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Gaurav M - Senior DevOps Engineer

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Location: Richmond, Virginia, USA

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Visa: GREEN CARD

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Senior DevOps Engineer with 11+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, containerization, and system monitoring. Proven ability to drive DevOps adoption, enhance security, and support global, high-availability environments. Strong focus on automation, cross-team collaboration, and aligning engineering practices with business goals. Accomplished Infrastructure and Cloud Engineer with a decade of experience architecting scalable, secure, and high-availability systems across enterprise-grade cloud and hybrid environments. Expertise in delivering production-grade solutions on AWS, Azure, and GCP, with deep knowledge of cloud architecture patterns, cost optimization, and operational excellence. Designed and optimized complex CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and ArgoCD, enabling faster, more reliable software delivery. Championed end-to-end DevOps transformations, driving process automation, organizational alignment, and a shift-left culture across globally distributed teams. Led enterprise-wide infrastructure automation initiatives using Terraform, Pulumi, and CloudFormation, significantly reducing provisioning time and manual errors. Scaled Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption and embedded GitOps workflows to ensure consistency, auditability, and seamless rollback of infrastructure changes. Spearheaded DevSecOps practices by integrating security scanning, OWASP compliance, container hardening, and SAST/DAST tools into development pipelines. Hands-on experience managing secrets and identity policies using HashiCorp Vault, AWS IAM, KMS, Snyk, and SonarQube to meet strict security and compliance needs. Implemented end-to-end observability stacks using ELK/EFK, Datadog, Splunk, and OpenTelemetry to ensure real-time monitoring, log correlation, and alert intelligence. Built robust, low-latency monitoring infrastructure using Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and PagerDuty, enabling rapid incident response and proactive remediation. Designed secure, scalable network topologies leveraging VPCs, Transit Gateway, Load Balancers, Route 53, VPN, and Security Groups across multi-account environments. Integrated modern networking solutions including Service Meshes like Istio, Linkerd, and Cilium, ensuring microservice observability, zero-trust security, and traffic control. Proficient in developing platform-level automation and self-service tooling using Python, Go, Bash, and event-driven architectures with Lambda, Step Functions, and Kubernetes Operators. Built reusable tooling libraries, RESTful interfaces, and automation hooks to streamline developer productivity and reduce MTTR across infrastructure services. Extensive experience with cloud-native and traditional databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, and DynamoDB, ensuring high availability and performance tuning. Architected backup, replication, and failover strategies across distributed data platforms using RDS, Aurora, and managed NoSQL services to support critical workloads. Trusted cross-functional partner collaborating with software engineering, SRE, QA, and InfoSec teams to align DevOps strategy with product roadmap and operational needs. Proven track record of supporting mission-critical systems with full 24/7 SRE on-call rotations, leveraging incident management tools, blameless postmortems, and SLAs/SLOs frameworks. Deep alignment with Agile, Scrum, and SDLC best practices, actively contributing to release planning, sprint execution, and continuous delivery feedback loops. Committed to engineering excellence through automation-first thinking, mentoring junior engineers, sharing domain expertise, and continuously integrating industry best practices into DevOps strategy. Keywords: continuous integration continuous deployment quality analyst golang