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JONATHAN PROUGH

Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineer

Morrisville, NC 27560 602-***-**** ********@******.** https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanprough/

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Highly accomplished Infrastructure Engineer with 20+ years of expertise in Cloud Architecture

(AWS/Azure), DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Proven track record of architecting high-availability platforms, automating enterprise migrations, and enforcing rigorous security standards (HIPAA, NIST, FedRAMP). Expert in reducing operational overhead through Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Shell, Powershell, Terragrunt, Bicep, CloudFromation) and optimizing cloud spending. Seeking to drive reliability and scalability within a dynamic Platform Engineering team.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

● Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, EKS, Route53, Directory, IAM, KeyVault), Azure (VNET, AKS, Sentinel, PowerBI, Entra, Storage, RBAC, KeyVault ).

● Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, Packer, ARM Templates, Bicep, CloudFormation.

● CI/CD & DevOps: GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Spacelift, Octopus Deploy, HashiCorp Vault.

● Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS/AKS), Docker Compose, Helm.

● Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Datadog, Nagios, ELK Stack

(Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana).

● Operating Systems: RHEL (3-10), Ubuntu (12.4-24.4), Amazon Linux, Windows Server, AIX, Solaris.

● Networking & Security: VPC/VNET Peering, VPN, DirectConnect, F5 LTM, Palo Alto Firewalls, IAM, OAuth, PKI.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

EXPERIAN HEALTH (via Apex Systems) Austin, TX DevOps Engineer (Contract) Dec 2025 – March 2026

● Engineered a migration framework within AWS utilizing Terraform and Terragrunt to automate the transition of legacy workloads to the cloud.

● Architected a HIPAA-compliant validation and file-input system, ensuring secure handling of sensitive patient data.

● Streamlined AMI pipelines, identifying and resolving critical build issues that reduced instance deployment time during large-scale migrations. LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICES (via Talent Space) Miami, FL Cloud Engineer (Contract) Jan 2025 – May 2025

● Designed and Deployed a full-stack Azure enterprise platform, including VNET architecture, firewall segmentation, and DNS integration.

● Implemented a modern DevOps toolchain using Terraform, Ansible, and Spacelift to achieve 100% automated subscription deployment.

● Automated the provisioning of SQL clusters and Kubernetes (AKS) environments via custom HCL scripts.

IODINE SOFTWARE (via Inceed) Austin, TX Site Reliability Engineer (Contract) Sep 2024 – Jan 2025

● Led a large-scale migration of on-premise software stacks to AWS, maintaining strict NIST 800-172 and HIPAA compliance.

● Architected global DNS resolution across 16 AWS accounts and 3 on-premise datacenters using BIND and Route53.

● Developed robust AMI and EKS deployment pipelines in GitLab, integrating Docker Compose for containerized stack management.

● Orchestrated secure VPN connectivity for 80+ clients into isolated VPCs, optimizing routing and security group configurations.

DUKE HEALTH SYSTEMS Durham, NC Cloud Systems Engineer (AWS/Azure) Apr 2021 – Jun 2024

● Co-Led the greenfield establishment of Duke Health’s Azure cloud presence, automating subscription lifecycles via GitLab CI/CD. With a Powershell generating a base Hub Spoke style of network access. Introduced a PaloAlto firewall for security and routing between onPrem and subscription VNETS. Set security policies and governance controls using Management groups, Policies, combined with RBAC and Azure Entra(Active Directory).

● Managed 6+ Petabytes of High-Performance Computing (HPC) data, designing a

"Storage-as-a-Service" product integrating Azure Blob, On-prem Object Storage, and AWS Glacier.

● Automated the deployment of 200+ research VMs using PowerShell and ARM templates, significantly accelerating data science workflows.

● Engineered a multi-cloud hub-and-spoke network architecture utilizing On-Prem PaloAlto, Azure ExpressRoute, and AWS DirectConnect for seamless hybrid-cloud communication.

● Designed a uniform Keyvault structure to empower the automation platform and abstract the user level access. Combined the SSL management controls into a single platform.

● Found over $39,000 a month of incorrect billing from Microsoft causing a refund to multiple budgets within Duke.

LEXISNEXIS (via Select Group) Raleigh, NC Cloud Engineer (Contract) Jan 2019 – Mar 2019

● Delivered $20,000/month in cost savings by conducting an enterprise-wide audit and right-sizing EBS storage usage across all AWS instances.

● Optimized Blue/Green deployment pipelines using Jenkins and Ansible to reduce production downtime and isolate deployment failures. SAS INSTITUTE (via Kelly Services) Cary, NC Cloud Architect (Contract) Jun 2018 – Nov 2018

● Automated multi-region platform deployments across London, Singapore, Ireland, and Sydney using CloudFormation.

● Established governance frameworks by configuring centralized CloudTrail alerts and auditing 22 VPCs using Scout2.

EARLIER PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

● PEARSON (AWS Resource): Built AWS migration platforms for Oracle E-Business Suite using Packer and Lambda.

● B&D NA (Lead Systems Engineer): Led the construction and migration of AZ.GOV portal applications from VMware to AWS, implementing centralized logging via Elasticsearch, new security controls and Active Directory deployments.

● INTEL (Infrastructure Engineer): Configured Citrix XenServer environments and automated .NET code deployments using Jenkins and ANT.

● APRIVA (Sr. Systems Engineer): Managed high-availability Oracle WebLogic and Database 11g environments on Oracle Linux. Engineered a greenfield VMWare 5-6 Platform for client Pepsi.

● WELLS FARGO (Web Systems Engineer): Developed a proprietary hosting controller to streamline Linux environment support.

EDUCATION & VOLUNTEER WORK

Volunteer Data Engineer Easter Seals of Arizona (June 2006 – Nov 2018)

● Leveraged Azure Databricks and Data Factory for data mining and reporting on the Lake Powell water crisis.

● Modernized a donation platform supporting 16 individual programs. Professional Certifications & Training (Available upon request)

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