Senior Cloud Engineer / DevSecOps Lead

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory — February 2020 – Present

• Spearhead Azure Cloud strategy across three environments, driving secure and scalable architecture using Azure Bicep and IaC.
• Manage a small cloud operations team, overseeing budgeting and resource planning for cloud infrastructure and developer tools.
• Designed and implemented IaC pipelines for a developer platform (Forge), reducing maintenance and operations costs by 50%.
• Provide technical leadership in GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes-based GitLab infrastructure, and cloud-native automation with Python and PowerShell.
• Support DevSecOps practices, mentoring developers in secure coding, cloud deployment, and tooling best practices.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure the platform aligns with mission-critical software development and compliance goals.
• Supported cross-cloud deployments and automation in AWS, leveraging native services and IaC tools for hybrid solutions.
• ATO / Compliance (NESTNet): Serve as a key contributor to the ongoing Authority to Operate (ATO) process for NESTNet, preparing system security documentation (SSP, POA&M, assessment artifacts), validating NIST SP 800-53 control implementation, and applying DISA STIG hardening across endpoints and servers. Collaborate with ISSOs, auditors, and system owners to remediate findings and strengthen accreditation readiness.