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#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
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