Secure the Cloud
Go beyond cloud certs. Build the DevSecOps pipelines, run cloud-native incident response, and architect Zero Trust multi-cloud infrastructure that top-tier companies hire for.
Specialization Paths
Your Work Environment
A cloud-native delivery platform — GitHub Actions pipelines, OPA policy gates, a container registry, and a Kubernetes cluster with admission control.
Ship security into every stage of the cloud delivery pipeline — pipeline gates, IaC policy-as-code, image signing, and continuous compliance.
Your On-the-Job Rotation — 10 Shifts
Understand the full cloud-native delivery lifecycle and where security shifts in — from commit to cluster to production telemetry.
Build a multi-stage security pipeline in GitHub Actions with blocking gates, caching, and parallel scans.
Write Rego policies that block insecure Terraform before it ever reaches the cloud, and gate them in CI and admission.
Build minimal, signed, and verified container images with distroless bases, Cosign signing, and admission verification.
Detect, prioritize, and remediate vulnerable dependencies with Dependabot, Snyk, and known-exploited-vulnerability triage.
Enforce cluster-wide security policies at the Kubernetes API server so no pod deploys without meeting your baseline.
Detect runtime attacks — container escapes, cryptominers, and lateral movement — with Falco and runtime observability.
Build a compliance-as-code pipeline that continuously validates your cloud against CIS, PCI, and SOC 2 baselines.
Eliminate hardcoded secrets from CI with vault-backed credentials, short-lived tokens, and secret-scanning gates.
Recall the key DevSecOps metrics, frameworks, and the controls that map to each pipeline stage.
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Golden Pipeline & Supply-Chain Hardening
Build a complete DevSecOps golden pipeline for a multi-service cloud-native app — multi-stage GitHub Actions with blocking SAST, dependency, and image-scan gates, SBOM generation with Syft, Cosign keyless image signing, OPA IaC policy-as-code for Terraform, and Kyverno admission control that verifies signatures at deploy. Prove the pipeline blocks an insecure change at every stage and produces the evidence artifacts a SOC 2 auditor requires.
Continuous Compliance Automation Platform
Stand up a continuous compliance system that runs Prowler nightly across an AWS estate, maps every finding to CIS, PCI DSS, and SOC 2 control IDs, auto-remediates the top 5 deterministic drift patterns (public S3, unused keys, open SSH), and ships a compliance posture dashboard with trend lines and an alert on overnight Critical drift — turning point-in-time audits into a nightly, evidence-backed baseline.
Runtime Threat Detection & Response
Deploy Falco as a DaemonSet across a Kubernetes cluster, author custom rules for shell-in-container and crypto-mining detection, tune false positives with namespace exceptions, alert Critical findings to Slack and the on-call pager, and run a simulated container-escape incident end-to-end — detection, containment, evidence preservation, and the blameless post-mortem with systemic action items.
Resume Integration
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