Deland Kume

Architected and maintained scalable AWS GovCloud platform infrastructure using modular Terraform, including VPCs, ECS Fargate, ALBs, Transit Gateway, VPC endpoints, IAM, KMS, WAF, networking and reusable deployment patterns. Designed GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, and Helm deployments for DoD Big Bang workloads on GovCloud, integrating SonarQube, Kyverno, Trivy, and AWS Cloud One to enforce automated secur

Perform preventive and corrective maintenance, troubleshooting and repair of tactical diesel power-generation systems supporting mission requirements. Maintain equipment readiness, maintenance documentation and accountability records while supporting unit operational requirements.

Automated Linux security hardening and configuration management using Ansible, including SELinux policy and enforcement, system permissions, patching, service configuration, host firewall controls, and security baselines. Owned GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, and Helm deployments for DoD Big Bang workloads on AWS GovCloud, integrating SonarQube, Kyverno, Trivy, Docker, EKS and AWS Cloud One.

Hardened AWS accounts using CIS Benchmark controls and AWS Config rules, authored SCPs across AWS Organizations restricting high-risk API actions, and maintained security guardrails. Administered CyberArk PAM for enterprise-scale privileged access on AWS, configuring Vault encryption and PSM session recording aligned to PCI-DSS and SOX audit requirements.

Built and managed Kubernetes environments on EKS and GKE, deploying applications with Helm and securing workload identity using IRSA on AWS and Workload Identity Federation on GCP. Designed and operated multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP, covering VPC design, subnet segmentation, Transit Gateway, Cloud NAT, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud SQL, and GCP IAM policy management.

Developed and maintained AWS infrastructure automation using Terraform, CloudFormation, and AWS CDK, creating repeatable infrastructure patterns for networking, compute, IAM, security controls, and application services. Built Jenkins CI/CD pipelines with ArgoCD and Helm, deploying to Amazon EKS across dev, staging, and production.

Designed and deployed AWS infrastructure using CloudFormation and early Terraform, covering VPCs, ALBs, RDS Multi-AZ, and EC2 Auto Scaling Groups for hybrid cloud connectivity. Led cloud migration assessments using AWS CART and executed database migrations to AWS using DMS.

Administered Windows and Linux server environments, managing Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and Group Policy, and hardened servers following CIS Benchmarks. Managed VMware vSphere virtualization, including resource allocation, snapshots, and high availability configuration.

Pursuing a Master of Science in Cloud Computing, expected to complete in 2026.

Earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.