Jeremy Hodges
Site Reliability Engineer at Leidos
Breaking things in production so you don't have to
About Me
I'm a Senior Site Reliability Engineer who genuinely loves figuring out how things work and then making them work better. By day, I lead SRE teams building resilient cloud infrastructure and taming Kubernetes clusters. After hours, I'm spinning up new tools in my home lab, 3D printing parts for my latest project, or trying to automate something that probably didn't need automating.
I'm a builder at heart. Whether it's architecting a zero-downtime deployment pipeline, designing a PCB for an IoT sensor, or modeling something in CAD, I get the same kick out of seeing an idea come to life. When I need to unplug from all of it, you'll find me playing retro games and pretending the backlog doesn't exist.
Core Values
- •Build it, break it, fix it — Hands-on learner by nature
- •Automate everything — Spend 6 hours scripting a 5-minute task, then debug it for 3 more
- •Team first — Mentoring and growing engineers matters
- •Stay curious — Always a new rabbit hole worth exploring
Interests
Resume Highlights
Experience
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
LEIDOS
April 2021 - Present
At Leidos, I’m a Senior Site Reliability Engineer supporting mission-critical government and defense platforms. I lead a 10-engineer SRE/DevOps team, training staff in Kubernetes, GitOps, CI/CD, and DevSecOps while managing onboarding, incident response, and Day-2 operations. I architected and delivered secure, automated cloud environments (Azure, FedRAMP High) with Terraform and compliance automation, and led modernization and migration efforts across Air Force and Navy platforms using Kubernetes, OpenShift, and CI/CD pipelines.
Operations Engineer
TEDS INC
July 2014 - April 2021
Installation and configuration of TEDS Talent Management software for Fortune 500 customers. Led development of automated AWS CloudFormation deployment tools. Project lead for 100k+ user cloud migration. Specialized in server capacity planning and performance analysis for Linux and Windows systems.
System Administrator
WE ARE INTERSTELLER
March 2011 - May 2013
Set up virtual and physical server infrastructure, implemented collaboration tools, and established web-based billing and project management systems for distributed teams.
Intern
ONLINE INTUITION
Oct. 2004 - Nov. 2005
Worked with Microsoft Certified Professionals on networking, system troubleshooting, web hosting/design, server maintenance, DNS, and computer maintenance.
Education
Radford University
B.S., Information Systems
May 2010
Minor in Business Administration
- Deans Scholar Award
- Phi Kappa Phi - Academic Honor Society
- Upsilon Phi Epsilon - Computing Honor Society
- Deans List
Patrick Henry
A.A.S., General Education
May 2008
Certifications & Publications
AWS Solutions Architect
Associate Level
Oct 2017
ID: LX9ZJJCK2E11Q1WR
CompTIA Security+
Security Certification
2024
Certified Scrum Master
Scrum Alliance
2024
SE-INFORMS Publication
“A Web Based Decision Support Tool For Inventory Control”
Dr. Robert D. Spillman, Jeremy Hodges
Paper ID: W110410001
Technical Proficiency
Projects
Home Lab
Multi-node ESXi cluster with vCenter, VSAN, and DRS because my side projects deserve enterprise-grade fault tolerance
Monitoring System
Kube-prometheus-stack keeping tabs on my K8s cluster plus custom Grafana dashboards for IoT sensor data
Kubernetes Cluster
GitOps deployments, Helm charts, and a playground for new tools
3D Design
CAD modeling in Fusion 360 for custom enclosures, mounting brackets, and tooling — if it needs a home, I'll design one
3D Printing
FDM, SLA, and SLS printing with Bambu Labs and Formlabs. Turning CAD models into real parts for enclosures, prototypes, and fixes
IoT
ESP32 and Particle sensors automating things I'm too lazy to do myself