Simon Kuria
@simonkuria1
Senior DevOps engineer building scalable cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
What I'm looking for
I am a DevOps Engineer with over 7 years of experience building and optimizing scalable cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. I focus on delivering secure, reliable, and efficient solutions that streamline development workflows and improve system performance.
I design and implement cloud infrastructure using AWS and Azure, ensuring high availability and cost efficiency. I automate infrastructure provisioning and management with Terraform and Ansible, and I build CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and AWS CodePipeline (plus Azure DevOps Pipelines and GitLab CI/CD).
I also specialize in containerization and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes to improve scalability and resource utilization. I strengthen operations with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, and the ELK stack, while applying security best practices such as IAM, Secrets Manager, GuardDuty, and incident-ready workflows.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Designed and implemented scalable AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS), reducing deployment times and improving system efficiency. Built CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub Actions, orchestrated Docker/Kubernetes deployments, and maintained 99.9% uptime using Prometheus, Grafana, and AWS CloudWatch.
DevOps Engineer
MTN (Mobile Telecommunication Corporation)
Aug 2019 - May 2023 (3 years 9 months)
Designed hybrid cloud architectures integrating AWS and on-prem environments, reducing infrastructure costs by 20%. Managed Kubernetes for 100+ microservices, improved CI/CD by moving releases from weekly to daily with Azure DevOps and GitLab CI/CD, and achieved a 100% recovery success rate in disaster recovery tests.
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Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Splunk
AWS IAM
Google Cloud Platform
GitHub
GitLab
Bitbucket
Kubernetes
Docker Swarm
Azure Kubernetes Service
AWS CodePipeline
Jenkins
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
Gmail
Microsoft Teams
Terraform
Azure DevOps
Jira
JSON
PowerShell
HAProxy
Logstash
PagerDuty
Grafana
Kibana
Prometheus
Nagios
New Relic
Datadog
Trello
Elasticsearch
AWS WAF
Ansible
Azure Functions
NGINX
s3-lambda
Bash
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