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Kevin Harlan

@kevinharlan

Senior DevOps engineer building scalable AWS Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD, and DevSecOps to boost developer productivity.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to lead platform and Kubernetes/DevOps work—automating cloud infrastructure, strengthening CI/CD and observability, and embedding DevSecOps guardrails to improve reliability and developer velocity.

I’m a Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer with 9+ years of experience building scalable cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, and CI/CD systems on AWS. I focus on improving developer productivity, platform reliability, and cloud automation through scalable engineering solutions.

At Atlassian, I architected Kubernetes-based platform infrastructure and self-service deployment using Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm, and AWS, enabling on-demand provisioning while reducing environment setup time by ~50%. I also standardized GitOps-driven CI/CD workflows and implemented end-to-end observability to reduce MTTR by ~30%.

I embedded DevSecOps controls into deployment pipelines with OPA policy-as-code, SAST/DAST scanning, and automated compliance validation, cutting critical vulnerabilities by ~70%. Previously at AWS, I led modernization to Amazon EKS, moving 75% of workloads to Kubernetes, improving release lead time from 40 minutes to 4 minutes, and building a serverless ETL ledger processing 100 million transactions monthly.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior DevOps Engineer

Current

Atlassian

Sep 2021 - Present (4 years 10 months)

Architected Kubernetes-based platform infrastructure and GitOps-driven CI/CD using Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm, and AWS, enabling on-demand cluster and shared services provisioning and reducing environment setup time by ~50%. Implemented observability and DevSecOps controls in deployment pipelines, improving incident detection (reducing MTTR by ~30%) and preventing insecure configurations from reachin

Terraform Kubernetes AWS ArgoCD Helm Kustomize GitOps CI CD Bitbucket Pipelines OpenTelemetry Splunk Prometheus Grafana DevSecOps Kyverno SAST DAST SonarQube Vault Observability

DevOps Engineer

Amazon Web Services

Oct 2017 - Sep 2021 (3 years 11 months)

Modernized a media-streaming common platform by migrating EC2-hosted microservices to Amazon EKS, moving 75% of workloads to Kubernetes and increasing hosted microservices by ~30%. Built infrastructure and serverless solutions including EKS autoscaling and an AWS Step Functions/Lambda ETL platform for centralized ledger processing.