# Benjamin Asher

Benjamin Asher is a remote worker on Himalayas, Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Telus, based in Canada.

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

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Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Telus, automating multi-cloud infrastructure and deploying services across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | Canada |
| Authorized to work in | Canada |
| Salary expectations | 90k+ USD |
| Job categories | Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer |
| Skills | Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Multi cloud Infrastructure, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Google Kubernetes Engine, Azure Kubernetes Service, Terraform, Ansible, Infrastructure as Code, CI CD, GitOps |

## About

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At Telus, I respond to production incidents and manage cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. I’ve automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible, and deployed containerized services using Kubernetes, Helm, and ArgoCD.

I’ve built and maintained CI/CD pipelines and observability workflows, using tools such as Azure DevOps, Prometheus, Grafana, and Cloud Monitoring. I also work on cloud data processing, including pipelines with BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, and Azure Databricks.

Previously, at BMW, I worked on site reliability, cloud migration, and DevSecOps pipelines, and at Cognizant I supported cloud and DevOps solutions. I hold AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer - Expert, and Google Cloud Certified – Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer certifications.
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## Experience

### Senior Site Reliability Engineer (current)

[Telus](https://himalayas.app/companies/telus). Oct 2024 - Present

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Responded to incidents, resolved outages, and implemented preventive measures. Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Ansible, and managed Kubernetes clusters on GCP and AWS.
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Skills: AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, ArgoCD, Jenkins, Gitlab-CI, Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, ELK-Stack, Kafka, Python, BASH, IAM, Cloudwatch, CloudTrail, BigQuery, Dataproc, Azure-DevOps, Azure-Data-Factory, Databricks, Synapse-Analytics, Cloud-Functions, Pub-Sub, Cloud-Storage, VPC, GCP-Cloud-DNS, Cloud-NAT, Cloud-Router, Google-Cloud-Armor, GKE, Amazon-EKS, AKS, OpenShift, ServiceNow, PagerDuty, GitHub-Co-Pilot

### Site Reliability Engineer

BMW. Mar 2021 - Sep 2024

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Implemented AWS services for high performance computing, automated CI/CD pipelines, and managed Kubernetes clusters. Designed observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk.
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Skills: AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon-EKS, AKS, OpenShift, Git, Bitbucket, Maven, Nexus, SonarQube, jFrog, Groovy, Python, Shell, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK, OpenTelemetry, Kafka, IAM, CloudFormation, Cloudwatch, Route-53, S3, EFS, RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda, Cloud-Functions, Pub-Sub, BigQuery, Dataproc, Dataflow, Azure-DevOps, azure-monitor, Log-Analytics, Application-Insights, ServiceNow, Jira, Confluence, MuleSoft, DataWeave, RAML, OpenAPI

### DevOps Engineer

[Cognizant](https://himalayas.app/companies/cognizant). Aug 2018 - Feb 2021

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Gained hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, and GCP services, built CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployments using Terraform and Ansible. Managed Docker containers and Kubernetes clusters.
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Skills: AWS, Azure, GCP, EC2, S3, RDS, Cloudwatch, IAM, VPC, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub-Actions, Azure-Pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, AKS, YAML, Git, Jira, Azure-Boards, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, New-Relic, Nagios, Python, Shell, Groovy, Maven, jFrog, SonarQube, Azure-Repos, SQL-Databases, ARM-Templates, BigQuery, Cloud-Storage, Pub-Sub, Dataflow, Dataproc, Cloud-Logging, Distributed-Tracing, Error-Reporting, Cloud-Profiler

## Education

### Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad

Bachelor's of Computer Science, Computer Science

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Bachelor's of Computer Science from JNTUH, India, completed in April 2018.
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## Tech stack

- Splunk
- Apache Spark
- MuleSoft
- AWS IAM
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud Platform
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Google Cloud Storage
- GitHub
- Bitbucket
- Azure Repos
- SonarQube
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- Amazon EKS
- Azure Kubernetes Service
- Jenkins
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Terraform
- AWS CloudFormation
- Azure DevOps
- Jira
- JFrog Artifactory
- Python
- PowerShell
- PagerDuty
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- OpenTelemetry
- Azure Monitor
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Linux
- Azure Active Directory
- Confluence
- Ansible
- Amazon RDS
- Git
- Docker
- Apache Tomcat
- Google BigQuery
- SQL
- Google Kubernetes Engine
- ServiceNow
- Snyk
- Trivy
- Dynatrace
- Argo CD
- OWASP ZAP
- Bash
- Checkov
- Apache Kafka
- AWS

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