Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Design, provision, and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform. Maintain and optimize GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines for quick and less expensive deploys. Developed Python/Flask monitoring tools to surface EKS health, application status, and operational insights for export to our monitoring platform via OTEL. Collaborate in application and platform architecture discussions to guide scalable, secure infrastructure. Creatively bypassed paywalled vendor features to ensure audit requirements were met.

Designed a YAML-driven CloudFormation template engine using Troposphere; migrated infrastructure to Terraform managed via Spacelift. Built and maintained EKS clusters using Terraform. Implemented zero-downtime deployment pipelines for Kubernetes workloads. Owned end-to-end AWS infrastructure operations including networking, IAM, and security services. Codified IAM roles, policies, and permission boundaries using Terraform. Enabled threat detection by deploying AWS GuardDuty. Enabled vulnerability scanning and reporting using ECR scan results which I fed into Jira to auto-create remediation tickets for dev teams. Designed and deployed a VPN solution for secure AWS access. Implemented Grafana Cloud for metrics, logging, and alerting with PagerDuty integration. Integrated internal resources with Google SSO. Automated internal and external DNS record management.

Reviewed infrastructure and application architecture for compliance with security and privacy standards. Led PCI audit responses including evidence collection and documentation. Acted as security partner in architectural design reviews. Coordinated response to internal and external security incidents. Consolidated multiple CI/CD pipelines into a centralized vulnerability scanning platform. Consolidated three companies worth of security logs into Cortex XSOAR SIEM. Built and maintained AWS infrastructure using Terraform.

Created and managed AWS infrastructure using CloudFormation. Managed configuration across environments using Chef. Developed and maintained Jenkins build and deploy pipelines with Jenkins Job Builder. Migrated monolithic application stack to containerized microservices. Deployed and administered applications using Docker and Kubernetes. Contributed to production systems written in Bash, Python, Ruby, and Node.js. Served as technical lead on multiple initiatives, coordinating across teams. Continuously evaluated and adopted new technologies to improve reliability and delivery speed.