Automation that ships reliably.
AWS • Kubernetes • Terraform

Katy, TX • craigabel4eva@gmail.com • (443) 210‑5693

EKS / Kubernetes Terraform & IaC CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab) Docker & ECS/Fargate Observability

Certifications

AWS Security – Specialty
AWS Solutions Architect – Assoc
AWS SysOps – Assoc
AWS Cloud Practitioner
Azure Security Engineer
Azure Fundamentals
CompTIA SecurityX

About

DevOps Engineer with 9 years' experience building scalable, secure platforms on AWS. I automate infrastructure with Terraform, orchestrate containers with EKS, and deliver through robust CI/CD pipelines. Comfortable across networking, security, and Linux — and obsessed with reducing toil through automation.

Key Skills

AWS: EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, Route53, CloudFront
Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, ECS, Fargate
Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Jenkins, GitLab CI
IAM, KMS, SGs, NACLs, WAF
Monitoring: CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana
Databases: RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, Snowflake
Networking: VPC, TGW, TLS
Linux, Bash, PowerShell, AWS CLI

Projects

CI/CD Modernization

Terraform + Jenkins + EKS deployments; cut release time by ~50% with automated gating.

Secure EKS Migration

Migrated services from EC2 to EKS with autoscaling, IRSA, and encrypted traffic.

Monitoring Automation

CloudWatch alerts + Slack webhooks for real‑time incident response and MTTR reduction.

Education

M.Sc., Cloud Computing Systems — UMGC, 2024
B.Sc., Cooperative & Business Management — OOU, 2009
Diploma in Law — OOU, 2004

Experience

Cloud DevOps Engineer — ClearData

Aug 2021 – Present • Austin, TX
  • Architected and maintained AWS infra for HA and cost efficiency.
  • Built CI/CD pipelines integrating Terraform and Kubernetes.
  • Managed EKS/ECS workloads; containerized services with Docker.
  • Performed security reviews; managed keys with AWS KMS.
  • Improved developer workflows through tooling and automation.

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer — D‑Tech Solutions LLC

Aug 2019 – Aug 2021 • Washington, DC
  • Designed fault‑tolerant VPCs and connectivity patterns.
  • Installed/managed Atlassian & LAMP on EC2; automated rollouts.
  • Ensured compliance with industry standards for cloud workloads.

Data Center Operations Engineer — MTN Telecom

Mar 2015 – Jul 2019 • Lagos, Nigeria
  • Maintained physical/virtual infrastructure; patching & upgrades.
  • Drove DR readiness and incident response improvements.