# Allen R

Allen R is a remote worker on Himalayas, Site Reliability Engineer at Taos, based in United States.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@allenr

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Site Reliability Engineer at Taos, improving AWS and Azure reliability with Kubernetes, Terraform, and observability.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | United States |
| Authorized to work in | United States |
| Salary expectations | 130k+ USD |
| Job categories | Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer, Platform Engineer |
| Skills | Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, CI CD, GitOps, High Availability, Fault Tolerance, SLIs SLO SLAs, SLOs, Error Budgets |

## About

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At Taos, where I work as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), I design and maintain highly available production infrastructure across AWS and Azure. I use Kubernetes and Terraform to support platform reliability and operational efficiency.

I built and optimized CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, and Argo CD, and implemented observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and the ELK Stack. I also established SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to support incident management and continuous service improvement.

Previously, at Effective Soft and Onica, I worked on cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, and containerized application environments. My projects include an Enterprise Cloud Reliability & Kubernetes Observability Platform and multi-cloud DevOps automation across AWS and Azure.
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## Experience

### Site Reliability Engineer (current)

Taos. Jun 2024 - Present

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Designed and maintained highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant production infrastructure across AWS and Azure using Kubernetes, Terraform, and Infrastructure as Code. Implemented observability solutions and established SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to support reliability engineering practices.
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Skills: AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, GitHub-Actions, Azure-DevOps, ArgoCD, GitOps, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK-Stack, Cloudwatch, Ansible, Python, BASH, Helm, Disaster-Recovery, Incident-Management, Root-Cause-Analysis

### DevOps Engineer / Cloud Engineer

Effective Soft. Nov 2019 - May 2023

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Designed, deployed, and managed cloud infrastructure on AWS and Microsoft Azure, utilizing EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, Azure Virtual Machines, AKS, and Azure networking services. Developed and maintained end-to-end CI/CD pipelines and implemented cloud security and DevSecOps practices.
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Skills: AWS, Azure, EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, AKS, Jenkins, GitLab-CI-CD, GitHub-Actions, Azure-DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon-EKS, Helm, Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, AWS-IAM, Azure-Key-Vault, HashiCorp-Vault, SonarQube, Trivy, Snyk, Cloudwatch, azure-monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK-Stack

### DevOps Engineer

Onica. Mar 2016 - Oct 2019

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Supported Linux-based application environments and cloud infrastructure using AWS EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, and Elastic Load Balancing. Built and maintained automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Git, Maven, and GitHub, and created Docker containers and configurations.
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Skills: AWS, EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, AWS-Elastic-Load-Balancing-..., Jenkins, Git, Maven, GitHub, Docker, Docker-Compose, BASH, Python, Ansible, Cloudwatch, ELK-Stack, Linux-Administrator

## Tech stack

- AWS IAM
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud Platform
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Bitbucket
- SonarQube
- Kubernetes
- Docker Compose
- Helm
- Amazon EKS
- Azure Kubernetes Service
- Jenkins
- GitHub Actions
- Amazon Route 53
- Terraform
- AWS CloudFormation
- Azure DevOps
- Jira
- Gradle
- Python
- JSON
- PowerShell
- Logstash
- Grafana
- Kibana
- Prometheus
- Azure Monitor
- Ubuntu
- CentOS
- Linux
- Windows Server
- Datadog
- Confluence
- Elasticsearch
- Ansible
- AWS Lambda
- Git
- Docker
- Snyk
- Trivy
- Argo CD
- Bash
- AWS
- Azure

To contact Allen, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire).

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