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Justin M. Swanner

Justin M. Swanner

New Albany,IN

Summary

Competent and reliable Cloud Computing Professional with experience leading and managing Infrastructure Automation projects and Cloud Security Posture Management integration within large enterprises. Dedicated in pursuing a life-long career implementing technological solutions to real world business and/or government problems.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
12
12

Certifications

Work History

Cloud Security Engineer

Raytheon Technologies
05.2021 - Current
  • Worked with a range of software and infrastructure teams to define, build and maintain cloud environments with focus on embedding security operations and shifting security and compliance left.
  • Provided technical leadership in adopting CSPM tools (Wiz and Prisma Cloud) into the company's overall security posture.
  • Identified, analyzed and resolved infrastructure and OS level vulnerabilities in a very large and very siloed international company.
  • Assisted in the development of an automated CMMC & Nist 800-171 ETL platform that would produce a high level overview of compliance of different cloud environments and distribute ITSM tickets to team responsible for non-compliant resources.

Senior Cloud Engineer

Perspecta
09.2018 - 07.2019
  • Behind the Army’s Enterprise Cloud Management’s Office responsible for designing the creation of a “Migration Factory” that will move over 1000 legacy Army applications from on-premise datacenters to the future state of full modernization and optimization in the customer’s Cloud Service Provider or Hybrid environment
  • Daily interaction with top-level executives within the military, government, and civilian sectors with an emphasis on bridging the customer’s strategic objectives with technical implementation
  • Responsible for architecting and implementing the migration and integration of multiple Commercial-Off-The-Shelf products into AWS while ensuring DOD security and compliance to further enhance the US Army’s mission of maximizing cloud capabilities and mission effectiveness.
  • Designed and built an end-to-end automated AMI migration product using Step Functions, Lambda, and Python nested within an Infrastructure as Code template with the flexibility to deploy in many different environments
  • Leading the architecture, engineering, and design of the integration of 100+ disparate AWS accounts under one centrally governed, secure master organization that will provide federated identity access, centralized logging across all accounts, automated account creation and migration, and a centralized dashboard for security monitoring and rule application
  • Applying the DevOps process from initial ticket submission to the handover of a fully configured, secure account to the customer
  • Led multiple well-architected sessions with customer to help them pass a stringent design review for a cloud-based cybersecurity forensic & penetration testing lab environment
  • Designated as a company subject matter expert in AWS/Cloud technologies with responsibilities including authoring articles in a company blog and guiding other employees along their certification path.

Cloud Architect & Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton
09.2018 - 07.2019
  • Build, and manage a load balanced, auto-scaling, Kubernetes cluster orchestrating multiple services necessary to run a continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline in which various federal agencies and departments leverage for DevOps code development
  • Built a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) SP 800-53 (Revision 4) based framework in AWS in order to ensure all deployed services remain FEDRAMP and DOD CC SRG compliant along with creating the necessary documentation for government IA and cyber security approval
  • Design and build a secure automated Identity Federation Service with Cognito, S3, Keycloak, SAML, & LDAP integration
  • Design and build an Infrastructure-as-Code Deployment of EC2, CloudWatch, S3, IAM groups, policies & users, ELB, and CloudFormation
  • Automating the infrastructure baseline for over 200 servers using RedHat’s Satellite and Ansible to meet DOD STIG compliance on RHEL servers
  • Led the design/build of an automated testing infrastructure using GitLab, Ansible, AWS, Molecule, Docker, &
  • Jenkins
  • Leading the coordination of multiple government contracting teams at the 2019 AWS Public Sector Summit
  • Responsible for the design, deployment, and maintenance of production-scale systems
  • Provide support services before systems go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews
  • Continuously measure, monitor, and maximize availability, efficiency, and performance of live services, applications, and systems.

Solutions Architect Apprentice

Amazon Web Services
03.2018 - 10.2018
  • Designed, built, and presented a solution that would collect, process, and analyze data utilizing a data lake concept with AWS technologies such as S3, Cognito, Glue, Athena, Redshift, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, and Elasticsearch
  • Designed, built, and presented a scalable, highly available, and secure 3-tier Web Application using AWS Cloud Services
  • Lauded as a “bar-raising” performance that demonstrated good public presentation skills and empathy towards the customer
  • Assisted in build of a real-time Sports Voting Application using API Gateway, Lambda, Redis, Kinesis, EC2, S3, Quicksight, Python scripts for testing, and NodeJS/HTML for UI
  • Design, both technically compliant and secure Cloud solutions, as well as value-based, on-demand services to facilitate the effective transition and migration of projects and programs into unique and adaptive cloud environments

Operations Officer, Project Manager

United States Air Force
01.2017 - 03.2018
  • Ability to understand and proactively partner with key leadership personnel at all levels, in full support of unit objectives, while ensuring compliance with US Government policies
  • Developing and implementing processes, procedures, methodologies, mechanisms and strategies to ensure continually high compliance levels
  • Supervise, lead, and develop a 53 member team of Nuclear Weapons Officers in operations and mission planning in order to securely oversee $3.3 billion in federal assets
  • Establish, enforce, and maintain high performance standards for all junior personnel within the unit
  • Responsible for training of 30 Junior Officers and Team Leads for greater operations responsibilities
  • Led a 10 day, 24/7 mission to change critical components of 50 ballistic missiles during the most demanding operation of the year
  • Formally evaluating individuals on a quarterly and yearly basis to help members achieve professional and personal growth
  • Designated SME “subject matter expert” by Assistant Director of Operations out of 130 individuals to provide operator insight and knowledge for a future DOD weapon system
  • Assign individual roles based on performance standards to ensure successful project implementation
  • Present official emergency and safety training to 20+ members on a weekly basis

Operations Officer, Team Lead

United States Air Force
01.2016 - 01.2017
  • Experience leading in a team-oriented, collaborative environment in which priorities can change rapidly
  • Experience working with, and presenting to, executive level management, senior DOD acquisition and oversight officials, and large groups of personnel
  • Managed the Professional Development Program for 50+ individuals in assigned unit
  • Reviewed, updated and drafted new standards for professional development program for onboarding status of incoming personnel which resulted in a 300 percent improvement in participation rate
  • Presented to the Secretary of the Air Force and Wing Commanders on leading an exceptional operation in the missile field due to extreme weather

Operations Officer, Technical Expert

United States Air Force
11.2013 - 12.2015
  • The Internal Control Program; uphold protocols and standards within the unit and implement process improvement initiatives throughout the unit
  • Directed and monitored Security Forces members to respond to security situations
  • Liaison between senior management and entry level personnel, technical expert to manage and solve problems
  • Ability to identify a wide range of technical issues and leverage a network of resources to resolve those issues in a timely and effective manner
  • Led and coordinated multiple presentations that were the product of the collection, evaluation, analysis, integration, and interpretation of all available information that was significant to unit project planning
  • Rapidly responded to weapon system anomalies and emergency situations to determine root cause of the problem and led teams through corrective actions

Education

Master’s Certificate - Software Engineering

North Dakota State University
12.2017

Master’s Degree - Political Science

University of Louisville

Skills

  • Programming Languages: Python, Terraform, YAML, Bash
  • Methodology: DevSecOps, SDLC, OOP, Scrum, Agile
  • CSPM: Wiz, Prisma Cloud
  • Other: Linux, Microsoft, AWS, Azure, CI/CD, Kubernetes, GitLab, GitHub, Ansible, Docker, Apache Airflow

Certification

Certified Scrum Master

Comptia Security+

Comptia Linux+ & LPIC-1 System Administrator

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS Certified Developer Associate

AWS Certified Developer Associate

AWS Certified SysOps Associate

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional

AWS Certified Security Specialty

AWS Certified Big Data Specialty

AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty

Additional Information

Awards/Recognition:

  • May 2019: Nominated and Selected for Booz Allen Hamilton Gold Award for leading Infrastructure Automation
  • Dec 2017: Ranked in top 3 for best Team Lead and Technical Operator out of 20 personnel
  • Nov 2017: Air Force Achievement Medal for professionalism during a continuous 10-day military operation
  • Aug 2017: Recognized and awarded title of #1 Project Lead
  • Jan 2014: Most Outstanding Officer Trainee of the Week

Timeline

Cloud Security Engineer

Raytheon Technologies
05.2021 - Current

Senior Cloud Engineer

Perspecta
09.2018 - 07.2019

Cloud Architect & Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton
09.2018 - 07.2019

Solutions Architect Apprentice

Amazon Web Services
03.2018 - 10.2018

Operations Officer, Project Manager

United States Air Force
01.2017 - 03.2018

Operations Officer, Team Lead

United States Air Force
01.2016 - 01.2017

Operations Officer, Technical Expert

United States Air Force
11.2013 - 12.2015

Master’s Certificate - Software Engineering

North Dakota State University

Master’s Degree - Political Science

University of Louisville

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