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Sonia Karem

@soniakarem

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Senior DevOps Engineer focused on Kubernetes, GitOps, and multi-cloud platform reliability.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to lead Kubernetes and platform engineering work—building GitOps/DevSecOps pipelines, improving SLI/SLO-driven reliability, and creating developer self-service that accelerates delivery while keeping systems secure, observable, and cost optimized.

I’m a Senior DevOps Engineer with more than 9 years of progressive experience architecting, automating, securing, and scaling cloud native infrastructure across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. I’ve built enterprise-grade Kubernetes platforms, multi-cloud Terraform Infrastructure as Code frameworks, and high-velocity CI CD pipelines that reduced deployment cycles by more than 60% while maintaining 99.9% availability.

I’m recognized for GitOps adoption and DevSecOps implementation that enables developer self service and accelerates software delivery across distributed, fast-paced engineering organizations. I partner across software engineering, security, data, and architecture teams to deliver resilient, observable, and cost-optimized systems—backed by Prometheus/Grafana observability, SLI/SLO practices, and strong security and compliance automation.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior DevOps Engineer

Current

FireHydrant

Jul 2024 - Present (1 year 11 months)

Architected and operated enterprise Kubernetes platforms on Amazon EKS and Azure AKS across multi-cloud SaaS and microservices. Built GitOps deployment workflows and reusable Terraform modules, improving deployment consistency and release reliability while reducing incident detection and recovery times.

Kubernetes Amazon EKS Azure GitOps ArgoCD Terraform Helm Prometheus Grafana Datadog

Site Reliability Engineer

Gremlin

Jun 2021 - Jun 2024 (3 years)

Maintained highly available cloud infrastructure supporting SaaS reliability platforms and production services. Implemented observability and incident response automation, and reduced operational toil through Linux automation, deployment standardization, and SRE best practices.

Linux SRE Prometheus Grafana Incident Response Automation (Python BASH Disaster Recovery Capacity Planning

Cloud DevOps Engineer

Huntress

Apr 2019 - May 2021 (2 years 1 month)

Supported cloud modernization across AWS and Azure using Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform Infrastructure as Code practices. Built secure CI/CD automation with testing and security scanning, and established monitoring, logging, and incident response processes with Prometheus and Grafana.

Kubernetes Docker Terraform Ansible CI CD Pipelines Identity and Access Management (IAM)Secrets Management Prometheus Grafana

DevOps Engineer

Monte Carlo

Feb 2017 - Mar 2019 (2 years 1 month)

Automated multi-cloud infrastructure provisioning with Terraform across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Built CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes/Docker deployment automation, implementing GitOps workflows and centralized monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Datadog.