Robert Johnson

Leads a multidisciplinary Enterprise Infrastructure team, transitioning previously disparate operational roles into a unified, capable platform engineering organization:

• Manages and mentors a team of Linux administrators, cloud engineers, and telecommunications application architects
• Drives the consolidation of siloed infrastructure, cloud, and telecom application support functions into a cohesive platform engineering practice
• Establishes shared tooling, standards, and workflows spanning Linux administration, cloud engineering, and telecom application architecture disciplines
• Builds internal platform capabilities to improve reliability, self-service, and delivery speed for enterprise systems
• Partners with university stakeholders to align infrastructure strategy with institutional technology goals

Client Cloud Migrations:

• Built custom Terraform for a Java application, designing for high availability in AWS
• Built custom CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins
• Provided GRC consulting to help clients mature their organization for SOC II readiness

Platform Engineering for Custom Software Stack:

• Worked on the internal platform engineering team to support product deployments, infrastructure, and performance
• Used tools including AWS, Jenkins, VMWare Management, Gitlab CI/CD, Red Hat Linux, Kubernetes, Argo CD, and Hashicorp Vault
• Monitored key metrics, including MongoDB performance and custom application uptime, across numerous systems using Zabbix

Client facing workloads and Advisory:

• Managed and conducted Cloud Risk Assessments for several national and global clients, in both Life Sciences & Healthcare and Securities & Exchange industries
• Authored Solution Guides (documentation and Terraform scripts) for Google Cloud FedRAMP clients
• Implemented and architected Google Cloud Interconnect for a large metropolitan municipality
• Led Cloud Modernization initiatives using Terraform and CI/CD methodologies
• Gathered security requirements for a large Google Cloud migration at a financial industry client

Created and managed customer cloud environments in Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Rackspace and Microsoft Azure. Supervised the IFS team for internal and external customer support. Was accountable, both technically and managerially, for the following projects:

• Directed implementation of the company’s security model hosting customer workloads and data, including PHI and PII
• Built a new microservice architecture using Kubernetes on Google Cloud
• Ramped up a new ML initiative at a Fortune 500, multinational financial institution
• Built a new application pipeline for a national healthcare provider on Google Cloud
• Hosted cloud environments for many clients’ Business Intelligence platforms, including one of the “Big Four” financial firms
• Built and maintained SLAs using native Google Cloud Platform (Stackdriver at the time, now Google Cloud Observability) tools and SRE leading practices to ensure reliability and performance

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 teams and interactions with clients

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

• Built a dynamic web application that served millions of users annually, built on top of AWS services
• Built custom CRM and ERP applications to service a multi-million dollar ministry, meeting PCI-DSS compliance requirements
• Built custom data storage solutions for highly sensitive data, including storage arrays for petabytes of information
• Managed cybersecurity efforts, including VPNs, vulnerability management (OpenVAS and others), IDS/IPS, and firewalls
• Served as an elder, 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
• Applied deep knowledge of NIST, Sarbanes-Oxley, and other industry risk and compliance frameworks