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BERTRAND BANLA

@bertrandbanla

Senior DevOps Engineer at Cisco System who supports 200+ applications and 30+ Kubernetes clusters at 99.99% availability.

United States

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At Cisco System, I design and manage AWS and Azure infrastructure supporting 200+ mission-critical applications, and manage 30+ Kubernetes clusters across Amazon EKS and Azure AKS. The platform supports 1,000+ developers and has achieved 99.99% availability.

I automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK, and Ansible, reducing provisioning effort by 80%. I also implemented GitOps delivery and FinOps practices, including cost optimization that reduced cloud spend by 35%.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior AWS / Azure DevOps Engineer

Current

Cisco System

Jun 2021 - Present (5 years 4 months)

Designed and managed AWS and Azure cloud infrastructure supporting 200+ mission-critical applications while achieving 99.99% platform availability. Managed and optimized 30+ Kubernetes clusters across Amazon EKS and Azure AKS supporting 1,000+ developers.

AWS Azure Kubernetes Terraform CloudFormation AWS CDK Ansible Jenkins GitHub Actions Azure DevOps ArgoCD Flux CD Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry Cloudwatch azure monitor ELK Splunk Trivy Snyk Aqua Security FinOps

AWS DevOps Consultant

Analog Devices

Dec 2018 - Jun 2021 (2 years 6 months)

Designed and optimized enterprise CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Bitbucket, Maven, Nexus, SonarQube, Docker, and Git, reducing software delivery cycles by 65%. Automated AWS infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and CloudFormation, reducing deployment time by 80%.

Jenkins Bitbucket Maven Nexus SonarQube Docker Git Terraform CloudFormation AWS IAM Cloudwatch AWS ECS Amazon EKS

DevOps Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services

Nov 2016 - Dec 2018 (2 years 1 month)

Designed and implemented enterprise CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Git, Maven, and Nexus Repository supporting Java microservices environments. Containerized applications using Docker and orchestrated deployments on Kubernetes, reducing deployment times by 60%.

Jenkins Git Maven Nexus Docker Kubernetes Terraform Ansible Helm Prometheus Grafana Istio Kustomize Bitbucket GitHub

Linux Network Support Administrator

Cimarron Living Centre

Sep 2014 - Nov 2016 (2 years 2 months)

Administered Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) servers supporting enterprise business applications, including patching, upgrades, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and monitoring. Supported 100+ production systems while maintaining 99.9% system availability.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Active Directory DNS DHCP NTP SMTP Backup Security Audits

Network Support Assistant

Trustech Institute of Technology

Jan 2009 - Aug 2011 (2 years 7 months)

Installed and configured Windows Server, Microsoft Office environments, desktop systems, and enterprise network infrastructure. Configured and maintained Cisco routers, switches, VLANs, wireless networks, VoIP systems, and TCP/IP networking.