owen byrne

technical leader - cloud platform and solutions group

About

Cloud Automation Architect skilled in AWS, Terraform, Containers, Kubernetes, Helm, Ansible, Python, DevOps and Cloud Security. Strong 'Infrastructure-as-code' advocate and CI/CD proponent.

Country

ireland

City

ireland

Industry

internet

Skill

cloud computing, tcp/ip, telecommunications, cisco technologies, voip, linux, ip, data center, networking, unified communications, wireless, ccnp certified, python, html, network administration, css, javascript, network design, virtualization, network architecture, managed services, project management, routing, management, network engineering, network security, security, devops, devsecops, ansible, terraform, amazon web services, amazon, packer, vault, consul, git, jenkins, serverless, automation, ci/cd, perl, web development

Experience

technical leader - cloud platform and solutions group

cisco

2012-4 - Present · 14 yrs 6 mos

Cloud Security Automation. Threat modelling and hardening with solution design and automated continuous security vulnerability scanning using AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudWatch and Cisco Norad’s APIs. Partnering with Infosec/STO for ongoing product improvement and collaboration on common cloud modules; Leading the design and development of CI/CD pipelines using an ‘Infrastructure-as-Code’ approach for service builds and deployments into AWS VPCs using Jenkins, Docker, Terraform and Packer for AMI customisation with Ansible; Infrastructure automation, platform design and development of Cisco dCloud’s global service offering. Automating DNS services, networking and dynamic configurations using Ansible, Bash, Python; Spearheading the introduction of DevOps and driving cloud adoption for automated infrastructure environments (ec2, S3, VPC, RDS). Forging alignments and collaboration beyond the business unit to share and scale resources; Recruitment, mentoring and on-boarding new technical talent into the dCloud team;