Ben Ash

Design and maintain scalable AWS and Azure cloud infrastructure for production applications using Terraform, Kubernetes, and automation frameworks. Manage managed Kubernetes platforms across Amazon EKS and Azure AKS including workload deployments, cluster operations, autoscaling, resource optimization, and troubleshooting. Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps to automate build, test, and deployment workflows. Develop reusable Terraform modules and infrastructure automation patterns to improve environment consistency and reduce manual provisioning. Implement GitOps using Argo CD and Helm for reliable, repeatable application releases. Establish observability using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and cloud monitoring services, and integrate DevSecOps practices such as vulnerability scanning, secrets management, access controls, and security automation into deployment pipelines. Support production reliability via incident response, root-caus

Support highly available production systems with emphasis on reliability, scalability, performance, and operational stability. Implement SRE practices including SLIs/SLOs, alerting strategies, incident management, and reliability improvements. Automate infrastructure provisioning and application deployments using Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, and GitOps workflows. Manage Kubernetes workloads including deployments, configuration management, resource optimization, and production troubleshooting. Build monitoring and observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, PagerDuty, and centralized logging platforms. Develop Python and Bash automation scripts to reduce repetitive operational tasks and improve engineering productivity. Participate in on-call rotations, incident investigations, root-cause analysis, and post-incident reviews. Implement cloud security practices including IAM policies, RBAC, access management, and secure infrastructure configuration.

Support AWS infrastructure operations including EC2, S3, IAM, networking, and application environments. Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions for automated builds and deployments. Assist with Docker containerization and application deployment processes across development environments. Automate system administration tasks using Python and Bash scripting. Support Linux environments for configuration management, monitoring, and troubleshooting. Assist with infrastructure automation using Terraform and CloudFormation templates. Work with development teams to support releases, deployments, and production operations.