Senior DevOps & Cloud Engineer at CSI Companies

Spearheaded the migration of legacy finance applications from on-premises to AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda) and Azure (AKS, SQL Managed Instances), addressing networking bottlenecks and latency during cutover. Resolved a high-severity incident caused by failed REST API integrations with external payment gateways by implementing retry policies with exponential backoff in Python, restoring transactions. Built Terraform-based IaC blueprints for multi-region deployments, fixed resource drift, and prevented misconfiguration. Designed auto-scaling groups with predictive scaling to address under-provisioning during peak loads. Troubleshot HSM connectivity failures in SWIFT Alliance Gateway, adjusted firewall and TLS settings, and automated certificate renewals and key rotations across SWIFT Alliance Cloud, reducing manual errors by 70%. Implemented security alerts (GuardDuty, Azure Sentinel), performed crash dump analysis for Linux kernel panics, and integrated IBM MQ with AWS SQS/SNS for hybrid

Cloud & Site Reliability Engineer at Leidos

Designed and executed an Azure migration strategy for internal HR systems, troubleshooting failed AD Connect syncs. Built custom monitoring dashboards to resolve slow SQL queries and optimize database performance. Recovered data availability after a storage account misconfiguration via Geo-redundant storage failover. Configured and troubleshot Azure VPN Gateway connectivity during hybrid deployment. Automated Linux server patching with Ansible, resolved kernel compatibility issues. Drafted cloud governance policies to fix resource sprawl and billing anomalies. Troubleshot AKS pod crashes due to misconfigured memory requests. Integrated JIRA with incident response to reduce SLA breaches. Restored a SharePoint outage via PowerShell, implemented Python-based health checks for APIs and microservices, supported capacity planning by tuning Autoscale, and coordinated CAD/AutoCAD IT considerations.