usually kiteboarding or exploring the outdoors.

Work Experience
Senior DevOps Engineer
Simplot Australia
Jan 2022 – Present
  • Managed a DevSecOps Practice, introduced SonarQube for code quality analysis and onboarded over 100 repositories
  • Focused on Shift Left Strategies, implementing security testing early in the development cycle with tools like OWASP ZAP
  • Reduced infrastructure costs by 40% through optimized resource utilization
  • Implemented IaC with Terraform, reducing environment provisioning from 2 days to 30 minutes
Tech Stack
SonarQube
Terraform
Azure
AzureDevOps
Docker
Python
Azure
DevOps Engineer
J.R Simplot Company
Feb 2019 – Mar 2020
  • Relocated to Boise ID, USA to assist the US Digital Delivery Team grow and continue to deliver
  • Re-architected Sitecore CMS for global scale on Azure PaaS to allow for multi regional development and content management
  • Optimized Azure costs, saving the company $120K+ annually
Tech Stack
AWS
Terraform
Kubernetes
Jenkins
GitLab CI
CloudWatch
DevOps Engineer
Simplot Australia
Aug 2016 – Feb 2019
  • Championed the adoption of DevOps practices, leading to improved collaboration and faster delivery cycles
  • Migrated various applications to cloud infrastructure, achieving 99.9% uptime and increasing deployment frequency by 60%
  • Migrated legacy Sitecore CMS from hosted IaaS to Azure PaaS, resulting in improved scalability and maintainability
  • Hardened security configurations, reducing vulnerabilities by 70%
Tech Stack
Azure
AzureDevOps
Sitecore
Hybris
Jenkins
Systems Developer
Simplot Australia
Mar 2014 – Aug 2016
  • Lead Application Developer for Australia wide MDM solution
  • Introduced test automation for "off-the-shelf" purchased systems, leading to system an icrease in system reliability of 35%
  • Introduced source control capabilities to "off-the-shelf" purchased systems, leading to system performance improvements, resulting in 35% faster response times
  • Provided developer support for Sitecore CMS 70%
Tech Stack
MySQL
Python
Jenkins
Sitecore
AzureDevOps
Skills
Cloud
AWS
Azure
Google Cloud
Infra as Code
Terraform
CloudFormation
Ansible
CI/CD
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
Jenkins
Containers & Orch.
Docker
Kubernetes
Helm
Monitoring & Logging
Prometheus
Grafana
ELK Stack
Other
Linux
Python
Baell
Projects
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Infrastructure as Code Foundation
Terraform modules for AWS landing zones with multi-account setup, networking, and security best practices.

This project provides a complete Terraform foundation for AWS multi-account environments. It includes reusable modules for VPC networking, IAM roles, S3 buckets, CloudTrail logging, and security baselines — designed to let teams spin up compliant landing zones in minutes rather than weeks.

TerraformAWSIaCSecurityNetworking
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CI/CD Pipeline Framework
Reusable CI/CD templates for microservices with testing, security scanning, and automated deployments.

A library of reusable GitHub Actions and GitLab CI templates that standardise how microservices are built, tested, scanned, and deployed. Includes SAST/DAST security gates, Docker image builds, Helm chart deployments to Kubernetes, and Slack notifications — all parameterised for easy adoption across teams.

GitHub ActionsGitLab CIDockerHelmSecurity Scanning
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Sitecore CMS
Production-ready Kubernetes configurations with Helm charts, monitoring, logging, and autoscaling.

A collection of opinionated Helm charts and Kubernetes manifests for running production workloads. Covers cluster autoscaling with KEDA, Prometheus + Grafana monitoring stacks, Fluent Bit log shipping to the ELK stack, network policies, and pod disruption budgets — all battle-tested on AWS EKS.

KubernetesHelmPrometheusGrafanaEKS
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DevSecOps Practice
Led a DevSecOps practice, introduced SonarQube for code quality analysis and onboarded over 100 repositories. We also focused on introducing other tooling such as ZED Attack proxy, Azure Load Testing

A Python CLI and dashboard that connects to AWS Cost Explorer, identifies idle or over-provisioned resources, and generates a prioritised savings report. Helped one client cut their AWS bill by $120K+ annually by surfacing unused EC2 instances, unattached EBS volumes, and NAT gateway inefficiencies.

PythonAWS Cost ExplorerFinOpsCLI