Available for Opportunities
Umar Farouk Muftau
Cloud Security · Cloud Engineer · DevOps Engineer
📍 New York, USA — Building secure, scalable AWS infrastructures.
📅 3+ Years Experience
✅ 99.9% Availability
🏆 3 Certifications
🚀 40% Deployment Savings
About Me
Cloud Engineer with 3+ years of experience designing secure, scalable, and automated cloud infrastructures across enterprise environments.
Proven expertise in AWS architecture, infrastructure automation, DevOps CI/CD pipelines, cloud security engineering, and production system reliability.
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Cloud Platforms
Multi-account AWS architectures built for scale and security.
EC2VPCS3EKSLambdaRDS
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DevOps & CI/CD
Automated pipelines from commit to production with zero downtime.
GitHub ActionsDockerTerraformArgoCD
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Security Engineering
PCI-DSS, HIPAA & GDPR-aligned controls across cloud environments.
IAMWAFSecurity HubMacie
All Skills
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Automation & Scripting
PythonBashPowerShellAnsibleCloudFormation
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Monitoring & Logging
CloudWatchGrafanaCloudTrailAlerting
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Compliance
PCI-DSSHIPAAGDPRIncident Response
Work History
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AWS Cloud Architect / Cloud Engineer
Barclays Bank · Whippany, NJ · Nov 2022 – Nov 2025
- Architected secure multi-tier AWS cloud infrastructures achieving 99.9% system availability.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning with CloudFormation, Terraform & Ansible — reduced deployment effort by 40%.
- Built CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and AWS CodePipeline with EKS and GitOps workflows.
- Migrated on-premise enterprise databases to AWS RDS using Database Migration Service.
- Implemented IAM least-privilege strategies, cross-account role management, and PCI-DSS / HIPAA / GDPR controls.
- Designed centralized logging with Lambda, CloudWatch, and Grafana dashboards.
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Technical Support Intern
DOE Schools · Bronx, NY · Jan 2020 – Dec 2021
- Enterprise IT support across hardware, software, and network infrastructure.
- Maintained asset tracking and improved inventory management for technology lifecycle.
Cloud & DevOps Projects
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Enterprise Cloud Migration
Migrated workloads and databases from on-premise to AWS with minimal downtime. Used RDS, DMS, and EC2 for seamless cutover.
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Infrastructure Automation (IaC)
Reusable Terraform and CloudFormation templates for rapid multi-tier environment provisioning across dev and production.
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CI/CD Pipeline Implementation
End-to-end automated pipelines with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Docker, and EKS for continuous delivery.
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Centralized Logging & Monitoring
Monitoring pipelines using CloudWatch, Grafana, Lambda, and CloudTrail for proactive incident detection.
Certifications
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AWS Certified Security – Specialty
Amazon Web Services
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Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104)
Microsoft
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CompTIA Security+
CompTIA
Education
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BS, Computer Information Systems
CUNY Lehman College · Bronx, NY
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AWS Cloud Security Bootcamp
Thinkcloudly
IAM, KMS encryption, secure VPC architectures, CloudTrail & CloudWatch, incident response, compliance best practices.
Let's Connect
Open to Cloud, DevOps, and Security engineering opportunities. Feel free to reach out.