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hlstartup

Remote worker with 18+ years of experience - Last seen ago

Senior DevOps & Cloud Engineer with 8+ years of hands-on experience in AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and Terraform. I specialize in building scalable, secure infrastructure, automating CI/CD pipelines, and optimizing cloud costs (FinOps).

Recent achievements include:
โ€ข Upgraded EKS clusters (1.22 โ†’ 1.31), resolving critical deprecations
โ€ข Migrated Cloudflare configs to Terraform (IaC-first approach)
โ€ข Automated GitLab & Azure DevOps pipelines for multi-cloud environments
โ€ข Reduced cloud spend via EC2/K8s node optimization & S3 cleanup
โ€ข Integrated Datadog & PagerDuty for proactive monitoring/alerting
โ€ข Implemented IAM best practices & Zero Trust access

Passionate about reliability, automation, and clean infrastructure design. Looking for senior remote DevOps / SRE / Platform roles where I can build, scale, and simplify cloud-native systems.


Skilled in aws azure gcp kubernetes eks aks terraform gitlab cicd argo argo cd helm docker devops sre platform engineering cloudflare cloudflare zero trust cloud security finops datadog pagerduty linux networking triage infrastructure as code azure devops pipelines iac monitoring observability kubernetes operators cloud architecture multi cloud yaml bash python promtail grafana promscale system design zero trust identity center cost optimization cloud automation site reliability self hosted home lab proxmox pihole 
Fluent in english
Preferred timezone -8,-7,-6,-5,-4,-3,0,+1,+2,+3
Preferred annual pay (min) $135,000/year
Preferred hourly pay (min) $85/hour
Last seen 1 month ago
Signed up 1 month ago
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Employment

2024 - 2025: Sr. SRE Engineer @ RATESDOTCA

2022 - 2023: Sr. DevOps Platform Engineer @ Royal Bank of Canada

2020 - 2022: SRE / SysOps Administrator III @ Bread Financial | LoyaltyOne

2019 - 2019: System and Network Engineer @ University of Toronto

2019 - 2020: SysOps / DevOps Engineer @ Coin Change Financial

2017 - 2018: System Engineer & Data Interpreter @ My Blue Umbrella

2016 - 2017: IT System Administrator @ Cox Automotive

2015 - 2015: System Administrator โ€“ Win/Linux @ Seetech Solutions (MSP)

2012 - 2014: IT System and Network Administrator @ Shiran Communication LTD (MSP)

2011 - 2012: IT Help Desk Manager @ Anyoption LTD

2010 - 2011: Application Support / Field Technician @ Roseman Engineering

2008 - 2009: Technical Support (ISP) @ 012 Golden Lines

Education

2024 - 2024: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate @ The Linux Foundation

2023 - 2023: HashiCorp Terraform Associate (003) @ HashiCorp

2022 - 2022: AWS Solutions Architect (Validation: XVRY35KB32F11KC3) @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)

2022 - 2022: DevOps Certificate @ York University

2019 - 2019: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (NSXMHW1K3F4E1D33) @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)

2018 - 2018: Full Stack Web Developer @ General Assembly, Toronto

2015 - 2017: Advanced Diploma: Computer Systems Technology @ Seneca College, Toronto

2014 - 2014: RHEL6 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Administrator (IT Ops) @ John Bryce College

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