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Alexander James Candfield

@alexanderjamescandfi

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I build reliable AWS and GCP infrastructure with Terraform, Kubernetes, and practical observability improvements.

Italy

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking for a remote DevOps or SRE role where I can improve cloud delivery, observability, reliability, cost management, and engineering productivity through infrastructure as code.

I've managed AWS and GCP infrastructure for fintech, gaming, and identity platforms, most recently at IDlayr supporting Java API services across 16 EKS clusters in Europe and the US. I migrated Terraform to Terragrunt, moved self-hosted monitoring to Datadog, and built end-to-end CI/CD for mobile SDKs and apps.

At Inshur and Creative Assembly, I've modernised infrastructure delivery, reduced alert fatigue, created event-based BigQuery reporting, improved container pipelines, and added cloud-spend guardrails. I enjoy reducing toil and technical debt, defining practical standards through IaC, and using AI agents to help teams deliver faster.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

DevOps Engineer

IDlayr

May 2025 - Aug 2026 (1 year 3 months)

Managed Java API services on EKS across 16 clusters in EU and US, increasing engineering productivity by reducing toil and handling incident response. Achieved Terraform to Terragrunt migration, self-hosted stack to Datadog migration, and enforced standards via IaC for GitLab resources.

Terraform Terragrunt Kubernetes Java Datadog Gitlab CI IaC AI Agents

DevOps Engineer

CreativeAssembly

Jul 2022 - Nov 2023 (1 year 4 months)

Managed AWS fleet and monitored spend. Achieved CloudFormation to Terragrunt migration, slimmed GitLab CI/CD pipelines, defined container image creation and tagging, added guardrails for cloud spend, and created controlled sandbox environments with Cloudnuke.

AWS Terraform Terragrunt Gitlab CI CloudFormation Cloudnuke Cost Management

DevOps Engineer (Junior)

Keyless Technologies

Aug 2021 - Feb 2022 (6 months)

Worked on AWS infrastructure via IaC, designed Terraform private module registry, used Packer for AMI management, and applied KISS principle for system design.

AWS Terraform Packer BASH Python GitHub CircleCi