Senior Cloud & Kubernetes Engineer

GKE • Observability • GitOps • Platform Engineering

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About Me

Focus: Building reliable Kubernetes platforms on GCP (GKE), with strong observability (Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic), GitOps (Argo CD, Helm), and secure secret management (Vault).
Location: Austin, Texas — Remote-friendly

Education

University: University of Technology
Degree: BSc. in Software Engineering (2001–2005)

Certifications

  1. CKA — Linux Foundation (2020) • Credential ID: LF-oh6kbplqps
  2. CKAD — Linux Foundation (2019) • Credential ID: CKAD-1900-001152-0100
  3. CJE — Certified Jenkins Engineer (2020) • Credential ID: 123433t545
  4. AWS SysOps Associate — AWS (2019) • Credential ID: E7L9KYQKEEE4Q3KJ
  5. DCA — Docker Certified Associate (2019) • Credential ID: 12967337
  6. RHCE — Red Hat (2015) • Certification ID: 130-082-910
  7. RHCSA — Red Hat (2013) • Certification ID: 130-082-910
  8. LPIC — Linux Professional Institute (2013) • ID: LPI000248415 • Code: 8454ljyzdd

Work Experience

Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer — Blackline

Remote • Apr 2022 – Present
  • Operate and upgrade GKE fleets; lead on-prem → GKE migrations and K8s app rollouts.
  • Own observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic): install, policy/rules, alert hygiene.
  • GitOps delivery with Argo CD + Helm across multi-env repos (GitHub/Bitbucket).
  • Vault on GKE (install/upgrade/troubleshoot), plus Istio, cert-manager, External Secrets, Traefik, Jaeger.
  • Author internal runbooks and platform documentation.

Senior Kubernetes Escalations Engineer — Microsoft

Remote • Jan 2022 – Apr 2022
  • Handled AKS/ACS escalations; guided L1 engineers and wrote internal KTs.

Sr. DevOps Infrastructure Engineer (Contract) — Apple

Austin, TX • Sep 2019 – Apr 2021
  • Built automated dev infra on-prem & AWS (Kubernetes/EKS/Helm) with Splunk monitoring.
  • Provisioned test/dev K8s envs; led lab POCs; mentored team as Linux SME.

Infrastructure Engineer (Part-time) — Red Hat

Remote • Jul 2020 – Dec 2020
  • Automation and Kubernetes deployments on cloud & on-prem; Bash scripting for ops.

Cloud Systems Engineer — IBM

Austin, TX • Jul 2020 – Dec 2020
  • Supported global customers’ cloud/K8s stacks; served as Linux SME.

Customer Operations Engineer — Cloudera

Austin, TX • Dec 2016 – Apr 2019
  • Enterprise support across Cloudera platform (Hadoop, HDFS, Impala, Hive, Kerberos, etc.).
  • AWS experience via Cloudera Altus deployments.

Linux Systems Administrator — Rackspace

Austin, TX • Oct 2014 – Dec 2016
  • 24/7 support for Linux servers (RHEL/CentOS/Debian/Ubuntu), LAMP/NGINX, MySQL/MariaDB, DNS, SSL, etc.

Linux System Administrator — Itisaluna Telecom EMEA

Middle East • Mar 2010 – Sep 2012
  • Automated MySQL jobs on RHEL/CentOS; performance monitoring and optimization.

Technical Skills

Kubernetes (GKE, EKS, AKS, K3s) Docker/Containers Istio / Ingress (Traefik) GitOps (Argo CD, Helm) Observability (Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic) HashiCorp Vault Terraform / IaC Ansible Linux (RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu) MySQL / MariaDB AWS / GCP Networking / TCP-IP Hadoop / Hive / Impala