AWS Cloud Security Professional with 7 years of experience working with business stakeholders to achieve project deliverables. Conceptualized and built numerous solutions working as a Cloud Engineer and Cloud Security Consultant for several customers. Good understanding of Linux, network automation using python, and proficiency in Windows Active Directory. Designed, implemented, and deployed platforms to support and meet business needs. Identified and recommended opportunities for improvement and performance issue solutions. Designed and deployed security controls and solutions to detect security incidents; vulnerabilities and configurations at the various layers of the cloud infrastructure (virtual machines; containers; network, cloud environment using various AWS native and 3rd party tools – AWS Security Hub, AWS Inspector, AWS Config, Qualys Cloud Platform, Nagios monitoring software, Symantec Endpoint Protection, Implementing security programs, Erecting firewalls. AWS Inspector, AWS Shield, GuardDuty, AWS WAF, AWS Secret Manager, Qualys, OpenVAS, Symantec DLP. (IDS/IPS) SIEM (Splunk/Qradar) Palo Alto Networks, Firewalls & Log Analysis, SIEM Technology. Rapid7 InsightCloudSec, Xpel, Trend Micro One, Barracuda Guardian Security Designed and deployed multi-tier AWS architectures using AWS services – AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS EC2, AWS EBS, AWS S3, AWS IAM, AWS AMI, AWS VPC, AWS VPC Peering, AWS NACL, AWS SG, AWS Route53, AWS Auto Scaling, AWS ELB, AWS SNS, AWS CloudWatch and AWS Cloud Formation). F5, PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB. Managed DevOps Processes: i) Developed and deployed designs to ensure best-practice application of both PaaS and IaaS services. Created and Managed Build/Release pipelines from Development to Production. Designed and implemented Infrastructure as code using DevOps, Terraform and ARM Templates. Utilized expert knowledge of source code repositories and other tools, particularly Git, with agile development practices, for continuous integration and test automation (TDD, BDD, Selenium). Developed and deployed serverless applications especially cloud functions using scripting languages Python, bash, and PowerShell. Designed and deployed RESTful APIs and used relational or NoSQL Cloud Databases from an application point of view - PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL. iii) Designed, and deployed modernization solutions for migration of on-premises applications to cloud native with use of Golang in creation of CLIs, and use of Hashicorp products such as Sentinel, Vault, and Consul, containerization using Docker and container orchestration -Kubernetes or Docker Swarm and configuration management tooling (e.g. Puppet, Chef, and Ansible). Implemented modernization projects with common DevOps technology stacks - NGINX, Apache, RabbitMQ, AWS Elasticsearch, Redis, Prometheus, Consul, and MERN. A good understanding of serverless and microservice architectures. Accomplished engineer proffering extensive cloud monitoring, deployment and troubleshooting skills. Organized and focused person with extraordinary leadership acumen.