Sr DevOps & Cloud Engineer

Professional Overview

Senior DevOps and cloud engineering leader with more than 17 years of experience designing, automating, and operating secure cloud and infrastructure platforms, including over 7 years in people and program leadership roles. Known for modernizing delivery pipelines, building scalable architectures, and leading teams through compliant, cost-efficient digital transformation initiatives.

Core Capabilities

This candidate brings deep expertise across cloud platforms, infrastructure as code, CI/CD automation, containerized workloads, and scripting, combined with strong leadership in team development, hiring, budgeting, and strategic planning. Demonstrated strengths include AWS and Azure architectures, Terraform-based automation, Jenkins and GitHub–driven pipelines, networking and security design, and building compliant environments aligned with SOC2, PCI, and SOX requirements.

Professional Experience

Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer
Major Airline
2024 to 2025

• – Led the design of secure, scalable cloud service connectivity models that reduced architectural complexity and improved internal service delivery across enterprise environments.

• – Directed and coordinated external engineers on platform enablement initiatives, enabling application teams to self-provision cloud resources through standardized service catalogs.

• – Improved cloud account provisioning processes while strengthening compliance posture, reducing identified vulnerabilities by approximately 40%.

Senior Cloud Engineer
Digital Identity Software Company
2018 to 2024

• – Designed and implemented modern CI/CD pipelines for microservices platforms using infrastructure as code and automated testing, cutting deployment times by up to 50%.

• – Architected global, multi-region cloud networking solutions to enhance security, resilience, and operational consistency.

• – Automated security monitoring and vulnerability workflows using serverless services and third-party integrations, supporting ongoing SOC2 and PCI compliance.

• – Mentored junior engineers, contributed to hiring decisions, and helped establish a collaborative, high-performance engineering culture.

• – Led a serverless compliance automation initiative to support SOX controls, improving audit readiness and operational transparency.

Network Manager
Technology Services Company
2015 to 2018

• – Managed and modernized international network infrastructure, leveraging infrastructure as code and automation to dramatically reduce incident resolution times.

• – Supported global data center expansion and negotiated international connectivity to improve performance and scalability.

• – Provided hands-on mentorship to junior technical staff across networking and systems disciplines.

IT Manager
IT Consulting Company
2013 to 2015

• – Oversaw complex client infrastructure environments, including disaster recovery and real-time database replication strategies.

• – Led small technical teams while contributing to budgeting, capacity planning, and infrastructure optimization initiatives.

IT Director
Public School District
2008 to 2011

• – Built and led a five-person IT organization, overseeing infrastructure operations, vendor management, and budget planning.

• – Implemented virtualization and modernization projects that reduced operational costs while expanding system capabilities.

• – Delivered technology platforms supporting instructional systems and organization-wide digital initiatives.