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~ tail -f experience.log
#Experience
Career timeline – cloud, identity, platform & systems operations.
Jun 2026 – Present Senior SRE / DevOps / Platform Engineer
Landchecker · Founding infrastructure hire
- First dedicated infrastructure hire – establishing Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and platform-engineering practices from the ground up with a free hand.
- Building modular Terraform on AWS (IAM Identity Center, OIDC, SSO) with Google Workspace as the identity provider.
- Standing up Terraform CI/CD on Bitbucket Pipelines using OIDC-based authentication – no long-lived cloud credentials.
- Designing a just-in-time privileged access architecture with least-privilege guardrails (SCPs, RBAC) for ISO 27001 audit readiness.
- Evaluating Atlantis / Terragrunt / GitHub Actions to settle the team's IaC delivery workflow.
TerraformAWS Bitbucket PipelinesOIDC Google WorkspaceISO 27001
Jan 2025 – May 2026 Cloud & DevOps Engineer
Eightcap
Melbourne, VIC · fintech
- Architected modular Terraform infrastructure adopted across projects, cutting provisioning time by ~30%.
- Designed and implemented the organisation's Microsoft Entra ID platform entirely through Terraform, moving identity change into peer-reviewed Infrastructure as Code.
- Built self-service identity provisioning and JML lifecycle workflows, reducing access turnaround from days to minutes while enforcing least privilege.
- Applied Conditional Access, MFA, risky sign-in response and privileged access controls through code, integrated with Sentinel and endpoint workflows.
- Migrated CI/CD pipelines to GitHub Actions with OIDC, automated testing, security scanning and controlled Terraform delivery.
- Led DevSecOps initiatives, integrating Wiz scanning into CI/CD aligned with SOC2 / ISO 27001 readiness.
- Automated health checks across 50+ RHEL servers in a high-availability trading environment, removing ~75% of manual overhead.
TerraformEntra ID GitHub ActionsWiz SentinelDynatrace
Aug 2023 – Mar 2024 Systems Operations Analyst II / ICT Specialist
Department of Education
Melbourne, VIC
- Led Linux and Windows server troubleshooting, sustaining 99.9% uptime for enterprise systems.
- Automated infrastructure maintenance with Bash and PowerShell, cutting manual tasks by ~20%.
- Implemented security protocols and backups aligned with compliance standards.
- Contributed to CI/CD pipeline enhancements and streamlined deployments for cross-functional teams.
Jan 2018 – Apr 2021 System Administrator
Secure Parking · client: Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Parkville, VIC
- Managed Windows Server environments supporting high-transaction data reporting for a healthcare client.
- Automated access management workflows, cutting response times by ~25%.
- Resolved escalated issues, improving system reliability and client satisfaction.
2021 ICT Technician
Hays
Melbourne, VIC
- Deployed 500+ workstations for large-scale environments (e.g. AHPRA).
- Managed IT assets and streamlined audit processes.
2016 – 2017 Technical Support Associate
CMS IT Services Pvt. Ltd.
Hyderabad, India
- Provided technical support for retail and banking clients, maintaining operational continuity.
## education
- Master of Information Technology – Computer Networking / Network Security · Charles Sturt University, Melbourne (2017–2019)
- ICT Professional Year Program · Monash University, Melbourne (2020)
- B.Tech, Electronics & Communications Engineering · JNTUH College of Engineering, Hyderabad (2012–2016)
## certifications
- Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate · 2023
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner · 2022
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals · 2021
## skills
- cloud
- AWS, Azure, GCP, Google Workspace (IdP)
- iac
- Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation
- identity
- Entra ID, OAuth/OIDC, Conditional Access, RBAC, JIT/JML
- ci/cd
- Bitbucket Pipelines, GitHub Actions, Buildkite
- containers
- Docker, K3s, Synology Container Manager
- observability
- Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Dynatrace
- security
- Wiz, Sentinel, Defender, SOC2 / ISO 27001
- scripting
- Python, Bash, PowerShell, YAML, SQL