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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.