Driving cloud adoption at enterprise scale with an emphasis on security and best practices. Expert at collecting and understanding business requirements and providing solutions that comply with enterprise guidelines. Seated squarely at the intersection of Governance, Compliance and Ethics. SRE, DevOps, AWS and Architecture specialist with strong communication and documentation skills.
Matches technologies and process to business needs. Delivers resilience and scalability with an eye on cost control.
Keeps business-critical applications running. Stays ahead of performance problems.
Security is the responsibility of everyone. Actively engages with security and governance organizations to ensure compliance with enterprise programs. Implements security and compliance into provided solutions.
Participated as a member of a nation-wide systems architecture chapter. Cloud SME that operated as a liason between the National IT organization, and district app dev teams developing or migrating to AWS. Built a working understanding of proprietary FRS capabilities and offerings, collected requirements, documented standards, and was available to problem-solve at several levels. Automation, pipeline and CI/CD evangelist.
Lead cloud architect for adoption of AWS. Oversaw implementation of AWS Landing Zone and upgrade to AWS Control Tower. Collaborated on development of cloud operation strategies and process, cloud service catalog, and foundational cloud services including monitoring and patching, cloud permissions schema, and other cloud service offerings. Worked with application teams to develop migration strategies for moving legacy workloads to AWS.
Cloud Security Operations expert reporting to Office of the CISO. Provided risk assessments, remediation plans, and consulted on cloud architectures. InfoSec representative on the Cloud Center of Excellence. Responsible for design and implementation of IAM permissioning strategy. Mentored and trained junior security advisors.
Cloud Architecture liason to project teams looking to migrate legacy workloads to AWS. Developed scalable, reliable, cost-efficient architectures for a variety of projects. Responsible for the architecture and implementation of infrastructure automation deployment pipeline. Created and maintained security and compliance processes to achieve SOC2 Type 2 compliance.
Responsible for level 3 operations support and maintenance of 4000+ systems spread across 6 datacenters. Administrator of 75-node vSphere 6 Virtualization environment. Planned and executed web-hosting platform migrations and uplifts from legacy to virtualized environments.
Wesley M. Carlton — wesley.carlton@gmail.com — (404)-781-9482