Modestus Nwadike
Severn,Maryland
Summary
Have 6 plus years of comprehensive experience in the IT industry particularly as an AWS Solutions Architect. I'm experienced in deploying and managing various AWS Services including EC2, VPC (NAT, VPN, IAM, Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, S3, Cloud Front, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Route 53, cloud watch, Cloud Formation, SNS, SQS, Lambda, ELB, etc. Have strong aptitude to analyze and resolve problems. I'm Proactive with Good Leadership, organizational and Management skills.
- I also in-depth experience in Risk Management Framework (RMF), Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and Vulnerabilities Management, and well knowledgeable of many security
- Tools, such as tenable nessus, Nmap, wireshark. Information Security Specialist with a
- Passion for aligning security architecture plans and processes with security standards and
- Business goals, with notable success in the planning, assessment, analysis, and implementation.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
AWS Cloud Architect
The Veteran Affairs medical center
Baltimore, MD
09.2019 - Current
- Designed multi-tier architecture to setup infrastructure in AWS for web server, database server, load balancers & Route53
- Designed fault tolerant, scalable and robust architecture after collecting the requirements from the stakeholders
- Created user accounts, policies and roles on Amazon Web Services using IAM
- Migrated data from on-premise SQL Server to AWS RDS using Data migration service
- Created a lambda function to read the logs from Code Build and ingest logs in LogDNA tool
- Created YAML template to spin the infrastructure (VPC, EC2, RDS, Security Groups) using
- AWS Cloud Formation
- Identify access issues and assign required policies to IAM users and roles
- Created S3 bucket policy to enable cross account bucket access and generated JSON policies using policy generator tool.
AWS Cloud Engineer
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, Maryland
08.2017 - 08.2019
- Designed, configured and deployed Amazon Web Services (AWS) for applications utilizing the AWS stack (Including EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Cloud Formation, Cloud Watch, SQS, ELB, IAM)
- Cost and performance monitoring of resources and applications using AWS Cloud Watch and configured notifications for the alarms generated based on events defined
- Plan, build and configure network infrastructure within VPC with public and private subnets, configure routing tables, security group and internet gateway
- Created low latency static website using S3, Cloud Front, and Route53
- Created and managed users, permissions, directories and files in Linux environment
- Worked with NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB on AWS
- Configured inbound rules and outbound rules in the AWS security groups
Information Technology Security Analyst
Top Group Tech
Upper Marlboro, MD
09.2015 - 07.2017
- Support System Owners and ISSO in preparing C &A package for companies' Information systems
- Making sure selected security controls adhere to a formal and well-established security standard of NIST SP 800-53 R4, and as well protect enterprise polices
- Designate systems high water mark and categorize its C.I.A using FIPS 199 and NIST SP 800-60
- Perform Annual security control Assessment (NIST SP 800-53A)
- Perform Vulnerability and risks analysis/ Assessment
- Make sure that risks are assessed, evaluated and a proper action have been taken to limit their impact on the Information and Information Systems and determine appropriate security countermeasures/safeguards
- Develop company-wide best practices for Information system security
- Create standard templates for required security assessment and authorization documents, including risk assessments, security plans, security assessment plans and reports, contingency plans, and security authorization packages
- Performing security controls risk assessments that included reviewing organizational policies, procedures and ensuring its adequacy, accuracy and compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
- Reviewed violations of information security procedures and developed mitigation plans
- Encrypted data and erected firewalls to protect confidential information against unauthorized disclosures, access, and modification. Continuous monitoring and remediation action using NIST 800-137 Review, analyze, and update System Security Plan (SSP), Risk Assessment (RA), Privacy
- Impact Assessment (PIA), System Security test and Evaluation (ST&E)
- Documentation of requirements traceability matrix, (RTM) and SSP in accordance with applicable NIST-800-53, and SP 800-18
- I also make sure that the security assessment report (SAR) and the authority to operate (ATO) are always up to date within their 3-year life-span.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Physics
Imo State University
Nigeria06.2014
Skills
- Skills
- Amazon Web Services -Troubleshooting
- Linux
- Devops
- Jenkins
- Terraform
- IAM
- Cloud formation
- VPC (Networking)
- Route53
- RDS
- Risk Assessment
- Erecting firewalls/encryption
- Implementing security controls
- Nessus, Wireshark, Web inspect, Nmap
- PowerPoint, Access control, Windows, Microsoft
- System and Network Security
- Technical Documentation and Reporting
- PCI DSS
- SSP development
Certification
- Certified AWS cloud Practitioner - December, 2019
- Certified Comptia security Plus
- Certified AWS Solution Architect
- CAP
Work Availability
monday
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Quote
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Timeline
AWS Cloud Architect
The Veteran Affairs medical center
09.2019 - Current
AWS Cloud Engineer
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
08.2017 - 08.2019
Information Technology Security Analyst
Top Group Tech
09.2015 - 07.2017
Bachelor of Science - Physics
Imo State University