Christian Turner
Senior Cloud Architect & DevSecOps Specialist - CV & Project Portfolio
Christian Turner
Senior AWS Cloud Platform Engineer & DevSecOps Specialist
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Professional Summary
Senior AWS Cloud Platform Engineer and DevSecOps specialist with 14+ years designing, automating, and securing enterprise-grade cloud platforms. Experienced in building scalable platform engineering capabilities, GitOps automation, and multi-account AWS environments for regulated and private-sector organizations. Expert in Kubernetes/EKS, Crossplane, CI/CD, security-by-design architectures, and cloud governance frameworks.
Core Competencies
- AWS Architecture, Design & Development
- Security by Design
- Automation, CI/CD, and Pipelines
- Scalability, Redundancy & Availability
- DevSecOps and GitOps
- Application Modernization
Technical Skills
| Observability & Operations | Container Platform & Orchestration |
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| • Prometheus, CloudWatch, CloudTrail | • ArgoCD, Helm, Kustomize |
| • Operational Dashboards | • Cilium, Hubble |
| • Incident Response | • External Secrets, Sealed Secrets |
| • Multi-account Monitoring | • EKS cluster design and hardening |
| Security & Governance | Platform Automation & Provisioning |
| • IAM & IRSA | • Crossplane |
| • KMS, CloudTrail, Config | • Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation |
| • Systems Manager | • KCL |
| • NIST, CIS, ITSG compliance standards | • Multi-account automation |
| Cloud Foundation & Compute | CI/CD & Release Engineering |
| • EC2, EKS, ECS, Lambda, Fargate | • Azure DevOps |
| • S3, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB | • GitHub Actions |
| • VPC, Control Tower, ElastiCache | • ArgoCD, ArgoWorkflows, ArgoEvents |
| • Serverless & event-driven architectures | • Release Strategies & GitOps |
Certifications
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Professional Experience
Platform Engineer/DevSecOps
| Ottawa Cloud Consulting | July 2016 - Present |
- Architected 3 multi-account AWS organizations managing 200+ workloads with governance, SCPs, identity models, and compliance baselines aligned to NIST, CIS, and ITSG standards
- Improved deployment frequency by 30% through GitOps automation with ArgoCD and Azure DevOps, managing over 50 microservices
- Designed 30+ serverless, event-driven, and containerized workloads reducing operational overhead by 40% and infrastructure costs by $25K annually
- Engineered 3 production EKS clusters with 3 node groups, auto-scaling capabilities, IRSA, multi-node isolation, Cilium networking, and hardened RBAC achieving 99.9% uptime
- Developed modular Crossplane + KCL provisioning framework with versioned OCI bundles, provisioning 100+ infrastructure components and reducing deployment errors by 75%
- Reduced Kubernetes onboarding time by over 60% through deterministic automation and developer Golden Paths
- Built 12 operational dashboards covering metrics, security, compliance, logs, and incident response signals
- Authored 25+ design specs, architecture documents, ConOps, runbooks, and security models supporting enterprise deployments across regulated sectors
DevOps Manager
| HighRoads Inc. | June 2015 - December 2016 |
- Migrated 40+ production workloads from VMware to AWS, reducing costs by 35% and improving platform resilience
- Delivered active-passive HIPAA-compliant disaster recovery architecture meeting strict NIST RTO/RPO objectives
- Introduced DevOps and automation practices improving deployment frequency by 50% and removing manual steps
- Operationalized 3 hybrid AWS/on-premises architectures supporting 100+ workloads with scalable and secure patterns
- Standardized engineering workflows enabling effective collaboration across 15-person offshore engineering team
Infrastructure Manager
| Dymon Corporation | December 2014 - June 2015 |
- Migrated 40+ production workloads from VMware to AWS, reducing costs by 35% and improving platform resilience
- Designed and implemented virtualization infrastructure improvements
IT & DevOps Manager
| GeoDigital International | September 2011 - December 2014 |
- Designed and deployed a GIS SaaS platform on AWS serving 500+ global clients across 15 countries with 99.5% uptime
- Engineered 1-2 TB/day data ingestion pipeline improving engineering timelines by 50%
- Delivered secure, robust data-transfer processing for GIS engineering workloads with 99.8% reliability
- Managed and optimized on-premises PostgreSQL/PostGIS databases supporting high-volume GIS engineering workloads
- Managed infrastructure operations for 8 production and engineering environments supporting 25+ engineering staff
Key Achievements
✨ Multi-Account AWS Governance - Architected and deployed 3 AWS organizations with automated compliance baselines
✨ GitOps Transformation - Implemented ArgoCD-based deployment automation improving velocity by 30%
✨ Kubernetes Excellence - Engineered production-grade EKS clusters with hardened security and 99.9% availability
✨ Infrastructure as Code - Developed Crossplane framework reducing deployment errors by 75%
✨ Cloud Cost Optimization - Achieved $25K annual savings through serverless and containerization strategies
✨ Compliance & Security - Implemented NIST, CIS, and ITSG standards across government sector deployments
| View Full CV & Project Portfolio | Last Updated: November 2025 |