DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of experience building AWS infrastructure at scale, automating deployments with Terraform & Ansible, and shipping code daily via modern CI/CD pipelines.
Strong hands-on background in Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, and cloud security.
I specialize in making systems reliable, secure, observable, and cost-efficient — turning infrastructure into a competitive advantage.
📍 Miami, FL
✅ Authorized to work for any U.S. employer (no visa sponsorship required)
- Design and operate multi-region AWS architectures
- Build Infrastructure as Code with Terraform & Ansible
- Automate deployments using GitHub Actions & ArgoCD
- Implement observability stacks for data-driven incident response
- Harden cloud environments for security & compliance (SOC2)
- Optimize cloud costs without sacrificing reliability
- Architected 12+ enterprise AWS environments across 3 regions with automatic failover and cross-region replication
- Reduced environment provisioning time from 5 days → 4 hours by fully automating infrastructure (50+ components)
- Enabled 50+ deployments per week (vs. 2 manual releases) with automated testing, security scanning, and rollback
- Built observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) for 30+ microservices, cutting MTTR from 2 hours → 8 minutes
- Eliminated 200+ hard-coded secrets, achieving SOC2 compliance using Vault, IAM, and VPC segmentation
- Reduced AWS spend by $120K annually via VPC optimization, RIs, and spot instances
- Resolved critical production network incidents (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, VPN) restoring $6M+ customer connectivity in under 45 minutes
- AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM, ALB/NLB, Auto Scaling, CloudWatch)
- Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Helm
- Multi-region architecture, DR, HA
- Docker, Kubernetes (K8s), OpenShift, Istio
- GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitLab CI
- Canary deployments, rollback strategies, security scanning
- Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Datadog, CloudWatch
- HashiCorp Vault, IAM, VPN, TLS/SSL, SSH
- Network segmentation, encryption, audit logging
- Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL), Bash
- Python, Go (basic), PowerShell, SQL
- TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, VPNs, routing, NAT, load balancing
- AWS architecture & cost optimization
- Infrastructure as Code best practices
- Kubernetes production operations
- CI/CD reliability & deployment strategies
- Incident response & observability
- Cloud security & compliance
- 📧 Email: [email protected]
- 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/abish-zhanatauov
- Advanced Terraform module design
- Kubernetes reliability patterns
- Improving deployment safety with GitOps
- Cost-efficient multi-region AWS architectures
⭐ If you're building large-scale systems and care about reliability, security, and clean infrastructure — let’s connect.