Ian David North
@iandavidnorth
Senior DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer focused on scalable, secure cloud platforms.
United StatesWhat I'm looking for
I am a Senior DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer with extensive experience building and operating multi-region Kubernetes platforms, infrastructure-as-code, and developer self-service platforms that support millions of users. I have driven reliability (SLI/SLO), observability, security (DevSecOps, Vault, OPA), and FinOps initiatives that reduced incidents and cut cloud costs while enabling developer velocity.
Throughout my career I have led CI/CD and GitOps standardization, implemented modular Terraform and GitHub Actions/ArgoCD workflows, and mentored engineering teams to adopt best practices. My work has supported SOC 2 Type II readiness, improved availability to 99.99% across production clusters, and delivered measurable cost savings through reserved instances, spot capacity, and rightsizing.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Contributed to platform infrastructure and DevOps practices across multiple product teams, built multi-region EKS platforms with 99.99% SLOs, and implemented IaC and GitOps practices that reduced provisioning time and deployment incidents significantly.
Maintained reliability and scalability of AI/ML infrastructure, built and scaled Kubernetes GPU clusters achieving 90%+ utilization and implemented autoscaling and multi-region failover to ensure 99.95% uptime.
Software Engineer
CartStack
Aug 2012 - Nov 2016 (4 years 3 months)
Built backend systems and cloud infrastructure during scale-up, designed AWS deployments with CloudFormation and Ansible to maintain 99.9% uptime and enabled daily blue-green releases with automated rollback.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of Houston
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
2008 - 2012
Completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science focused on software engineering and systems, graduating in 2012.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
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Location
United StatesAuthorized to work in
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