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Kevin Cleveland

Staff DevOps Engineer specializing in cloud platform and SRE

T-MobileUniversity of South AlabamaOverland Park, KS10 Years ExperienceStaff Level

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Platform/infrastructure engineer with hands-on ownership of Kubernetes, Terraform, VMware, and hybrid on-prem/AWS environments. Stands out for combining deep platform build/upgrade experience with strong incident response and reliability practices, including a Terraform redesign at H&R Block that reduced provisioning time by 40% and hybrid networking improvements that hardened Direct Connect failover.

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Key Strengths

  • Platform-level Kubernetes engineering across EKS and OpenShift
  • Strong AWS networking foundation using Terraform and VPC design
  • Kubernetes storage integration with EBS and EFS CSI drivers
  • Cluster lifecycle automation with Terraform and GitOps
  • Structured post-change reliability validation using functional, workload, and observability checks
  • Deep hybrid infrastructure experience across on-prem and AWS
  • vSphere outage troubleshooting with SAN root cause analysis
  • Prevented recurrence of APD-related vSphere issues through controller replacement, workload rebalancing, and HA/DRS tuning
  • Terraform architecture modernization that cut provisioning time 40%
  • Eliminated environment drift through modular Terraform and Git-based promotion
  • Direct Connect incident response with VPN failover design
  • Improved hybrid resilience through automated failover and enhanced BGP/DX monitoring

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Experience

Staff DevOps Engineer / Platform EngineerT-Mobile · Sep 2025 – Present
Senior Site Reliability EngineerH&R Block · Oct 2020 – Sep 2025
Cloud DevOps EngineerFishtech Group · Jul 2019 – Oct 2020
System EngineerOracle Cerner · Jul 2016 – Jul 2019

Education

University of South Alabamabachelor, Computer Science (2016)

Languages

English

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