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Monty Sylvan

@montysylvan

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AWS Platform Administrator driving secure, cost-efficient, and highly available cloud infrastructure.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I am seeking cloud platform or CloudOps roles where I can improve availability, reduce cost, strengthen security, and automate infrastructure while collaborating cross-functionally.

I am an AWS Platform Administrator with 3+ years designing, administering, and operating secure, scalable AWS environments across development and production workloads. I specialize in IAM & RBAC, VPC networking, monitoring, incident response, and cost optimization, and I automate infrastructure with Terraform, CloudFormation, and CDK to ensure consistent, auditable deployments.

I have improved platform availability to meet 99.9% uptime, reduced AWS costs by ~20%, and cut MTTR by ~25% through monitoring, alerting, and documented runbooks. I collaborate closely with developers, project managers, and stakeholders to translate requirements into reliable platform solutions and strengthen governance and security posture.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Cloud Platform Engineer

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Procore

Mar 2022 - Present (3 years 10 months)

Administered multi-account AWS infrastructure to meet 99.9% uptime, reduced AWS costs ~20% via rightsizing and scheduling, and improved MTTR ~25% through enhanced monitoring and incident response.

AWS EC2 RDS S3 VPC Terraform CloudFormation Cloudwatch Cost Optimization Incident Response EKS CI CD

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

DevOps on AWS Apprenticeship Program

Certificate, Cloud Infrastructure Operations, Security & Automation

Activities and societies: Labs and projects on VPC design, IAM and RBAC, CloudFormation, Terraform, CloudWatch monitoring, and AWS cost management.

Hands-on program covering cloud infrastructure operations, security, automation, monitoring, and cost management with practical labs in AWS services and IaC.