David Finol
@davidfinol
Principal DevOps/SRE engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and reliability.
What I'm looking for
I am a strategic DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer with over 11 years building secure, scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. I focus on embedding operational excellence, observability, and automation into production environments to reduce MTTR and increase deployment velocity.
At Comcast I led multi-cloud CI/CD architecture, migrated monoliths to containerized microservices, and developed reusable Terraform modules and Ansible playbooks to standardize provisioning and compliance. I champion DevSecOps practices, integrating vulnerability scanning, secrets management, and compliance-as-code.
Previously I designed HIPAA-compliant cloud-native analytics platforms at GE Healthcare, automated infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible, and centralized logging with the ELK stack. I have owned SRE operations, created SLO dashboards, and implemented zero-downtime release strategies using blue/green and canary deployments.
I hold AWS, Kubernetes, and HashiCorp certifications, mentor engineering teams, and drive architectural improvements that deliver cost-efficient, resilient systems. I seek roles where I can lead reliability efforts, improve security posture, and scale cloud platforms with strong operational practices.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Principal DevOps Engineer
Comcast
Apr 2019 - Present (6 years 10 months)
Spearheaded design and deployment of secure, scalable CI/CD pipelines and multi-cloud (AWS/Azure) infrastructure, migrated monoliths to containerized microservices, and implemented DevSecOps practices to reduce MTTR and improve release consistency.
DevOps Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
GE Healthcare
Aug 2016 - Apr 2019 (2 years 8 months)
Designed HIPAA-compliant cloud-native architectures on AWS and automated infrastructure provisioning and deployment pipelines, centralizing logging and enforcing secure RDS and storage configurations to support compliant analytics systems.
Site Reliability Engineer
Contino
Mar 2014 - Aug 2016 (2 years 5 months)
Owned SRE operations for production healthcare services, implemented observability and SLO-driven monitoring, automated runbooks and incident response, and led migrations from on-premise to cloud-native deployments to meet strict SLAs.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
2010 - 2014
Completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with coursework and projects focused on software engineering, systems, and cloud-relevant technologies.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Splunk
Google Cloud Platform
Amazon S3
GitHub
GitLab
SonarQube
Kubernetes
Cloudflare
Akamai
Jenkins
CircleCI
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Memcached
Hadoop
Redis
Terraform
AWS CloudFormation
Pulumi
Jira
PowerShell
HAProxy
Logstash
Fluentd
Loki
Kafka
Istio
PagerDuty
Grafana
Kibana
Prometheus
Azure Monitor
New Relic
Datadog
Elasticsearch
Ansible
Serverless
Google Cloud Functions
Azure Functions
Kafka Streams
NGINX
Airflow
Root Cause
IBM Cloud
Octopus Deploy
Azure Blob Storage
Podman
Trivy
Gremlin
Harness
Linkerd
Tekton
Argo CD
Bash
Aqua Security
k6
Enhance
Wazuh
Dynamic
CoreDNS
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
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Skills
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