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Charlie Weiblen

Senior Cloud Architect

Wrentham, Massachusetts · Remote

Cloud infrastructure leader with two decades of experience spanning performance engineering, DevOps, and cloud security. Currently Senior Cloud Architect at Car IQ, with prior engineering and cloud operations leadership roles at ArisGlobal, Invoke Solutions, and IntraLinks. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, focused on infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, CI/CD automation, and cloud security compliance.

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Skills

AWS Google Cloud Platform Terraform Kubernetes (EKS) Istio Helm ArgoCD Infrastructure as Code GitOps GitHub Actions Jenkins Ansible CI/CD Cybersecurity Incident Management Prometheus Grafana Datadog PagerDuty MySQL MongoDB Amazon RDS ITIL Leadership

Experience

Senior Cloud Architect Aug 2024 – Present
Car IQ Inc. · Remote
  • Cloud architecture for Car IQ's vehicle-initiated payments platform, working primarily in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Cloud Security Engineer Dec 2023 – Present
Aegis IT Solutions · Part-time, Remote
  • Assess and remediate security vulnerabilities in AWS infrastructure for Aegis clients
  • Provide recommendations to improve performance, reliability, and efficiency of client applications
DevOps Engineer Nov 2015 – Present
BenefitScape · Part-time, Remote
  • Architected Kubernetes (EKS) infrastructure and Istio service mesh microservices design; containerized Java (Spring Boot) and Angular applications
  • Fully automated provisioning and deployment with Terraform, Helm, and ArgoCD
  • Improved code quality, build, and deploy speed with GitHub Actions CI/CD
  • Implemented comprehensive application observability using Sentry, Prometheus, and Grafana
Vice President, Cloud Operations Feb 2022 – Sep 2023
ArisGlobal
  • Led global DevOps, SRE, DBA, and support teams responsible for automated provisioning and monitoring of cloud infrastructure and co-located data centers
  • Hired new SRE team; established monitoring standards, implemented Datadog APM/RUM and PagerDuty integration
  • Architected migration of CI/CD from Jenkins to GitHub Actions
  • Migrated customers from co-located data centers to VMware Cloud on AWS
  • Saved over $1M in annual costs through 30+ cost management and optimization projects
Vice President of Engineering Apr 2016 – Feb 2022
Invoke Solutions, Inc.
  • Hands-on leader of Product Development, Engineering, IT, and Information Security for a real-time market research platform
  • Implemented security policies and controls to satisfy strict audit requirements for large media corporations, including ABC, Disney, and Netflix
  • Integrated TensorFlow AI/ML and NLP technologies for semantic search and automated response classification
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, CI/CD with Jenkins, and configuration management with Ansible
Head of Technical Operations Mar 2015 – Apr 2016
Jobcase, Inc. · Cambridge, MA
  • Managed corporate IT and web operations for an ad-tech startup valued at $300M
  • Introduced automated server provisioning and configuration using Ansible Tower
  • Established incident management processes, SLA, and KPI monitoring and reporting
Head of Cloud Operations Jan 2014 – Feb 2015
CheerNetworks, Inc. · Greater Boston
  • Implemented infrastructure, CI/CD, security, QA, backup, and application performance monitoring for an HR SaaS startup
  • Established automated backup and disaster recovery procedures for AWS infrastructure

Earlier Career

Vice President, Engineering → Director, Performance & Capacity Engineering → Manager, Performance Engineering → Senior Performance Engineer · IntraLinks 2006 – 2014
Sr. Performance Engineer · Fidelity Investments 2001 – 2006
Sr. Quality Assurance Engineer · Concero (PSW Technologies) 1999 – 2001

Education

MBA
Babson College – F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business
2001 – 2006
BE, Mechanical Engineering
Dartmouth College
1995 – 1996
BA, Engineering
Dartmouth College
1991 – 1995

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
Amazon Web Services
Issued Jan 2024 · Expires Jan 2027
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