Senior Systems Engineer focused on cloud infrastructure, platform reliability, automation, and mission-critical environments. I design and support resilient systems across AWS, Azure, and enterprise Linux/Windows platforms with a strong emphasis on security, observability, and operational excellence.
- Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering
- DevOps & Infrastructure Automation
- Distributed Systems Reliability
- Observability, Logging & Incident Response
- Security & Compliance (DoD, STIG, NIST, FedRAMP-aligned)
- AI-assisted operations & intelligent automation
Cloud: AWS | Azure | GCP
DevOps: Terraform | Ansible | Jenkins | GitLab CI/CD
Containers: Docker | Kubernetes
Systems: RHEL 7–9 | Windows Server | VMware | AIX
Languages: Python | Bash
Observability: CloudWatch | Logging pipelines | Metrics platforms
Security: IAM | Hardening | Vulnerability Management | Compliance Automation
Hands-on environments demonstrating failure injection, monitoring, resilience patterns, and operational maturity.
Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, automated provisioning, and deployment workflows.
Logging pipelines, debugging workflows, runbooks, and performance analysis across distributed systems.
Applying machine learning and automation to operational support, compliance, and system intelligence.
- AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional
- AWS SysOps Administrator – Associate
- Microsoft Azure AI Engineer – Associate
- CompTIA Security+
- CompTIA Linux+
- HDI
To engineer platforms that are:
- Reliable
- Secure
- Observable
- Automated
- Scalable
- Built for real-world production environments
I document engineering labs, reliability experiments, and real-world infrastructure implementations to help teams scale operational maturity and reduce support friction.
(Links to Medium articles and project writeups are included within repositories.)
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neco-thomas-33908a135
✍️ Medium: https://medium.com/@necothomas78
🎓 Certifications: https://www.credly.com/users/neco-thomas.5199772c
📫 Email: bigneek78@gmail.com
- Platform reliability engineering
- Cloud automation & IaC
- Observability-first infrastructure
- Systems engineering for high-scale environments
- Mission-driven federal & enterprise cloud support