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Evan Farouk

@evanfarouk

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Senior DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure engineer driving automation and reliability.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a senior platform or SRE role focused on multi-cloud infrastructure, automation, strong security posture, observability, and opportunities to lead reliability and FinOps initiatives.

I am a Senior DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with 7+ years building, automating, and optimizing multi-cloud environments across AWS, Azure, and GCP. I specialize in Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes orchestration, and CI/CD pipeline engineering to increase deployment velocity and reliability.

My work focuses on secure, scalable platforms: I design multi-region infrastructure with Terraform, Pulumi, and OpenTofu, manage Kubernetes stacks with Istio/Linkerd/Consul, and implement GitOps using Argo CD, Flux, and GitHub Actions. I integrate policy-as-code and DevSecOps tools to meet compliance requirements including NIST and FedRAMP.

I build centralized observability and incident response capabilities using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK, Datadog, and PagerDuty, which improves MTTR and operational visibility. I also drive FinOps optimization with Kubecost and CloudZero and validate resilience through chaos engineering.

Throughout my roles I have enforced strong security posture with Vault, Snyk, Cosign, OPA/Rego, and CIS benchmarks, automated infrastructure lifecycles with Ansible/Helm, and supported data pipelines and serverless systems to deliver reliable, compliant production platforms.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Lead Platform Engineer

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TechNova

Dec 2023 - Present (1 year 11 months)

Designed and automated multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP using Terraform, Pulumi, and OpenTofu, improving uptime and MTTR while meeting NIST/FedRAMP controls. Implemented GitOps, centralized observability, and supply-chain security to accelerate secure deployments and reduce incident recovery time.

Terraform Pulumi Kubernetes Prometheus Grafana Vault OPA Rego GitHub Actions

DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer

TechSphere Cloud Services

Jun 2021 - Nov 2023 (2 years 5 months)

Maintained hybrid AWS/Azure environments and automated infrastructure lifecycle with Terraform, Ansible, and Helm, improving deployment speed and consistency. Built centralized logging and monitoring with ELK, Datadog, and Prometheus and reduced MTTD via runbooks-as-code and incident automation.

Terraform Ansible Helm Docker Kubernetes ELK Datadog Prometheus PagerDuty

Site Reliability Engineer

KiwiCloud Solutions

Feb 2019 - May 2021 (2 years 3 months)

Maintained hybrid cloud platforms with Terraform, Ansible, and Helm, enforced Vault-based secret management and CIS security standards, and improved monitoring with Datadog, Prometheus, and ELK to increase service visibility and reduce detection time.