KrisSanders.com
• infrastructure • automation • cloud • hybrid onprem •

About

I build reliable, repeatable infrastructure across AWS and on-prem: IaC, CI/CD, observability, and security-minded automation. I validate patterns in my homelab before they hit production. If you want scalable builds, sane deployments, and fewer 3 a.m. incidents—you’re in the right place.
What we build, doesn't break.

AWS Azure Docker Kubernetes CI/CD Datadog Prometheus Solarwinds OnPrem NetApp FSxN Hybrid Cloud/OnPrem Perforce Helix Core TeamCity Jenkins Terraform CloudFormation Python Powershell Ubuntu RHEL Windows Server

Desired Role

Infrastructure / Automation Engineering
Engineering Manager

Focus

Automation • IaC • Reliability • Infra at Scale

Primary Environments

AWS • Onprem • Azure

Tooling

Terraform • Docker • Kubernetes • Python • Powershell
What I deliver
Repeatable Infrastructure Portable Terraform patterns that query real env data instead of brittle tfvars.
Build & Release Systems CI/CD that scales: ephemeral agents, caching, artifact pipelines, and clean promotion paths.
Operational Visibility Datadog / Prometheus / Solarwinds + dashboards + alerting that catch issues early and reduce false alarms.
Security Hygiene Least-privilege IAM, hardened images, sane logging, and audit-friendly change tracking.
Homelab-to-Cloud Continuity Dev environments that mirror prod patterns: reverse proxy, TLS, segmented networks, automation.
Pragmatic Automation Scripts + workflows that remove toil: onboarding, self-healing, inventory, and status reporting.
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Infrastructure Self-Repair Automation Intercepts critical alerts and runs safe, staged remediation: restarts, reboots, redeploys, and proactive scaling (compute/storage) based on thresholds—then reports outcomes back to engineers.
Reliability • Automation • Incident response • Details →
Global FSxN Replication Fabric Multi-AZ, multi-region SnapMirror architecture with replication to/from on-prem. Designed for predictable failover, controlled RPO/RTO, and repeatable operations at scale.
NetApp • FSxN • SnapMirror • DR • Details →
Golden Image Pipelines (CIS-hardened) Automated “gold image” AMI pipelines with CIS hardening, scheduled rebuilds, validation, and global distribution across accounts/regions to keep fleets current and consistent.
EC2 Image Builder • Terraform • Security baselines • Details →
LLM-Assisted Log Parsing & Ops Routing High-volume log parsing that detects probable failure patterns and routes findings into ops tickets and/or automation actions—reducing noisy triage and improving time-to-signal.
Observability • LLM workflows • Ticketing • Details →