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Zachary Hall

@zacharyhall

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Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer driving reliable, automated cloud platforms.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior platform or cloud engineering roles where I can lead automation, IaC, and CI/CD efforts, collaborate with security and dev teams, and deliver reliable, cost‑efficient cloud platforms with strong observability.

I am a Senior Cloud, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineer with 14+ years of experience building scalable, automated cloud platforms across Azure, AWS, and GCP. I design and implement end-to-end CI/CD, IaC, and container orchestration solutions, and embed security and governance directly into deployment workflows.

I have led platform architecture and migrations, standardized infrastructure using Terraform and ARM/Bicep, and operationalized containerized workloads on AKS, EKS, and GKE. My work has reduced deployment time, improved reliability, and cut cloud costs through optimization and automation.

I bring hands-on expertise in monitoring and observability, data and analytics platforms, and tooling integration (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, TeamCity, Octopus). I collaborate with engineering and security teams to produce maintainable platform documentation, governance controls, and repeatable infrastructure patterns.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior DevOps Engineer

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Equity Engineering Group

Jul 2024 - Present (1 year 7 months)

Designed and owned an Azure-centric cloud platform with hub-and-spoke networking and modular IaC, automating provisioning with Terraform to improve deployment speed and support migration from GCP to Azure.

Azure Terraform AKS IaC CI CD Platform Architecture

Senior SRE / DevOps Engineer

Shift Lab

Jul 2023 - Jun 2024 (11 months)

Owned production release planning and CI/CD operations, built and maintained Jenkins pipelines and Docker-based deployments, and implemented monitoring and ETL solutions to ensure reliability across environments.

Jenkins Docker CI CD Nagios Azure Data Factory Databricks Release Management

DevOps / Cloud Engineer

HazelOps

Mar 2022 - Jun 2023 (1 year 3 months)

Supported multi-cloud automation and reliability, automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and Ansible reducing deployment time by 30%, and built a real-time analytics platform using Confluent Kafka.

Terraform Ansible AWS Azure GCP Apache Kafka TeamCity Octopus Deploy

Cloud Architect / Engineer

Sema Technologies, Inc.

Jun 2019 - Feb 2022 (2 years 8 months)

Architected multi-regional AWS container platforms and migrated .NET apps to Azure App Services, reducing monthly cloud costs by 65% and achieving 99% uptime for critical services.

AWS Azure ECS Fargate Azure Services Cost Optimization CI CD Disaster Recovery

System Administrator

SimplyWise, Inc.

Oct 2015 - May 2019 (3 years 7 months)

Led on-prem to cloud migrations, administered Windows and Linux servers, directed a team of eight network engineers, and automated maintenance to achieve 99% uptime across infrastructure.

Windows Server Linux AWS EC2 Scripting Network Administration Monitoring

ICT Support Analyst

SofaBet Co

Jun 2012 - Sep 2015 (3 years 3 months)

Provided Tier 1/2 IT support, managed OS imaging and deployments, and handled incident management and escalations following ITIL practices to improve end-user productivity.