Mehroz Shah
@mehrozshah
Accomplished Senior Site Reliability Engineer with cloud expertise.
What I'm looking for
I am a seasoned Senior Site Reliability Engineer with over 12 years of experience in architecting and automating cloud-native infrastructures across AWS, Azure, and GCP. My expertise lies in designing scalable CI/CD pipelines, implementing infrastructure as code, and optimizing Kubernetes environments. I have a proven ability to drive DevSecOps practices and GitOps workflows, ensuring resilient systems through performance monitoring strategies.
Throughout my career, I have successfully collaborated with cross-functional teams to streamline deployments, resolve incidents, and modernize legacy platforms. My role at Kong Inc. involved ensuring system performance and reliability through proactive monitoring and rapid incident resolution. I led chaos engineering experiments to validate system robustness and initiated cloud migration strategies that boosted platform scalability by 30%.
Recognized for my contributions, I received the Best DevOps Engineer Award at Kong Inc. in 2022 for achieving a 40% improvement in deployment efficiency. I am passionate about leveraging my skills in backend development with Go, Python, and Java to drive innovation and efficiency in cloud environments.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Kong Inc
Mar 2020 - Present (5 years 4 months)
Ensured system performance and reliability through proactive monitoring and rapid incident resolution. Systematized scaling and self-healing mechanisms for Kubernetes environments using custom operators and native Kubernetes solutions. Led chaos engineering experiments to validate system robustness under failure conditions, creating automated alerts with Prometheus and Alertmanager.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Clover Health
Feb 2016 - Feb 2020 (4 years)
Orchestrated scalable CI/CD workflows utilizing GitLab CI, Jenkins, and ArgoCD to manage deployments across multiple regions. Standardized infrastructure provisioning using Terraform for AWS, Azure, and GCP environments, ensuring uniformity across cloud environments. Integrated DevSecOps tools to systematize vulnerability assessments and policy enforcement using Vault, Trivy, and OPA.
DevOps Platform Engineer
Fivetran
Jan 2013 - Jan 2016 (3 years)
Managed and scaled Kubernetes clusters across AWS and Azure, utilizing Helm charts and applying GitOps workflow with FluxCD and ArgoCD. Mechanized IaC pipelines using Terraform and Pulumi, supporting remote backends and ensuring environment isolation and drift detection. Enforced security policies with OPA, Kyverno, and Azure Policy, enhancing system compliance and securing infrastructure.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Unknown
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science
Completed a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, focusing on foundational principles and advanced topics within the field. Gained comprehensive knowledge and practical skills relevant to modern computing environments.
Udemy
Course Completion, Cloud Security Fundamentals
Achieved an online course covering cloud security best practices and tools for AWS, Azure, and GCP. Gained expertise in securing cloud environments and implementing robust security measures.
Pluralsight
Course Completion, Advanced Kubernetes
Completed a course on advanced Kubernetes deployment and management techniques. Developed in-depth knowledge of Kubernetes orchestration, scaling, and operational best practices.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Fivetran
Splunk
GitHub
GitLab
Bitbucket
Kubernetes
Clair
kube-bench
Cloudflare
Akamai
Jenkins
CircleCI
Gmail
Rollbar
Raygun
Okta
Terraform
Pulumi
Jira
Gradle
JavaScript
Perl
PowerShell
HAProxy
Traefik
Logstash
Fluentd
Istio
PagerDuty
VictorOps
Grafana
Kibana
Prometheus
OpenTelemetry
Zabbix
Nagios
Datadog
AppDynamics
Falco
Trello
Elasticsearch
Ansible
pytest
JUnit
TestNG
OpenVPN
VirtualBox
NGINX
Airflow
TestFlight
Rundeck
OpsGenie
Snyk
Podman
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Location
Authorized to work in
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