Security Architect Cloud
Resume:
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Jesse Godwin
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Katy, TX 77494
Cloud Security Architect
Experienced Solutions and Security Architect with years of Information Security and Cloud Infrastructure experience in implementing and managing firewalls, enforcing security policies and procedures, deploying monitoring solutions for extended detection and response for threat management. Providing clients with agility, scalability, cost optimization, sustainable fault tolerance, and a secure cloud environment, while offering strategic leadership and guidance to teams in implementing effective security solutions. Extensive IT support background with a strong emphasis on Microsoft Server Administration and Network Management, ensuring optimal system performance and reliability. A results-driven professional with a keen appetite for new challenges. Demonstrates a solid work ethic, adaptability, and superior interpersonal skills. Skilled at collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement robust security measures, effectively mitigate risks, work independently, and swiftly acquire new competencies. SUMMARY OF SKILLS
• IAM Strategy & Architecture: IAM Policies, Roles, Users, Groups, Trust Relationships, Permission Boundaries, MFA
• Identity Governance & Administration: Access Requests, Role Management, Automated User Lifecycle, SSO
• Security Risk Management: Risk Assessment, Least Privilege Access, Compliance, Security Posture Management
• Cloud Security & Integration: AWS IAM, AWS Organizations, AWS Security Hub, AWS Shield, AWS Guard Duty, VPC Security, AWS KMS, S3, EC2, Lambda, ECS
• Security & Monitoring Tools: Qualys, Cloud Passage, Nessus, Sophos and Fortinet.
• Cloud Deployment & Configuration: EBS, AMI, NACL, S3, VPC Peering, VPC, Route 53, Auto Scaling Group, ELB, SNS, SQS, CloudWatch, Security Group, AWS Inspector, AWS Shield, CloudFormation, and Cloud Passage
EXPERIENCE
ARRAVO
Cloud Security Engineer 2022 to Current
• Reduced security incident response time by 40% through automated threat detection.
• Implemented security best practices, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations.
• Provided strategic cloud migration consulting, helping clients transition from legacy systems to the cloud.
• Joint sales engagement with the sales team, presentations, designs, and solution architecting
• Configured AWS GuardDuty to detect and respond to potential security threats, such as malicious activity, unauthorized access attempts, and anomalies in network traffic.
• Configured and managed cloud network security controls to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data and resources within the cloud environment.
• Improved system performance by 60% through architecture enhancements and security optimizations.
• Centralized security visibility and compliance management using AWS Security Hub.
• Drove the development of enterprise technology architecture, standards, and performance metrics to ensure infrastructure and operations aligned with organizational goals, enhanced system efficiency, and met compliance requirements.
• Made hardware and software recommendations for the organization based on technological needs and industry security regulations
• Migrated legacy systems into the cloud for more efficiency within the organization
(digital transformation)
HYDRAULIC SOLUTIONS ENERGY LIMITED
Cloud Security Architect 2019 to 2022
• Initiated and facilitated Proofs of Concept for accessing new technology before deploying into production environment
• Assisted the team with uncovering and understanding technical requirements and producing estimates and risk assessments for new projects
• Reduced AWS cost 30% with reserved instances and system level performance benchmarks to determine best cost to performance ratios
• Ensured security is integrated into all cloud architecture solutions and performed advanced systems modeling, simulation and analysis
• Led the secure enablement of over 45 AWS services by drafting best practice requirements, rigorously reviewing implementations with the cloud engineering team, and ensuring secure deployment before granting approval for Development, Staging, and Production environments.
• Mapped required industry regulatory standards as security controls to AWS services to ensure compliance and reduce the threat landscape.
• Designed technical implementation plans and scopes of work in partnership with the customers to suit their requirement
• Created repeatable Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation and Terraform
• Ensured optimal cloud security posture for all clients by leveraging AWS services, including CloudTrail and AWS Config
• Designed, Configured and Deployed Amazon Web Services (AWS) for a multiple of applications using the AWS stack (EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Cloud Formation, Cloud Watch, SQS, IAM), focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance and auto- scaling. ADDITIONAL RELEVANT (OR PRIOR) EXPERIENCE
SLOGANI CONSULTING, Cyber Security Analyst
Identified and mitigated vulnerabilities. Implemented robust system security measures, developed comprehensive security plans. Additionally, assisted in creating effective incident response procedures and security protocols KARACTIZO Technology, Network Engineer
Managed domain services, and established networking environments. Provided timely IT support, troubleshot Spanning Tree Protocol and VLANs issues, and configured and maintained Cisco routers and switches. Managed LAN/WAN services, including bandwidth management, latency reduction, and network security policies. EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science (B. Sc.) Entrepreneur & Business Management National Open University
CERTIFICATIONS
AWS Security Specialty AWS Solutions Architect-Professional AWS Network Specialty Cyber- Security Essentials ICSI Cyber Security ELC Certified in Cybersecurity ISC Practical Ethical Hacking AWS Solutions Architect-Associate Fortinet Network Security Vulnerability Management – Foundation Qualys Vulnerability Management Detection and Response Qualys SAP Forage Sophos Certified Engineer AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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