Lead DevOps Engineer

Architect and operate production infrastructure across AWS and GCP for 20 projects, 10 clusters, and 10 environments supporting more than 25 applications and 30 workloads. Manage cloud networking including VPCs, subnets, routes, firewall rules, VPNs, NAT, load balancers, Private Service Connect, and GKE networking troubleshooting.

Rearchitected CI/CD pipelines using caching and commit-aware validation, reducing deployment time from 20 minutes to 4 minutes. Improved MTTR from 15 to 10 minutes through runbook simulations, disaster recovery exercises, and incident-response testing. Led SOC 2, HIPAA, and HITRUST audit activities; implemented OPA policy-as-code controls; mentored two junior engineers; and contributed to 30% cloud cost optimization.

Built and operated observability platforms using EFK, Prometheus, and Grafana. Created dashboards, alerting, and diagnostic workflows that reduced mean time to resolution by 40%.

Strengthened cloud security through IAM hardening, automated security scanning, and infrastructure-as-code controls, reducing security vulnerabilities by 80%. Contributed to cloud cost optimization through resource rightsizing, reserved or committed purchases, and lifecycle automation, reducing cloud costs by 25%.

Owned production incident triage and customer-facing issue resolution, coordinating cross-functional teams and leading root-cause analysis. Improved system uptime by 12% through operational support and incident management.

Automated CI/CD pipelines and QA deployments with Jenkins and Docker to improve deployment consistency and reduce manual effort. Developed Bash and Python automation for environment provisioning, monitoring, and recurring operational tasks.