Lead CloudOps Engineer
Workiva
Apr 2022 - Current (4 years 4 months)
Spearheaded AWS cloud modernization (migrating 50+ legacy systems to EC2, EKS, S3, RDS) using Terraform and Ansible, reducing operational costs by 25% and achieving SOC2 compliance. Engineered Kubernetes-centric CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitLab CI, Helm, and ArgoCD, automating deployments for AWS EKS and cutting release times by 40%. Automated infrastructure provisioning for VPC, EKS clusters, and RDS using Terraform/Ansible, reducing manual efforts by 30% and enforcing IaC best practices. Boosted system reliability by integrating Prometheus/Grafana for cluster monitoring and Datadog for application performance insights, slashing incident response times by 35%. Strengthened security via AWS IAM roles, KMS-encrypted S3 buckets, and Kuber