Z Zurabi Badzagua
Cloud & Platform Engineering

Zurabi Badzagua

Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer

Focused on cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, and CI/CD automation in production engineering environments.

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01 About

DevOps and Cloud Engineer from Georgia with hands-on experience across AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring, and cloud security. My professional focus is on reliable, automated, and scalable infrastructure for production systems — and on the engineering practices that keep them maintainable over time.

02 Technical Skills

Cloud Platforms

Multi-cloud engineering across the three majors — designing, deploying, and operating production workloads end-to-end.

  • AWS
  • Google Cloud
  • Azure

Containers & Orchestration

  • Kubernetes
  • EKS
  • AKS
  • GKE
  • Docker
  • Helm
  • ArgoCD

Infrastructure as Code

  • Terraform
  • OpenTofu
  • Terragrunt

CI/CD

  • GitLab CI
  • GitHub Actions
  • Azure DevOps
  • Bitbucket Pipelines
  • Deployment automation

Monitoring & Logging

  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • ELK
  • Loki

Security & Reliability

  • IAM
  • Cloud security
  • Backups
  • Incident response
  • Production reliability

03 Certifications

13 industry certifications

Amazon Web Services

1
  • AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer — Associate

Google Cloud

3
  • Professional Cloud Architect
  • Professional DevOps Engineer
  • Associate Cloud Engineer

Microsoft Azure

4
  • Azure Administrator (AZ-104)
  • Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
  • Data Fundamentals (DP-900)
  • Security, Compliance & Identity (SC-900)

Cloud Native & Platform

2
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

Linux & Networking

2
  • LPIC-1
  • CCNA modules

Cybersecurity

1
  • Fortinet Certified Fundamentals — Cybersecurity

04 Experience Highlights

Senior / Lead DevOps

Years of senior-level DevOps work across production engineering environments.

Cloud Architecture & Automation

Designing and automating cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure.

Kubernetes Platforms

Operating Kubernetes clusters and the surrounding platform tooling.

CI/CD Pipelines

Designing reliable build, test, and deployment pipelines.

Monitoring & Incident Response

Observability, alerting, and incident troubleshooting in production.

Enterprise Environments

Exposure to banking, AI, and enterprise-grade engineering settings.

05 Areas of Expertise

Topics and engineering disciplines I work with most often as a Cloud and Platform Engineer.

Cloud Infrastructure

Designing and operating workloads across AWS, GCP, and Azure.

Kubernetes Platforms

Cluster operations, GitOps workflows, ingress, and platform tooling.

CI/CD Engineering

Pipeline design and deployment automation with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, and Bitbucket Pipelines.

Infrastructure as Code

Composable Terraform, OpenTofu, and Terragrunt patterns for scalable codebases.

Observability

Prometheus, Grafana, and log pipelines focused on actionable signal.

Reliability Engineering

Production hardening, incident review, and capacity awareness.

06 Contact

For professional networking and technical conversations. Email is the best way to reach me.