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Montrez Cox

@montrezcox

Senior Cloud Engineer delivering AWS/IBM migrations and secure CI/CD container platforms with measurable speed and stability gains.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a cloud/DevOps role where I can lead migrations and containerized CI/CD, partner with customers and product teams, and use observability and secure delivery to drive measurable speed, reliability, and developer velocity improvements.

I’m a Senior Cloud Engineer who thrives in customer-facing environments—co-leading Container Immersion Day workshops with Solutions Architects and guiding teams through hands-on adoption and best practices. I’ve advised on AWS environment setup and architecture, then helped organizations modernize from on-prem infrastructure to IBM Cloud and managed platforms with a focus on reliability, security, and measurable outcomes.

In my current role at Archymedes, I led a migration from on-prem to IBM Cloud (including IBM Cloud Code Engine), set up IBM Watsonx Orchestrate for an LLM reasoning workflow aligned to product goals, and built CI/CD automation using GitHub Actions and IBM Code Engine that improved deployment speed by 40%. Previously at AWS as a DevOps Consultant, I migrated workloads from OpenShift to Amazon services, built reusable Terraform modules (including an RDS component reused across 7+ environments), automated CI/CD with GitLab, integrated ELK for observability (cutting MTTR by 40%), and mentored junior consultants through the AWS Container SME program.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Cloud Engineer

Current

Archymedes

Aug 2024 - Present (1 year 10 months)

Led migration from on-prem infrastructure to IBM Cloud using IBM Cloud Code Engine, streamlining operations. Built CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and IBM Cloud Code Engine to automate container builds and deployments, improving deployment speed by 40% and reducing server management overhead.

Terraform CI CD Docker GitHub Actions Nginx

DevOps Consultant

Amazon Web Services

Jan 2021 - Aug 2024 (3 years 7 months)

Partnered with Solutions Architects to run Container Immersion Day workshops and advise customers on container platforms and AWS environment setup and architecture. Migrated workloads from OpenShift to Amazon services, improving stability and increasing developer velocity by 20%, while reducing deployment times by 30% and MTTR by 40% with ELK-based monitoring.

AWS Cloud Architecture Terraform CI CD Gitlab Container Platforms Docker Monitoring & MTTR Reduction

Software Engineer

Weems Design Studio

May 2019 - Dec 2020 (1 year 7 months)

Developed web applications and RESTful services using Java Spring Boot, Hibernate, and Docker within an Agile Scrum workflow. Automated deployments with Jenkins, maintained branching and code review practices, and supported UAT/production troubleshooting using log analysis and monitoring.

Java Spring Boot Hibernate Docker SQL Jenkins RESTful APIs Logging And Monitoring Agile Scrum

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Valdosta State University

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Activities and societies: President of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (Spring 2019); participated in ICPC coding competitions (2016–2018); participated in hackathons (2015–2019).

Earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Valdosta State University.