Enoch .A
Cloud & DevOps Engineer
I design, automate, and operate reliable cloud infrastructure on AWS with Kubernetes, modular Terraform, and declarative GitOps pipelines.
GitOps Portfolio Pipeline & OpenTelemetry DevOps Platform
End-to-end declarative GitOps delivery pipeline running containerized microservices on AWS EKS with Terraform state automation and CircleCI validation.
VPC, multi-AZ subnets, security groups & EKS control plane
Managed node groups, autoscaling, RBAC, CoreDNS & ALB Ingress
Unit test execution, security linting & build trigger on commit
Multi-stage container packaging with immutable SHA digest tag
Continuous sync from Git manifest repo directly into EKS pods
The Engineering Challenge
Distributed microservice systems frequently suffer from configuration drift and distributed telemetry blind spots. The engineering objective was to design and stand up a production-ready Kubernetes platform where cluster state is strictly declared in Git, application delivery is autonomous, and distributed traces correlate directly with live system metrics.
Architectural Solution
Engineered a zero-touch GitOps delivery workflow: modular Terraform codifies VPC networking and AWS EKS clusters; CircleCI builds and scans Docker images; and Argo CD reconciles declarative manifests from Git into production automatically with zero drift.
Production Outcomes & Architectural Decisions
Systems Discipline, Cloud Leadership & Engineering Foundation
My engineering foundation began in technical support and systems administration, debugging kernel logs, resolving low-level TCP/IP network bottlenecks, and resolving customer escalations in high-pressure production environments. That formative experience instilled a lasting intolerance for configuration drift, flaky deployments, and unexplained outages.
As a Cloud Team Lead at Crowdbotics, I directed the engineering team responsible for provisioning, securing, and operating multi-tenant cloud environments across AWS and GCP for hundreds of client applications. By codifying infrastructure into modular Terraform modules and enforcing automated deployment guardrails, we cut customer onboarding spin-up times by over 70% and made production releases repeatable.
With an academic foundation in Computer Science, I treat infrastructure as a software problem: declarative specifications, continuous verification, GitOps reconciliation, and telemetry-driven incident response.
MS in Information Systems
Advanced distributed systems architecture, enterprise software engineering, database design, and empirical information systems evaluation.
BSc in Computer Science and Information Technology
Core foundations of computer systems, data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking protocols, and systems programming.
- Zero manual console tweaks; everything codified in Git.
- Strict network segmentation (private subnets, zero direct exposure).
- Continuous reconciliation (ArgoCD) over imperative scripts.
Core Infrastructure & Tooling Stack
Production-tested technologies across AWS cloud architecture, container orchestration, GitOps automation, and zero-trust networking.
Cloud Platforms
Core architectural services, multi-cloud design, and secure networking
Infrastructure & Platforms
Declarative infrastructure as code and Kubernetes platform management
Delivery & Automation
Automated validation, packaging, and GitOps synchronization
Observability
Telemetry ingestion, distributed tracing, metrics visualization, and alerting
Networking & Security
Network topology, routing, and zero-trust perimeter controls
AI & Applied Automation
Practical agentic workflows and automated operational scripts
Professional Experience & Engineering Track Record
Proven delivery in leading multi-tenant cloud environments, automating Kubernetes workloads, and authoring upstream open-source reliability tools.
Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer
Architecting resilient AWS cloud platforms, GitOps delivery workflows, and automated Kubernetes infrastructure for high-velocity software engineering teams.
- •Designed declarative GitOps deployment pipelines using Argo CD and CircleCI, cutting release turnaround times from hours to minutes.
- •Refactored multi-account AWS infrastructure into modular, version-pinned Terraform modules with automated validation and remote state locking.
- •Standardized production Kubernetes clusters with automated ingress routing, network isolation policies, and health monitoring.
- •Mentored engineering teams on cloud security best practices, infrastructure drift prevention, and container optimization.
Cloud Team Lead
Led the cloud infrastructure team responsible for provisioning, maintaining, and scaling multi-tenant customer cloud environments across AWS and GCP.
- •Directed a high-performing cloud engineering team managing hundreds of diverse customer cloud environments with high uptime guarantees.
- •Codified repeatable multi-tenant infrastructure templates using Terraform, reducing customer environment spin-up time by over 70%.
- •Architected secure VPC networking topologies, automated TLS termination, and ingress controllers across multi-account AWS organizations.
- •Established infrastructure incident response protocols and operational runbooks, reducing Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) for customer outages.
Infrastructure & Systems Engineer
Built deep foundational systems engineering and network troubleshooting expertise diagnosing production customer escalations.
- •Diagnosed and resolved complex Linux operating system, TCP/IP networking, and application runtime issues in high-pressure customer environments.
- •Authored Bash and Python automation scripts to eliminate repetitive manual system administrative toil.
- •Collaborated closely with software developers to triage production bugs, identify network bottlenecks, and patch critical vulnerabilities.
Open Source Contributor
Active upstream open-source contributor to OpenSRE, focusing on reliability verification, automated telemetry, and Kubernetes operational hooks.
- •Authored and merged 13 upstream pull requests enhancing reliability test suites, Prometheus metrics, and distributed tracing.
- •Contributed documentation and automated validation scripts for production Site Reliability Engineering practices.
Industry Certifications
Directly verifiable credentials from official certification authorities.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
OpenSRE Core Contributor
Infrastructure Writing & Architecture Guides
Real-world tutorials, postmortems, and technical explorations covering Kubernetes, declarative GitOps pipelines, and cloud networking.
Declarative GitOps on Kubernetes: Scaling ArgoCD and Terraform
A blueprint for structuring infrastructure repositories and application manifests to achieve immutable, self-healing deployments.
End-to-End Distributed Tracing in Microservices using OpenTelemetry
Practical guide on context propagation, OpenTelemetry Collector topologies, and correlating traces with Grafana dashboards.
Deploying Containerized Applications on Minikube and AWS EKS
From local container testing to production Kubernetes clusters on AWS: managing manifests, ingress controllers, and secret management.