Trax ArmstrongResume
Trax Armstrong’s experience and skills in cloud infrastructure and automation.
Profile
Cloud infrastructure engineer and solutions architect with more than nine years designing, building and operating production environments for clients in the United States, Canada and Europe. I am not tied to one platform: I have built on Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, Sakura Cloud, Linode, Vultr and Cloudflare, and I become productive on a new one quickly. I turn manual, fragile infrastructure into automated platforms that stay up, stay secure and stay lean, and I write the documentation that lets a team run them without me.
What I can offer
Self-service infrastructure, end to end
Automated provisioning that turns a request into a configured, handed-over server on the chosen cloud, with staged releases and automatic rollback.
Infrastructure as code everywhere
Multi-cloud Terraform and Ansible with a staging-first change process, every change linted and dry-run before production.
Security built in from the start
Least-privilege access, centrally managed secrets, layered protection, and automated checks on every change.
Reliable operations
Monitoring and on-call alerting, hands-on incident response, and a written record of every incident and fix.
Platform tooling
Image building with Packer, secrets with Vault, service discovery with Consul, and containers with Docker and Kubernetes.
Beyond infrastructure
Multilingual websites and documentation sites, plus Python and Bash tools that remove repetitive work.
Experience
Multi-cloud hosting company
2016 - Present- Design, build and operate production environments on several clouds for clients in the United States, Canada and Europe
- Codify infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible behind validation gates and staged releases
- Run and migrate multi-tenant hosting platforms on cPanel/WHM and Plesk
- Lead database migrations, disaster recovery planning and cloud cost reviews
- Write runbooks and knowledge bases that remove single-person dependencies
English Teacher, technical high schools
Before 2016Taught English before moving into IT to pursue my passion for technology. Teaching remains a strength in engineering work: I explain complex systems clearly to any audience and write thorough, usable documentation.
Technical skills
- Cloud
- Google CloudAWSMicrosoft AzureOracle Cloud (OCI)Sakura CloudLinodeVultrCloudflare
- IaC
- TerraformAnsiblePackerCloudFormation
- Platform
- KubernetesGKEDockerVaultConsul
- Observability
- Cloud MonitoringCloudWatchPrometheusGrafana
- Security
- IAMWAFvulnerability management
- Systems
- LinuxcPanel/WHMPleskNGINXApacheLiteSpeed
- Data
- MySQLPostgreSQLCloud SQLRDS
- Code
- PythonBashGit / GitHubCI/CD
- AI tooling
- ClaudeGeminiOpenAI Codexagentic workflows with review gates