Elsa Hill

Sre & Cloud Engineer @The Home Depot

Upgraded Kubernetes GKE clusters, migrating to‬‭ ContainerD and integrating new APIs with zero downtime, reducing‬ planned outages saving the company dollars in potential down time.‬• Led VPC peering decommissioning efforts to strengthen cloud security posture, performing traffic flow analysis and‬‭ improving security compliance by 30%.‬• Designed and implemented observability solutions for Kubernetes clusters, enabling real-time production monitoring and‬‭ significantly accelerating issue detection and resolution.‬• Developed and implemented a successful plan for migration to Google-managed certificates, vastly reducing toil by automating the process for TLS renewals for VM load balancers and in Kubernetes. • Performed maintenance and patching of virtual machines, often navigating ambiguous situations where the utilization of various components were uncertain, requiring comprehensive verification of operational status.‭