Professional Experience

Leading bare-metal Kubernetes infrastructure deployments across enterprise datacenters and architecting geo-redundant GitOps OpenShift clusters with centralized policy and security governance.

• Deploying and managing production Kubernetes clusters on enterprise bare-metal hardware across high-availability datacenters.
• Configuring remote out-of-band management, server telemetry, and automated hardware lifecycle maintenance.
• Collaborating with infrastructure and network operations teams on rack elevation, network topologies, storage provisioning, and cluster bring-up.
• Deploying, hardening, and verifying Kubernetes control planes and worker nodes optimized for high-throughput containerized workloads.
• Architecting geo-redundant GitOps deployments of Red Hat OpenShift using ArgoCD, multi-cluster management, and automated zero-touch provisioning.
• Engineering active/passive cluster topologies across disparate geographic regions with centralized Git repository synchronization for rapid disaster-recovery failover.

Delivered cloud container platform advisory, cluster lifecycle operations, and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for enterprise banking environments.

• Managed OpenShift container platform ecosystems, overseeing cluster installation, version upgrades, security patching, and health diagnostics.
• Administered Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (RHACM) for unified governance and policy compliance across multi-cluster environments.
• Implemented enterprise cluster monitoring and automated alerting pipelines.

Spearheaded OpenShift cluster management and telecommunications cloud infrastructure deployment across OpenStack, bare-metal, and AWS cloud environments.

• Managed Red Hat OpenShift clusters across production and staging environments.
• Deployed enterprise container services (Kubernetes and Podman) on OpenStack, AWS, and bare-metal infrastructure.
• Executed end-to-end deployment of OpenStack cloud platforms, including Ceph storage pools and system health monitoring per architectural designs.
• Automated cloud infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Ansible with custom operational workflows.
• Configured security hardening and performed rigorous acceptance testing procedures for carrier-grade platform stability.
• Integrated cloud platforms with centralized network operations and Grafana observability dashboards.

Conducted acceptance testing, storage configuration checks, and automated monitoring for telecommunications OpenStack cloud, VMware, and containerized network platforms.

• Executed comprehensive acceptance testing for telecommunications OpenStack cloud platforms and application managers per engineering specifications.
• Verified cloud configurations, hardware health, and distributed storage systems (Ceph) with automated log analysis.
• Validated virtualized network functions (VNFs) and containerized network functions (CNFs) on cloud infrastructure.
• Maintained platform inventory, oversaw hardware and software upgrades, and managed automated backup routines.

Provided L1/L2 operational support for cloud infrastructure and enterprise IT environments across Linux and Windows platforms.

• Monitored enterprise cloud applications and services using AWS CloudWatch and Nagios.
• Administered hybrid systems across enterprise Windows Server and Linux environments.
• Investigated alerts, analyzed system logs, and executed primary triage for uptime preservation.

Delivered technical support, routing diagnostics, and solution advisory for cloud and server products.

• Handled technical inquiries, broadband routing configurations, and wireless network security.
• Troubleshot network latency, router configurations, and remote service reliability.