Launch Consulting GroupLead Principal, Enterprise Cloud Architect
Apr. 2023Seattle, Washington, United States- Led a team of Cloud Solution Engineers for Azure, AWS, and GCP deployments, prioritizing industry-leading architecture and security in both cloud and on-premises environments.
- Discussed right-sizing environments, including forecasting of resources and expenditure using cost analysis via FinOps standards.
- Communicated resource management policy, including tagging and naming standards within GCP (labels), AWS (Tags), and Azure (Tags).
- Engaged in discussions with stakeholders to ensure projects were moving in the right direction.
- Adhered to INCOSE, MITRE standards of practice, providing in-depth system architecture design analysis to Cloud Solutions Architects and Enterprise Systems Engineers.
- Utilized Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform and CloudFormation.
- Employed Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and scalability.
- Leveraged serverless computing (AWS Lambda, Azure Functions) for resource optimization.
- Implemented DevOps with CI/CD pipelines.
- Monitored resources using AWS CloudWatch and Azure Monitor.
- Ensured cloud security through IAM, encryption, and network security groups.
- Leveraged Databricks, Snowflake and Palantir for AWS and Azure data lake houses for both Azure, AWS, GCP.
- Utilized load balancing via Palo Alto firewalls as a clientless VPN to monitor for suspicious activity.
- Implemented Azure B2C for authentication in highly protected environments.
- Used route tables to grant needed access for each ACL.
- Configured Hub and Spoke networking to allow access to database servers behind garden wall network architecture.
- Designed network architecture for application-heavy environments.