About
Cliff Hults#
Staff DevOps Engineer · Platform · Cloud · AI
I’m a platform and infrastructure engineer with 12+ years of experience building the systems that ship software at scale. I currently work at CyberArk as a Staff DevOps Engineer, leading teams and driving platform modernization across cloud and on-prem environments.
What I Do#
I specialize in the full lifecycle of platform engineering: designing cloud infrastructure, building CI/CD pipelines, ensuring compliance, and extracting performance out of complex distributed systems.
Core skills:
- Cloud: AWS (including GovCloud), EKS/Kubernetes, Terraform, Pulumi
- CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Enterprise, ArgoCD
- Observability: Grafana, Prometheus, DataDog
- Automation: Ansible, Docker, Python, Go
- Security & Compliance: FedRAMP High, DevSecOps
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (expires March 2027)
Highlights#
- ~20x throughput improvement on an automated artifact migration system (25 → ~500 artifacts/min)
- Reduced SaaS deployment time from ~90 minutes to 25 minutes; improved success rate from ~50% to ~80%
- Led engineering teams of 5–9 engineers across full-stack platform and DevOps initiatives
- FedRAMP High compliance — built and maintained compliant delivery pipelines in AWS GovCloud
- AI in production — engineered prompt tooling with AWS Bedrock, including a knowledge base layer to reduce hallucinations and token burn