Charles A. Kelly
Gaithersburg,MD
Summary
DevSecOps platform engineer with 14+ years of experience in full cycle, Agile, STIG-compliant government solutions. Specializing in CI/CD, infrastructure as code (IaC), and agile cloud infrastructure development. Possesses history of driving infrastructure improvements and automating processes to enhance operational efficiency. Focused on collaborative team efforts and adaptable to dynamic project requirements.
Professional Certifications: CompTIA Security + CE, active; CCNA, active; AWS Certified Solutions Architect- Associate, lapsed 2024; AWS Certified DevOps Engineer- Professional, in progress
Platform engineering professional with deep understanding of system architecture and cloud environments. ensuring dependable and flexible performance. Skilled in infrastructure as code, containerization, and cloud services, valued for reliability and problem-solving abilities.
Overview
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Certification
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years of professional experience
Work History
GenAI Platform Engineer - Project Delivery Manager
Deloitte
Rosslyn, VA
10.2025 - Current
- Lead platform engineer, designing and enhancing the capabilities of a unified $7M Generative AI platform rooted in AWS, serving multiple DHS organizations. This platform leverages multiple LLMs (Azure, Bedrock, Anthropic, etc.) to support a wide range of the mission-related activities; including workflow automation, document processing, and knowledge base querying.
- Onboarded 8 tenants to Keycloak realm and suite of tools using Jenkins as CI orchestrator, aligning tools like N8N, Coder, langfuse, and OpenwebUI with specific AI use cases for each organization.
- Spearheaded the ATO approval process, closing multiple vulnerability gaps and organizing database and Tenable scans with stakeholders.
Project Delivery Manager – DevSecOps Engineer
Deloitte
Rosslyn, VA
01.2024 - 09.2025
- DevSecOps Engineer, administering an AWS EKS cluster supporting approximately 11 product team’s custom applications used by hundreds of analysts for mission objectives. Identifying technology to meet their development challenges and mitigating all failed workloads to maintain environment uptime.
- Deploy secure microservices using CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, Argo, Sonarqube), and writing Infrastructure-as-Code modules via Helm and Terraform; manage and troubleshoot containers with Kubernetes CLI and Rancher.
- Implemented “Coder” IDE as our high-visibility solution to on-demand cloud-hosted development workspaces; critical to product team success while also reducing cloud costs by thousands. Also provisioned key apps like Trivy, Karpenter, and Monit (performance metrics) to the cluster.
- Integrated Model Context Protocol, along with servers into the cluster OpenwebUI, genAI platform.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle America
Reston, VA
05.2022 - 12.2023
- Tier 3 SRE, successfully managing thousands of physical networking devices within the Oracle National Security Realm (ONSR) across six namespaces. Escalated anomalies within the region and led team-wide improvements to process failures.
- Led team on security compliance for six cloud hostclasses across six regions, developing processes with service teams to ensure timely implementation of host updates and execution of manual change requirements for CNOC devices.
- Utilizing a strict Control Management process to deploy configuration updates to docker managed service containers, expansion datacenter blocks, and all other updates via Shepherd application and network control plane automation tools.
- Planning and successfully implemented Nagios application in one of our CNOCs to provide preventative network fault monitoring, certificate expiration notifications, and outage notifications to Tier 1, making our product holistically more reliable for end customers.
Operations Cloud Support Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton
Chantilly, VA
08.2021 - 05.2022
- Using knowledge of DevOps CI/CD pipeline and agile development to support a multi-INT framework, providing hosting, development, and data science tools to enable the rapid development and deployment of over 20 mission IC applications across 3 environments and 3 security domains.
- Utilizing Amazon GovCloud and C2S to manage and troubleshoot user cloud-based application connection to the Clairvoyant platform, managing IAM roles of EC2, S3 access, RDS, Route 53 hostname creation, VPC security groups, etc.
- Troubleshooting end user projects and application deployments using open-source tools such as Git, Harbor, Argo, Kubernetes, Rancher, Jenkins, etc. Troubleshooting with team SMEs to improve processes to prevent reoccurrence.
- Utilizing Markdown language and MkDocs served off a NGINX Docker container to contribute via CI/CD process to front-end web page containing user FAQs and resources.
- Applied leadership skills by training up new staff employees on the Clairvoyant data stack and frequently known issues. Also represented team in SME scrums.
Data Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton
Crystal City, VA
08.2020 - 08.2021
- Utilizing experience with system design, implementation, and consulting to advance an enterprise wide, global ETL DoD application to the mission standards of the “umbrella” platform, while also increasing availability to its users.
- Use of database knowledge and documentation to reverse engineer dataflow between tables and troubleshoot user issues. Creating Splunk dashboards to allow continuous monitoring of log metrics.
Enterprise Security Architect
Booz Allen Hamilton
Washington, DC
08.2018 - 07.2020
- Provide cyber security engineering services to conceptualize, and build secure cross-domain technical solutions, including system architectures and infrastructure, that are operationally viable and efficient for the DoD and Intelligence Community (IC) Enterprise.
- Support the integration of an internally developed application system and security COTS products, which are RMF and STIG compliant, to protect the organization’s systems and enable achievement of organization’s objectives.
- Rewarded Platinum Award for leading the distribution, installation, and connectivity of a ~$5M effort to establish a new physical infrastructure supporting our Cross-Domain Platform-as-a-Service, as well as coordinating the seamless relocation of existing hardware supporting 250K global users.
- Facilitated data center site survey and produced schematics and other documents required to collaborate with various external teams.
- Lead High Speed Guard design and integration of multi-domain Insider Threat project, providing the Agency the ability to identify user activity collected across all national security domains via Kafka streaming.
Education
Masters of Science - Systems Engineering
George Washington University
Washington, DC05-2016
Bachelor of Science - Electrical and Computer Engineering
Morgan State University
Baltimore, MD05-2012
Skills
- Cloud-based infrastructure management
- Infrastructure as Code (terraform, helm)
- Linux system administration
- DevOps methodologies, CI/CD
Certification
CompTIA Security + CE, active;
CCNA, active;
AWS Certified Solutions Architect- Associate, lapsed 2024;
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer- Professional, in progress
Section name
- Top Secret/SCI Clearance w/ CI poly SSBI
- % Willing to Travel: 25%
Timeline
GenAI Platform Engineer - Project Delivery Manager
Deloitte
10.2025 - Current
Project Delivery Manager – DevSecOps Engineer
Deloitte
01.2024 - 09.2025
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle America
05.2022 - 12.2023
Operations Cloud Support Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton
08.2021 - 05.2022
Data Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton
08.2020 - 08.2021
Enterprise Security Architect
Booz Allen Hamilton
08.2018 - 07.2020
Bachelor of Science - Electrical and Computer Engineering
Morgan State University
Masters of Science - Systems Engineering
George Washington University