Marcus J. Delgado

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Senior DevOps Engineer with 9 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure on AWS and GCP for SaaS and fintech platforms. Specializes in CI/CD pipeline architecture, Kubernetes orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code at scale. Reduced mean deployment time by 74% and cut cloud infrastructure spend by $1.2M annually across two consecutive roles.

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Senior DevOps EngineerMar 2021 - Present

Meridian Financial Technologies, Austin, TX

Architected a multi-region Kubernetes platform on AWS EKS serving 4.2M active users, achieving 99.98% uptime over 18 consecutive months.
Re-engineered CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and ArgoCD, cutting average deployment cycle from 47 minutes to 12 minutes and reducing rollback incidents by 61%.
Led a FinOps initiative using AWS Cost Explorer and Spot Instances that eliminated $820K in annual cloud waste without degrading SLA commitments.

DevOps EngineerJun 2018 - Feb 2021

Cloudpath Systems, Denver, CO

Built Terraform-managed infrastructure across three AWS accounts, standardizing 140+ microservices deployments and reducing environment drift incidents by 88%.
Implemented centralized observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty) that cut mean time to detection from 34 minutes to under 6 minutes for P1 incidents.
Mentored a team of 4 junior engineers on IaC best practices, resulting in a 40% reduction in peer-review cycles and zero critical misconfigurations in production over 12 months.

Systems & Automation EngineerAug 2015 - May 2018

NovaBridge Corp, Dallas, TX

Migrated 60+ on-premises workloads to AWS EC2 and RDS, reducing hardware refresh costs by $380K and shrinking provisioning time from 2 weeks to under 4 hours.
Developed Ansible playbooks that automated OS patching for 300 servers, achieving 100% compliance within patch windows and eliminating 120 hours of monthly manual effort.
Designed a blue-green deployment strategy for a legacy Java monolith that reduced customer-facing downtime from 4 hours per release to under 8 minutes.

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AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS, IAM, Cost Explorer) · Kubernetes & Helm · Terraform & Ansible · GitHub Actions & ArgoCD · Docker & container security · Prometheus, Grafana & PagerDuty · Python & Bash scripting · AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional · Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer

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