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Peter Ogunkoya

Chicago,IL

Summary

Highly skilled Cloud Security Engineer with experience in designing and implementing robust security solutions for cloud-based infrastructures. Demonstrated excellence in identifying potential vulnerabilities, ensuring compliance with industry standards, and providing innovative strategies for threat mitigation. Strong technical aptitude, combined with solid analytical skills and the ability to communicate complex issues effectively. Made significant impact by enhancing system security, reducing risk exposure, and improving overall operational efficiency on previous projects.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Cloud Security Engineer

Ellucian Company
Reston, VA
02.2023 - 05.2025
  • Developed documentation for cloud security policies and best practices.
  • Resolved 50+ critical security issues across AWS infrastructure by implementing automated GuardDuty rules and CloudWatch alerts, reducing breach risk by 65%.
  • Managed identity and access provisioning for users, roles, and services in AWS and Azure, ensuring scalable, and secure cloud access management.
  • Created and maintained Service Control Policies (SCPs) to enforce organization-wide compliance and security standards across all AWS accounts.
  • Enforced robust access control in AWS using IAM policies, NACLs, Security Groups, and AWS WAF to ensure least privilege, secure network boundaries, and application protection from common exploits.
  • Provided security best practices to IT operations for delivering CIS compliance in AWS environments, including reusable IaC templates and governance best practices.
  • Championed secure IaC practices by leading efforts to integrate security scans, provide tooling, and guide teams in delivering compliant cloud infrastructure.
  • Secured data in transit and at rest using AWS KMS for encryption and TLS protocols, while managing key access and lifecycle securely.
  • Developed reusable Terraform modules to support consistent and efficient infrastructure provisioning, reducing manual errors, and accelerating deployment cycles.
  • Developed experience in performing vulnerability assessments using a variety of tools and techniques, and prioritizing remediation efforts based on risk and availability of resources.
  • Deployed and managed AWS Control Tower and Landing Zones to build secure, compliant multi-account AWS environments, enabling centralized governance and operational efficiency.
  • Configured and integrated advanced security and monitoring tools (e.g., CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config, GuardDuty, Security Hub, AWS Shield, Macie, Cloud Guard, Datadog) for real-time visibility and threat detection.

Cloud Support Engineer

McKinsey & Company
Chicago, IL
06.2020 - 01.2023
  • Planned, designed, and developed solutions on Amazon Web Services.
  • Worked closely with customers to get to know their business, technical goals, and challenges.
  • Managed the relationship between the organization's technical demands and the capacity to be pulled from the AWS cloud. Provisioning a secure environment for the AWS VPC network, and implementing infrastructure as code using configuration management tools. Implementing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and monitoring infrastructure.
  • Collaborated with compliance teams to align cloud architecture with SOC 2 requirements, passing audits with zero deficiencies.
  • Assisted DevOps teams in resolving security misconfigurations in Kubernetes, blocking crypto-jacking attacks via RBAC, and NSG policies.
  • Migration of customers' on-premise workloads (applications) to the AWS cloud platform.
  • Design, develop, and implement a high availability, backup, and recovery strategy for applications and databases.
  • Deploying third-party monitoring metrics and logging systems on AWS (Rapid7).
  • Identifying the appropriate use of AWS, deployment, and operational best practices.
  • Ensure compliance with the company’s policies and procedures during design, development, and implementation.
  • Automation of cloud infrastructure configuration and deployment using cloud Formation and Ansible.
  • Hands-on experience and good knowledge of AWS services: EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, VPC, Route 53, ELB, Auto Scaling, SQS, SNS, IAM, DynamoDB, CloudFront, CloudFormation, ECS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Storage Gateway, Internet Gateway, NAT Gateway.
  • Experience with DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Maven, GitLab, SonarQube in a cloud environment.
  • Scripting with Bash Shell, YAML.

Education

B.Tech - Mining Engineering

Federal University of Technologies
Mining Engineering
06-2005

Skills

Cloud security Identity management Infrastructure as code

Risk assessment Vulnerability assessment Access control

Incident response Data encryption Collaboration skills Cloud monitor

Effective communication Project management Continuous integration

User behavior analytics DDoS mitigation Multi-factor authentication

Virtual private networks Intrusion detection systems Firewall configuration

Data encryption techniques Cloud risk assessment Network security protocols

Microservices security Version control Containerization technologies

Certification

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate)
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional)
  • AWS Certified Security – Specialty
  • CompTIA Security+

Timeline

Cloud Security Engineer

Ellucian Company
02.2023 - 05.2025

Cloud Support Engineer

McKinsey & Company
06.2020 - 01.2023

B.Tech - Mining Engineering

Federal University of Technologies

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