IT and networking professional with 10+ years of experience transitioning into cloud security engineering. CompTIA Security+ and CySA+ certified. Currently building a 30-day AWS hands-on portfolio — provisioning infrastructure, writing Lambda functions in Python, and documenting every architecture decision. Home lab runs Wazuh SIEM, Cowrie honeypot, and Cloudflare Zero Trust. Open to Kansas City area and fully remote Cloud Security Engineer and Cloud Engineer roles.
Serverless event-driven pipeline replacing a manual insurance document workflow. S3 triggers Lambda on upload, writes a compliance audit trail to DynamoDB, and delivers real-time ops notifications via SNS. Least-privilege IAM throughout.
30-day AWS hands-on challenge in progress. New projects added daily — serverless, VPC architecture, IaC, CI/CD, and cloud security tooling.
Projects covering CloudFront, VPC design, RDS, GuardDuty, WAF, Terraform IaC, and CI/CD pipelines are in the pipeline.
Production-configured Wazuh SIEM stack on VirtualBox, secured behind Cloudflare Zero Trust and publicly accessible at a custom domain. Three active agents reporting real-time security events including a Cowrie SSH honeypot on Raspberry Pi.
Full Kali Linux desktop accessible from any browser via Apache Guacamole over Docker, secured behind Cloudflare Zero Trust. No VPN required. Zero ports exposed to the internet.
Three attack scenarios — Nmap recon, Hydra brute force, Metasploit — captured as live Wazuh detections. Rule 5763 fired 6 times across two campaigns. Full SOC analyst triage documented.
Seeking Cloud Security Engineer and Cloud Engineer roles in Kansas City — open to fully remote opportunities nationwide.