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Sam M

@samm1

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Certified DevOps & Cloud Engineer delivering scalable, secure, cost-efficient multi-cloud infrastructures.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek a senior engineering role focused on multi-cloud architecture, automation, DevSecOps integration, high availability, and cost optimization within collaborative teams.

I am a Certified DevOps Engineer and AWS Solutions Architect with 12+ years designing scalable, multi-cloud infrastructures and automating CI/CD pipelines to drive operational excellence.

I specialize in Infrastructure as Code, cloud migrations, and embedding security into the delivery lifecycle, having led migrations of 50+ client infrastructures and implemented DevSecOps practices across teams.

My work has improved reliability and cost efficiency—designing HIPAA-compliant orchestration with 99.999% uptime, reducing deployment times by 30%, and cutting cloud spend by 15% through FinOps collaboration.

I lead cross-functional teams, automate processes with Python/Go/Bash and tools like Terraform, ArgoCD, and Ansible, and prioritize monitoring and disaster recovery to ensure high availability and compliance.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Sr. Cloud Engineer

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LightEdge Solutions

May 2024 - Present (1 year 8 months)

Spearheaded design of HIPAA-compliant orchestration infrastructure achieving 99.999% uptime; built automated CI/CD pipelines reducing deployment times by 30% and cut cloud costs by 15% through autoscaling and FinOps collaboration.

Kubernetes ArgoCD Helm Gitlab CI GitHub Actions Prometheus Grafana AWS WAF CI CD

Sr. Cloud Engineer

Connectria

Jun 2020 - May 2024 (3 years 11 months)

Migrated Java and Node.js applications to Azure AKS and implemented CI/CD pipelines, reducing downtime by 20% while automating tasks with Terraform and scripting to lower manual workload by 25%.

Azure Terraform Azure DevOps Python BASH Docker CI CD Prometheus Grafana Monitoring

Cloud Architect

Flexivan Leasing

Nov 2018 - Jun 2020 (1 year 7 months)

Automated GCP operations and designed CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and CircleCI, increasing operational efficiency by 40% and leading secure migrations with DevSecOps controls for Kubernetes workloads.

GCP Cloud Functions Ansible Jenkins CircleCi Python DevSecOps Kubernetes CI CD Automation

IT Lead

APL LLC

Mar 2016 - Nov 2018 (2 years 8 months)

Led a 10-person team managing 900 servers across AWS, Azure, and GCP; executed migrations to Azure GCC with NIST 800-171 compliance and implemented CI/CD pipelines to enable zero-downtime deployments.