JOSEPH ASKA
Sachse
Summary
Results-driven infrastructure leader with 7+ years of experience designing, operating, and optimizing large-scale cloud and hybrid environments. Proven ability to manage mission-critical systems with high availability, strong security controls, and cost efficiency. Brings a data center manager mindset rooted in capacity planning, operational excellence, incident management, and cross-functional leadership, with deep hands-on expertise in cloud infrasturctures, networking, monitoring, and automation.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Cloud Solutions Architect
Southwest Airlines
04.2022 - Current
- Designed and operated highly available, secure infrastructure supporting enterprise-scale airline systems with strict uptime and compliance requirements.
- Led migrations from on-premises environments to AWS, reducing operational risk while improving system resilience and scalability.
- Implemented monitoring, logging, and alerting strategies that improved incident response times and maintained 99.9% system uptime.
- Performed capacity planning and cost optimization, reducing infrastructure spend by 25% through right-sizing, Reserved Instances, and usage analysis.
- Built and managed network architectures (VPCs, subnets, security groups, NAT gateways) aligned with data center security and segmentation best practices.
- Developed standardized deployment pipelines and infrastructure templates to ensure consistency, reliability, and faster recovery.
Cloud Solutions Architect
Design Data Systems Inc
03.2020 - 04.2022
- Managed scalable infrastructure environments supporting internal and customer-facing applications.
- Implemented load balancing and auto-scaling strategies to handle fluctuating demand and maintain service availability.
- Led cost audits and operational reviews, delivering a 25% reduction in monthly infrastructure expenses.
- Created repeatable infrastructure designs using Infrastructure as Code to reduce configuration drift and operational errors.
- Supported production environments by troubleshooting performance, network, and system-level issues.
Cloud Engineering Intern
North Texas Technology Group
02.2019 - 02.2020
- Supported day-to-day infrastructure operations, including compute, storage, IAM, and monitoring.
- Assisted with application migrations, server provisioning, and access control implementation.
- Automated infrastructure tasks using Python scripts, improving operational efficiency.
- Monitored system health metrics and resolved incidents to maintain service availability.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Economics
University of Central Oklahoma
Skills
- Infrastructure Platforms: AWS (EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch, Auto Scaling)
- DevOps & Automation: CloudFormation, Docker, Jenkins, Git, Kubernetes, CI/CD
- Networking: Load Balancers, Subnets, Security Groups, NAT Gateways, DNS
- Monitoring & Reliability: CloudWatch, ELK Stack, uptime SLAs, cloud-to-data-center parity
- Scripting & Data: Python, Bash, SQL
- Cost Optimization
- Experience in managing infrastructure at scale with airline-level reliability expectations
- Team Collaboration & Technical Leadership
Certification
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- AWS Certified Developer – Associate
Timeline
Cloud Solutions Architect
Southwest Airlines
04.2022 - Current
Cloud Solutions Architect
Design Data Systems Inc
03.2020 - 04.2022
Cloud Engineering Intern
North Texas Technology Group
02.2019 - 02.2020
Bachelor of Science - Economics
University of Central Oklahoma