Jayson Chinnery

Based in Brisbane, Jayson is a DevOps engineer working across Salsa’s hosting platform and a wide range of our client projects.

Jayson helps automate, maintain, monitor, secure, uplift and scale resilient government-grade infrastructure — including some of the largest open-source Drupal CMS implementations in Australia. He works closely with our development, testing, infrastructure and security teams, staying across client environments and systems from deployment and automation through to testing and monitoring.

Skillset

• Cloud automation and infrastructure across AWS and Azure
• Container orchestration with Kubernetes and Docker
• GitOps using FluxCD
• Backend development in Go, Python, C#.NET and PHP
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform, Ansible and CloudFormation
• Monitoring and observability across ELK, Grafana, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Mimir and Alloy
• Database administration for PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB and Aurora

Previous experience

Jayson has over 14 years of experience in IT operations, including working for the Federal Government from 2010 to 2024. He came to DevOps engineering from the operations side of IT, and describes himself as a decent developer too. Jayson is very detail-oriented, with a focus on continual process improvement through automation, technical debt minimisation and stakeholder collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Information Technology
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Professional
• SANS GIAC Cloud Security Automation (GCSA)
• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
• SANS GIAC Security Essentials (GSEC)
• Certified ScrumMaster
• ITIL Foundation in IT Service Management