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Ashton Felix

@ashtonfelix

Cloud infrastructure engineer with 10+ years building AWS/Azure/GCP and hybrid environments, optimizing cost and security with IaC.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a role where I can own cloud infrastructure end-to-end—using IaC, automation, and monitoring—while strengthening security governance, improving reliability, and delivering measurable cost and performance outcomes in hybrid environments.

I’m a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with 10+ years of hands-on experience managing production AWS and hybrid on-premises environments. I focus on cloud operations, Infrastructure as Code, automation, monitoring, and IAM governance—especially in regulated environments.

I’ve driven measurable AWS cost reductions, including cutting monthly cloud spend from $13,000 to $5,000 (62%) by eliminating waste across EC2, RDS, ALB, EBS, EIP, S3, and MongoDB. I also led modernization work that containerized legacy applications with Docker, reducing deployment times by 75% and improving operational supportability.

My approach is security-forward and scalable: I implement least-privilege access controls, SSO/Federation (ADFS, Okta), and MFA (Duo), and I support security tooling across vulnerability management and endpoint protection. I’ve also built and maintained PCI-DSS environments, including managing critical evidence for certification.

Across my roles, I automate and standardize delivery using Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, and scripting in Python/Bash, while keeping visibility tight with Prometheus/Grafana, ELK, and alerting via Opsgenie and Zabbix. I’m at my best bridging development and operations with clear documentation and fast incident response to keep systems reliable.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Current

Totality Solutions, LLC

Jun 2025 - Present (1 year)

Led an AWS cost optimization engagement, reducing monthly cloud spend from $13,000 to $5,000 (62%) by eliminating waste across EC2, RDS, ALB, EBS, EIP, S3, and MongoDB. Architected a Proxmox HA cluster to migrate staging and development off AWS while maintaining a break-glass AWS VPC for recovery.

AWS Cost Explorer Cost Optimization Proxmox VE S3 Lifecycle Policies EBS Snapshot Management Docker Snyk OpenVas

DevOps Engineer

INTELEPEER

Jun 2022 - Oct 2024 (2 years 4 months)

Managed production hybrid AWS and on-prem infrastructure, modernizing a legacy PM2-managed Node.js stack by containerizing with Docker and cutting deployment times by 75%. Built and operated Terraform-based provisioning and end-to-end GitLab CI/CD pipelines across development, staging, and production.

Terraform Docker Gitlab CI Python BASH OpsGenie Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure

System Engineer

Great Healthworks

Sep 2019 - Jun 2022 (2 years 9 months)

Led an AWS cost optimization initiative, reducing monthly cloud spend from $120,000 to under $40,000 and saving $960,000 annually by refining RDS, EBS, S3, and EC2 configurations. Planned and deployed an isolated PCI-DSS environment and implemented monitoring and security upgrades that replaced SolarWinds/Monitis, saving $70,000 per year.

PCI DSS PFsense Okta Terraform Zabbix

System Administrator

Great Healthworks

Sep 2017 - Sep 2019 (2 years)

Architected and deployed on-prem infrastructure for newly acquired clients, including network segmentation, pfSense firewalls, XEN/XCP-NG hypervisor clusters, DFS, DNS/DHCP, and Active Directory. Implemented high-availability on-prem ADFS for SSO and established SLA and monitoring practices to support 99.9% uptime.

Segmentation PFsense Xen DFS DNS DHCP Active Directory ADFS SSO SSO Federation Root Cause Analysis

NOC Technician I

Great Healthworks

Sep 2015 - Sep 2017 (2 years)

Resolved NOC tickets for internal and MSP clients while maintaining SLA targets through 24/7 on-call coverage and incident escalation. Monitored systems and performed vulnerability scans and Veeam restore testing, supporting Windows Server/Linux and virtualization environments.

VMWare Proxmox VE Windows Server Veeam Restore Testing Vulnerability Testing