DAWSON MOSES WYCLIFF GOLLAMANDALA

Achievements and Responsibilities

• Implemented operated a large scale GCP platform supporting 200+ microservices across multiple environments.
• Built and optimised GKE clusters with autoscaling, node pools, workload identity, and network policies.
• Implemented Terraform modules for reusable, secure, and scalable infrastructure provisioning.
• Introduced GitOps workflows using ArgoCD, reducing deployment errors by 40%.
• Integrated Istio service mesh for traffic management, mTLS, and zero-trust networking.
• Strengthened platform security by implementing IAM least privilege, secret rotation, and vulnerability scanning.
• Developed CI/CD pipelines using Cloud Build and GitHub Actions, enabling fully automated deployments.
• Improved observability using Prometheus, Grafana, and Cloud Monitoring, reducing MTTR by 30%.
• End-to-end ownership of GCP cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes platform.
• Infrastructure automation using Terraform and Terragrunt.
• Implementing service mesh patterns and secure communication.
• Supporting development teams with cloud-native best practices.
• Ensuring platform reliability, scalability, and compliance.

Achievements and Responsibilities

• Migrated legacy workloads to GCP, reducing infrastructure costs by 25%.
• Built multi-environment Kubernetes clusters with Helm and Kustomise.
• Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, improving deployment speed by 60%.
• Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Cloud Build for microservices deployments.
• Designed secure VPC architectures with private services, firewall rules, and IAM policies.
• Introduced centralised logging and monitoring using ELK and Cloud Logging.
• Supporting cloud migration and platform modernisation initiatives.
• Managing Kubernetes clusters and containerised workloads.
• Implementing DevOps automation and cloud security controls.
• Collaborating with developers to optimise cloud-native applications.

Achievements and Responsibilities

• Built CI/CD pipelines for enterprise clients using Jenkins and GitLab CI.
• Containerised monolithic applications and deployed them on Kubernetes.
• Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Ansible.
• Implemented monitoring dashboards using Prometheus and Grafana.
• Supporting cloud adoption projects for multiple clients.
• Managing Kubernetes clusters and Docker-based workloads.
• Implementing automation for deployments and infrastructure.
• Ensuring security and compliance across cloud environments.

• Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Gerrit, Maven, ANT.
• Automated builds, deployments, and testing workflows.
• Defined branching/merging strategies and SCM best practices.
• Coordinated with development and QA teams to resolve release issues.

• Automated build and deployment processes.
• Managed SQL scripts, Tomcat/JBoss deployments, and system patching.
• Supported continuous integration and testing practices.