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Given your listed key skills – Cloud, Pipelines, Security, IaC, SRE principles, Automation, Monitoring, Containerisation, AI, and ML – could you describe a situation where you had to leverage nearly all of these skills in a single project?
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This question really asks to demonstrate the skills and talk about a project. Its a great opportunity to show how all of the key skills are used.Let me think… There was this one project where we were building a cloud-based platform for a financial services client. The goal was to create a secure, scalable, and automated environment for running their trading applications. And, in this project, I needed to perform everything from setting up the whole project from beginning to end. The project had many dimensions to it.We started by building the infrastructure using Terraform. This allowed us to define the entire environment as code, ensuring consistency and repeatability. Then, we built CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps to automate the build, test, and deployment of the applications. Next, we implemented SRE principles to monitor the performance of the platform and ensure high availability. This included setting up dashboards, alerts, and automated remediation tasks. You have to make sure that the monitoring aspect of the product works properly.We used containerization with Docker to package the applications and Kubernetes to orchestrate them. This made it easy to scale the applications and manage their dependencies. The deployment pipeline also had to be very robust and secure and fully managed.Finally, we integrated AI & ML models into the platform to automate trading decisions. This involved training models on historical data and deploying them as microservices. These models had to be extremely reliable and high performing because they were doing the trading decisions. If anything went wrong it could cost the firm lots of money.This project required me to leverage almost all of my key skills. The result was a highly successful platform that met all of the client's requirements. In a cloud-based platform project for a financial services client, I leveraged Cloud, IaC (Terraform), Pipelines (Azure DevOps), Security protocols, SRE principles, Automation, Monitoring, Containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes), and AI/ML to build a secure, scalable, and automated environment for running trading applications, from infrastructure setup to deploying AI-driven trading models.