I am a Cloud Platform Engineer with 5 years of professional experience specializing in building scalable internal developer platforms and automating cloud infrastructure. My focus is on empowering engineering teams with secure, self-service tooling and creating "golden paths" for seamless deployment.
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Infrastructure Design & Implementation: Architect and provision consistent cloud environments using Terraform to ensure reliability and consistency.
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Operations as Code: Using Ansible for day-2 operations and maintaining configuration workflows.
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Platform Development & AKS Expertise: Build and maintain self-service repositories and internal developer platforms. Operate extensively within the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) landscape—handling application deployments, configuring and managing addons, and running specialized workloads like custom container runner images.
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Security & Identity Architecture: Implement robust security best practices, including secure web application authentication using Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) with BFF (Backend-for-Frontend) and SPA patterns, OIDC federation for zero-standing-privilege operations, and custom token validation layers for webhooks and cloud functions.
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Integrations & Custom Tooling: Build custom Slack Apps and GitHub Apps integrated with Azure OpenAI to automate internal queries, streamline developer onboarding, and handle automated workflows like agentic Terraform PR generation.
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Automation & CI/CD: Develop and maintain GitHub Action workflows to accelerate software delivery and standardize development processes.
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Backup Solutions & Reliability: Design automated, zero-maintenance backup solutions and scripts to ensure resilience across cloud resources with minimal manual intervention.
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Extensibility: Use Python, PowerShell, and Bash to build applications and extend cloud-native service limitations (e.g., developing custom Python dispatchers for hybrid workers or JQ-templated payload mergers).
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Cloud: Microsoft Azure (AKS, Key Vault, Azure Automation, Function Apps, App Service), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS
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Containers & Orchestration: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Docker
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IaC & Config: Terraform, Ansible
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CI/CD, GitOps & Governance: GitHub Actions, Custom Actions, Reusable Workflows, GitHub Apps, Slack Apps
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Security & Auth: Microsoft Entra ID (BFF/SPA patterns), OIDC Federation, Azure OpenAI API
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Languages & Shell: Python, Bash, PowerShell
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OS: Linux
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Email: simranjeetdua@gmail.com
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Portfolio: https://simranjeetsinghdua.github.io/
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Location: Oslo, Norway 🇳🇴