Kaity Legrande

About Kaity Legrande

Results-driven DevOps Platform Engineer with 3 years of hands-on experience managing and supporting large-scale Kubernetes platforms on AWS, primarily serving Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) tenants. Proficient in designing and maintaining scalable, secure, and observable infrastructure using tools such as Amazon EKS, EC2, IAM, S3, and OpenSearch. Skilled in implementing GitOps workflows with ArgoCD, automating infrastructure with Terraform, and enabling robust monitoring and logging through Prometheus and OpenSearch. Experienced in applying vulnerability management practices using Twistlock and adhering to the AWS Well-Architected Framework. AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner and Solutions Architect Associate with a strong focus on platform reliability, automation, and best practices in cloud-native architecture.

Experience

1. Devops Engineer

   Booz Allen Hamilton

   Jul 2023 — Present

   Led the Secure Enclave restoration initiative, refactoring deprecated Terraform and Jenkins pipelines to support advanced IAM cross-account access and ECS autoscaling groups, successfully restoring ECS deployment capabilities across the platform and enabling continued tenant delivery within a high-security environment.• Provided end-to-end operational support for a multi-tenant Kubernetes platform on AWS, ensuring high availability and performance for Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) applications. Resolved complex tenant issues involving CloudFormation, Lambda, IAM, RDS, and cross-service integrations.• Owned observability and CI/CD operations for tenant applications using Prometheus, Grafana, ArgoCD, and OpenSearch. Facilitated secure and automated code deployments while maintaining robust platform monitoring, alerting, and logging across EKS clusters and AWS-native services.• Proactively identified and remediated security vulnerabilities using Twistlock (PrismaCloud) and Vault. Collaborated with tenant and platform teams to maintain compliance with federal security standards, meet mission-critical deadlines, and ensure operational continuity.

Education

• Clarusway

  AWS & DevOps

  2022 — 2023

• Rutgers University–Newark

  Graphic Design

  2013