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Expert in AWS/GCP, Terraform, and DevSecOps. With track record of scaling engineering culture, optimizing cloud spend, and automating complex delivery pipelines.\u003Cbr>Actively seek out emerging technologies and integrate them into the work as they mature. with a strong focus on security, scalability, and cost optimisation when implementing new tools and platforms. |\n| Skills\u003Cbr>o Cloud Computing-AWS, GCP\u003Cbr>o Kubernetes (CKA and CKS certified) -Docker\u003Cbr>• HELM\u003Cbr>• Kustomize\u003Cbr>• GitOps: FluxCD-ArgoCD\u003Cbr>• IaC: Terraform, Crossplane\u003Cbr>• Security tools: Stackrox, Falco, OPA Gatekeeper\u003Cbr>• Artifact Registries: Harbor-Nexus-ECR – Jfrog\u003Cbr>• CNI: Calico – AWS vpc-cni\u003Cbr>• Service Mesh-Istio\u003Cbr>o Git and CI/CD : Gitlab-Github, Bitbucket, Jenkins\u003Cbr>o Secrets Management: Hashicorp Vault–AWS secret manager with SOPS/Kubeseal\u003Cbr>o Logging Tools: ELK (Elasticsearch/Opensearch – Logstash – Kibana)–FluentBit/Fluentd – Loki -Alloy\u003Cbr>o Monitoring Tools: Prometheus/Grafana – Datadog-Sentry\u003Cbr>o Coding/Scripting: Python – Bash-JavaScript-Solidity\u003Cbr>o CDN: Cloudflare, CloudFront\u003Cbr>o OS: Linux (Centos/Ubuntu)–Windows\u003Cbr>o Web Servers: Nginx-Apache\u003Cbr>o Databases: MySQL-AWS RDS/DynamoDB-MongoDB-Redis PostgreSQL |\n\nWork Experience  \nLead DevOps  \nSimplifyVMS | Remote, UK | March 2025-present  \n➢ Orchestrated the construction of a new project on AWS, automating infrastructure and networking with Terraform, resulting in 30% faster deployment speeds.  \n➢ Provisioned and managed EKS clusters across 5 environments and multiple regions, configuring essential tooling to enhance developer productivity and streamline operations.  \n➢ Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines for Bitbucket repositories using ArgoCD and Argo Image Updater, achieving continuous deployment and 90% reduction in deployment errors.  \n➢ Leading the DevOps team and a product development team, introducing modern tools and best practices, offering guidance and mentorship, and fostering an engaging and collaborative work environment for all team members.  \nSenior SRE  \nTicketmaster | London, UK | May 2024 – Jan 2025  \n➢ Operated 30+ Kubernetes clusters, ensuring high availability and performance.  \n➢ Executed innovative Canary deployment strategies with Argo Rollouts, resulting in a 15% decrease in rollback incidents during releases; ensured consistent performance monitoring that boosted team confidence in deployment practices.  \n➢ Created a centralized CI template for 300+ GitLab repositories, streamlining development workflows.  \n➢ Built multi-architecture base images using Kaniko to support diverse deployment environments.  \nThis help 5% in cost efficiency enabling the use of AWS Graviton nodes.  \nSenior Platform Engineer  \nUnderwriteme (UME) | London, UK | Mar 2023 – Mar 2024  \n➢ Led cost optimization for product teams, reviewing AWS billing and cutting costly services, saving £2K monthly costs.  \n➢ Extensive experience with Terraform, including optimizing complex multi-layered module architectures with deeply chained module dependencies (up to 5 levels) .  \n➢ Constructed resilient ECS infrastructure, enabling support for over 15 concurrent Jenkins instancesand drastically cutting deployment cycle times  \n➢ Migrated FluxCD from V1 to V2, improving GitOps workflows.  \n➢ Established shared-platform EKS clusters with cross-account access to databases and SSM parameters. improving infrastructure utilization and contributing to an overall 7% cost","cbCaif384E7x03wd","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaif384E7x03wd","pdf",412866,"English","# Professional Summary\n## Skills\n## Work Experience\n## Education","[{\"question\":\"What certifications and core platforms does Ali Zandieh mention?\",\"answer\":\"Ali Zandieh states CKA/CKS certifications and experience across AWS and GCP. 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