Beau Kelly
Charters Settlement,New Brunswick
Summary
Dynamic director-level engineering leader with over 20 years of experience driving reliability, scalability, and performance across SRE, infrastructure, and development teams. Expertise in aligning technical strategies with business objectives, spearheading cloud-native transformations, and implementing SRE best practices such as SLIs/SLOs, incident response, and CI/CD. Renowned for modernizing legacy systems and scaling resilient platforms while fostering high-performing teams in fast-paced, cross-functional environments. Proven track record of delivering innovative solutions that enhance operational efficiency and support organizational growth.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Engineering Manager
Four Eyes Financial
01.2024 - 10.2025
- Led high-performing engineering teams, driving the successful delivery of scalable, maintainable software systems.
- Oversaw architectural decisions and implementation of best practices to ensure code quality, performance, and reliability.
- Mentored and coached engineers, fostering career growth through regular feedback, goal setting, and performance evaluations.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams (Product, Design, QA, DevOps) to align technical execution with business objectives.
- Established and optimized agile development processes, improving sprint velocity and delivery predictability.
- Managed hiring and onboarding, scaling teams while preserving culture and engineering excellence.
- Championed a culture of innovation, evaluating and integrating new technologies to enhance team productivity.
- Communicated technical roadmaps and progress to stakeholders and executives, ensuring transparency and alignment.
- Developed team OKRs and tracked engineering metrics to drive continuous improvement and accountability.
- Proactively identified and resolved project risks, ensuring on-time delivery of complex initiatives.
Director, Infrastructure Engineering
Bluescape
01.2023 - 01.2024
- Led design, deployment, and maintenance of scalable AWS infrastructure supporting high-availability enterprise applications.
- Managed cross-functional DevOps teams to automate CI/CD pipelines using AWS services (CodePipeline, CloudFormation, etc.).
- Oversaw cost optimization, security compliance, and infrastructure governance across multi-account AWS environments.
- Implemented monitoring and alerting systems using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and third-party tools to ensure uptime and performance.
- Directed migration of legacy systems to AWS, reducing operational costs and improving system resilience.
- Collaborated with security teams to enforce IAM policies, VPC architecture, and encryption best practices.
- Maintained Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices using Terraform/CloudFormation for version-controlled environment provisioning.
- Provided strategic leadership on cloud architecture decisions aligned with business goals and scalability.
Director, Site Reliability Engineering
Bluescape
01.2022 - 01.2024
- Led and mentored a team of Site Reliability Engineers to ensure high system reliability, scalability, and performance.
- Defined and managed SLOs/SLIs, driving improvements through error budgeting and root cause analysis.
- Oversaw incident management lifecycle, including on-call rotations, response protocols, and postmortems.
- Implemented infrastructure as code (IaC) and automated CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployments.
- Established robust observability practices with monitoring, logging, and alerting systems.
- Collaborated cross-functionally with DevOps, engineering, and product teams to embed reliability into development workflows.
- Led capacity planning, performance tuning, and chaos engineering initiatives to strengthen system resilience.
- Championed operational best practices and fostered a culture of continuous improvement and accountability.
Director, Identity and Access Management
Manulife
01.2019 - 01.2021
- Led IAM strategy and operations for 12-person team.
- Deployed SSO, MFA, and PAM solutions to strengthen security posture.
- Aligned IAM roadmap with enterprise compliance and business needs.
- Improved identity lifecycle governance and reduced risk exposure.
Senior Engineering Manager, Salesforce
Manulife
01.2017 - 01.2019
- Oversaw Salesforce development for global call center operations.
- Delivered monthly major releases, boosting efficiency and engagement.
- Advocated for Agile best practices and team up skilling.
Software Development\DevOps Manager
Economical Insurance
01.2016 - 01.2017
- Built high-performing teams to support large-scale platform engineering.
- Fostered cross-functional collaboration with Product, QA, and Program teams.
- Drove Agile and SaaS transformation with a focus on customer value.
Technical Program Manager - BlackBerry Messenger Platform
BlackBerry
01.2007 - 01.2016
- Led incident response and RCA across cloud deployments.
- Coordinated sprint planning, capacity reviews, and release reporting.
- Managed vendor relationships and program lifecycle execution.
Education
Communitech Academy
Waterloo Ontario01.2017
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McMaster University
01.2010
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ITT Technical Institute
01.2005
Computer Science, Information Technology
Plymouth State College
01.2002
Skills
- SCM Tools: GitHub, Gitlab
- Build and Distribution Tools: Artifactory
- CI&CD Tools: Jenkins, SonarQube, Docker, Kubernetes
- Bug tracker & Testing tools: Jira, Junit, Test Rail
- Project Management Tools: MS Project, MS SharePoint, Confluence
- Application Servers: Apache, Tomcat, IIS, Nginx
- Operating Systems: Windows Server, Linux, CentOS, RHEL
- Databases: MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB
- Directory Services: Microsoft Active Directory, AWS-IAM, LDAP
- Monitoring and Log Analytics: NewRelic, Dynatrace, Splunk, ELK Stack, Prometheus, Grafana
- Cloud Computing: Amazon Web Services, AWS GovCloud, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud
- Security: Synk, Sonar Cloud, Lacework, Cloudflare
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Env0
- Audit: ISO, SOC2, FedRamp
- DevOps Engineering
- Site Reliability Engineering
- AWS Infrastructure Engineering
- IT Strategy and Planning
- IT Operations
- Solutions Development
- Service Delivery Management
- Technical Program Management
- Agile Methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
- Team Leadership and Coaching
- Communication and Stakeholder Management
- Project management
- Strategic planning
- Coaching and mentoring
- Engineering design
- Software development life cycle
- Software architecture
- DevOps practices
- Stakeholder management
- Technical leadership
Websites
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Certification
- PMP - Project Management Professional
- CSM - Certified ScrumMaster, ScrumAlliance
- ITIL v3
- Salesforce Certified Administrator (SU18)
Timeline
Engineering Manager
Four Eyes Financial
01.2024 - 10.2025
Director, Infrastructure Engineering
Bluescape
01.2023 - 01.2024
Director, Site Reliability Engineering
Bluescape
01.2022 - 01.2024
Director, Identity and Access Management
Manulife
01.2019 - 01.2021
Senior Engineering Manager, Salesforce
Manulife
01.2017 - 01.2019
Software Development\DevOps Manager
Economical Insurance
01.2016 - 01.2017
Technical Program Manager - BlackBerry Messenger Platform
BlackBerry
01.2007 - 01.2016
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McMaster University
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ITT Technical Institute
Computer Science, Information Technology
Plymouth State College
Communitech Academy