Responsibilities:

• Part of the Private Cloud Engineering team within the Enterprise Infrastructure Group, responsible for planning, designing, implementing, and operating virtualized and containerized telco cloud systems.
• Led development and implementation of Red Hat OpenShift-based platforms supporting enterprise and VNF/CNF workloads across multiple distributed data centers, including edge locations.
• Developed Ansible automation for bare-metal OpenShift cluster deployment, including node provisioning, day-0/day-1 configuration, operator installation, and cluster and platform upgrades.
• Delivered KubeVirt-based virtualization, running KVM virtual machines natively on Kubernetes alongside containerized workloads for mixed legacy and cloud-native use cases.
• Led certification and validation initiatives for packet acceleration, Kubernetes CNI, load balancing, and service exposure using BGP, MetalLB, Multus, SR-IOV, Ingress and service mesh solutions.
• Designed and implemented GitOps workflows using ArgoCD, enabling declarative management of OpenShift clusters, operators, and application workloads across development, staging, and production environments.
• Built and integrated GitLab CI pipelines to automate Kubernetes workflows, covering image builds, configuration validation, security checks, and manifest promotion.
• Implemented full-stack monitoring and observability across Kubernetes, compute, network, storage, and virtualization layers to support troubleshooting, capacity planning, and reliability objectives.
• Supported Kubernetes application onboarding and operations, including deployment standards, operator lifecycle management, performance tuning, and resolution of cluster and application-level issues.
• Contributed to strategic architecture and roadmap development, while providing tiered platform support across multiple organizations.

Responsibilities:

• Developed data center network architectures and application delivery solutions at Charter, including lab configuration, testing, and design of high-performance, multi-tenant networks with a focus on scalability, resiliency, and automation.
• Defined and implemented network certification frameworks to validate hardware, firmware, and software interoperability across spine-leaf, overlay, and underlay domains.
• Worked on development of containers as a service platform to deploy scalable Kubernetes clusters on vSphere and AWS.
• Integrated test and build pipelines for full-stack deployment, covering infrastructure, Kubernetes, and application charts.
• Evaluated, tested, and optimized NFV components, including NFVI, VIM, and NFVO, for edge and data center use cases.
• Certified use of packet acceleration technologies and SmartNICs for OpenStack and NFV clouds.
• Developed Ansible playbooks to automate provisioning and management of Red Hat OpenStack clouds.
• Installed, configured, administered, and troubleshot OpenStack and Ceph for production environments.
• Developed test cases and performed certification testing of data center switching platforms.
• Redesigned, built, and managed a large-scale lab environment with 100+ racks of network, compute, storage, virtualization, and shared services.