KEY SKILLS

// technologies applied in production

Cloud & AWS Core

  • Compute/Storage: EC2, S3, EBS, EFS
  • Databases: RDS, Aurora (MySQL/Postgres), migration & rightsizing
  • Networking & Edge: VPC, CloudFront, Route53, WAF, Shield
  • IAM: cross-account roles, Pod Identity, least-privilege policy design
  • Caching: ElastiCache (Redis)

Containers & Orchestration

  • Kubernetes: Amazon EKS, workload scheduling, Pod Identity access patterns
  • ECS/Fargate: service & task definition sizing, capacity providers
  • GitOps: ArgoCD, GitLab CI/CD pipelines
  • Docker: image build/optimization for CI pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

  • Terraform: multi-account, multi-environment module design
  • Remote state, cross-module data contracts via SSM Parameter Store
  • Safe state migrations (state mv), blast-radius aware refactors
  • Reusable modules for repeatable environment rollout (dev/test/staging/prod)

Observability

  • Metrics: Amazon Managed Prometheus (AMP), CloudWatch
  • Dashboards/Alerting: Amazon Managed Grafana (AMG), Grafana Alerting
  • Logs: Loki, Grafana Alloy (OpenTelemetry-compatible collector)
  • Uptime/health checks: Route53 Health Checks, CloudWatch Synthetics

FinOps & Cost Optimization

  • Cost Explorer-driven audits: top cost driver analysis, trend tracking
  • EC2/RDS rightsizing based on CPU/memory/IOPS utilization data
  • Idle resource identification (unattached volumes, idle file systems)
  • Structured savings roadmaps with business sign-off workflow

Practices & Tools

  • Cloud migration planning (lift-and-shift & re-architecture)
  • Incident troubleshooting across distributed, multi-account systems
  • Jira / Confluence for delivery tracking and documentation
  • Security-conscious design: least privilege, defense in depth