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Harris K

@harrisk

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DevOps leader driving scalable, secure cloud infrastructure and CI/CD automation.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a senior DevOps/platform role at a security-conscious, collaborative company where I can lead cloud automation, CI/CD, and observability initiatives while mentoring engineers.

I am a results-driven DevOps professional with 10+ years of hands-on experience automating, optimizing, and securing mission-critical deployments across AWS, Azure, and GCP. I design scalable CI/CD pipelines, enforce Infrastructure as Code, and lead cross-functional teams to deliver robust, highly available environments.

As a Lead DevOps Engineer, I have managed cloud-native infrastructure for 25+ microservices supporting millions of users, migrated monoliths to Kubernetes (EKS) and achieved significant cost savings and deployment reliability improvements. I champion GitOps, centralized monitoring, and security integrations to support SOC2 and HIPAA readiness.

I mentor and direct engineering teams, define OKRs, and implement automation that reduces MTTR and operational waste. I seek to bring my background in Linux administration, containerization, Terraform/Ansible, and observability to a team focused on secure, scalable cloud delivery.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Lead DevOps Engineer

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DuploCloud

Apr 2024 - Present (1 year 6 months)

Designed and managed cloud-native infrastructure for 25+ microservices on AWS, supporting 5M+ users; built CI/CD pipelines that reduced build and deployment times by 80% and achieved 99.9% deployment reliability. Migrated a monolith to EKS, cutting infrastructure costs $120,000 annually and lowering MTTR by 60% via centralized monitoring.

AWS EKS Terraform Jenkins GitHub Actions ArgoCD Helm Prometheus Grafana

DevOps Engineer

Cubix

Aug 2019 - Mar 2024 (4 years 7 months)

Led migration of 100+ enterprise applications to AWS delivering 40% cost reduction and improved scalability; implemented GitLab CI pipelines and reusable Ansible/CloudFormation templates, reducing configuration drift by 90% and deployment errors by 35%. Integrated Vault and automated compliance workflows supporting SOC2 and ISO27001 audits.

AWS Ansible CloudFormation Gitlab CI Python Vault SSM CI CD Automation)

Associate Systems Engineer

Tkxel

May 2016 - Aug 2019 (3 years 3 months)

Promoted to DevOps Engineer within 18 months after managing 200+ Linux servers with 99.95% uptime and automating provisioning to reduce manual efforts by 75%. Introduced Docker for 20+ legacy apps, improving deployment speed and participated in 24x7 on-call rotations to meet SLAs.