Umar Farouk Muftau

01 About Me

Building Secure Cloud at Scale

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.

Strong background implementing Infrastructure-as-Code, security best practices, monitoring solutions, and automated deployment pipelines that improve availability, reduce operational risk, and enhance system performance.

3+ Years Experience

99.9% System Availability

40% Deployment Effort Reduced

3 Certifications

02 Core Skills

What I Work With

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Cloud Platforms

AWS EC2VPCS3 IAMRDSDynamoDB LambdaECSEKS CloudFrontRoute53 CloudWatchCloudTrail

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DevOps & CI/CD

GitHub ActionsJenkins AWS CodePipelineDocker Kubernetes (EKS)ArgoCD TerraformCloudFormation Ansible

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Security Engineering

IAMWAFShield Security HubMacie EncryptionPCI-DSS HIPAAGDPR Incident Response

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Automation & Scripting

PythonBash PowerShellAWS CLI TerraformCloudFormation Ansible

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Monitoring & Logging

CloudWatchGrafana Centralized LoggingAlerting Observability Pipelines Performance Monitoring

03 Experience

Work History

AWS Cloud Architect / Cloud Engineer Nov 2022 – Nov 2025

Barclays Bank · Whippany, NJ

Architected secure multi-tier AWS cloud infrastructures supporting production enterprise workloads, achieving 99.9% system availability.
Designed and implemented VPC networking architectures including private/public subnets, NAT gateways, routing policies, and security controls across multiple environments.
Automated infrastructure provisioning using CloudFormation, Terraform, and Ansible, reducing manual deployment effort by 40% and accelerating release cycles.
Built CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and AWS CodePipeline supporting Kubernetes (EKS) and GitOps-based deployment workflows.
Migrated on-premise enterprise databases to AWS RDS using AWS Database Migration Service, improving performance and scalability.
Implemented IAM least-privilege access strategies, cross-account role management, and security monitoring controls across multi-account AWS environments.
Designed centralized logging and monitoring solutions using AWS Lambda, CloudWatch, and Grafana dashboards to improve incident detection and observability.
Implemented cloud security controls aligned with PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance frameworks.

Technical Support Intern Jan 2020 – Dec 2021

DOE Schools · Bronx, NY

Provided enterprise IT support, troubleshooting hardware, software, and network connectivity issues for staff across multiple facilities.
Assisted with deployment, configuration, and maintenance of enterprise computer systems and network resources.
Maintained asset tracking systems and improved inventory management processes for technology equipment lifecycle management.

04 Projects

Cloud & DevOps Projects

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Enterprise Cloud Migration

Migrated enterprise workloads and databases from on-premise environments to AWS cloud platforms with minimal downtime and improved scalability.

AWSRDSDMSEC2

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Infrastructure Automation (IaC)

Developed reusable Infrastructure-as-Code templates enabling rapid provisioning of secure multi-tier cloud environments across development and production workloads.

TerraformCloudFormationAnsible

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CI/CD Pipeline Implementation

Designed automated CI/CD pipelines integrating source control, build automation, containerization, and deployment pipelines for continuous delivery environments.

GitHub ActionsJenkinsDockerEKS

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Centralized Logging & Monitoring

Built centralized monitoring pipelines integrating AWS logging services to support proactive incident detection and operational intelligence.

CloudWatchGrafanaLambdaCloudTrail

06 Education

Academic Background

BS, Computer Information Systems

CUNY Lehman College · Bronx, NY

AWS Cloud Security Bootcamp

Thinkcloudly

Hands-on experience implementing IAM controls, KMS encryption, secure VPC architectures, monitoring with CloudTrail and CloudWatch, incident response planning, and compliance security best practices.

Building Secure Cloud at Scale

What I Work With

Work History

Cloud & DevOps Projects

Credentials

Academic Background

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