Cloud Engineer
Current- Established CI/CD pipelines customized to project specifications, enabling automated deployments via agent configuration within cloud infrastructure, resulting in 20% faster release cycles.- Designed and implemented YAML scripting for deployment strategies such as rolling deployment, blue-green deployment, and shadow deployment, ensuring 99.9% uptime during application rollouts.- Packaged and containerized APIs, optimizing for scalability and performance, supporting a 10x increase in traffic while maintaining a consistent user experience.- Operated effectively within an Agile framework, leveraging Azure DevOps (ADO) to enhance collaboration across teams and ensure sprint deliverables align with project milestones.- Managed cloud operations using Terraform, including IAM management, GKE, Cloud Storage, Compute Engine, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, VPC, and more, ensuring 100% infrastructure-as-code adoption.Set up and maintained Elasticsearch and Kibana, handling ingestion pipelines for millions of daily logs, achieving real-time monitoring and 99.9% tool availability.- Implemented disaster recovery strategies, reducing recovery time to less than 30 minutes during cloud region failures.- Created data recovery pipelines for BigQuery, Datastore, and Elasticsearch, ensuring compliance with RPOs and maintaining 100% data availability.- Optimized cloud resource allocation across projects, reducing infrastructure costs by 15% annually.Introduced GitOps practices using ArgoCD, achieving 100% consistency across development and production environments.- Actively participated in project planning, work allocation, and team goal setting, improving team efficiency by 20% through better alignment with resource capabilities.- Mentored a team of 5 DevOps engineers, enabling skill development in CI/CD and automation tools, fostering a high-performing DevOps culture.