Mitch Murphy

Mitch Murphy

Improving humanity by teaching machines how to learn.

Mitchell Murphy

Tampa, FL
Cleared Engineer (TS/SCI) | GitHub | LinkedIn | mitchmurphy.io

Career Objective

To leverage my expertise as a Kubernetes Engineer and Cloud Native Developer to design and implement secure, scalable, and resilient systems for mission-critical applications. I aim to drive innovation in military and defense technologies while ensuring enterprise-level security, continuous observability, and seamless operations.

Education

Bachelor of Science – Case Western Reserve University

  • Major: Computer Science & Mathematics
  • Minor: Biology

Experience

Principal DevOps Engineer

Dark Wolf Solutions – Feb 2023 – Present

  • Grafana Professional Services Consultant, specializing in airgapped LGTM deployments.
  • Developed secure, multi-cluster, multi-network clusters with Cilium, WireGuard, and SPIFFE (ALTS).
  • Automated AMI creation with Packer and Ansible, installing RKE2 on AWS (IL2/4/5).
  • Deployed secure, multi-cluster AKS with Istio cluster mesh.
  • Migrated Docker Compose components to scalable Kubernetes using Helm.
  • Developed secure Golang binaries for CI/CD integration in air-gapped deployments.
  • Maintained GitLab CI/CD pipelines, automating air-gapped network deployments.

DevSecOps Engineer

Raytheon – May 2022 – Feb 2023

  • Hardened EKS deployments with custom Bottlerocket OS workers.
  • Built Go operators for automated cluster-wide vulnerability scans using Trivy.
  • Implemented OPA/Gatekeeper for Kubernetes security policies (admission).
  • Enabled real-time threat detection and response with Falco/eBPF and AWS Lambda.
  • Developed scalable observability stack with Prometheus, Grafana, Fluentbit, OpenSearch and ArgoCD.

Software Engineer

Deloitte – Jan 2022 – May 2022

  • Built Golang microservices for real-time, event driven data processing (Pulsar/Cassandra).
  • Developed Goland module to augment blockchain transations (FinCEN) with geospatial indexing.
  • Developed performant (parallel and concurrent) ETL pipelines in Python for OpenSearch and Cassandra.
  • Created TypeScript CLI program for moving Python/NPM packages to private registries on IL4/4.

DevSecOps Engineer

Spathe Systems – Nov 2019 – Jan 2022

  • Automated Kubernetes provisioning with Terraform and Ansible.
  • Managed Kubernetes observability with Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Deployed service meshes (Istio, Linkerd) for mTLS and network visibility.
  • Worked on CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins (shared libraries) and GitLab, deployed on OpenShift for secure software factory for USSOCOM.

Skills

Programming: Golang, Python, Bash, TypeScript, SQL, YAML
DevOps: ArgoCD, Flux, Cilium, Kubernetes, Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible, GitLab, Jenkins, Helm
Security: Falco, OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno, Trivy, Snyk, SPIFFE, Syft, Tetragon Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP, EKS, ECS, AKS, GKE, OpenShift
Data: Postgres, Cassandra, OpenSearch
Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Jaeger, Mimir, Elastic, Hubble

Certifications

  • Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
  • Prometheus Certified Associate
  • Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator
  • Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist
  • Jenkins Engineer
  • CompTIA Security+

References available upon request