Engineering Bench

The D9Tech engineer bench is staffed, cleared, and ready to deploy.

Deep technical talent across AI/ML, cybersecurity, cloud, DevSecOps, networking, software, and expeditionary IT. Every player on the roster is ready to support your mission.

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Cybersecurity

IT SECURITY AUDITOR #1105

D9TECH RESOURCES Connor

IT Security Audit
NIST 800-53
FISCAM / POA&M
AWS (SAA)
CISA

Clearance: TS/SCI
Location: Virginia
Work mode: Hybrid OK
Experience: 4+ yrs · Pro Tier

SCOUTING REPORT · #1105

TS/SCI-cleared IT security auditor adjudicated in July 2025, pairing the clearance with a 4.0 Master of Cybersecurity. At a federal advisory firm he builds IT sampling plans and testing procedures, evaluates client controls, and judges compliance against NIST, FISMA, and CISA guidance. He audits POA&M progress under FISCAM, verifies financial systems against NIST CSF 2.0 and NIST SP 800-53, and writes findings up with actionable fixes. Newer to the field than the rest of the bench, but cleared, certified, and audit-sharp.

★ Career Highlights

Audited POA&M progress and adherence under FISCAM guidance, including SM-1.1-3
Verified client financial systems against NIST CSF 2.0 and NIST SP 800-53
Determined client compliance with NIST, FISMA, and CISA guidance as an IT auditor
Automated analytics pipelines with SQL scripts and Tableau dashboards

Frameworks

NIST CSF 2.0
NIST SP 800-53
FISMA
FISCAM
ISO 27001

Focus Areas

IT Security Audit
Internal Controls
POA&M Review
Compliance

Cloud / Dev

AWS EC2
S3
RDS
Lambda
VPC Peering
Java

Certifications

CISA
CompTIA Security+
AWS SAA
AWS Cloud Practitioner

Certifications

CISA
CompTIA Security+
AWS Solutions Architect - Associate
AWS Cloud Practitioner

M.S. Cybersecurity (4.0), Old Dominion University · B.S. Pastoral Leadership, Liberty University

AWS

Cybersecurity

SENIOR CLOUD SECURITY ENGINEER #1107

D9TECH RESOURCES Salma

AWS Cloud Security
Splunk SIEM Engineering
Vulnerability Management
FedRAMP / RMF
Incident Response

Clearance: TS/SCI
Location: Maryland
Work mode: Remote
Experience: 15+ yrs · All-Pro

SCOUTING REPORT · #1107

Cloud security engineer with an active TS/SCI and fifteen-plus years securing mission-critical federal environments. Leads AWS security engineering and cloud governance, implementing FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, RMF, and FISMA controls while keeping systems audit-ready. Builds the Splunk dashboards, correlation searches, and automated alerting that surface cloud threats, and administers enterprise IDS/IPS, DLP, privileged access, and vulnerability management. Integrates security testing into DevSecOps pipelines so controls travel with the code rather than trailing it.

★ Career Highlights

Leads AWS cloud security engineering and ServiceNow automation across a federal enterprise
Integrated CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, GuardDuty, and AWS Config into Splunk for centralized threat detection
Secured multi-account AWS environments through Tenable, AWS Inspector, and enterprise scanning
Produces the POA&Ms, SOPs, and compliance reporting that sustain continuous authorization

Cloud Security

IAM
AWS Config
GuardDuty
Security Hub
KMS Encryption
SCPs
WAF
Network Segmentation
CloudTrail

SIEM & Detection

Splunk
SPL
Correlation Searches
IDS / IPS
DLP
VPC Flow Logs
Threat Detection

Compliance

FedRAMP
NIST 800-53
RMF
FISMA
FIPS 199
DISA STIG
eMASS
XACTA
POA&M

Platform & Automation

Terraform
CloudFormation
Ansible
Docker
Kubernetes
GitLab CI
Jenkins
Python
ServiceNow
Power BI

Certifications

CompTIA Security+
CompTIA CASP+
Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Microsoft AZ-104
Microsoft AZ-900
Splunk Core Certified Power User
DoD 8570 IA Certified
CISSP (in progress)

Defense · Homeland Security · Federal

B.S. Information Technology, American Public University System

AWS · Azure · Hybrid

Cybersecurity

CYBER OPERATIONS LEAD (SOC / INCIDENT RESPONSE) #1109

D9TECH RESOURCES Lashon

SOC Leadership
Incident Response / CSIRC
Threat Hunting
Digital Forensics
Zero Trust

Clearance: TS/SCI
Location: Maryland
Work mode: Hybrid
Experience: 20+ yrs · All-Pro

SCOUTING REPORT · #1109

Cybersecurity leader, CISSP, and retired Army captain with an active TS/SCI and twenty-plus years across federal, defense, and financial-sector cyber operations. Has run a federal security operations center, served as incident response coordinator for a cabinet department, and briefed senior executive and general officer leadership on security posture. Applies MITRE ATT&CK and Cyber Kill Chain methodology against EDR, DLP, and UEBA telemetry. Currently a PhD candidate researching adversarial threats to cross-chain blockchain transactions.

★ Career Highlights

Led daily operations of a federal agency security operations center and its analyst team
Served as cyber security incident response coordinator for a cabinet-level department component
Coordinated defensive cyberspace operations across combatant commands and service cyber components
Delivered Zero Trust architecture subject-matter expertise and security test plans for a military service

SIEM & Detection

Splunk
ArcSight
QRadar
SourceFire
FireEye
MITRE ATT&CK
Cyber Kill Chain
UEBA

Forensics & IR

FTK
EnCase
WinHex
Wireshark
PCAP Analysis
CSIRC
Threat Hunting

Compliance & Architecture

RMF
NIST 800-53
NIST CSF
FISMA
FedRAMP
eMASS
Zero Trust
DISA STIG

Offensive & Platform

Kali Linux
Metasploit
Nmap
Nessus / ACAS
Rapid7
CyberArk
HBSS
AWS
Python
Rust
Power BI

Certifications

CISSP
OSCP (in progress)
GIAC Certified Incident Handler (in progress)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect (in progress)
Splunk Fundamentals 1 & 2 (in progress)

Defense · Federal Law Enforcement · Financial Services

Ph.D. Financial Cybersecurity (candidate), Capitol Technology University · M.S. Cybersecurity, Liberty University · B.S. Information Systems Management, University of Maryland Global Campus

AWS · Hybrid · On-Premise

RMF / ATO Engineering

SENIOR RMF / ATO ENGINEER #1103

D9TECH RESOURCES Alicia

RMF / ATO
eMASS
ACAS Scanning
CMMC
FedRAMP

Clearance: Public Trust
Location: North Alabama
Work mode: Remote
Experience: 25+ yrs · All-Pro

SCOUTING REPORT · #1103

Cybersecurity professional with 25 years across DoD and the intelligence community in tactical communications, information systems, and security. An RMF and ATO subject-matter expert who guides federal customers through Authorization to Operate using XACTA, eMASS, ACAS, and DISA STIGs. Holds deep command of FedRAMP, CMMC, and DFARS, with extensive experience developing SSPs, POA&Ms, and continuous-monitoring programs and assessing controls against the NIST 800 series for federal and defense systems.

★ Career Highlights

RMF/ATO SME guiding federal customers from assessment through Authorization to Operate
Completed a full ATO assessment for a federal cloud-hosted application within one fiscal year
Served as a CMMC assessor evaluating NIST 800-171 controls for defense suppliers
Member of a DoD CIO award-winning cyber and IT excellence team

Frameworks

RMF
FedRAMP
CMMC
NIST 800-53
NIST 800-171

Security Tools

XACTA
eMASS
ACAS
CSAM
Nessus
Rapid7
HP Fortify

Compliance Standards

DFARS 252.204-7012
FISMA
DISA STIGs
FIPS 199/200

Methodologies

SSP Development
POA&M Management
Continuous Monitoring
Risk Assessment

Certifications

CompTIA CASP+ CE

Information Assurance Management, University of Maryland University College · U.S. Army Signal School (MOS 31U)

AWS · Azure

RMF / ATO Engineering

SECURITY CONTROL ASSESSOR (RMF / ATO) #1106

D9TECH RESOURCES Woodrow

RMF / ATO
Security Control Assessment
Cross Domain Solutions
eMASS / XACTA
AWS Cloud Security

Clearance: TS/SCI / CI Poly
Location: Northern Virginia
Work mode: Hybrid
Experience: 15+ yrs · All-Pro

SCOUTING REPORT · #1106

Security control assessor and former ISSO with an active TS/SCI and CI polygraph, assessing on-premise, hybrid, and AWS environments against RMF and NIST SP 800-53. Writes the authorization recommendations that CISOs and authorizing officials act on, and aggregates control-level risk into system-level assessment reports. Specialized in Cross Domain Solutions validation, executing lab-based and site-based security assessments against national Raise the Bar baselines. Holds a Master of Science in Information Assurance.

★ Career Highlights

Maintained a 96 percent successful ATO rate as primary certifier for a federal agency portfolio
Closed more than 90 percent of open POA&Ms across a multi-system federal environment
Validates secure data transfers for Cross Domain Solutions against national Raise the Bar baselines
Authored SSPs, contingency plans, and PTA/PIA artifacts that carried systems to full authorization

Frameworks & A&A

RMF
NIST SP 800-53
NIST SP 800-Series
FISMA
DIACAP
SSP / SAR / SAP
ATO Packages
ConMon

Assessment Tools

eMASS
XACTA
Nessus
Qualys
ACAS
AWS Inspector
DISA STIG
VRAM

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS IaaS / PaaS
Terraform
CloudFormation
Docker
Kubernetes
IAM

Specialized Testing

Cross Domain Solutions
LBSA / SBSA
NCDSMO Raise the Bar
SCRM
POA&M Lifecycle

Certifications

CISSP
Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
CompTIA Security+

Defense · Federal Law Enforcement · Homeland Security

M.S. Information Assurance, Strayer University · B.S. Computer Information Systems, Virginia State University

AWS · Hybrid · On-Premise

RMF / ATO Engineering

INFORMATION ASSURANCE MANAGER / ISSO #1108

D9TECH RESOURCES Abanda

RMF / ATO
eMASS
Defensive Cyber Operations
AWS Database Migration
NIST 800-53 / 800-171

Clearance: TS/SCI
Location: National Capital Region
Work mode: Hybrid
Experience: 12+ yrs · Veteran

SCOUTING REPORT · #1108

Information assurance manager and ISSO with an active TS/SCI, serving as a military officer while supporting cabinet-level federal departments. Secures systems under RMF to DoD standards, manages eMASS controls through ATO approval, and provides assessment and authorization support for both new systems and systems under continuous monitoring. Earlier career as an AWS cloud database administrator migrating on-premise SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, and MySQL estates to managed AWS databases, which grounds the compliance work in real infrastructure.

★ Career Highlights

Manages eMASS controls and A&A support carrying systems through initial ATO and continuous monitoring
Completed more than 300 POA&Ms bringing a theater network into cybersecurity compliance
Migrated on-premise SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, and MySQL estates to AWS RDS and Aurora
Directed Defensive Cyberspace Operations and DoDIN security operations for a network enterprise

Frameworks & Compliance

RMF
NIST SP 800-53
NIST SP 800-171
DoDI 8552.01
ATO Packages
POA&M
HIPAA
PII Protection

Assessment & Ops

eMASS
DISA STIG
Vulnerability Assessment
COMSEC
Patch Management
Incident Response

AWS & Databases

AWS RDS
Aurora
EC2
DMS
Schema Conversion Tool
IAM
Oracle
SQL Server
PostgreSQL
MySQL
Sybase

Leadership

Defensive Cyber Operations
DoDIN Operations
Project Management
Scrum
Stakeholder Coordination

Certifications

CISM
CompTIA Security+
AWS Certified Security - Specialty
Certified Scrum Master
PMP
Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)
Oracle Certified Associate (OCA)

Defense · Federal · Treasury / Financial

M.S. Cyber Security · B.S. Biology

AWS · Hybrid · On-Premise

AI / ML

AI / ML ENGINEER #1014

AWS YELLOW BADGE

D9TECH RESOURCES Chandra

GenAI / LLMs
RAG Systems
MLOps / LLMOps
NLP
AWS GovCloud

Clearance: TS/SCI
Location: Central Florida
Work mode: Remote
Experience: 12+ yrs · Veteran

SCOUTING REPORT · #1014

GenAI and machine-learning engineer with an active TS/SCI supporting DoD and IC missions. Builds and deploys LLM and deep-learning applications across the full lifecycle, from problem framing through production MLOps. Recent work modernizes legacy code in secure GovCloud environments using managed foundation models, with human-in-the-loop governance, least-privilege IAM, and no-egress VPC patterns. Holds a Master of Information and Data Science and brings a record of high-ROI AI delivery across regulated enterprises.

★ Career Highlights

Delivered a 30% reduction in high and critical security findings via AI-generated code remediation
Achieved 80% first-pass acceptance on automated vulnerability fixes with human-in-the-loop review
Built RAG assistants over complex policy documents, improving answer accuracy and speed
Improved an NLP sentiment model from 71% to 93% accuracy on enterprise data

Foundation Models

GPT-4o / 4.1
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Llama 3
Mistral
Amazon Bedrock
Ada Embeddings

AI/ML Techniques

RAG
Prompt Engineering
NLP
Deep Learning
Recommendation Systems
Fine-Tuning
BERT

AWS GovCloud Services

Lambda
Step Functions
DynamoDB
SageMaker
Bedrock
KMS

Languages & Ops

Python
PySpark
R
SQL
MLOps
LLMOps
DevSecOps

Certifications

AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
Deep Learning Specialization
CompTIA Security+

M.S. Information & Data Science, UC Berkeley

AWS · AWS GovCloud · GCP · Azure

AI / ML

AI / ML DATA ENGINEER #1015

D9TECH RESOURCES Marie

Amazon Bedrock
SageMaker
AWS Glue / Data Lakes
Terraform
Amazon Lex

Location: Texas
Work mode: Hybrid
Experience: 9+ yrs · Pro Tier

SCOUTING REPORT · #1015

AI and machine-learning data engineer serving a military service department at the GS-14 level, building generative AI solutions and the data platforms underneath them. Designs Gen AI services on Amazon Bedrock with Lambda, API Gateway, and S3, and integrates conversational assistants with departmental data and backend systems. Builds and manages AWS data lakes and warehouses with Glue, PySpark, Athena, and Redshift, provisions infrastructure as code with Terraform and GitHub Actions, and holds data platforms to Zero Trust and data-quality standards.

★ Career Highlights

Designed and implemented a Gen AI solution on Amazon Bedrock with Lambda, API Gateway, and S3
Built and integrated AI assistants on Amazon Lex connected to departmental data and backend services
Built and managed AWS data lakes and warehouses with Glue, PySpark, Athena, and Redshift
Implemented data lifecycle management, storage tiering, and cost optimization across data platforms

AI & Machine Learning

Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Lex
SageMaker
LLMs
Scikit-learn
PyTorch
Gen AI Solutions

Data Platform

AWS Glue
PySpark
Athena
Redshift
S3 Data Lake
Lakehouse
DynamoDB
Informatica
Lake Formation

Cloud & Automation

Terraform
GitHub Actions
Jenkins
Docker
Kubernetes (EKS)
AWS ECR
Nexus
API Gateway
Lambda

Monitoring & Security

CloudWatch
EventBridge
SNS
Splunk
QRadar
Snyk
PagerDuty
Zero Trust
Power BI
Tableau

Certifications

AWS Certified ML/AI Engineer - Associate
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
CompTIA CySA+
CompTIA CASP+
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

Defense · Federal

M.S. Data Analytics & Machine Learning, University of Maryland Global Campus · B.S. Computer Networks, Cybersecurity & Engineering, University of Maryland Global Campus

AWS

Cloud Engineering

AWS CLOUD MIGRATION LEAD #1201

D9TECH RESOURCES Lee

AWS Migration
Cloud Modernization
Portfolio Analysis
Program Delivery
Multi-Cloud

Clearance: Public Trust
Location: Remote
Work mode: Remote
Experience: 13+ yrs · Veteran

SCOUTING REPORT · #1201

Senior cloud transformation lead with 13-plus years delivering enterprise migrations across federal, financial, and healthcare environments. Drives AWS migration strategy, application-portfolio analysis, and wave-based planning for large-scale data-center exits, coordinating architects, engineers, and application owners through cutover. Skilled in migration-readiness assessment, dependency mapping, and executive reporting, with hands-on AWS, Azure, and GCP adoption experience inside regulated, high-compliance programs.

★ Career Highlights

Leads enterprise AWS migration waves for a large public university system data-center exit
Coordinated release and ATO readiness for a mission-critical federal clinical imaging system
Drove cloud platform modernization and disaster recovery for a major financial institution
Built migration trackers and executive dashboards spanning 18 delivery waves

AWS Services

Application Migration Service (MGN)
EC2
S3
VPC
CloudWatch

Other Platforms

Azure
GCP
ServiceNow
Power BI
Jira

IaC & Automation

Migration Wave Planning
Dependency Mapping
Agile / Scrum / SAFe

Languages & Ops

Release Management
ITSM
Technical Documentation
RTC / GitHub

Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect - Associate
AWS Developer - Associate
AWS Cloud Practitioner
ServiceNow CSA
CAPM
ITIL v3/v4
CompTIA A+ / Project+ / Security+
Certified ScrumMaster
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
CBAP

M.S. Project Management, New York University · M.S. Software Engineering & IT Management, University of St. Thomas · B.S. Computer Science, University of Minnesota

AWS · Azure · GCP

Cloud Engineering

CLOUD ENGINEER #1203

D9TECH RESOURCES Bonaventure

AWS Cloud
Kubernetes
Terraform
DevSecOps
CI/CD

Clearance: None
Location: Texas
Work mode: Remote
Experience: 8+ yrs · Pro Tier

SCOUTING REPORT · #1203

Results-oriented cloud professional with 8-plus years designing secure, scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure on AWS. Deploys and manages Kubernetes (EKS/RKE2) clusters across commercial and GovCloud environments, builds GitOps automation with Flux and Argo CD, and implements NIST 800-53 and FedRAMP controls. Holds an active government clearance and supports federal cloud ATO, migration, and DevSecOps initiatives with strong scripting and observability practice.

★ Career Highlights

Reduced infrastructure cost by 40% migrating on-premise systems to AWS
Achieved 100% deployment automation using Helm with Flux CD and Argo CD
Obtained cyber ATO across roughly 20 systems for a federal shipbuilding program
Embedded Trivy, Grype, SonarQube, and OWASP ZAP scanning into CI/CD pipelines

AWS Services

EC2
S3
Lambda
API Gateway
RDS
DynamoDB
Redshift
SNS / SQS

Other Platforms

Azure
EKS / RKE2
Istio
Apache Airflow
Prometheus / Grafana

IaC & Automation

Terraform
CloudFormation
Ansible
Jenkins
GitLab CI
Argo CD
Flux CD

Languages & Ops

Python
Bash
PowerShell
Docker
Kubernetes
ELK

Certifications

AWS Certified Developer - Associate
Project Management Professional (PMP)
CompTIA Security+
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Post-Graduate Certificate in Cybersecurity, University of Texas (McCombs) · M.S. Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M Kingsville · B.Tech, Federal University of Technology Owerri

AWS · Azure

Cloud Engineering

PRINCIPAL DATA ENGINEER #1208

D9TECH RESOURCES Demin

AWS Glue / EMR
Databricks & Delta Lake
Medallion Architecture
PySpark ETL
Lakehouse Design

Clearance: Secret
Location: North Alabama
Work mode: Hybrid
Experience: 20+ yrs · All-Pro

SCOUTING REPORT · #1208

Principal data engineer with an active DoD Secret and twenty-plus years building cloud data platforms and Lakehouse architectures for defense and federal programs. Designs Medallion bronze-silver-gold architectures and reusable PySpark ETL and ELT pipelines across AWS Glue, EMR, Redshift, and Lake Formation as well as Databricks and Delta Lake. Carries deep database roots across Oracle, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL, and applies DISA STIG compliance to the databases and platforms the pipelines run on.

★ Career Highlights

Designed AWS Glue ETL pipelines in PySpark with Glue Workflows, Glue Catalog, S3, and Lambda for large-scale processing
Implemented Medallion bronze-silver-gold architecture supporting governed, analytics-ready reporting
Architected a target cloud data platform establishing the foundation for an enterprise migration
Brought database estates into DISA STIG compliance across applications and operating systems

AWS Data Services

Glue
EMR
Redshift
Athena
Lake Formation
S3
Lambda
Step Functions
RDS
Macie
CloudWatch

Lakehouse & Spark

Apache Spark
PySpark
Delta Lake
Unity Catalog
Delta Live Tables
Auto Loader
Structured Streaming
Kafka
CDC / CDF

Data Architecture

Medallion Architecture
Dimensional Modeling
Star / Snowflake Schema
Data Governance
Data Lineage
Metadata Management

Databases & Automation

Oracle
SQL Server
PostgreSQL
MySQL
DynamoDB
MongoDB
Terraform
Airflow
NiFi
Python
Power BI

Certifications

AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate
Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate
Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate
Oracle Database 12c Administrator Certified Professional
Oracle Advanced PL/SQL Developer Certified Professional
CompTIA Security+

Defense · Federal · Space & Aerospace

M.S. Computer Science, University of North Texas

AWS · Azure · Hybrid

Cloud Engineering

SENIOR DATA ENGINEER #1209

D9TECH RESOURCES Kasey

Python ETL
AWS GovCloud
Databricks & Spark
Elasticsearch / OpenSearch
Data Quality & Governance

Clearance: TS/SCI / CI Poly
Location: Maryland
Work mode: Hybrid
Experience: 13+ yrs · Veteran

SCOUTING REPORT · #1209

Data engineer with an active TS/SCI, completed CI polygraph, and thirteen-plus years of Python and SQL building production ETL pipelines in classified environments. Extracts from relational, delimited, and JSON sources and writes the data adapters and transformation logic that normalize it into standard data models. Builds indexed search and analytics on AWS GovCloud and runs Medallion pipelines on Databricks and Spark, with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and automated monitoring throughout. Holds a Master of Science in Data Science.

★ Career Highlights

Sole engineer on a production Python ETL toolchain feeding a standard data model used across multiple programs
Built low-latency indexed search and analytics on AWS GovCloud using S3, EventBridge, Lambda, and Splunk HEC
Established data quality, validation, and monitoring frameworks plus the enterprise data dictionary for a combatant command
Implemented CI/CD for data systems with Databricks Asset Bundles and YAML pipelines across three environments

Python & ETL

Python
PySpark
pandas
Data Adapters
Normalization
Custom Wheel Packaging
Automated Reconciliation

Search & Analytics

Elasticsearch
OpenSearch
SOLR
Lucene
Splunk HEC
Databricks SQL
Power BI
Tableau

Cloud & Warehousing

AWS GovCloud
S3
Glue
Lambda
EventBridge
Redshift
RDS
Snowflake
Azure Synapse
ADLS Gen2

Platform & DevSecOps

Databricks
Delta Lake
Apache Spark
Airflow
Kafka
Azure DevOps YAML
Asset Bundles
Git
Linux
Bash

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional
SnowPro Core
Microsoft AZ-104
SAFe 6 DevOps Practitioner
PMP
CompTIA Security+

Defense · Federal Law Enforcement · Intelligence

M.S. Data Science, Syracuse University · B.S. Communications, University of Phoenix

AWS · AWS GovCloud · Azure

Cloud Engineering

CLOUD SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT #1210

D9TECH RESOURCES Christopher

AWS Landing Zone Accelerator
Cloud Migration
Ansible & Terraform
STIG Hardening
AWS Organizations

Clearance: TS/SCI
Location: Pennsylvania
Work mode: Hybrid
Experience: 20+ yrs · All-Pro

SCOUTING REPORT · #1210

Cloud solutions architect with an active TS/SCI and twenty-plus years in information assurance, security, and cloud. Deploys and customizes AWS Landing Zone Accelerator, rearchitects single-account estates into AWS Organizations with per-tenant accounts and Transit Gateway connectivity, and automates image pipelines with Ansible and AWS Image Builder. Maps NIST 800-53 controls to the FedRAMP High baseline and applies DISA STIG hardening across Windows and Linux. Holds a Master of Science in Information Security and Assurance and teaches information security at the university level.

★ Career Highlights

Decreased testing costs by 75 percent and cut deployment time by a factor of thirty
Configured and deployed AWS Landing Zone Accelerator with custom configurations for a federal customer
Rearchitected a single-account multi-tenant estate into AWS Organizations with Transit Gateway connectivity
Supported more than 100 tenants in AWS GovCloud behind an overlay network and bastion host

AWS Platform

Landing Zone Accelerator
AWS Organizations
Transit Gateway
Service Control Policies
Image Builder
Application Migration Service
EC2
S3
EFS
IAM
CloudWatch
CloudTrail

Automation & IaC

Ansible
AWX
Terraform
CloudFormation
CDK
Chef
Puppet
Docker
CI/CD

Security & Compliance

NIST 800-53
FedRAMP High
DISA STIG
ICD 503
ATO Packages
Nessus
Splunk
Centrify

Platform & Ops

Windows Server
Linux / RHEL
VMware vSphere
OpenSearch
SageMaker
EMR
Remote Desktop Gateway
Apache Guacamole

Certifications

CISSP
Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
EC-Council Certified Incident Handler (ECIH)
Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
CompTIA Security+
CompTIA Network+
Microsoft Certified Professional

Defense · Intelligence · Federal

M.S. Information Security and Assurance, Carnegie Mellon University · B.S. Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University

AWS · AWS GovCloud · Azure · On-Premise

DevOps / DevSecOps

PRINCIPAL AWS ARCHITECT / DEVSECOPS #1306

D9TECH RESOURCES Taiwo

AWS GovCloud IL5 / IL6
Amazon EKS
Terraform
DevSecOps Pipelines
Zero Trust Architecture

Clearance: Secret
Location: Texas
Work mode: Remote
Experience: 8+ yrs · Pro Tier

SCOUTING REPORT · #1306

Principal AWS architect and DevSecOps engineer with an active DoD Secret, designing and securing large-scale cloud environments in regulated defense and federal settings. Delivers Zero Trust-aligned multi-account AWS architectures across GovCloud IL5 and IL6, governed with Organizations, Control Tower, and service control policies. Engineers production EKS clusters with IRSA, managed node groups, and private subnet segmentation, and builds DevSecOps pipelines with automated SAST, DAST, image scanning, and compliance enforcement at IAT Level II.

★ Career Highlights

Defined enterprise AWS architecture strategy across multi-account, multi-region GovCloud IL5 and IL6 environments
Served as DevOps authority in a Cloud Center of Excellence setting CI/CD, policy-as-code, and container security standards
Built modular Terraform and CloudFormation provisioning VPCs, IAM roles, EKS clusters, and GovCloud-compliant resources
Supported RMF, ATO, and IATT accreditation with system security plans and continuous monitoring artifacts

AWS Platform

GovCloud IL5 / IL6
Organizations
Control Tower
EC2
EKS
ECS
Lambda
Transit Gateway
Route 53
ALB / NLB
S3
RDS
Redshift

Containers & IaC

Kubernetes
Amazon EKS
IRSA
Docker
Terraform
CloudFormation
Ansible
AWS Load Balancer Controller
EBS CSI

DevSecOps & CI/CD

Jenkins
GitLab CI
GitHub Actions
SAST / DAST
Image Scanning
Policy-as-Code
Dependency Analysis

Security & Observability

IAM
KMS
SCPs
GuardDuty
Security Hub
Secrets Manager
SSM
CloudWatch
Prometheus
Grafana
FluentBit
NIST 800-53
RMF
Zero Trust

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
AWS Certified Security - Specialty
AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty
CompTIA CASP+
CompTIA Security+
CompTIA Linux+

Defense · Federal

B.S., Igbinedion University

AWS · AWS GovCloud

DevOps / DevSecOps

PLATFORM ENGINEER (KUBERNETES / DEVSECOPS) #1307

D9TECH RESOURCES Arland

Air-Gapped Kubernetes
EKS-D / RKE2
Terraform & Ansible
Argo CD GitOps
Platform Engineering

Clearance: TS/SCI
Location: North Carolina
Work mode: Remote
Experience: 6+ yrs · Pro Tier

SCOUTING REPORT · #1307

Platform engineer and Army veteran with an active TS/SCI, building resilient AWS and on-premises Kubernetes platforms for mission-critical government applications. Designed and deployed a highly available air-gapped Kubernetes environment with multiple control-plane nodes, secure local image management, declarative infrastructure, and GitOps application delivery. Automates provisioning and hardening with Terraform and Ansible, and integrates container and infrastructure security scanning directly into the delivery pipeline rather than bolting it on afterward.

★ Career Highlights

Designed and deployed a highly available air-gapped Kubernetes platform with GitOps-based application delivery
Administers EKS-D and RKE2 clusters with Cilium networking, Traefik ingress, Harbor registry, and Rook-Ceph storage
Integrated Trivy, kube-bench, tfsec, SonarQube, GuardDuty, and Security Hub into delivery with tracked remediation
Produces platform standards, runbooks, configuration baselines, and RMF/ATO evidence for government stakeholders

Kubernetes & Platform

Kubernetes
EKS
EKS-D
RKE2
Helm
Cilium
Traefik
Harbor
Rook-Ceph
Docker
Air-Gapped Deployment

IaC & GitOps

Terraform
CloudFormation
Ansible
AWX
Argo CD
GitHub Actions
Jenkins
Helm Charts
YAML

AWS & Security

AWS GovCloud
EC2
S3
Lambda
RDS
VPC
Transit Gateway
Control Tower
IAM
KMS
WAF
Shield
GuardDuty
Security Hub

Scanning & Observability

Trivy
kube-bench
tfsec
SonarQube
Nessus
Kyverno
Prometheus
Grafana
Loki
Datadog
Splunk
AWS X-Ray
DISA STIG
NIST 800-171

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
AWS Certified Machine Learning - Associate
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
CompTIA Security+
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (in progress)

Defense · Federal

B.S. Industrial Technology / Information Technology, East Carolina University · A.S. Security Systems Analysis, Fayetteville Technical Community College

AWS · AWS GovCloud · On-Premise

Network Engineering

SENIOR NETWORK ENGINEER #1401

D9TECH RESOURCES Karan

Cisco Routing & Switching
Palo Alto / NGFW
BGP / OSPF / EIGRP
F5 Load Balancing
Cloud Networking

Clearance: Top Secret
Location: New Jersey
Work mode: On-site / Hybrid / Remote
Experience: 9+ yrs · Pro Tier

SCOUTING REPORT · #1401

Senior network engineer with 9-plus years in Cisco network design, deployment, and troubleshooting across complex routed LAN and WAN environments. Configures and manages next-generation firewalls from Palo Alto and Fortinet, deploys cloud networking across Azure, AWS, and GCP, and runs advanced routing with BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, and MPLS. Holds a U.S. Army Top Secret clearance and supports 24x7 enterprise network operations.

★ Career Highlights

Manages NGFW deployments (Palo Alto, Fortinet) and Panorama across cloud and on-prem
Designed enterprise cross-domain LAN/WAN architecture for a federal agency
Migrated IPSec VPN tunnels from pre-shared key to certificate authority at scale
Maintained production networks across 900-plus devices in multi-site environments

Vendor Platforms

Cisco Nexus / Catalyst
Palo Alto
Fortinet
Juniper SRX/MX/EX
Checkpoint

Protocols

BGP
OSPF
EIGRP
MPLS
STP / VTP
IPSec

Network Services

F5 BIG-IP LTM/GTM
VPN
Zscaler
Cisco ISE
Wireless LAN (WLC)

Tools

SolarWinds
Wireshark
Cisco Prime
ServiceNow
Visio

Certifications

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
U.S. Army Top Secret Security Clearance

Information Technology, Middlesex College

Azure · AWS · GCP

Dev

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER #1501

D9TECH RESOURCES Julius

Full-Stack TypeScript
React / React Native
Node.js / Go
Cloud (AWS/GCP)
Kubernetes / IaC

Clearance: None
Location: Southern California
Work mode: Remote
Experience: 7+ yrs · Pro Tier

SCOUTING REPORT · #1501

Senior software engineer and full-stack developer with 7-plus years building cloud-native applications across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Strong in TypeScript, React, React Native, Node.js, and Go, with deep DevOps practice in Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD. Has delivered federal-facing projects including government design-system component libraries and AI-assist tooling, building FHIR-compliant, accessible, and secure integrations with legacy government systems.

★ Career Highlights

Built and published a 40-plus component React Native library meeting USWDS and WCAG 2.1 AA
Architected an MCP server bridging a federal EHR system to AI agents with HIPAA-compliant patterns
Implemented Istio service mesh with mTLS and progressive delivery to de-risk production deploys
Delivered government mobile and web apps as sole developer across multiple agencies

Languages

TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
Go
SQL
Bash

Frameworks

React
React Native
Node.js / Express
Angular
GraphQL (Apollo)
Istio

Databases

PostgreSQL
MySQL
DynamoDB
Cosmos DB
Cloud SQL

Tools & Methods

Terraform
Kubernetes (EKS/GKE/AKS)
Docker
GitLab CI / GitHub Actions
Jest / Cypress
Agile / Scrum

Certifications

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
HashiCorp Terraform Associate
AWS Developer Associate
AWS Cloud Practitioner
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect

B.A. Chemistry, California State University Long Beach · Accelerated Web Development, LearningFuze

AWS · GCP · Azure

Leadership / Advisory

PRINCIPAL CYBER ADVISOR #1901

D9TECH RESOURCES Scott

Cybersecurity Executive
CISO Advisory
Risk & Governance
Security Architecture
Incident Response

Clearance: TS/SCI
Location: South Carolina
Work mode: Advisory
Experience: 18+ yrs · All-Pro

SCOUTING REPORT · #1901

Transformative cybersecurity executive and principal advisor with a career spanning enterprise CISO, CSO, and director roles across defense, healthcare, and federal missions. Builds and turns around security programs, standing up 24x7 security operations centers, GRC, vulnerability management, and incident-response capabilities. Drives risk-based strategy aligned to NIST CSF/RMF, the NIST 800 series, COBIT, and ISO 27001, and advises leadership on security architecture, continuous monitoring, and program execution at enterprise scale.

★ Career Highlights

Led enterprise cybersecurity for global data centers and cloud as an executive director
Decreased security-incident resolution time by up to 50% across health-system SOCs
Directed cyber threat intelligence and network defense for one of the world's largest intranets
Improved patch management by up to 50% and expanded security awareness to 95%

Domains

Cybersecurity Strategy
Risk Management
Security Operations (SOC)
Incident Response
GRC

Frameworks

NIST CSF / RMF
NIST 800 series
ISO 27001
COBIT
CIS

Leadership Tenure

CISO
Chief Security Officer
Executive Director
CIO

Methodologies

Vulnerability Management
Continuous Monitoring
Vendor Risk
Security Awareness

Certifications

CISSP
CISM
CRISC
PMP
SANS GSEC
SANS GCIA
CompTIA Security+ CE
DAWIA Level I

M.S. Strategic Intelligence & Cybersecurity · B.S. Mathematics & Physics

Azure · AWS

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