Hi, I’m Valentine Song. I’m a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer with over 10.5 years of progressive experience in high-scale cloud infrastructure, specializing in AWS, GitOps, and SRE principles. I design and implement immutable infrastructure using IaC tools and drive container orchestration to accelerate delivery and improve security. I architect multi-cloud platforms, fortify security perimeters, and unify observability across clusters, delivering reliable, scalable systems while mentoring teams and refining development processes.

Valentine Song

Hi, I’m Valentine Song. I’m a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer with over 10.5 years of progressive experience in high-scale cloud infrastructure, specializing in AWS, GitOps, and SRE principles. I design and implement immutable infrastructure using IaC tools and drive container orchestration to accelerate delivery and improve security. I architect multi-cloud platforms, fortify security perimeters, and unify observability across clusters, delivering reliable, scalable systems while mentoring teams and refining development processes.

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Hi, I’m Valentine Song. I’m a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer with over 10.5 years of progressive experience in high-scale cloud infrastructure, specializing in AWS, GitOps, and SRE principles. I design and implement immutable infrastructure using IaC tools and drive container orchestration to accelerate delivery and improve security.

I architect multi-cloud platforms, fortify security perimeters, and unify observability across clusters, delivering reliable, scalable systems while mentoring teams and refining development processes.

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Work Experience

Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer at Dell Technologies
March 1, 2023 - March 1, 2023
Architected and governed immutable cloud infrastructure for AWS using Terraform, CloudFormation, and Pulumi; deployed 20+ microservices to containerized environments on Kubernetes (EKS) with Argo CD, delivering ~60% faster releases and significantly improved reliability. Fortified cloud security with IAM least-privilege, GuardDuty, Macie, and Inspector, reducing high-priority findings. Standardized observability across clusters with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and New Relic, improving MTTR by ~55%. Drove multi-cloud governance and CI/CD pipelines via GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket integrations, and automated pipelines with Jenkins and Go/Python tooling.
DevOps Engineer
April 1, 2018 - April 1, 2018
Automated core CI/CD workflows using Jenkins pipelines integrated with Git repositories; accelerated application deployment lifecycle by 40% through IaC with Terraform, Pulumi, and CloudFormation; standardized cross-cloud deployment tooling and container orchestration with Docker/Kubernetes.
Tier 3 Support Engineer at US Security Associates
April 1, 2017 - April 1, 2017
Resolved complex technical issues escalated from Tier 1/2; delivered advanced system and application support while creating detailed knowledge base for knowledge sharing; led system health checks and incident management; collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify root causes and implement lasting fixes.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science at University of Bamenda
October 1, 2010 - July 1, 2013

Qualifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
January 11, 2030 - November 5, 2025

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services