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ERFAN ALJANABI

Cloud Infrastructure & Kubernetes Engineer | DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer

Building reliable, secure, and scalable cloud-native platforms with automation, infrastructure as code, observability, and Kubernetes at the core.

erf.jan.us@gmail.com Austin, TX +1 512 508 9167 LinkedIn GitHub

Professional Summary

Results-driven Cloud Infrastructure, Kubernetes, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineer with a strong background in Linux systems, enterprise infrastructure, system validation, automation, and cloud-native platforms. Experienced in Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD, GitOps, service mesh, observability, networking, and infrastructure troubleshooting. Proven ability to improve system reliability, automate repetitive operations, strengthen deployment workflows, and collaborate across engineering teams to deliver stable and scalable platforms.

Technical Skills

Cloud Platforms

Google Cloud AWS GKE Cloud Networking

Containers & Orchestration

Kubernetes Docker Helm Istio Kustomize

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform Ansible YAML GitOps

CI/CD & Automation

Jenkins GitHub Actions Argo CD Python Bash

Monitoring & Observability

Prometheus Grafana Kiali Logging Alerting

Operating Systems

Linux RHEL AIX Windows

Testing & Quality

Test Automation System Validation Regression Testing Root Cause Analysis

Networking & Security

TCP/IP DNS Ingress RBAC NetworkPolicy

Professional Experience

DELL
Technologies
QA Lead
Austin, TX
  • Led test planning, execution strategy, automation coverage, and quality reporting for enterprise products.
  • Coordinated functional, integration, regression, performance, scalability, and reliability testing.
  • Supported CI/CD quality gates and worked with development and operations teams to reduce release risk.
  • Mentored engineers and promoted repeatable quality engineering and test automation practices.
AMD
Senior Test Automation Engineer
Austin, TX
  • Designed automation solutions for system-level validation, regression testing, and hardware/software qualification.
  • Created reusable test frameworks and scripts using Python, Bash, Linux, and open-source tooling.
  • Validated server, GPU, operating system, firmware, networking, and platform behavior across complex environments.
  • Improved test repeatability, execution efficiency, failure analysis, and engineering feedback cycles.
IBM
System Engineer
Austin, TX
  • Managed and supported AIX/Linux systems, enterprise infrastructure, storage, networking, and backup operations.
  • Automated system administration, monitoring, reporting, patching, and operational workflows.
  • Performed performance tuning, system hardening, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
  • Provided L3 infrastructure support and collaborated with technical teams to maintain system reliability.

Core Expertise

  • Kubernetes administration and troubleshooting
  • Cloud infrastructure and platform engineering
  • Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
  • CI/CD and GitOps implementation
  • Service mesh with Istio
  • Monitoring, logging, and alerting
  • Linux systems engineering
  • Automation with Python and Bash

Engineering Value

  • Builds repeatable and recoverable environments
  • Improves reliability through automation
  • Strengthens deployment and testing workflows
  • Reduces operational risk with observability
  • Bridges infrastructure, development, and QA
  • Applies security and least-privilege practices

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