Seasoned DevOps Engineer with 8+ years of experience automating cloud-native infrastructure and driving secure, scalable Kubernetes operations in AWS environments. Proven track record in architecting CI/CD pipelines, leading cloud migrations, and optimizing costs through automation and observability. Passionate about GitOps, security-first infrastructure, and enabling developer velocity at scale.
· Built and maintained multiple production-grade EKS clusters supporting 60+ microservices, implementing Pod Security Admission, RBAC, and network segmentation, reducing security incidents by 75%.
· Engineered reusable Terraform modules with remote state and policy enforcement, cutting provisioning time by 70%.
· Developed container hardening pipelines integrating Trivy and Aqua, eliminating 90% of critical CVEs and enabling SOC 2 compliance.
· Automated infrastructure operations with Python and Lambda, improving SLA adherence by 35% and reducing manual tasks by 80%.
· Architected multi-region AWS networking including VPC peering, PrivateLink, NAT gateways, CloudFront CDN, and Route53 failover, achieving 99.999% uptime.
· Designed observability platform with Prometheus, Grafana, and Dynatrace, reducing MTTR by 60% and detection-to-recovery time to under 5 minutes.
· Led GitOps adoption across five squads with ArgoCD and Helm, standardizing deployments and reducing release issues by 80%.
· Mentored junior engineers, delivering weekly training and IaC workshops, reducing onboarding time by 50%.
· Built and maintained Jenkins and GitLab CI pipelines, reducing build times by 45% and enabling automated zero-touch deployments.
· Provisioned AWS infrastructure via Terraform modules (EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB) for 12+ teams.
· Led Kubernetes cluster adoption and Helm chart implementation for container orchestration.
· Partnered with Agile teams to increase release cadence to bi-weekly with automated deployment health checks.
· Delivered Terraform training promoting DRY practices and improving deployment velocity.
· Managed 200+ Linux servers achieving 99.99% uptime through monitoring and automation.
· Automated 30+ maintenance tasks with Bash and Python, saving 30+ hours monthly.
· Configured VPCs, firewalls, and load balancers for secure hybrid cloud migration.
· Standardized configurations with Puppet, improving audit compliance by 85%.
· Led L2/L3 outage response and root cause analysis.
Containers & Orchestration:
Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, ArgoCD, containerd, Docker, RBAC, Pod Security Policies, Network Policies
Cloud Infrastructure (AWS):
EC2, EKS, S3, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, IAM, Route53, VPC, ALB/NLB, CloudFront, WAF, Auto Scaling
Infrastructure as Code & Automation:
Terraform (modular design, state backends), Ansible, Python (boto3), Bash
CI/CD & Release Engineering:
Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Canary Deployments, Feature Flagging, Blue/Green
Security & Compliance:
Trivy, Aqua Security, image signing, CVE remediation automation, IAM least privilege, SOC 2 readiness
Monitoring & Observability:
Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, CloudWatch Logs, Falco
Networking & Resilience:
VPC Peering, NAT Gateways, Load Balancers, DNS, Chaos Engineering, DR/HA planning
Methodologies & Practices:
GitOps, DevSecOps, SRE, Incident Response, Agile (Scrum), Documentation-as-Code
· Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) 2024
· Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) 2025
· Terraform Associate – HashiCorp 2025
· AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional 2023
· Certified Jenkins Engineer 2025