(+31) 6 1515 2249

ajones@cdso.tech

Vlietweg 38, Leiden, 2323LC, Netherlands

linkedin.com/andrewmjones

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KEY SKILLS

AWS Services, Security, Networking and Infrastructure

Coaching and mentoring
Team building and management

 

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INTERESTS

Deep Sea Angling (ZA colours 1998) Safaris and wildlife videography

Gym, cycling, snow skiing and scuba diving

 

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CERTIFICATIONS

AWS Solution Architect Associate
Advanced SCO Unix Engineer

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EDUCATION

National N Diploma: Electrical Engineering (Light Current)

DipBusMan Damelin College Business Management

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Andy Jones

 

AWS Cloud Engineer and Solution Architect

 

 

CloudDevSecOps
cdso.tech

 

Professional Summary

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. Excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to work effectively in a team environment

 

Technical Skills

·         AWS Security: AWS IAM, AWS Organisations, AWS Service Control Policies, AWS Security Hub/Guard Duty/Config

·         AWS Infrastructure: Networking, AWS Transit Hub, VPC’s, Subnets, Peering, Security Groups

·          AWS Services: Many

·         DevSecOps: Infra as Code, CloudFormation/Terraform/CDK, AWS CodeCommit/CodeDeploy, AZDo, Git, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Jira, Confluence etc

·         Operating Systems: Unix, Linux, Windows, MacOS, VMWare, Docker

·         SAFe framework, Scrum and Kanban

·         Programming Languages: Shell script and Python (limited).

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

December 2022 – present

AWS Lead Cloud Engineer

Aegon Netherlands – Core Team

·        Technical Lead – responsible for general AWS Account security, IAM Roles and Policies, AWS Security Services, Secure Software Development in code (SSDLC)

·        Subject Matter Expert - provide support and mentoring to the teams on AWS Infrastructure, Networking and Security and general usage of many AWS Services

·        Collaborate with regional and global IT support teams to resolve technical difficulties

·        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

 

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (continued)

September 2019 – November 2022
AWS Lead Cloud Engineer
Aegon Netherlands – DevSecOps teams

·        Technical Lead – responsible for general AWS Account security, IAM Roles and Policies, AWS Security Services

·        Subject Matter Expert - provide support and mentoring to the teams on AWS Infrastructure, Networking, Security, and general usage of many AWS Services

·        Create and appraise Solution Designs

·        Collaborate with regional and global IT support teams to resolve technical difficulties

·        Member of the team that designed the Docker solution for migrating from EC2 Instances to containers

·        Scrum Master (2021/2)


September 2018 – August 2019
AWS Lead EcoSystem Engineer
Aegon Global – Freelance Consultant for Aegon Global Technologies/TransAmerica

·        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

·        Member of the team responsible for building a green fields AWS environment.

·        Migrating Aegon Netherlands Datacentre to the AWS Cloud using a hybrid approach

·        Implement replication technologies to build the central DataLake. Key technologies used were StreamSets and Qlik (formerly Attunity)

·        Building Data Science Ecosystems for the NL Business Units

April 2011 – June 2015
WebSphere Team Lead
Aegon Netherlands – Freelance Consultant

·        Member of the team responsible for migrating the WebSphere environment from an outsourced solution to inhouse

·        Team Lead for the team responsible for building and maintaining the WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Process Server environments

 

January 1999 – December 2010
International Freelance Consultant

·        Freelance Consultant specialising in Lotus Notes, Domino, Sametime and later WebSphere Application Server

·        Completed 24 projects at enterprise companies located in Asia, UK, and Europe (travelled to 27 countries)