Design, implement, and operate secure, scalable Linux infrastructure across on-prem and AWS with primary focus on Kubernetes/EKS. Build and automate IaC (Terraform/Ansible/CloudFormation), CI/CD pipelines (GitLab), monitoring/alerting, cluster upgrades, autoscaling, security hardening, multi-tenant isolation, and disaster recovery. Support container builds, GitLab Runners, RDS databases, compliance (SOX/SOC2), incident response, and on-call rotations while collaborating with development and QA teams to improve reliability and operational standards.

Lead architecture and implementation of enterprise AWS and Kubernetes (EKS) environments, drive cloud migrations and IaC, build GitOps/CI-CD pipelines (ArgoCD, GitLab CI), implement observability and security/compliance (HIPAA, SOC2, SOX), mentor engineers, lead PoCs, and manage incident response and on-call for critical cloud infrastructure.