Elizabeth Abel
Dallas,TX
Summary
Senior DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with 9+ years of experience with designing, automating and implementing cloud infrastructure solutions in across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Utilizes automation tools to improve efficiency and ensure seamless operations. Knowledge of cloud security practices and optimizing system performance for reliability and scalability. Proven success leading migrations, modernizing legacy systems, and improving deployment speed and reliability through Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD automation. Skilled in DevSecOps, GitOps, and FinOps practices, driving measurable cost savings, scalability, and security compliance. Passionate about building resilient infrastructure that powers global, high-availability platforms.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salcomp Manufacturing USA Corp
05.2023 - Current
- Led the migration of 15+ on-prem applications to AWS and Azure, reducing infrastructure costs by 38% annually and increasing deployment velocity by 60%.
- Automated provisioning of multi-tenant EKS and AKS clusters with Terraform and Ansible, standardizing infrastructure for 10+ product teams.
- Built enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and ArgoCD, reducing release failures by 80% and cutting lead time to production from days to under an hour.
- Implemented FinOps practices with Karpenter and Kubecost, saving over $250K annually in compute optimization.
- Architected service mesh and zero-trust traffic routing with Istio gateways, improving reliability and observability across microservices.
- Designed and deployed SonarQube on EKS with secure PostgreSQL backend, enabling centralized code analysis for 50+ repositories.
- Authored standardized runbooks and infrastructure documentation, reducing onboarding time for new engineers by 40%.
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Sourcing and Produce
01.2019 - 04.2023
- Designed and deployed hybrid infrastructure across AWS and Azure, achieving 99.98% uptime for customer-facing systems.
- Developed reusable Terraform modules to provision cloud resources, cutting manual setup time from hours to minutes.
- Built CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline and Azure DevOps, reducing release turnaround time by 70%.
- Migrated 20+ legacy workloads to AWS using IaC, improving reliability and auditability of deployments.
- Established quality gates in SonarQube pipelines, leading to 30% fewer post-deployment defects.
- Integrated CloudWatch and Azure Monitor for unified observability and alerting across production environments.
- Partnered with security teams to enforce IAM least-privilege models and improve compliance posture.
Infrastructure Engineer
Trilogic Systems
06.2015 - 12.2018
- Deployed and supported 200+ Linux and Windows servers, automating patching and configuration via Ansible.
- Managed migration from on-prem VMware to AWS, reducing hardware maintenance costs by 45%.
- Designed backup and disaster recovery workflows using S3 and RDS snapshots, ensuring RPO under 15 minutes.
- Implemented Nagios and Grafana dashboards to monitor infrastructure health and SLAs.
- Supported development teams in containerizing workloads with Docker for faster environment provisioning.
Systems Administrator
Prime Networks Ltd
03.2013 - 05.2015
- Managed enterprise Active Directory and Windows Server infrastructure for 500+ users.
- Configured and maintained network devices (VLANs, firewalls, VPNs), improving internal network reliability by 35%.
- Led incident response and disaster recovery drills, ensuring zero data loss across critical systems.
- Supported database operations (SQL Server and Oracle) with scheduled backups and patch automation.
Education
Master of Science (MSc) -
Obafemi Awolowo University
01.2014
Master of Science - Materials Engineering
University of Lagos
01.2012
Bachelor of Science - Materials Engineering
University of Lagos
01.2008
Skills
- Cloud Platforms: AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS, VPC, IAM, Lambda), Azure (AKS, App Services, Key Vault, Azure Monitor), GCP
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Chef, Puppet
- Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Kustomize, Istio, ArgoCD
- CI/CD & Automation: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline, Azure DevOps
- Security & Compliance: SonarQube, Trivy, Veracode, HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager
- Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Kibana, Azure Monitor
- Programming & Scripting: Python, Bash, YAML
- Networking & Databases: TCP/IP, VPN, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle
Certification
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (In View)
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- HashiCorp Terraform Associate
Timeline
Senior DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salcomp Manufacturing USA Corp
05.2023 - Current
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Sourcing and Produce
01.2019 - 04.2023
Infrastructure Engineer
Trilogic Systems
06.2015 - 12.2018
Systems Administrator
Prime Networks Ltd
03.2013 - 05.2015
Master of Science (MSc) -
Obafemi Awolowo University
Master of Science - Materials Engineering
University of Lagos
Bachelor of Science - Materials Engineering
University of Lagos
TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS
- Directed multi-region Kubernetes deployments across AWS and Azure for production workloads.
- Drove adoption of GitOps, DevSecOps, and FinOps practices, improving release consistency and reducing cost.
- Delivered unified observability pipeline using Prometheus, Grafana, and Kibana to monitor SLOs and SLAs.
- Mentored junior DevOps engineers on IaC, containerization, and pipeline automation.