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snowson fernando

@snowsonfernando

CKA-certified DevOps Engineer specializing in Linux, Kubernetes, and IaC-driven cloud infrastructure with operational excellence.

Germany

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What I'm looking for

I want to build and modernize production Linux/Kubernetes platforms with GitOps automation, measurable SLO reliability, and DevSecOps-first security—so deployments are faster, incidents are fewer, and operational excellence is sustained.

I’m a CKA-certified DevOps Engineer with a strong Linux background and 2+ years building and operating production-ready infrastructure. I focus on Operational Excellence and brownfield modernization, combining Linux administration with Ansible/Terraform-based Infrastructure-as-Code, Kubernetes, and CI/CD.

In my Master’s thesis, I built and operated a production-ready Linux/Kubernetes platform with 99.9% uptime and zero-downtime deployments. I automated provisioning and scaling with Terraform and GitOps (ArgoCD), integrated monitoring/alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki) with custom SLO tracking for 70% MTTR reduction, and improved security hardening through RBAC, network policies, and secrets management (HashiCorp Vault) with 95% policy compliance.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Cloud-Native Platform Thesis

FOM University of Applied Sciences

Feb 2025 - Sep 2025 (7 months)

Built and operated a production-ready Linux/Kubernetes platform with 99.9% uptime and zero-downtime deployments. Automated provisioning and scaling with Terraform and ArgoCD GitOps, integrated Prometheus/Grafana/Loki monitoring with 70% MTTR reduction, and improved security hardening to 95% policy compliance.

Linux Administrator Kubernetes Terraform GitOps Prometheus Grafana Loki Security Hardening

Graduate Engineer – Cloud

Jano Engineering Works

Jan 2022 - Jan 2023 (1 year)

Administered and provisioned AWS and Linux infrastructure (EC2, ECS, RDS) using Terraform IaC. Built CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and AWS CodePipeline, improving deployment speed by 25%, and implemented observability that increased system transparency by 30%.

Linux Administrator EC2 AWS ECS RDS Terraform CI CD AWS CodePipeline Observability Cloud Migration Infrastructure as Code Systems Administration Technical Documentation

Programmer Analyst – DevOps

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Nov 2020 - Jun 2021 (7 months)

Maintained and optimized Linux and Kubernetes infrastructures, achieving 99.5% uptime. Developed Python and Bash automation (40% performance improvement) and improved CI/CD and incident response, reducing recurring incidents by 35%.

Linux Kubernetes CI CD Python Incident Response Monitoring Reliability Engineering BASH