Kevin J. Lang

Founder & Principal Infrastructure Consultant

Hocus Pocus Labs • Freelance

Oct 2026 - Present • 1 mo

Independent infrastructure consultancy for small teams that need senior help without a full-time hire. • Terraform and CI/CD risk reviews: state, stored cloud keys, unsafe prod deploys • Kubernetes platform baselines on EKS, AKS and GKE • Cloud migration planning for AWS, Azure and GCP • Cisco CUCM / UC troubleshooting, health checks and upgrade-vs-Webex planning • Fixed-price work with written findings, delivered as a pull request or runbook

Full Stack Engineer - Infrastructure & Platform Engineer

Mercury Intermedia • Temps plein

May 2024 - Jun 2026 • 2 yrs 1 mo

Built and ran the internal cloud platform for a software firm shipping media and sports apps. • Built the Azure/AKS platform entirely in Terraform (ingress, TLS, secrets, managed PostgreSQL and Redis, monitoring) and moved 5 product workloads onto one staging-to-production path • Removed long-lived cloud keys from CI: short-lived tokens with OIDC federation and workload identity across Azure, AWS and GCP • Wrote "destroy approval" gates that catch deletes in a Terraform plan, block auto-apply and require a human sign-off • Ran Terraform through CI/CD with plan/apply review, separate environments and gated production changes • Delivered AWS and GCP client platforms: containers, Kubernetes, load balancing, DNS, TLS, secrets, managed databases • Diagnosed and fixed Terraform state drift after partial applies and cloud lifecycle events • Moved stateful workloads to safe storage reclaim policies after a storage-deletion incident, and wrote the runbooks

Senior System Operations Engineer

Advisor360° • Temps plein

Jan 2023 - Feb 2024 • 1 yr 1 mo

Operations engineering for a hosted wealth-management platform used by financial advisors. • Led a cloud migration to Azure using Terraform, with RHEL and Windows Server built for availability and security • Implemented MOVEit managed file transfer to tighten data-handling controls • Ran Ansible/AWX configuration management across a multi-tenant environment • Used Jenkins for infrastructure CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code adoption and versioned disaster recovery • Built a Python SQL query generator so analysts could pull their own reports without engineering