Mike Brown

DevOps Team Lead with 8+ years of hands-on experience building and managing reliable cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, and CI/CD environments. I enjoy solving complex infrastructure challenges, automating repetitive work, and helping teams deliver software faster and more reliably. Experienced across AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, GitOps, and DevSecOps, with a strong focus on security, scalability, automation, and operational excellence.

I also bring experience leading DevOps teams and working closely with engineering, security, and product teams to build practical and reliable solutions.

DEVOPS TEAM LEAD at BUILT TECHNOLOGIES (2023-05 – Present)

• Lead and mentor a team of 6 DevOps Engineers while remaining hands-on with cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, automation, and platform engineering initiatives supporting enterprise and government clients.
• Architect and operate production Kubernetes platforms across Amazon EKS and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), supporting 40+ microservices across multiple environments with emphasis on scalability, reliability, security, and operational consistency.
• Design reusable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules and deployment patterns using Terraform, Azure Bicep, and AWS CloudFormation, reducing infrastructure provisioning time by 65%.
• Engineer CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and GitLab CI, incorporating automated build, testing, security, and deployment workflows that increased deployment frequency by 3x.
• Established GitOps delivery practices using Argo CD, Helm, and Kubernetes, strengthening release consistency, accelerating application delivery, and minimizing configuration drift across environments.
• Standardize containerized application delivery with Docker and Kubernetes, applying resource requests and limits, autoscaling, RBAC, deployment strategies, and environment-specific configuration.
• Develop Python and Bash automation for infrastructure provisioning, deployment workflows, validation, operational remediation, and recurring platform activities, reducing manual operational effort.
• Integrated DevSecOps controls into delivery pipelines, including SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, secrets management, and policy enforcement, contributing to a 45% reduction in critical production vulnerabilities.
• Established centralized observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK Stack, and OpenTelemetry, cutting incident detection time by 50% and increasing platform visibility.
• Created internal platform automation and developer self-service capabilities through reusable deployment and infrastructure patterns, improving engineering productivity and delivery consistency.
• Optimized AWS and Azure environments through autoscaling, resource-right-sizing, and spot-instance strategies, reducing annual cloud operating costs by 28%.
• Enforced security and compliance controls aligned with FedRAMP, NIST SP 800-171, and CMMC requirements across cloud and Kubernetes environments.
• Partner with security, application, platform, and product engineering teams to strengthen cloud architecture standards, platform reliability, deployment velocity, and operational maturity.

SENIOR DEVOPS ENGINEER at AIRBYTE (2020-03 – 2023-04)

• Managed production of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) environments supporting 100+ containerized workloads across development, staging, and production.
• Automated cloud infrastructure provisioning and configuration through Terraform and Ansible, reducing manual infrastructure management effort by 70%.
• Engineered CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, CircleCI, and Bitbucket Pipelines, reducing build and deployment times by 40%.
• Established GitOps deployment workflows to standardize application releases, strengthen deployment reliability, and minimize configuration drift across environments.
• Containerized and deployed microservices with Docker and Kubernetes, enabling scalable and consistent application delivery across multiple environments.
• Optimized Kubernetes resource allocation, workload configuration, and autoscaling strategies, improving overall cluster efficiency by 30%.
• Developed centralized observability capabilities with Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack, increasing system visibility and reducing troubleshooting time by 35%.
• Integrated HashiCorp Vault for centralized secrets management across distributed services and Kubernetes workloads, strengthening security and limiting exposure to sensitive configuration.
• Supported high-volume data ingestion platforms processing terabytes of data daily, with a focus on infrastructure scalability, availability, and operational reliability.
• Created automation scripts and infrastructure workflows that eliminated repetitive operational tasks, improved platform consistency, and streamlined day-to-day engineering activities.
• Collaborated with software engineering teams to refine deployment processes, strengthen production reliability, and establish scalable cloud infrastructure standards.

DEVOPS / INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER at EMPIRICAL LLC (2018-04 – 2020-02)

• Supported DevOps and infrastructure automation initiatives for mission-critical government client environments, delivering secure and reliable solutions within regulated IT environments.
• Automated infrastructure provisioning and server configuration using Terraform and Ansible, reducing manual configuration effort by 50% and improving deployment consistency across client environments.
• Administered Linux and Windows Server environments across VMware-based virtualized infrastructure, supporting enterprise systems and daily infrastructure operations.
• Established centralized monitoring and logging through Nagios and ELK Stack, strengthening operational visibility and supporting 99.9% system availability for critical client workloads.
• Assisted security and infrastructure teams with vulnerability remediation, patch management, and configuration hardening across 200+ servers in regulated environments.
• Applied IAM and RBAC controls to enforce role-based access and secure privileged operations across development and production environments.
• Contributed to Jenkins-based CI/CD automation and Git workflows, strengthening deployment consistency, release reliability, and infrastructure change management.
• Participated in disaster recovery planning, incident response exercises, and operational continuity activities for mission-critical systems and government client environments.
• Worked closely with engineering, security, and client teams to troubleshoot infrastructure issues, streamline operational processes, and maintain compliance with established security and infrastructure standards.

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