Michael Chasse

Embedded advisor to large financial institutions, a Fortune 50 enterprise and a major energy utility for Vault, Terraform Enterprise and HCP.

• Trusted embedded advisor for Vault, Terraform Enterprise and HCP, plus Packer, Consul, Nomad and Boundary, from strategy through implementation.
• Advise executive and platform leadership on cloud operating model adoption, multi-cloud strategy, governance and ROI, translating product capability into business outcomes for practitioners through CxO.
• Architect and deliver greenfield and modernization initiatives: Vault Secrets Sync, Microsoft Entra ID (OIDC) developer access to Vault, and multi-data-center Vault, Consul and Terraform Enterprise reference architectures.
• Produce client-facing architecture documents, runbooks and recommendations aligned to HashiCorp validated designs; build Centers of Excellence that drive best practices and long-term self-sufficiency.
• Integrate AI into DevOps workflows: agentic coding assistants, MCP integrations and self-hosted LLM infrastructure for IaC authoring and review, automated architecture documentation and operational tooling.

Multi-region AWS platform, Vault and automation for a security company; promoted to SRE in December 2024.

• Designed and implemented a multi-region, multi-AZ AWS infrastructure for the enterprise IT organization using Terraform, optimizing for reliability, security and cost; promoted to SRE in December 2024.
• Architected and implemented HashiCorp Vault for DevOps and customer deployments, integrating secrets management into CI/CD pipelines.
• Built Ansible automation for system deployment and maintenance, Docker/Podman microservices (SMTP relay, Traefik, proxies) and Terraform-managed AWS multi-account connectivity, replacing static IPsec tunnels.
• Deployed Netskope private access with automated application onboarding and an AWS WorkSpaces solution for offshore staff; administered RHEL 8 and Windows servers on VMware vSphere.

Re-architected the VMware, storage and DR platform behind 11 hotel properties.

• Led a complete re-architecture and rebuild of the VMware vSphere environment, including servers, SAN storage and UPS, supporting 11 hotel properties running Oracle Opera PMS; designed HA/DR with VMware SRM and Oracle Data Guard.
• Upgraded Oracle Opera 5.4 to 5.6 with on-site migrations at each property and replaced physical workstations with VMware Horizon virtual desktops.
• Implemented enterprise backup (Dell APEX / Druva), SolarWinds monitoring and IPAM with PagerDuty, and a data center redesign for power and network fault tolerance.

Managed the IT engineering team across AWS, Azure and GCP, from enterprise engineering through DevOps.

• Managed the IT engineering team supporting all infrastructure, from enterprise engineering through DevOps, across AWS, Azure and GCP.
• Directed DevOps delivery to AWS (ECS, Elastic Beanstalk) with Git and Jenkins; championed Terraform and Ansible for automated environment builds and cut spend with scheduled environment shutdowns.

AWS and Azure infrastructure with a long-term CI/CD strategy on EKS.

• Supported and improved AWS and Azure infrastructure with a long-term CI/CD strategy built on EKS, Ansible and Docker.
• Implemented centralized SSO for all Linux servers and a VPN for secure remote access; audited AWS networking, IAM and EC2 and expanded centralized Zabbix monitoring.

Principal cloud engineer for Oracle Cloud at Customer platforms serving banking and DoD clients.

• Principal cloud engineer for Oracle Cloud at Customer, supporting access-controlled platforms for banking and DoD clients.
• Resolved escalated Tier 3 issues across Docker, Linux, Nimbula and platform hardware/software; partnered with client managers and engineering on bug resolution and platform upgrades, and authored Command Center SOPs for alert validation.

Managed OS operations for 400+ higher-education clients and 5,000+ servers across colocation, AWS and client sites.

• Managed 11 Windows and Unix administrators supporting 400+ higher-education clients and 5,000+ servers across a colocated data center, AWS and client sites; implemented a ground-up CI/CD and automated AMI pipeline with Ansible and Jenkins.
• Led security standardization and stood up new AWS points of presence in Dublin, Frankfurt and Australia; supported two data center migrations, including colocation to AWS.

Senior Linux administrator for Ellucian cloud services.

• Senior Linux administration for hosted higher-education platforms in Ellucian's cloud services organization.

Cloud infrastructure design and administration with PCI DSS compliance.

• Cloud infrastructure and systems architecture design; VMware, SAN and Windows AD administration; PCI DSS compliance and IT project management.