Kevin Cleveland

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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.

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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