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Jayden Malick

@jaydenmalick

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Principal DevOps Engineer specializing in cloud architecture, Kubernetes, and IaC automation.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior-level roles focusing on cloud architecture, Kubernetes/IaC-led automation, team leadership, DevOps culture, and opportunities to drive reliability, security, and cost optimization.

I am a Principal DevOps Engineer with 12+ years delivering cloud-native, hybrid, and multi-cloud infrastructure solutions for Fortune 500 companies and high-growth enterprises.

I specialize in AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, SRE practices, GitOps, and DevSecOps, and I have led cloud migrations, container orchestration, and infrastructure automation efforts that improved scalability, availability, and cost efficiency.

I have a track record of leading cross-functional teams, mentoring engineers, and driving DevOps culture while ensuring security, governance, and business alignment across projects.

My certifications include AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), HashiCorp Terraform Associate, and Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, validating my technical leadership and hands-on expertise.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior DevOps Engineer

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CloudTech Innovations

Mar 2024 - Present (1 year 6 months)

Architected multi-region AWS infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation for HA and DR, built GitLab CI/CD pipelines for 100+ microservices with automated testing and security scanning, and implemented EKS clusters with Helm to enable blue-green deployments and autoscaling.

AWS Terraform CloudFormation Gitlab CI Kubernetes EKS Helm Prometheus Grafana

DevOps Engineer

Innovate Systems Group

Oct 2021 - Feb 2024 (2 years 4 months)

Designed Jenkins pipelines for 50+ enterprise applications, migrated workloads from on-premises to AWS improving performance and resilience, and introduced Docker microservices with Terraform IaC to ensure portability and consistency.

Jenkins AWS Terraform Docker Kubernetes Prometheus Grafana CI CD Infrastructure as Code

Lead DevOps Engineer

Microsoft Corporation

Jan 2020 - Sep 2021 (1 year 8 months)

Directed enterprise migration to Microsoft Azure enabling zero-downtime global operations, automated provisioning with Terraform and Ansible to reduce environment setup time, and built Azure DevOps pipelines for 25+ services with security and compliance enforcement.

Azure AKS Azure DevOps Terraform Ansible Kubernetes CI CD DevSecOps

Junior DevOps Engineer

DataCore Technologies

Jan 2013 - Dec 2019 (6 years 11 months)

Managed Linux and Windows server environments with SLA compliance, automated operations with Bash and Python to improve efficiency, and configured monitoring and logging (Nagios, Splunk) for faster troubleshooting.