Brandon Foster

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ABOUT BRANDON FOSTER

I am a Senior DevOps Engineer with over a decade of experience designing, scaling, and operating cloud-native platforms in production environments. My focus is on building reliable, secure, and cost-efficient infrastructure that enables engineering teams to move quickly without sacrificing stability or governance.I specialize in AWS-based platforms, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, and CI/CD systems, with deep experience supporting large microservice architectures and data-intensive platforms. I have led multi-region cloud standardization efforts, large-scale migrations (ECS to EKS, MSK to Confluent Cloud, Bitbucket to GitHub), and the design of reusable Terraform modules that support consistent, repeatable infrastructure across teams.Beyond hands-on engineering, I routinely act as a technical leader and mentor—guiding developers and DevOps engineers in modern DevSecOps practices, platform reliability, and operational excellence. I have implemented service meshes with mTLS, centralized secrets management, observability platforms, and automation tooling that materially improved security posture, uptime, and developer experience.I am particularly effective at identifying inefficiencies in complex systems and translating them into measurable improvements. Recent initiatives include reducing infrastructure and tooling costs by over $10K per month through architectural optimization and vendor rationalization, while simultaneously improving scalability and resiliency.Core areas of expertise:AWS (EKS, ECS, App Mesh, IAM, MSK, VPC)Terraform & CloudFormationKubernetes & DockerCI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)Observability (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki)Data & Streaming Platforms (Snowflake, Confluent Cloud, Databricks)Automation & Tooling (Go, Bash)I enjoy solving hard infrastructure problems, building platforms that scale with the business, and partnering closely with engineering teams to enable long-term success.