I'm Barbara Sharat, a hands-on Senior DevOps and Platform Engineer with 18+ years across building, running, and scaling cloud platforms. I specialize in AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, GitOps and CI/CD, and I accelerate delivery by standardizing environments, automating everything as code, and cleaning up tooling and data flows. I am comfortable establishing complex estates and unblocking teams, and I drive migrations and resilience using SLOs, runbooks, and incident response. Recent work includes multi-cluster EKS operations, Terraform module stacks, platform hardening, centralized telemetry (Grafana, Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, Tempo), and CI/CD pipeline optimization that reduces drift and enables faster, safer releases.

Barbara Sharat

I'm Barbara Sharat, a hands-on Senior DevOps and Platform Engineer with 18+ years across building, running, and scaling cloud platforms. I specialize in AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, GitOps and CI/CD, and I accelerate delivery by standardizing environments, automating everything as code, and cleaning up tooling and data flows. I am comfortable establishing complex estates and unblocking teams, and I drive migrations and resilience using SLOs, runbooks, and incident response. Recent work includes multi-cluster EKS operations, Terraform module stacks, platform hardening, centralized telemetry (Grafana, Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, Tempo), and CI/CD pipeline optimization that reduces drift and enables faster, safer releases.

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I’m Barbara Sharat, a hands-on Senior DevOps and Platform Engineer with 18+ years across building, running, and scaling cloud platforms. I specialize in AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, GitOps and CI/CD, and I accelerate delivery by standardizing environments, automating everything as code, and cleaning up tooling and data flows.

I am comfortable establishing complex estates and unblocking teams, and I drive migrations and resilience using SLOs, runbooks, and incident response. Recent work includes multi-cluster EKS operations, Terraform module stacks, platform hardening, centralized telemetry (Grafana, Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, Tempo), and CI/CD pipeline optimization that reduces drift and enables faster, safer releases.

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Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Senior Platform (Observability) Engineer at CityFibre
April 1, 2024 - November 7, 2025
Led multi-cluster EK S platform and observability stack across dev and production. Standardized Helm, Kubernetes, and Flux-based deployments; introduced OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, and centralized runbooks to reduce noise and improve incident response. Drove adoption of SLOs and improved MTTR during deploys.
Senior AWS Solutions Architect at Ubertas Consulting
March 1, 2024 - March 1, 2024
Delivered AWS-focused solution architecture, migration guidance, and security hardening for multiple clients. Built reusable templates, governance and cost-optimization patterns, and scalable cloud infrastructures.
AWS DevOps Engineer (Contract) at Yuave
January 1, 2019 - January 1, 2019
Implemented CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code on AWS; automated deployment workflows and environment provisioning to accelerate client delivery.
Technical Support Engineer at NESCOM
January 1, 2010 - January 1, 2010
Deployed and maintained RHEL/CentOS/Linux platforms; troubleshot IP/network issues; authored disaster recovery procedures and runbooks.
Professional Services (Linux) Engineer at NESCOM
January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2017
Provided Linux-based professional services, deployment optimization, patching, and performance improvements across customer environments.
Technical Support Engineer at NESCOM
December 31, 2010 - December 31, 2010
Delivered and maintained RH/CentOS platforms with performance tuning, security hardening, and patching. Automated repeatable operations via scripting and authored runbooks for customer ops teams, ensuring reliable DR and incident response.

Education

B.S. Electronics Engineering at GIK Institute
January 1, 1999 - January 1, 2003
Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering at GIK Institute
January 1, 1999 - January 1, 2003

Qualifications

AWS Certification (12x+)
January 11, 2030 - November 7, 2025
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
January 11, 2030 - November 7, 2025
Terraform Associate
January 11, 2030 - November 7, 2025
HashiCorp Terraform Associate
January 11, 2030 - November 7, 2025
AWS Certified (12x)
January 11, 2030 - November 7, 2025
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
January 11, 2030 - November 7, 2025
Terraform Associate
January 11, 2030 - November 7, 2025

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Telecommunications, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment, Other