Senior DevOps and Platform Engineer | Azure and AWS | Kubernetes | Technical Leadership
Building resilient cloud platforms that teams can trust at scale.
I'm Anthony Waye, a Senior DevOps and Platform Engineer with 15+ years across systems, cloud, and platform engineering. I lead platform direction while staying deeply hands-on, setting technical standards, mentoring engineers, and aligning platform, development, and operations teams. My work spans Azure and AWS foundations, Kubernetes platforms, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and observability systems that improve engineering velocity, security, and operational resilience.
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About me
I am a Senior DevOps and Platform Engineer who leads platform strategy and delivery, with a focus on creating secure, reusable foundations that make the right engineering path the easiest one to follow. I lead technical direction while staying hands-on, so the standards I set are the ones I help build and operate.
I work across Azure and AWS, with hands-on delivery in Kubernetes (AKS and EKS), Terraform, CI/CD, GitOps, identity, networking, and observability.
On the technical leadership side, I define platform standards and architectural guardrails, mentor and grow engineers, lead technical decision-making and reviews, and align platform, development, and operations teams around shared reliability, security, and delivery outcomes.
Typical outcomes include standardized infrastructure modules, hardened container platforms, clearer service ownership, faster release cycles, and better operational visibility through dashboards, metrics, logs, and alerts, backed by teams that are more confident operating what they own.
Outside work, I enjoy powerlifting, learning new technologies, and building side projects that solve practical, day-to-day problems.
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Certifications
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Associate
Earners of this certification have a comprehensive understanding on how to deploy, manage, and operate IT systems on the AWS Cloud. They demonstrated the ability to migrate on-premises workloads to AWS and monitor, scale, and secure systems on the AWS platform. Badge owners are able to provide guidance on implementing best practices for cloud operations.
May 2022 - May 2028AWS Certified Developer
Associate
Earners of this certification have a comprehensive understanding of application life-cycle management. They demonstrated proficiency in writing applications with AWS service APIs, AWS CLI, and SDKs; using containers; and deploying with a CI/CD pipeline. Badge owners are able to develop, deploy, and debug cloud-based applications that follow AWS best practices.
Jan 2022 - Jan 2028AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Associate
Earners of this certification have a comprehensive understanding of AWS services and technologies. They demonstrated the ability to build secure and robust solutions using architectural design principles based on customer requirements. Badge owners are able to strategically design well-architected distributed systems that are scalable, resilient, efficient, and fault-tolerant.
Dec 2021 - Dec 2027Portfolio
My projects
A selection of work spanning cloud-native tooling, automation, and developer experience improvements.
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My skills
A practical toolkit built from years of platform delivery, incident response, and automation-driven engineering.
- Azure
- AWS
- AKS
- EKS
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Terraform
- Terragrunt
- Azure DevOps
- GitLab CI
- Helm
- ArgoCD
- GitOps
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- Tempo
- Kibana
- IAM / Entra ID
- VPC / Networking
- Azure SQL
- Cosmos DB
- CloudFormation
- Ansible
- Jenkins
- Octopus Deploy
- GitHub Actions
- Python
- PowerShell
- Golang
- Linux
- Git
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My experience
Senior DevOps Engineer
Rio Tinto
Design, build, and operate Azure platform infrastructure for internal software delivery at enterprise scale. Core scope includes AKS operations (networking, identity, autoscaling, upgrades), reusable Terraform modules, Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, and platform observability using Grafana and Prometheus.
Apr 2024 - PresentDevOps/Platform Engineering Lead
Megaport
Led the DevOps and Platform Engineering function for a global network-as-a-service provider. Accountabilities included Amazon EKS operations, AWS infrastructure delivery with Terraform and CloudFormation, GitLab CI/CD administration, and observability across metrics, logs, and tracing with Grafana, Prometheus, Tempo, and Kibana.
Aug 2021 - Jan 2024Team Lead/Senior Systems Engineer
Melbourne IT/ARQ Group (Managed Services Provider)
Designed and delivered repeatable, cloud-agnostic deployment frameworks for enterprise customers across AWS and Azure. Primary technologies included Terraform, Jenkins, Octopus Deploy, Docker (ECS/Fargate), PowerShell DSC, and Microsoft SQL Server high-availability platforms.
Jul 2016 - Aug 2021Senior Systems Administrator
Queensland Treasury
Delivered core infrastructure and platform administration for Queensland Treasury. Key outcomes included SharePoint 2010 to 2013 migration, private cloud migration to VMware vCloud Director, and operation of Windows Server, Active Directory, SQL Server availability groups, Exchange, Office 365, and SCOM.
Jul 2014 - Aug 2016Earlier roles
Additional infrastructure and systems engineering experience from 2006 to 2014 is available on LinkedIn.
May 2006 - May 2014