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I am Anthony De La Rosa, a Site Reliability / DevOps Engineer with 18+ years of IT experience designing, automating, and scaling cloud infrastructure for high-traffic, mission-critical systems. I specialize in Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD, observability, and cloud cost optimization across AWS, GCP, and hybrid environments.
I’ve delivered multi-million-dollar savings through automation and optimization, reduced deployment times, and hardened security with Istio, Vault, and robust networking. I enjoy collaborating with product teams to boost reliability, security, and efficiency while staying ahead of cloud costs.
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English
Fluent
Work Experience
DevOps Engineer at theScore
February 1, 2023 - November 10, 2025Built GitOps pipelines with ArgoCD + Terraform, reducing infra deployment time by 40%. Migrated observability stack to Datadog, optimizing alerting and reducing noise by 50%. Hardened Kubernetes environments with Istio Mesh and HashiCorp Vault for secure service-to-service communication and secrets management. Led cloud cost optimization initiatives using AWS Cost Explorer to identify underutilized resources and spending anomalies, resulting in over $3 million in annual savings. Identified missing storage configurations such as absent lifecycle policies for S3 buckets and EBS snapshots, then implemented automated policies to reduce unnecessary retention and storage costs. Standardized tagging across environments and integrated Datadog Cloud Cost for real-time financial observability.
DevOps Engineer at HashiCorp
February 1, 2023 - February 1, 2023Delivered GitOps workflows leveraging Terraform Cloud, HCP Vault, Boundary and Packer. Automated multi-environment provisioning with Terraform modules, improving consistency and reducing manual errors. Partnered with product teams to secure cloud secrets and enforce zero-trust access policies.
DevOps Engineer at Canada Drives
July 1, 2022 - July 1, 2022Migrated infrastructure from multiple providers to AWS, ensuring high availability, scalability and less complexity. Implemented Terraform for IaC and containerized applications using ECS, accelerating deployments. Introduced Prometheus and Grafana for metrics, increasing observability coverage by 90%. Hardened security using Cloudflare WAF, Rate Limiting, and DDoS protections, reducing external attack exposure.
Systems Administrator at DHX Media
February 1, 2018 - February 1, 2018Managed 200+ Windows & Linux servers across two Vancouver data centers. Deployed Nagios Core for monitoring, automated OS deployments using FOG (Windows) and Foreman (Linux). Implemented VMWare + Veeam backups ensuring full disaster recovery readiness. Introduced Snipe-It for computer/laptop management as well as NetBox for network IP inventory.
Education
Computer Science at Mohawk College
January 1, 2003 - January 1, 2005Qualifications
FinOps Certified Engineer – The Linux Foundation
August 1, 2025 - August 1, 2027CCA: Cilium Certified Associate – The Linux Foundation
November 1, 2024 - December 1, 2026Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Certification - Google
July 1, 2024 - July 1, 2026Professional Cloud Architect Certification - Google
July 1, 2024 - July 1, 2026ICA: Istio Certified Associate - The Linux Foundation
January 1, 2024 - January 1, 2027CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator - The Linux Foundation
March 1, 2023 - March 1, 2026CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer - The Linux Foundation
March 1, 2023 - March 1, 2026HashiCorp Certified: Vault Associate (002) - HashiCorp
December 1, 2023 - December 1, 2025HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate - HashiCorp
July 1, 2022 - July 1, 2024AWS Solutions Architect - Amazon Web Services (AWS)
June 1, 2022 - June 1, 2024Industry Experience
Software & Internet, Computers & Electronics, Media & Entertainment
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