Samuel James
@samueljames3
Senior DevOps/SRE engineer specializing in Azure cloud, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD for regulated systems.
CanadaWhat I'm looking for
I am a Senior DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer with 7+ years designing and operating scalable, secure platforms on Microsoft Azure. I build Terraform-driven infrastructure, run Kubernetes (AKS) platforms with Helm and Docker, and implement resilient CI/CD pipelines to reduce release risk and improve reliability.
My work spans payments, retail modernization, and telecom platforms where I've automated environment provisioning, centralized secrets and observability, and enabled event-driven architectures to improve responsiveness and durability. I collaborate closely with application, security, and compliance teams to maintain audit readiness and operational stability.
I measure and improve reliability through SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, root cause analysis, and blameless postmortems, and I drive measurable improvements such as reduced MTTD/MTTR, fewer release failures, and faster environment build times.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Designed and operated multi-subscription Azure platforms for large-scale payment workloads, reducing environment build time from days to under an hour and cutting release-related failures ~30% via CI/CD improvements.
Led retail cloud modernization on Azure, standardizing AKS and Terraform provisioning to reduce container deployment failures and cut mean time to detect by ~35% during peak traffic.
Automated infrastructure and CI/CD for high-availability telecom platforms using Terraform, Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes, reducing time to detect production issues by ~25%.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
JNTU Institute of Technology and Science
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
Completed a Bachelor in Computer Science, focusing on foundational computing concepts and software development practices.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Splunk
Microsoft Azure
GitHub
GitLab
Bitbucket
SonarQube
Kubernetes
Azure Kubernetes Service
Jenkins
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
DB
Gmail
Terraform
Azure DevOps
Jira
Gradle
JFrog Artifactory
Java
PowerShell
Kafka
Azure Service Bus
PagerDuty
Grafana
Prometheus
OpenTelemetry
Azure Monitor
Ubuntu
CentOS
Linux
Windows
Azure Active Directory
jFrog
OpenSearch
Ansible
Azure Functions
Fluent Bit
Root Cause
SQL
Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Blob Storage
Trivy
ArgoCD
Dynatrace
Evidence
Cosmos
Bash
Aqua Security
Checkov
Conftest
Durable
Blameless
Availability
Location
CanadaAuthorized to work in
Job categories
Skills
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