AWS Cloud Engineer
Resume:
Sep **** Current
Olamide Komolafe
Professional Summary
Passionate, technology-focused IT professional with 7+ years of experience in cloud engineering, system automation, and enterprise-scale infrastructure solution. Skilled in capturing functional requirments, mapping them to AWS services (compute, storage, data management, network and security), and creating scalable, secure and cost-optimized solutions. Adept at driving automation with AWS solutions like the AWS Landing Zone Accelerator and tools like AWS CloudFormation, Lambda and IAM ppolicies while ensuring compliance and operational excellence.
Work Experience
AWS Cloud Engineer
Breakforth Solutions
Implemented AWS Landing Zone Accelerator to establish a secure, scalable multi-account AWS environment aligned with enterprise governance standards. Modernized enterprise cloud governance by upgrading AWS Landing Zone Accelerator
(LZA) to latest release and improving security posture and audit readiness across 50+ AWS accounts.
Reduced compliance risk by implementing updated FedRAMP policy pack and ensuring continuous adherence across all AWS accounts.
Streamlined AWS account provisioning and organizational unit management by using Control Tower and CloudFormation to reduce setup time. Integrated LZA with AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, CloudTrail and Config to improve threat detection, monitoring and compliance reporting. Designed and deployed secure, scalable and highly available AWS cloud infrastructures leveraging EC2, S3, RDS, and Elastic Load Balancing. Built and automated Amazon VPC with AWS CDK, including subnets, route tables, security groups, following Infrastructure as Code best practices. Integrated VPC and infrastructure provisioning into CI/CD pipelines with AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild, accelerating environment delivery. Strengthened security posture by enforcing IAM role-based access, VPC endpoints, and network segmentation across environments.
Designed and implemented AWS EC2 Image Builder pipelines to automate the creation, hardening and distribution of secure Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). Integrated Splunk forwarders into golden images to enable centralized log collection and monitoring.
Configured BigFix agents within AMIs to support compliance enforcement and vulnerability remediation.
Deployed CrowdStrike Falcon agents in baseline images to provide endpoint detection across all EC2 workloads.
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Nov 2022 Sep 2023
Apr 2019 Nov 2022
Jan 2016 Mar 2019
Applied security baselines and CIS hardening standards during AMI builds, improving compliance readiness
Distributed hardened AMIs across multiple AWS accounts to support secure and compliant deployments.
Deployed and executed automation documents (SSM Documents/Runbooks) for patching, log collection, application restarts and configuration updates across EC2 fleets. AWS Cloud Engineer
Koniag Government Services
Developed and maintained Group Policy Objects (GPOs) in alignment with enterprise security standards and compliance requirements.
Migrated workloads such as GitLab, Jira, and Ansible Tower into AWS production environments, ensuring scalability and availability. Configured and optimized AWS services including EC2, EBS, ELB, SSL, Security Groups and RDS for production workloads.
Automated patch management with Ansible Tower and AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager, reducing manual intervention.
Administered user permissions, directories, and file access controls across Windows and Linux environments.
Built highly available systems leveraging Auto Scaling groups and Elastic Load Balancing to improve reliability.
AWS Cloud Engineer
Peraton
Migrated on-premises workloads to AWS using Application Discovery Service (ADS), Database Migration Service (DMS) and Migration Hub with MGN. Automated infrastructure provisioning with AWS CloudFormation and Terraform, and configured applications using Ansible.
Built scalable, fault-tolerant cloud solutions leveraging EC2, Auto Scaling and VPC networking to improve availability and performance. Optimized infrastructure performance and costs through right-sizing, Reserved Instances and S3 lifecycle management.
Oracle DBA
TEKsystems
Designed ETL mappings and integrations to support data warehouse environments and enterprise reporting.
Installed and configured Oracle server and client software applications across multiple environments.
Applied PSU patches and performed maintenance on Oracle RAC and Exadata systems to ensure stability and security.
Managed RMAN backup and recovery strategies, safeguarding business-critical data. Developed and optimized SQL and PL/SQL queries to improve application performance and efficiency.
Hardened Oracle databases in compliance with DISA STIG security guidelines. Installed, migrated, and supported databases across both Windows and Linux platforms. Collaborated with development teams to support code fixes and troubleshoot issues during System Integration (SIT), User Acceptance (UAT), and Performance testing phases.
Education
Master of Science : Biomedical Engineering
Catholic University of America Washington, DC
Bachelor of Science : Biomedical Engineering
Catholic University of America Washington, DC
Skills
AWS Platform: EC2, S3, VPC, VPN, AWS CloudFormation, CloudFront, Route 53, AWS Lambda Identity and Access Management: AWS Organization, IAM, Active Directory, AWS Secrets Manager
Cloud Orchestration & Automation: Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, AWS Systems Manager, Docker, Jenkins
Security, Identity & Compliance: Security Hub, AWS Guard Duty, AWS Firewall Manager, Web Application Firewall, AWS Sheild, AWS Inspector
Management & Governance: AWS Organization, Auto Scaling, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config, Trusted Advisor, AWS License Manager, AWS Well Architected Tool Networking & Content Delivery: Route 53, CloudFront, API Gateway, Elastic Load Balancer, Internet Gateway, NAT Gateway, Security groups, NACLs Migration: AWS Migration Hub, Data Migration Service, Application Migration Service,Service Migration Service
Data Protection: AWS Certificate Manager, AWS Key Management Service, Snapshot, Lifecycle Manager
Database: RDS, DynamoDB, AWS Aurora
Storage: EBS, EFS S3, Encryption and Security Manager Languages: Bash, JSON, YAML, SQL, Python, PowerShell Certifications
Solutions Architect Associate AWS
Oracle Database Associate Oracle
CompTIA Security+
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