Robert Johnson

Platform Engineering for Custom Software Stack:

• Jenkins CICD
• VMWare Management
• Gitlab
• Red Hat Linux

Client facing workloads and Advisory:

• Managed and conducted Cloud Risk Assessments for several national and global clients, both in Life Sciences & Healthcare and Securities & Exchange clients
• Solution Guides (documentation and Terraform scripts) for Google Cloud FedRAMP clients
• Google Cloud Interconnect implementation and architecture for a large metropolitan municipality
• Cloud Modernization - Terraform, CI/CD methodologies
• Security Requirement Gathering for large Google Cloud migration endeavor in the financial industry

Create and manage customer cloud environments in Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Rackspace and Microsoft Azure. Supervised IFS team for internal and external customer support. Accountable both technically and managerial for the following projects:

• Responsible for creating and directing implementation of company security model that hosted customer workloads and data, including PHI and PII
• Building out a new microservice architecture using Kubernetes on Google Cloud
• Ramping up a new ML initiative at a Fortune 500, multinational financial institution
• Worked with building a new application pipeline for a national healthcare provider built in Google Cloud
• Application hosted cloud environments for many clients’ Business Intelligence platforms, including one of the “Big Four” financial firms

Skills Required: Compute Engine, VPCs, Cloud VPN, Firewall, HA Proxy, Google Load Balancers, Snapshots, Google Cloud Storage, Dataproc, Cloud SQL, IAM, Terraform, CI/CD, Jenkins, Bash, Linux; G Suite, Office 365, Cloud Account Billing (Rackspace, Azure, Google Cloud & AWS), Excellent communication skills for managing team and interactions with clients

Lead a team that consisted of network engineers and system administrators, programmers and UI/UX designers. Our team was responsible for:

• Building a dynamic web application that served millions of users annually built on top of AWS services
• Building custom CRM and ERP applications for servicing a multi-million dollar ministry, requiring PCI-DSS compliance
• Building custom data storage solutions for storing highly sensitive data as well, as storage arrays for petabytes of information
• Cybersecurity, VPNs, vulnerability management (OpenVAS and others), IDS/IPS and firewalls
• Served as an elder as well, mentoring and coaching people from various business units

Brought Financial Institutions into cyber compliance; helped small to medium sized businesses leverage technology to best meet their company goals.

• Helped clients mitigate findings from IT audits that were out of regulatory compliance
• Deep knowledge of NIST, Sarbanes-Oxley, and other industry risk and compliance frameworks