Available for opportunities · Toronto, Canada 🍁

Stalin
Rijal

Cloud Engineer·SRE·DevOps

Certified DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of experience building, automating, and securing scalable cloud infrastructure. I focus on creating reliable, secure, and efficient systems using modern DevOps practices, helping teams deliver faster without compromising quality or compliance.

Stalin Rijal
5+Years Experience
50+Projects
3Cloud Platforms
8+Certifications
99.9%Uptime Focus

Work Experience

IT Infrastructure | Cloud Engineer
Aug 2024 – Present
Kinka Management Inc · Toronto, Canada
  • Led IT operations for multi-location restaurant infrastructure (70+ sites), ensuring 99.9% uptime for POS and payment systems.
  • Implemented MDM solution managing 600+ POS/Kiosk devices, reducing manual provisioning effort and improving security compliance.
  • Built GitHub Actions pipelines to automate configuration updates and deployments across all locations.
  • Designed GCP-based backup/data pipelines integrating POS transaction data into PostgreSQL for improved data reliability.
  • Designed LAN/WAN, VLAN segmentation, and failover networks improving availability across all locations.
Automation Developer Co-op
Jan 2025 – Apr 2025
Government of Ontario · Toronto, Canada
  • Developed Azure schedule-based Runbooks with integrated email notifications, replacing Logic Apps and establishing a centralized automation model.
  • Performed patch management and decommission tasks across 900+ Azure subscriptions.
  • Implemented automated Azure DevOps pipelines for Entra ID user provisioning, de-provisioning, and lifecycle management.
  • Created PowerShell and Python scripts for priority-based patching of high availability Azure DB nodes.
Senior Platform Engineer / DevOps Engineer
Mar 2021 – Apr 2024
Cedar Gate Technologies · Greenwich, CT
  • Built and managed DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines for Java, .NET, and Python applications, reducing deployment time significantly.
  • Led monolithic to containerized migration (Docker, Kubernetes) across AWS EKS and Azure AKS.
  • Designed Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Ansible including reusable VPC modules for scalable cloud environments.
  • Built end-to-end observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, New Relic, AWS X-Ray) following SRE principles.
  • Integrated SAST, DAST, and container scanning (Veracode) into CI/CD pipelines for shift-left security.
Web Developer
Nov 2019 – Feb 2021
Webmandu Nepal · Kathmandu, Nepal
  • Developed and maintained client websites using React.js, PHP, WordPress, and MySQL.
  • Performed manual QA, code reviews, and Agile sprint management using Jira.

Tech Stack

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Cloud Platforms
AWS EC2/EKS/S3LambdaCloudWatchVPCAzure AKSEntra IDKey VaultGCP GKECloud Run
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CI/CD & GitOps
GitHub ActionsJenkinsAzure DevOpsArgoCDGitOpsHelmMavenGradle
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Containers & Orchestration
DockerKubernetesEKSAKSGKEIstioCalico/CiliumECS
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Infrastructure as Code
TerraformAnsiblePulumiCloudFormationARM TemplatesBicep
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Observability & SRE
PrometheusGrafanaELK StackNew RelicAWS X-RayFluent BitCloudWatch
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Security & Compliance
Zero TrustRBAC/ABACVeracode SAST/DASTOAuth/OIDCCIS/NISTHIPAAPCI-DSSSIEM
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Scripting & Languages
PythonBashPowerShellGroovySQLJavaScript
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Databases & Messaging
PostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedisDynamoDBKafkaOpenSearch

Certifications

Featured Projects

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Web Application Security Assessment
Ferro Technics Inc · Scarborough, ON

Security assessment of an Azure-based Canadian mortgage application. Mapped controls to PCI-DSS and CIS Benchmarks, delivered threat modeling and compliance gap analysis.

AzurePCI-DSSCISThreat ModelingSecurity Assessment
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A1-Prep Cloud Platform
Seneca Polytechnic

AWS-based containerized mock test application using EKS, Terraform, and Ansible for scalable automated infrastructure and continuous deployment pipelines.

AWS EKSTerraformAnsibleDockerGitOps
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Security Monitoring Dashboard
Seneca Polytechnic

ELK-based threat monitoring dashboard using the CIC dataset and live logs, with automated alerting for real-time incident detection.

ELK StackKibanaSIEMElasticsearchAlerting

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