Darius Davis
@dariusdavis2
I am a Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer driving cost-efficient, secure multi-cloud infrastructure automation.
What I'm looking for
I am a results-driven Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer with 14+ years designing, implementing, and optimizing scalable cloud solutions across Azure, AWS, and GCP. I focus on secure, cost-efficient architectures and automation to align technical strategy with business goals.
I have a strong record of measurable impact — improving engineering productivity by 35% and delivering over $3M in annual cost savings through automation, rightsizing, and cloud-native solutions. I have led large migrations and hybrid cloud transformations that improved reliability and reduced spend.
My technical strengths include IaC (Terraform, ARM), Kubernetes (AKS/EKS/GKE), CI/CD modernization (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD), and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk). I implement governance, FinOps, and DevSecOps practices to ensure compliance, security, and fast, repeatable delivery.
I mentor cross-functional teams and partner with stakeholders to drive platform modernization, resilience, and operational efficiency. I am motivated to lead cloud initiatives that reduce costs, shorten release cycles, and improve security and availability.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Designed and implemented multi-cloud landing zones across Azure, AWS, and GCP using Terraform and governance frameworks, reducing provisioning errors by 90% and migrating 20+ workloads to deliver ~$800K in annual cost savings. Modernized CI/CD and observability, improving MTTR by 45% and cutting deployment lead time from days to hours.
Cloud Architect
XT Global
Mar 2021 - Feb 2025 (3 years 11 months)
Led a hybrid cloud transformation migrating 80% of infrastructure to Azure and AWS, achieving $1.2M in annual cost savings and cutting environment setup time by 65% via Terraform and ARM automation. Adopted AKS and GitOps workflows to improve scalability, reduce deployment issues by 40%, and shorten release cycles by 70%.
Senior Cloud/DevOps Engineer
Cobuild Lab Technologies
Oct 2016 - Mar 2021 (4 years 5 months)
Architected multi-region Azure deployments and built secure CI/CD workflows, reducing deployment time by 60% and improving availability; implemented rightsizing and automation to reduce Azure operational costs by 30%, delivering $2M+ in annual savings. Migrated legacy apps to cloud-native services and deployed serverless and container platforms to handle high-throughput workloads.
Cloud/DevOps Engineer
Hocs Consulting Technologies
Sep 2010 - Oct 2016 (6 years 1 month)
Led migrations of on-premises services to Azure IaaS/PaaS, cutting infrastructure costs by 40% and improving scalability; developed ARM and Terraform templates to standardize deployments and reduce provisioning errors. Implemented centralized logging and automation that reduced troubleshooting time by 70% and improved disaster recovery readiness.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of Texas at Austin
Master of Science, Computer Science
2010 - 2012
Grade: 3.6
Completed a Master of Science in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin from Aug 2010 to May 2012, graduating with a 3.6 GPA.
University of Texas at Dallas
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
2006 - 2010
Grade: 3.7
Completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas from Aug 2006 to May 2010, graduating with a 3.7 GPA.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Splunk
AWS Glue
Amazon Quicksight
AWS IAM
Azure RBAC
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Platform
Stackdriver
GitHub
GitLab
Bitbucket
SonarQube
Veracode
Kubernetes
Docker Swarm
Azure Kubernetes Service
Azure Container Service
Jenkins
Travis CI
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
DB
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
AWS CodeDeploy
Node.js
.NET
Databricks
Terraform
AWS CloudFormation
Azure Resource Manager
Azure DevOps
Jira
Bugzilla
Gradle
JFrog Artifactory
jQuery
JavaScript
HTML5
Java
PowerShell
XML
Kafka
Istio
Grafana
Kibana
Prometheus
Nagios
Azure Monitor
Ubuntu
CentOS
Linux
Windows
New Relic
Datadog
jFrog
Firebase
Azure Security Center
WordPress
Ansible
AWS Lambda
Serverless
Azure Functions
VMware vSphere
NGINX
Apache Tomcat
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
SQL
Google Kubernetes Engine
ServiceNow
Trivy
ArgoCD
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Social media
Job categories
Skills
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