Ilham
Sulaksono.
Principal Site Reliability Engineer
7+ years designing, automating, and scaling cloud infrastructure. AWS · Kubernetes · Terraform
reliable systems
optimization
uptime sustained
through automation
Keeping complex systems quietly reliable.
Site Reliability Engineer with 7+ years designing, automating, and maintaining scalable cloud infrastructure. Skilled in AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform, with a track record of leading initiatives in cost optimization, security hardening, and operational automation.
Indonesian — Native
English — C2 Proficient
Principal SRE
CATAPA · 3S Payroll
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Remote-friendly
Seven years of uptime, automation & cost discipline.
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Principal Site Reliability Engineer
Payroll platform trusted by 300+ companies.
- Led a 3-person SRE team to lift platform reliability and performance.
- Automated operational tasks — SQL execution, database backups, deployments — saving ~15 hrs/week.
- Hardened infrastructure security, remediating dozens of vulnerabilities surfaced in penetration tests.
- Cut cloud costs by ~25% via AWS Spot Instances, EFS→S3 CSI migration, and NAT Gateway optimization.
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Senior Site Reliability Engineer
- Sustained Kubernetes cluster availability at 99.9% uptime.
- Migrated workloads (Kubernetes & databases) from Singapore to Jakarta with <15 min downtime.
- Maintained on-premise infrastructure at ~99% uptime in a constrained-access environment.
- Secured task automation with AWS SSM & Batch; added AWS DNS Firewall, GuardDuty, and Route 53 DNSSEC.
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Site Reliability Engineer
- Raised infrastructure integrity by implementing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform Cloud.
- Migrated and improved the CI/CD pipeline to a managed platform, reducing platform maintenance overhead.
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System Engineer
Singapore-based cloud solutions provider to government agencies & MNCs.
- Partnered with Solution Architects to design infrastructure across multiple cloud platforms.
- Automated cloud architecture deployments with AWS CloudFormation.
- Managed Kubernetes clusters and Linux/Windows server estates.
- Configured Check Point NGFW and Imperva WAF for enterprise security; automated monitoring with Zabbix & AWS Lambda.
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System Engineer
- Configured Nginx reverse proxy and internal proxy with Nginx & Lua.
- Automated infrastructure tasks with Python (AWS Lambda), Bash, and PowerShell.
- Built AWS compliance checks using Lambda and AWS Config.
- Configured AWS CloudFront and WAF for CDN solutions.
The toolkit behind the uptime.
Verified credentials.
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Certified Kubernetes Administrator The Linux Foundation
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Kubernetes & Cloud Native Associate The Linux Foundation
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AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate Amazon Web Services
Foundations.
Got a system that needs
to just work?
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