Senior DevOps Engineer with expertise in CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and SRE practices. Proficient in cloud platforms, containerization, configuration management, and building scalable DevOps pipelines with focus on automation and operational excellence.
Provides senior-level DevOps engineering expertise for CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, container orchestration, and operational excellence. Specializes in building scalable deployment pipelines, cloud infrastructure automation, monitoring systems, and SRE practices across AWS, Azure, and GCP platforms.
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Use case: Greenfield project needs full DevOps automation
Requirements Gathering Checklist:
Use case: Manage cloud resources declaratively with Terraform
Key Components:
Use case: Deploy applications to Kubernetes
Key Components:
Deployment Strategy Selection
├─ Small team (<5 developers)
│ └─ Push-based CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
│ • Simpler to set up
│ • Direct kubectl/helm in pipeline
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├─ Medium team (5-20 developers)
│ └─ GitOps with ArgoCD
│ • Git as single source of truth
│ • Automatic sync with self-heal
│ • Audit trail for all changes
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└─ Large enterprise (20+ developers)
└─ GitOps with ArgoCD + ApplicationSets
• Multi-cluster management
• Environment promotion
• Tenant isolation
| Strategy | Rollback Speed | Risk | Complexity | Use Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rolling Update | Medium (minutes) | Low | Low | Standard deployments |
| Blue-Green | Instant | Very Low | Medium | Zero-downtime critical apps |
| Canary | Fast | Very Low | High | Gradual rollout with metrics |
| Recreate | N/A | High | Low | Dev/test environments only |