Dylan C. Justice

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Mechanicsburg, PA

Summary

Platform-focused Site Reliability Engineer with deep experience designing and operating production-grade systems across AWS and Azure.
Passionate about shaping technology strategy, standardizing architectures, and building high-leverage platforms that enable developer velocity and operational excellence.
Experienced in establishing golden paths, observability frameworks, and infrastructure automation standards that scale across large organizations.
Focused on pragmatic design — creating simple, cost-effective, and reliable systems that empower teams to deliver faster.
Strong communicator with experience influencing cross-functional stakeholders and leading post-incident retrospectives to drive systemic improvement.
Technology blogger and lifelong learner who values continuous improvement, data-driven decisions, and the craft of reliable software delivery.

LexisNexis / Mechanicsburg, PA (Home Based) / August 2021 - Present

Defined platform architecture standards across AWS and Azure, focusing on reliability, scalability, and developer enablement.
Standardized GitOps workflows using ArgoCD ApplicationSets, allowing seamless workload onboarding and deployment consistency across business units.
Designed and implemented an organization-wide observability framework using OpenTelemetry, reducing APM costs by 30% and improving trace correlation and sampling efficiency.
Led the technical design and operational readiness of AI-based products leveraging AWS Bedrock and Azure OpenAI, supporting multi-region deployments and data residency compliance.
Developed a CloudFormation Resource Extension to integrate Coralogix alerting, enabling automated deployment of RED metrics via IaC pipelines.
Established a Terraform module registry with automated testing via Terratest, documentation, and CI/CD pipelines for scalable IaC reuse.
Served as Incident Commander for the global platform, leading technical resolution of high-impact production incidents and postmortem retrospectives.
Embedded on Azure Architecture Team to establish best practices, governance patterns, and secure design for multi-tenant workloads.
Developed a centralized event-driven system unifying CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Splunk, and Coralogix events into a normalized schema for automation and incident routing.
Built an internal developer portal using Backstage to promote platform standardization, service catalog awareness, and onboarding automation.

andculture / Harrisburg, PA / January 2018 - August 2021

Led a team of 5 engineers delivering large-scale web applications for clients including UPMC Pinnacle, PA Courts, and Commonwealth Charter Academy.
Architected and developed NFPA’s digital transformation platform using .NET Core, React, and MS SQL Server, applying Onion architecture for maintainability and scalability.
Managed AWS infrastructure and CI/CD automation using Elastic Beanstalk, Jenkins, and S3 to streamline deployments and reduce release lead times.
Implemented trunk-based development workflows and continuous integration pipelines to reduce delivery friction across multiple teams.
Supported Azure and Sitefinity CMS deployments using Terraform and Azure DevOps, enabling consistent and automated multi-environment releases.

Computer Aid Inc. / Harrisburg, PA / January 2013 - December 2017

Developed and maintained enterprise applications for USA Food Safety / SafeInspect, extending adoption to 11 state and local organizations.
Modernized legacy applications with Web API and token-based authentication, introducing automated build and release processes through Azure DevOps and PowerShell.
Mentored a team of 8 developers to improve delivery efficiency and reduce production deployment errors through automation and standardized SQL release tooling.
Led cloud migration and hybrid hosting strategies across on-prem and managed environments, ensuring secure deployments and version tracking.