Devops Engineer
Stoney Creek,Canada
Summary
- 11+ years of IT experience in SCM, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, microservices, OpenShift, DevOps/Build, Deploy, Release Management, and Cloud Management.
- Proven track record of implementing Agile-Scrum methodologies, software configuration management (SCM).
- Monitoring application with Grafana and Datadog, also isolating logs, metrics, and creating unique dashboards. Implementation of continuous integration/deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions, AWS CI/CD, and Argo CD.
- Deployment of multiple applications in a more secure and better environment with Kubernetes planned, implemented, and overseen cloud infrastructure operations with a specific focus on OpenShift-based solutions and the management of containerized applications.
- Specialized in DevSecOps practices, integrating development, security, and operations to streamline project lifecycles, and ensure secure, high-quality software delivery.
- Extensive involvement in designing Azure Resource Manager templates and in designing custom build steps using PowerShell. Manage different Azure environments for the provisioning of Linux servers and services executed by the providers.
- Worked on Microsoft Azure Cloud Services (Paas & laas ), Azure Monitoring, Application Insights, VSO, Document DB and SQL Azure.
- Proficient in utilizing Jira for project management, task tracking, and agile workflow coordination, ensuring efficient project execution, and team collaboration.
- Strong background in deploying Linux systems and administration.
- Enabled disaster recovery with multi-AZ and multi-cloud-based clusters.
- Developing cloud computing capabilities, both internal and hybrid, and service types: IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
- Automation of manual processes by utilizing Terraform, implementing new project builds, and using Jenkins and Maven as build framework tools.
- Implementing microservice-based architecture using Istio and automated deployments with Helm configuration.
- Designed and implemented test plans and cases in alignment with project requirements, using Jira for documentation and reporting progress.
- Written and upgraded Ruby applications.
- Focus on enhancing the microservice architecture using EKS, ECS, Fargate, Route 53, CDK, S3, IAM, Terraform, AWS CDK, HashiCorp Vault, and Ansible.
- Hands-on experience in writing Ansible playbooks to automate our build/deployment process, and an overall process improvement to manual processes.
- Skilled in implementing Continuous Integration/Deployment Pipelines using Jenkins, Spinnaker, and AWS CI/CD.
- Designed and implemented a MongoDB cluster and continuous deployments.
- Experienced in deploying and maintaining services in multiple regions, ensuring their resilience, security, and performance.
- Proficient in automating manual processes using Terraform, and implementing new project build frameworks using Jenkins and Maven.
- Familiar with network infrastructure components (load balancing, NAT, scaling, etc.), and the management of SaaS DB solutions.
- Strong experience in building, orchestrating, and maintaining Docker containers.
- Experience in querying RDBMS such as MySQL, Oracle, and SQL Server by using PL/SQL for data integrity.
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, and is learned about working with senior-level bosses, agents, and architects over different controls. Critical thinking DevOps engineer with extensive understanding of high-availability architecture and concepts. Purpose-driven professional with the capacity to be a strong team player, plus work effectively independently.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
DEVOPS / CLOUD ENGINEER
Alexi.com
10.2025 - Current
- Owned and managed enterprise Azure subscriptions, creating fully private, percustomer environments with no inter-subscription connectivity.
- Designed and deployed isolated Azure infrastructure per subscription using Terraform.
- Built VNets with private subnets and enforced private endpoints for all backend services.
- Deployed and managed applications on Azure Container Apps with auto-scaling.
- Configured Application Gateway for secure ingress, SSL termination, and traffic routing.
- Provisioned and maintained PostgreSQL, Redis, and Azure Storage,Weavate per customer.
- Implemented Azure Key Vault and Managed Identities for secure secrets and service authentication.
- Set up Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights for logs, metrics, and alerts.
- Enabled automated backups and recovery for databases and critical services.
- Applied resource tagging, budgets, and alerts for subscription-level cost control.
DEVOPS ENGINEER
Virtasant
01.2024 - Current
- Managed and supported CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions, ensuring smooth and efficient software delivery processes.
- Administered version control systems, primarily GitHub, and assisted development teams in resolving merge conflicts and implementing best practices.
- Maintained and optimized Artifactory repository for artifact management, improving reliability and performance of artifact delivery.
- Configured and maintained Spinnaker pipelines for automated deployments to AWS EKS clusters, enabling rapid and reliable application releases.
- Supported and maintained Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS, ensuring high availability and scalability of containerized applications.
- Responded to and resolved incidents related to CI/CD pipelines, version control systems, and deployment processes, minimizing downtime and improving system reliability.
- Virtasant is a global team of cloud experts dedicated to unleashing the full potential of the public cloud and driving innovation in the industry.
DEVOPS ENGINEER
Bagel Network
07.2024 - 09.2025
- Deployed and managed EKS clusters with GPU nodes on AWS and GCP.
- Automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Ansible.
- Implemented self-hosted GitHub runners for cost-effective builds.
- Set up Grafana dashboards for API monitoring and user analytics.
- Integrated CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Slack alerts for real-time observability.
- Managed DynamoDB to RDS PostgreSQL migration for improved query performance.
- Optimized Docker builds, reducing deployment time by 50%.
- Automated SSL certificate monitoring and renewal with alerts.
- Migrated and optimized OpenSearch clusters for better performance.
- Deployed fine-tuning AI models on Vertex AI and AWS.
- Set up documentation using Docusaurus for structured and versioned project documentation.
- Developed a Python script for logging fine-tuning metrics (train loss, epoch, steps) in CloudWatch and Grafana.
- Integrated AWS Secrets Manager for secure handling of API keys and credentials in cloud applications.
- Technologies: AWS (EC2, S3, OpenSearch, CloudWatch), GCP (Vertex AI, Storage), Docker, GitHub Actions, Terraform, CUDA, NVIDIA GPUs, Python, Hugging Face.
SR.DEVOPS ENGINEER
Mogo Finance Technology
Vancouver, Canada
12.2020 - 09.2023
- Expertise in Azure Administration and managing applications hosted on Azure platform and has experience performing on IAAS VM deployments, SQL Azure, Azure Disaster Recovery, Scaling and Storage Accounts.
- Engineered resilient Azure solutions for high availability and disaster recovery, ensuring robust and reliable systems.
- Led the strategic planning and execution of technology solutions, contributing to the company's technology roadmap with innovative DevSecOps initiatives.
- Implemented advanced Azure Compute and Active Directory for enterprise-scale applications, enhancing security and user management.
- Optimized API management and seamlessly integrated Azure services with existing DevOps workflows to streamline CI/CD pipelines.
- Designed and deployed secure network infrastructure utilizing Azure VPN Gateway and DNS, fortifying data transmission and access control.
- Managed Azure SQL and NoSQL databases with a focus on performance optimization, scalability, and efficient data handling.
- Automated cloud operations using Azure Automation, achieving cost reduction, and enhanced operational efficiency.
- Implemented a robust platform for developing, deploying, and maintaining cloud services that are resilient, secure, and performant.
- Managed service reviews, incident management, change management, and security best practices.
- Ensured security compliance in our services and kept tools, AMIs, databases, and software up to date.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams and stakeholders, leading design review sessions and aligning project deliverables with organizational goals.
- Provided mentorship to junior DevSecOps engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and shared best practices.
- Participated in on-call rotations to support services and ensured CI/CD pipelines run smoothly and predictably.
- Enhanced Ruby applications and migrated them from Linux-based systems to Kubernetes for improved performance and scalability.
- Managing deployment of microservices into EKS cluster using Helm charts.
- Maintained high-availability cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP for scalability and reliability.
- Utilized Jira dashboards and reporting tools to provide insights on testing progress, issue resolution rates, and team performance metrics.
- MOGO financial Technology help consumers with simple and secure solutions to manage their finances, this platform has been engineered to deliver best in class digital experience and financial products.
AGILE DEVOPS LEAD CONSULTANT
Finning Canada
Calgary, Canada
12.2018 - 12.2020
- Worked on automating build process (CI/CD) using Jenkins, Maven, Ant, and other tools.
- Administered Jenkins and configured CI/CD automation for the builds on Linux and Windows environments, configured jobs for different code bases like Java, Dot-net and other languages.
- Configured and maintained Spinnaker pipelines for automating application deployments across development, testing and production environments. Resulted in increased deployment frequency and reliability.
- Oversaw application and infrastructure security, implementing comprehensive compliance checks and security automation practices.
- Integrated Spinnaker with Kubernetes clusters, streamlining containerized application deployments.
- Automated CI/CD processes utilizing Jenkins, effectively reducing time-to-deployment.
- Managed containerized application deployment using Kubernetes, enhancing application performance.
- Worked in Product business group for Supply Chain Management products which are used by Retail companies with products like Foundation, SCPO, Reporting, Transport, Workforce management and other retails products.
- Expert in various Azure services like Compute (Web Roles, Worker Roles), Caching, Azure SQL, NoSQL, Storage, and Network services, Azure Active Directory, API Management, Scheduling, Azure Autoscaling, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Search, Azure DNS, Azure VPN Gateway.
- Experienced in Kubernetes using Helm charts and created reproducible builds of the Kubernetes applications, managed Kubernetes manifest files and managed releases of Helm packages.
- Monitored and optimized Spinnaker performance, ensuring high availability and scalability of deployment infrastructure.
- Configured and maintained cloud services with a focus on security compliance and best practices.
- Managing global operations team, which includes DevOps and responsible for maintaining 24x7 system uptime.
- Part of TechOps team handling adhoc pre-prod/prod builds requests and configuring CI-CD.
- Administering AWS and supporting the Dev teams with Infra provisioning and other AWS components.
- Installed, configured, and worked on CI/CD processes with Jenkins, Ansible, codecommit, code deploy services.
- Strict monitoring of the production instances with tools Manage Engines and Site24.
- Extensive experience of Amazon EC2, S3, VPC, subnet, ECS, RDS, Elastic Load Balancing, Auto scaling, IAM, SQS, security groups, load balancers (ELBs), Cloud Watch and other AWS services.
- Technical & Solution Design of DevOps implementation.
- Usage of complete automation tools and implementation of Push Button Deployment which includes usage of Enterprise GitHub, Jenkins, Sonar, Nexus, RabbitMQ, Docker, Ingress, Kubernetes & Open Shift.
DEVOPS ENGINEER
Mariner Innovations
03.2016 - 12.2018
- Help organization in attaining Business Agility through vertical and horizontal scaling of Agile within organizations and aligning the value streams.
- Agile delivery consulting - Project Initiation, development, governance, and DevOps.
- Conduct client workshops - Assess the maturity of Agile practices, readiness of organization to transition to next level of Agility and come up with a roadmap to achieve the same.
- Implemented and managed continuous delivery pipelines using Spinnaker, increasing deployment efficiency by 40%.
- Migrated several legacy applications to Spinnaker-driven deployment models, modernizing workflows across projects.
- Mentored organization to setup an Agile practice in the organization.
- Development of an Enterprise Agile Dashboard that would provide wide range of technical, Business and Operational Metrics with Advanced Analytics and Industry Benchmarks at different levels - Enterprise, Business Unit, Program, Project, Team and individual.
- Managing the Features /Epics /Backlog User Stories / Release planning of 9 Scrum teams working on developing and supporting new features by closing working with Product owner, Scrum Master & Product Managers.
- Responsible for Product Road Map Planning, Release planning, Tracking and usage of JIRA.
- Developed and maintained Spinnaker dashboards for multiple projects, providing real-time visibility into deployment statuses.
- DevOps Automation - Configuration of Jenkins, GitHub, Selenium and Docker.
- End to End RPA enablement and setting up improvement standards using referential data.
- Hands on experience with code coverage tools like SonarQube.
- End to End agile implementation & solution using Scrum & DAD.
- Mobile & Web Application Development using Java 8, Ruby, REST.
- Experience working on Kubernetes and several Docker components like Docker Engine, Hub, Machine, creating Docker images, Compose, Docker Registry and domain configurations.
- Worked closely with PMO and delivered project for the 9 tracks of cumulative value of 7 million USD.
- This project takes care of Policy Administration System of Encompass brand of Mainer Innovations which takes care of Creating Rules/Rating engine, interacting with various upstream and downstream, Generating reports.
SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR/ BUILD & RELEASE ENGINEER
Deloitte Consulting, Private Limited
03.2014 - 12.2015
- RHI's proprietary algorithms help provide highly targeted patient and physician communications to help companies reduce healthcare costs and improve healthcare quality & training.
- Responsible for design and maintenance of the Subversion/GIT Repositories, views, and the access control strategies.
- Performed all necessary day-to-day Subversion/GIT support for different projects.
- Analyze and resolve compilation and deployment errors related to code development, branching, merging, and building of source code.
- Troubleshot and solved build and performance issues.
- Develop and enhance the automated configuration management system.
- Maintain and enhance current build procedures for all software development projects.
- Branching and merging of the code base in CVS.
- Create Chef automation tools and builds and do an overall process improvement to any manual processes.
- Research and recommend open-source tools, practices, and methodologies that enhance our day-to-day productivity.
- Used Ant, Maven to perform daily and weekly Software Builds.
- Developed and maintained web applications for Resolution Health Inc (RHI), a part of The WellPoint Companies.
Education
Bachelors - Computer science and Engineering
JNTUH
India01.2014
Skills
- CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Buildkite, AWS CI/CD, GitHub, Azure DevOps
- Containerization and orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, OpenShift
- Cloud platforms: Azure, AWS, GCP
- Infrastructure as code: Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation
- Scripting languages: Bash, Python, Ruby
- Source control: Git, SVN
- Monitoring tools: Grafana, Datadog, OpsGenie, Prometheus, ELK Stack
- Security and compliance: JFrog Xray, Veracode, AWS Secret Manager, HashiCorp Vault
- Microservices technology
- Automation and integration: Maven, AWS CDK, Jenkins CI, AWS Lambda
- Disaster recovery
Certification
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, https://www.credly.com/badges/3c19a5c1-ac90-4ea7-99ca-1ff5457bc714
References
- Janet Harrah, Virtasant, linkedin.com/in/janet-harrah-38241763
- Julia McGarvey, MOGO, hr@mogo.ca
Timeline
DEVOPS / CLOUD ENGINEER
Alexi.com
10.2025 - Current
DEVOPS ENGINEER
Bagel Network
07.2024 - 09.2025
DEVOPS ENGINEER
Virtasant
01.2024 - Current
SR.DEVOPS ENGINEER
Mogo Finance Technology
12.2020 - 09.2023
AGILE DEVOPS LEAD CONSULTANT
Finning Canada
12.2018 - 12.2020
DEVOPS ENGINEER
Mariner Innovations
03.2016 - 12.2018
SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR/ BUILD & RELEASE ENGINEER
Deloitte Consulting, Private Limited
03.2014 - 12.2015
Bachelors - Computer science and Engineering
JNTUH