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Senior DevOps & DevSecOps — fractional, focused, accountable.

Professional bio and skills matrix. Employer names intentionally omitted.

I'm a DevOps & DevSecOps Team Lead with 5+ years of hands-on experience architecting, securing, and scaling production infrastructure for high-stakes, regulated environments where downtime and breaches are not an option. I operate at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, security engineering, and site reliability — designing systems that are fast to ship, resilient under load, and defensible under audit.

I don't just "manage" infrastructure — I build the internal tools, automation pipelines, and monitoring platforms that let engineering organizations scale without scaling their headcount or their risk.

how I work

I engage as a fractional/contract specialist — coming in for focused audits, fixed-scope builds, or ongoing retainer support — giving organizations senior-level DevOps/DevSecOps expertise without the overhead of a full-time hire. Every engagement starts with a discovery call, ends with documented, team-owned infrastructure, and is priced transparently with no surprise hours.

Skills matrix

Cloud Infrastructure & Architecture

  • Microsoft Azure (VMs, AKS, LB, App Gateway, SQL MI, Redis)
  • Multi-cloud migration (Azure ↔ AWS)
  • CSP → EA licensing transitions
  • Terraform / ARM IaC
  • CDN, WAF, DDoS, DNS

Kubernetes & Containers

  • AKS design & hardening
  • HPA / VPA / cluster autoscaler
  • RBAC & namespace isolation
  • Rolling / blue-green / canary
  • Managed data services & mesh basics

DevSecOps, Security & Compliance

  • VAPT (Nessus) & remediation cycles
  • Vulnerability triage
  • PCI DSS controls
  • ISMS / ISO 27001-aligned process
  • SIEM integration
  • SAST / DAST / secrets / policy-as-code

CI/CD & Automation

  • Jenkins & GitLab CI/CD
  • Internal bots & dashboards
  • Self-service provisioning
  • API & event-driven automation

SRE & Monitoring

  • SLO / SLI / error budgets
  • Incident response & RCA
  • MTTR optimization
  • APM & custom monitoring platforms

Data & Cost Governance

  • MSSQL & MySQL administration
  • Replication & failover
  • CDC pipelines
  • Cloud cost optimization & tagging

next step

Ready for a sober look at your infra?

Book a free infra audit. We map risk, gaps, and a concrete next step — no fluff deck.