Hector avila
Austin,TX
Summary
Skilled Platform Engineer with 4+ years in designing and operating secure, cloud-native platforms in critical environments. Expertise in Kubernetes and AWS, enabling zero-downtime migrations for production systems. Experience supporting data-driven platforms, including Army Vantage, to provide trusted data access for leaders. Strong foundation in DevSecOps and SRE principles, committed to delivering reliable, decision-ready systems.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Platform Engineer
Army
01.2022 - Current
- Designed, built, and operated a secure platform infrastructure enabling the rapid and reliable delivery of mission applications in regulated DoD environments.
- Played a key role in migrating the TKG platform to AWS EKS, achieving zero downtime during the transition.
- Led the migration of 17 production databases with zero mission disruption, ensuring data integrity and continuity.
- Applied SRE principles to enhance platform reliability, availability, and operational resilience across critical services.
- Enabled DevSecOps pipelines, embedding security into CI/CD workflows and software supply chain to enhance security posture.
- Implemented SCA-v compliance processes, embedding security and risk management into the software lifecycle.
- Supported Army Vantage initiatives, facilitating secure ingestion, structuring, and reuse of data for senior leader decision support.
- Led platform practice sessions on architecture diagrams, platform anchoring, and secure supply chain best practices.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Cyber Security
Colorado Technical University
Colorado Springs, CO01-2019
Skills
- Cloud services (AWS, Google Cloud)
- Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Monitoring and security tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Aqua, CloudWatch)
- Scripting languages (Bash, Python, YTT)
- DevOps practices (CI/CD pipelines, Git, GitLab, ArgoCD, KappController)
Languages
Spanish
Certification
Security +
Timeline
Platform Engineer
Army
01.2022 - Current
Bachelor of Science - Cyber Security
Colorado Technical University