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Alexander Ansong

@alexanderansong

I build secure AWS and Azure platforms through infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, and DevSecOps automation.

I architect secure multi-cloud platforms for U.S. Department of Defense and Department of Commerce clients at Groundswell, using Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, and Argo CD.

I've built and governed AWS and Azure infrastructure, production EKS and AKS platforms, secrets management, FIPS-compliant RHEL 8 AMI automation, and event-driven cloud services. My work translates FedRAMP, NIST, SOC 2, and FIPS requirements into technical safeguards, audit evidence, and remediation.

Across Groundswell, TAKE2 Consulting, Xpect Solutions, BigBear AI, and NAVSEA, I've led cloud modernization, Kubernetes operations, CI/CD, observability, IAM hardening, and network security for mission-critical environments.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

GR

Current

Sr. Cloud Architect / Sr. DevSecOps Engineer

Current

Groundswell

Nov 2023 - Present (2 years 10 months)

Architected and governed secure, scalable multi-cloud platforms across AWS and Azure using Terraform, OpenTofu, and Pulumi. Led enterprise IaC modernization, DevSecOps automation, and cloud security hardening.

TC

Snr. Cloud Solutions Engineer

TAKE2 Consulting

Nov 2022 - Nov 2023 (1 year)

Architected and implemented enterprise CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD. Designed reusable Terraform modules and managed Amazon EKS clusters, integrating Argo CD for GitOps.

Jenkins GitLab CI CD Terraform AWS Amazon EKS ArgoCD Rancher SonarQube Sonatype Nexus Lambda EventBridge Cloudwatch Splunk Prometheus Grafana EC2 VPC ALB AutoScaling S3 RDS

XS

AWS Cloud Engineer

Xpect Solutions

Jun 2020 - Nov 2022 (2 years 5 months)

Engineered reusable Terraform Infrastructure as Code solutions for AWS. Designed and maintained automated Jenkins CI/CD pipelines and provisioned Amazon EKS platforms.

Terraform Jenkins AWS Amazon EKS Kubernetes IAM VPC Linux BASH Ansible Git RHEL CentOS Ubuntu

BA

Cloud Solutions Architect

BigBear AI

Jun 2016 - Jun 2020 (4 years)

Architected enterprise SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and on-premises solutions with focus on scalability and security. Led development of enterprise AWS cloud architecture and established governance standards.

AWS Cloud Architecture SaaS PaaS IaaS Infrastructure as Code DevSecOps CI CD Security Governance

NA

NOC Engineer

NAVSEA

Jul 2014 - Jun 2016 (1 year 11 months)

Administered and sustained mission-critical network and IT infrastructure. Engineered and supported Cisco routing, switching, and network-security technologies.

Cisco Routing Switching Wireless Network Security Subnetting EIGRP OSPF WAN LAN Remedy DISA STIGs Splunk

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

AW

AWS

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, Cloud Architecture

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional certification.

CF

Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Kubernetes Administration

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification.

CO

CompTIA

CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) ce Certification, Security

CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) ce Certification.

CO

CompTIA

CompTIA Security+ ce Certification, Security

CompTIA Security+ ce Certification.

CO

CompTIA

CompTIA PenTest+ ce Certification, Penetration Testing

CompTIA PenTest+ ce Certification.

MT

Missouri University of Science and Technology

Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Engineering

2012 - 2016

Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology, completed in May 2016.

Availability

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Location

United States

Authorized to work in

Salary expectations

165k+ USD

Job categories

Cloud Architect DevSecOps Engineer Cloud Engineer Cloud Solutions Engineer Network Operations Center Engineer

Skills

AWS Cloud Engineering Azure DevSecOps Infrastructure as Code Terraform Terraform Enterprise Terragrunt OpenTofu Pulumi TerraCognita CloudFormation HashiCorp Sentinel Policy as Code Configuration Management Ansible CI CD Jenkins Maven SonarQube Sonatype Nexus Junit Trivy Snyk GitHub CI Gitlab GitHub Actions Azure DevOps GitHub GitOps ArgoCD Argo CD Image Updater Docker Podman Kubernetes Amazon EKS AKS Helm Rancher Istio Container Security AWS ECS EC2 S3 Amazon ECR Azure Container Registry IAM VPC AWS Lambda Azure Functions Amazon EventBridge Cloudwatch CloudTrail Prometheus Grafana Kibana ELK Stack azure monitor Splunk Amazon API Gateway Amazon MSK (Kafka)Amazon SNS Amazon SQS AWS KMS AWS CodeSign AWS Certificate Manager AWS Secrets Manager Azure Key Vault AWS Config AWS Control Tower AWS Security Hub AWS Sagemaker AWS AWS Systems Manager AWS Backup AWS WAF Amazon Cloudfront Transit Gateway Route 53 AWS Elastic Load Balancing ...Azure Application Gateways AutoScaling Amazon RDS DynamoDB AWS GovCloud AWS SDK AWS CDK Python BASH KornShell UNIX Shell Scripting GitBash SQL Server MySQL PostgreSQL MongoDB RHEL CentOS Ubuntu Windows FIPS FedRAMP NIST SOC2 DISA STIGs CIS Benchmarks Threat Modeling Network Security DNS DHCP Apache Nginx Cisco Routers Cisco Switching Wireless Networking EIGRP OSPF WAN LAN Prowler Remedy AWS Solutions Architecture Kubernetes Administration

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