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Kevin Lively

@kevinlively4

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Senior Site Reliability Engineer specializing in multi-cloud automation and DevOps.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior SRE/DevOps roles focused on multi-cloud platform engineering, automation, strong security/compliance, observability, and opportunities to lead reliability improvements.

I am a Senior Site Reliability and DevOps engineer with over 11 years of experience delivering cloud automation, CI/CD modernization, and resilient infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. I design and operate scalable containerized platforms and implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) to ensure consistent, automated provisioning.

My work emphasizes observability, security and compliance — deploying and tuning Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and cloud-native monitoring to reduce MTTR and improve uptime. I lead cross-functional efforts to embed DevSecOps practices, streamline deployment lifecycles with Jenkins/GitHub Actions/GitLab CI, and automate operational tasks with Python and Bash.

I have driven multi-cloud transformations for enterprise and federal environments, authored runbooks and architecture documentation, mentored peers, and championed reliability engineering principles that produce secure, high-availability systems and measurable operational improvements.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Current

Pratt & Whitney

Sep 2021 - Present (4 years 2 months)

Designed and optimized multi-cloud CI/CD pipelines and IaC, accelerating deployment frequency and improving system reliability; led containerized Kubernetes operations and observability initiatives that reduced MTTR and ensured federal compliance.

Terraform CloudFormation AWS Azure GCP Kubernetes Docker Prometheus Grafana Python

Senior DevOps Engineer

AbbVie

May 2019 - Aug 2021 (2 years 3 months)

Managed and optimized AWS infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines using Terraform and Jenkins, improving availability and deployment consistency; implemented monitoring and database performance tuning to enhance reliability.

AWS Terraform CloudFormation Kubernetes Docker Jenkins PostgreSQL Prometheus Grafana

Infrastructure Engineer

Optimize Health

Jul 2016 - Apr 2019 (2 years 9 months)

Managed Databricks lakehouse and automated AWS infrastructure with Terraform/CloudFormation; streamlined CI/CD for Spark and Kafka workloads and implemented observability to improve pipeline reliability and cost efficiency.

Databricks Terraform CloudFormation AWS EKS Spark Kafka Prometheus Datadog

Cloud Engineer

Cloudhesive

Mar 2014 - Jun 2016 (2 years 3 months)

Assisted in design and management of AWS infrastructure, supported Docker-based container deployments and CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Helm, and implemented monitoring to maintain high availability.

AWS EC2 S3 VPC Docker Kubernetes Jenkins Helm Prometheus Grafana

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Bluefield State University

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

2010 - 2014

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science completed from October 2010 to February 2014, focused on foundational computer science principles and software development.