Kirk Rogers – Sr Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps Engineer – Cover

Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 | kirk (at) icapsolutions.com

Kirk Rogers Sr Cloud Engineer - Cover

 

 

 

With over 30 years of experience architecting and managing enterprise cloud infrastructure, I bring a proven track record of delivering scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions across multi-cloud environments. As a certified Google Cloud Professional Architect with extensive AWS expertise, I specialize in transforming complex technical challenges into streamlined, automated infrastructure that drives business value.

What I Bring to Your Team

Multi-Cloud Expertise: Currently architecting and maintaining production GCP infrastructure at FanFix while bringing deep AWS experience from JPMorgan Chase, where I led CI/CD pipeline development supporting hundreds of engineers across multiple environments.
Infrastructure as Code Leadership: Extensive experience with Terraform, implementing enterprise-grade solutions including Apache Airflow orchestration platforms, Kafka streaming infrastructure, and comprehensive observability systems with automated deployment pipelines.
Security & Compliance: Strengthened security posture through systematic IAM audits, implementing role-based access controls, and migrating 100+ storage buckets to uniform security policies while maintaining zero-downtime operations.
Cost Optimization: Demonstrated ability to reduce cloud expenses by 30% through strategic optimization of S3 lifecycles, compute resources, database tuning, and elimination of redundant services—while improving performance and security.
Container Orchestration: Deep experience with Kubernetes across multiple distributions (GKE, EKS, OpenShift), managing production workloads with automated deployments, monitoring, and incident response tooling.

Recent Technical Accomplishments

At FanFix (Current):

  • Architected complete Apache Airflow data orchestration platform with custom Terraform modules, enabling organization-wide automated ETL pipelines
  • Led Kafka monitoring modernization, executing zero-downtime migration while reducing licensing costs and improving developer visibility
  • Established infrastructure-as-code observability practices with Grafana dashboards, GitHub Actions CI/CD, and version-controlled monitoring
  • Deployed production Kafka cluster supporting real-time event streaming for microservices architecture with workload identity authentication

At JPMorgan Chase / First Republic Bank:

  • Led team supporting proprietary CI/CD pipeline for hundreds of engineers across containerized application deployments
  • Managed complex Kubernetes environments (OpenShift, EKS) with integrated tooling including JFrog Artifactory, HashiCorp Vault, and CloudBees Jenkins
Core Technical Proficiencies
GCP / AWSKubernetes (GKE/EKS/OCP)TerraformDockerApache AirflowApache KafkaJenkins / GitHub ActionsHelmPython / BashPostgreSQLGrafanaHashiCorp VaultJFrog Artifactory

What Sets Me Apart

Beyond technical expertise, I bring a strategic mindset to infrastructure challenges. Whether it’s reducing costs, improving security posture, or accelerating developer velocity, I approach every project with a focus on measurable business outcomes. My 15 years at TRW and 11 years as CTO at SalesJobs.com demonstrate my ability to deliver long-term value and maintain critical systems at scale.

I thrive in environments where I can mentor teams, drive architectural decisions, and continuously improve systems through automation and best practices. My recent work implementing infrastructure-as-code observability and modernizing monitoring solutions reflects my commitment to building sustainable, maintainable infrastructure that empowers development teams.

Professional Certifications
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Professional Cloud Architect – Certified
  • B.S. Electrical Engineering – California State University, Long Beach
  • Former Security Clearance: Secret (EBI)