Cloud Engineer Secret Clearance

Noah Yancy

*********@*****.*** 850-***-**** Austin, TX LinkedIn Secret Clearance

WORK EXPERIENCE

Cornerstone Technology Jan. 2025 – Present

Cloud Engineer Remote

• Engineered and managed secure AWS GovCloud environments, delivering high-availability solutions across compute (EC2, Lambda, AppStream), storage (S3, RDS, EBS), networking (VPC), and containers

(EKS/ECS) while ensuring DISA STIG, FedRAMP and DoD compliance.

• Automated provisioning, patching, and compliance enforcement with Terraform, CloudFormation, Python and BASH/PowerShell reducing deployment times and improving vulnerability remediation.

• Strengthened cloud security posture with vulnerability remediation, IAM policy refinements, compliance pipelines (AWS Config, Security Hub).

• Improved AWS Lambda function efficiency by implementing memory buffering and parallel threading, reducing runtime, preventing memory overconsumption, and cutting overall execution costs. B.E.A.T. July. 2024 – Jan 2025

Cloud Administrator Remote

• Leverage AWS to efficiently operate, maintain and secure cloud-based applications across diverse environments.

• Facilitate deployment of software application releases utilizing Jenkins and ADO for CI/CD and Artifactory for streamlined artifact management.

• Utilize AWS Guard Duty for continuous threat detection and monitoring on S3, Lambda, Cloud Trail, logs

• Operate AWS Directory Service to manage GPOs & AD ensuring consistent policy enforcement across domain users and computers.

Applied Research Associates Nov. 2022 – July 2024

System Network Administrator - Team Lead Eglin AFB, FL

• Led a 6-member team managing IT infrastructure across servers, SQL Databases, SANs, and networks, ensuring DISA STIG compliance in development, staging, and production.

• Streamlined development lifecycles with CI/CD pipelines using ADO, TeamCity and Bitbucket

• Automated Linux system configurations and admin tasks with Ansible, Bash, and PowerShell, cutting manual effort and improving deployment consistency.

• Engineered and troubleshot Cisco switches, routers, firewalls, and NAC solutions, improving network uptime and strengthening security posture.

• Executed incident response (NIST lifecycle), vulnerability assessments, and patch management for DoD- accredited networks, reducing remediation timelines.

• Designed and secured application environments, including Atlassian servers (SQL-backed) and Nginx reverse proxies with SSL/TLS, hardening systems against cyber threats. EDUCATION

Western Governors University December 2025

B.S. Network Engineering and Security Remote

Northwest Florida State College December 2022

Associates Cyber Security Niceville, FL

CERTIFICATIONS & Skills

• Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect Professional (in progress), AWS Solutions Architect Associate, CCNA, CompTIA Security+, Network+, A+, ITIL v4, LPI Linux

• Technologies: AWS, Python, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, GitHub, Docker, Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana

• Skills: IT Infrastructure, IaC, DevOps & CI/CD, Containerization, Monitoring & Incident Response

• Projects: Built AWS Environment using Terraform, Docker, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana

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