# Justin Brown Justin Brown is a remote worker on Himalayas, Senior Cloud Platform Engineer at Stripe, based in United States. Source: https://himalayas.app/@justinbrown5 ```text I build reliable multi-cloud platforms with Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, and SRE automation. ``` | Detail | Value | | --- | --- | | Availability | Looking for a job | | Location | United States | | Authorized to work in | United States | | Salary expectations | 60k+ USD | | Job categories | DevOps Engineer, Cloud Platform Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Engineer, Software Engineer | | Skills | AWS, Azure, GCP, EC2, Amazon EKS, AWS ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, Route 53, Cloudwatch, AKS, azure monitor, Log Analytics, Terraform, OpenTofu, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, RBAC, Network Policy, Container Security, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, Code Deploy, ArgoCD, Flux CD, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK, OpenTelemetry, KMS, HashiCorp Vault, Secrets Management, AWS Organizations, SCP, Cloud Governance, Encryption, SOC2, HIPAA, HITRUST, ISO 27001, Python, Go, BASH, PowerShell, SQL, Java, C#, .NET, YAML, JSON, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Snowflake, Kafka, Redis, SLIs SLO SLAs, SLOs, Error Budgets, Incident Response, On Call, Postmortems, Root Cause Analysis, MTTR, MTTD, Disaster Recovery, High Availability, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, CI CD, Cloud Security, SRE, REST APIs, RabbitMQ, SNS | ## What I'm looking for ```text I'm looking to build and operate secure, highly available cloud platforms where I can apply Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, observability, and SRE practices to improve reliability and delivery efficiency. ``` ## About ```text At Stripe, I architect and operate AWS infrastructure across 25+ accounts, 12+ Kubernetes clusters, and 150+ production services. I build cloud-native platforms that support high availability, data platforms, and internal engineering services. I create reusable infrastructure and delivery workflows with Terraform, OpenTofu, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, and Argo CD. My Python and Go automation reduced manual infrastructure operations by 60% while supporting 99.9%+ availability. Previously at Capital One and AWS, I improved deployment consistency, observability, and incident response across large production environments. I reduced MTTD from 18 minutes to 5 minutes, lowered MTTR by 45%, and increased deployment efficiency by 50%. I also bring software engineering experience from LuminHealth, where I built Java and .NET applications and supported secure HIPAA- and HITRUST-compliant healthcare deployments. I work across AWS, Azure, and GCP with a focus on Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, security, and practical SRE operations. ``` ## Experience ### Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (current) [Stripe](https://himalayas.app/companies/stripe). Jul 2024 - Present ```text Architect and operate scalable AWS infrastructure spanning 25+ accounts, 12+ Kubernetes clusters, and 150+ production services. Implement enterprise observability and platform automation, achieving 99.9%+ availability. ``` Skills: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, OpenTofu, AWS-CDK, CloudFormation, GitHub-Actions, Jenkins, Azure-DevOps, ArgoCD, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Cloudwatch, OpenTelemetry, Python, Go, SRE ### Senior DevOps/SRE Engineer [Capital One](https://himalayas.app/companies/capital-one-national-association). Feb 2022 - Jul 2024 ```text Built secure, highly available AWS infrastructure and managed Amazon EKS environments. Improved MTTD from 18 to 5 minutes and reduced MTTR by 45% through monitoring and automation. ``` Skills: AWS, VPC, IAM, Organization, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, RBAC, Terraform, AWS-CodePipeline, GitHub-Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Flux-CD, Cloudwatch, CloudTrail, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, SRE, SOC2 ### Senior DevOps Engineer [Amazon Web Services (AWS)](https://himalayas.app/companies/amazon-web-services-aws). Mar 2020 - Feb 2022 ```text Led AWS infrastructure and DevOps operations across 30+ accounts and 100+ production workloads. Built CI/CD pipelines and implemented monitoring, increasing deployment efficiency by 50% and reducing MTTR by 30%. ``` Skills: AWS, EC2, AWS-ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, Cloudwatch, CloudFormation, Terraform, Jenkins, AWS-CodePipeline, CodeBuild, Code-Deploy, OpenTelemetry, SRE ### DevOps Engineer/Cloud Engineer [Amazon Web Services (AWS)](https://himalayas.app/companies/amazon-web-services-aws). Aug 2016 - Mar 2020 ```text Designed, deployed, and supported AWS infrastructure for 100+ production workloads. Automated provisioning with Terraform and CloudFormation, reducing manual effort by 40% and sustaining 99.9%+ availability. ``` Skills: AWS, EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, Cloudwatch, CloudFormation, Amazon-EKS, Terraform, Jenkins, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, SNS, ELK, Route-53 ### Software Engineer Lumin Health. Aug 2014 - Aug 2016 ```text Built and maintained Java and .NET enterprise applications, improving system reliability. Developed .NET services and REST APIs supporting healthcare data exchange, ensuring HIPAA and HITRUST compliance. ``` Skills: Java, .NET, REST-APIs, IAM, CloudFormation, HIPAA, HITRUST ## Education ### Amazon Web Services (AWS) AWS Certified AI Practitioner, Cloud Computing ```text Earned the AWS Certified AI Practitioner certification. ``` ### Amazon Web Services (AWS) AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, Cloud Computing ```text Earned the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional certification. ``` ### Amazon Web Services (AWS) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate, Cloud Computing ```text Earned the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate certification. ``` ### Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master I, Project Management ```text Earned the Professional Scrum Master I certification. ``` ### Microsoft Microsoft 365 Certified: Fundamentals, Productivity ```text Earned the Microsoft 365 Certified: Fundamentals certification. ``` ### Amazon Web Services (AWS) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Cloud Computing ```text Earned the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification. ``` ### Amazon Web Services (AWS) AWS Certified Developer – Associate, Cloud Computing ```text Earned the AWS Certified Developer – Associate certification. ``` ### Amazon Web Services (AWS) AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, Cloud Computing ```text Earned the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification. ``` ### Microsoft Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals, Cloud Computing ```text Earned the Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals certification. ``` ### Texas Tech University Bachelor's Degree. 2010 - 2014 ```text Pursued a Bachelor's degree at Texas Tech University from 2010 to 2014. ``` ### Microsoft Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals, Cloud Computing ```text Earned the Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals certification. ``` ### Microsoft Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals, Data Management ```text Earned the Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals certification. ``` ## Tech stack - Snowflake - Splunk - Kubernetes - Helm - Flux CD - Amazon EKS - AWS CodePipeline - Jenkins - GitHub Actions - MySQL - PostgreSQL - MongoDB - .NET - Redis - Terraform - Pulumi - Azure DevOps - Python - Java - C# - JSON - Go - PowerShell - ELK - Kafka - RabbitMQ - Grafana - Prometheus - OpenTelemetry - Azure Monitor - Datadog - Ansible - Docker - SQL - OpenTofu - ArgoCD - Argo CD - Bash To contact Justin, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire). ## People also viewed - [Hass Shaukat](https://himalayas.app/@hassshaukat): Principal DevOps Engineer, MindK - [Ali Bash](https://himalayas.app/@alibash): Cloud Engineer CI/CD & Cloud Infrastructure, CircleCI - [Kiran User](https://himalayas.app/@kiranuser4): Senior AWS Engineer, Clario - [Sean I](https://himalayas.app/@seani): Principal DevOps Engineer, Aldea - [David Finol](https://himalayas.app/@davidfinol): Principal DevOps Engineer, Comcast - [Adrian User](https://himalayas.app/@adrianuser6): Lead DevOps Engineer, Cloudhesive - [sushant Chaudhary](https://himalayas.app/@sushantchaudhary): Senior DevOps Engineer, Truist Financial - [Syed Minhaj](https://himalayas.app/@syedminhaj): Lead DevOps Engineer, vCluster - [Franklin Osaedoh](https://himalayas.app/@franklinosaedoh): Senior DevOps Engineer, Fiserv - [Selena Gale](https://himalayas.app/@selenagale): Lead DevOps Engineer, Attune