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(+31) 6 1515 2249
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Email
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Bishop’s Stortford, UK
Leiden, Netherlands
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LinkedIn
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KEY SKILLS
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AWS Services, Security, Networking and
Infrastructure
On prem to cloud migrations
Coaching and mentoring
Team building and management
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INTERESTS
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Deep Sea Angling (ZA colours 1998)
Safaris and wildlife videography
Gym, cycling, snow skiing and scuba diving
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CERTIFICATIONS
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AWS Solution Architect Associate
Advanced SCO Unix Engineer
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EDUCATION
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National N Diploma: Electrical
Engineering (Light Current)
DipBusMan Damelin College Business Management
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AVAILABILITY
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NL or UK locations
Contract through NL ZZP or UK LTD
UK passport holder
NL permanent residency
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Andy Jones
AWS Cloud Engineer
and Solution Architect
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CloudDevSecOps
www.cdso.tech
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Professional Summary
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Highly skilled
AWS Solution Architect and DevSecOps engineer with extensive experience
designing and implementing scalable and cost-effective solutions. Possess a
strong understanding of AWS Security, AWS Infrastructure and many AWS
services. Proficient in developing cloud architecture and migration
strategies, optimizing system performance, and managing security and
compliance requirements. Strong focus on Cloud Security. Excellent
communication and leadership skills with the ability to work effectively in
a team environment.
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Technical Skills
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AWS Security: AWS IAM, AWS
Organisations, AWS Service Control Policies, AWS Security Lake/Hub/Guard
Duty/Config
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AWS Infrastructure: Networking, AWS
Transit Hub, VPC’s, Subnets, Peering, Security Groups
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AWS Services: Many
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On premise to cloud migrations.
Building DataLakes. Hybrid solutions
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DevSecOps: Infra as Code, CloudFormation/Terraform/CDK,
AWS CodeCommit/CodeDeploy, AZDo, Git, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Jira, Confluence
etc
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Operating Systems: Unix, Linux,
Windows, MacOS, VMWare, Docker
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SAFe framework, Scrum and Kanban
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Programming Languages: Shell script
and Python (limited).
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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December 2022 –
present
AWS Lead Cloud
Engineer
Aegon
Netherlands – Core Team
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Technical Lead – responsible for general AWS Account security,
IAM Roles and Policies, AWS Security Services, Secure Software Development
in code (SSDLC)
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Subject Matter Expert - provide support
and mentoring to the teams on AWS Infrastructure, Networking and Security
and general usage of many AWS Services
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Collaborate with regional and global IT support teams to
resolve technical difficulties
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Member of “Druids Council” who are responsible for maintaining
overall control of AWS Account and Services usage, CI/CD platform
implementation, create and appraise Solution Designs
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PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE (continued)
September 2019 – November 2022
AWS Lead Cloud Engineer
Aegon Netherlands – DevSecOps teams
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Technical Lead – responsible for general AWS Account
security, IAM Roles and Policies, AWS Security Services
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Subject Matter Expert - provide support and mentoring to
the teams on AWS Infrastructure, Networking, Security, and general usage of
many AWS Services
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Create and appraise Solution Designs
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Collaborate with regional and global IT support teams to
resolve technical difficulties
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Member of the team that designed the Docker (AWS
Fargate) solution for migrating from EC2 Instances to containers
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Scrum Master (2021/2)
September 2018 – August 2019
AWS Lead EcoSystem Engineer
Aegon Global – Freelance Consultant for Aegon Global
Technologies/TransAmerica
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Member of the team responsible for building and
supporting fit for purpose EcoSystem solutions for use in Data Science using ML
and AI. All based on AWS technology
July 2015 – August 2018
AWS Lead Cloud Engineer
Aegon Global – Freelance Consultant for Aegon Global
Technologies/TransAmerica
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Member of the team responsible for building a green
fields AWS environment.
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Migrating Aegon Netherlands Datacentre to the AWS Cloud
using a hybrid approach
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Implement replication technologies to build the central
DataLake. Key technologies used were StreamSets, Qlik (formerly Attunity) and
AWS DMS
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Building Data Science Ecosystems for the NL Business
Units
April 2011 – June 2015
WebSphere Team Lead
Aegon Netherlands – Freelance Consultant
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Member of the team responsible for migrating the
WebSphere environment from an outsourced solution to inhouse
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Team Lead for the team responsible for building and maintaining
the WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Process Server environments
January 1996 – December 2010
International Freelance Consultant
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Freelance Consultant specialising in Lotus Notes, Domino,
Sametime and later WebSphere Application Server
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Completed 24 projects at enterprise companies located in
Asia, UK, and Europe (travelled to 27 countries)