Charles Gamboa

I’m a Systems Engineer with 9+ years of experience and an active Top Secret clearance, focused on automation, infrastructure as code, and system reliability. I build and deploy resilient solutions in complex, air-gapped environments, improving performance, security, and operational efficiency end to end.

In my current role, I manage and support 100+ enterprise servers and 3,000+ users to keep mission-critical systems highly available. I’ve developed 20+ PowerShell and SQL automation solutions that helped drive 99% system availability, while leading STIG-based patching and vulnerability remediation to maintain compliance.

I’m especially driven by measurable outcomes: I optimized system performance to reduce resource utilization by 50% across multiple environments and streamlined backup and recovery to improve data restore efficiency by 50%. I also collaborate with development teams on production troubleshooting and root cause analysis to prevent recurrence.

Earlier, as a VMware Administrator, I administered VMware ESXi environments and automated recurring tasks, cutting manual effort by 40%. I’ve also built a GitOps-driven Kubernetes platform on Amazon EKS with Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm, and Ansible, adding policy-as-code and container hardening with Kyverno and Trivy, and strengthening observability using Prometheus and Grafana.