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Aaron Echosit

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I’m an infrastructure-focused cloud engineer based in Nairobi, supporting production-grade platforms for a tier-1 regional bank.

About

I’m an infrastructure-focused cloud engineer based in Nairobi, supporting production-grade platforms for a tier-1 regional bank. My work spans AWS and Azure, Kubernetes operations, configuration management with Infrastructure-as-Code, and security engineering—covering everything from IAM and vulnerability remediation to patch compliance and incident response.

I’m especially proud of improving reliability, security posture, and cost through automation and governance. I’ve helped reduce provisioning time dramatically, cut incident resolution effort, cleared major vulnerability backlogs, and strengthened audit evidence for backups and recovery, while also supporting modern AI infrastructure deployments and operational integrations.

  • Joined September 2026

Industry experience

  • Financial Services
  • Computers & Electronics
  • Professional Services
  • Software & Internet

Projects · 1

Multicloud Landing Zone A production-grade, multicloud landing zone for AWS, Azure, and GCP — built with Terraform (IaC), Python (automation/account-vending/compliance), Go (policy engine CLI), OPA (policy-as-code), and GitHub Actions (CI/CD). Why this exists A landing zone is the foundational environment a organization stands up before any workload is deployed: account/subscription/project structure, network topology, identity & access baselines, guardrails, logging/audit trails, and the automation to provision it all repeatably and safely. This repo gives you: Org-level scaffolding — AWS Organizations OUs, Azure Management Groups, GCP Folders Hub-and-spoke networking per cloud, ready to peer/connect via Transit Gateway / Virtual WAN / Network Connectivity Center Identity baselines — least-privilege IAM/RBAC roles, break-glass access, SCPs/ Azure Policy/Org Policies Policy-as-code guardrails enforced in CI via OPA (Conftest) before any apply Account/subscription/project vending via a Python CLI so new business units can self-serve a compliant environment A Go policy-engine CLI that validates Terraform plans against the same guardrails used in CI, runnable locally or in pipelines GitHub Actions pipelines with OIDC (no long-lived cloud credentials), plan/apply gating, and drift detection

  • Cloud Developer
  • DevOps Developer
  • Software Engineer

Work experience· 7 roles

Cloud Engineer · Equity Group Holdings / Equity Bank KenyaOct 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

Owned infrastructure operations across AWS and Azure, provisioning and monitoring cloud services for load, performance, and security events across 25+ Kubernetes clusters, 500+ microservices, 1,000+ databases, and 150+ storage accounts with 99.99% availability. Planned and executed AKS upgrades, contributed to Azure Landing Zone architecture (management groups, RBAC, subscription vending, policy enforcement, hub-and-spoke networking), engineered networking components (Azure CNI, Cilium, NSGs, private endpoints, firewall, ExpressRoute), and built platforms using Terraform, Bicep, Ansible, and Helm. Led configuration management and audit readiness through reusable Terraform modules, reducing provisioning time by 90%. Improved security and remediation outcomes by applying RBAC/PIM/IAM/Key Vault and Defender for Cloud/AWS Security Hub, closing a vulnerability backlog from 996 to 2 and raising Microsoft Secure Score from 54% to 76%. Built monitoring and logging pipelines for Kubernetes and

Cloud Platform Engineer · E&M Technology HouseApr 2024 – Oct 2024 · 7 mos

Supported cloud infrastructure implementation and operations for containerized enterprise workloads, including leading containerization and deployment of 20+ Java applications to Docker, Kubernetes, and Amazon EKS to reduce deployment failures by 70%. Engineered secure Spring Boot microservices and REST APIs for enterprise integrations, supporting 99.95% transaction reliability. Built reusable Terraform modules to standardize AWS provisioning and reduce provisioning effort by 85%, and implemented CI/CD pipelines with integrated security checks to reduce deployment time by 80% and manual release effort by 90%. Led migration of 40+ workloads with Multi-AZ failover to achieve 99.9% business continuity with zero data loss. Applied IAM least privilege and network segmentation, established Prometheus/Grafana/CloudWatch/ELK observability, and reduced detection time by 60%.

Software Engineer, Java/Python · E&M Technology HouseJan 2024 – Apr 2024 · 4 mos

Architected cloud-native trade finance microservices by decomposing monolithic workflows into independently deployable services. Co-designed event-driven processing using RabbitMQ and Amazon EKS to improve scalability and isolation. Engineered secure REST APIs using OAuth2/JWT and embedded CI/CD security controls such as SAST/DAST and dependency scanning. Tuned JVM workloads through caching and JDBC connection-pool improvements to enhance performance and resource efficiency.

Software Engineer (Java/Python) · E&M Technology HouseJan 2024 – Apr 2024 · 4 mos
Freelance Cloud & Platform Engineer · Remote Freelance EngagementsFeb 2022 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos
Freelance Cloud & Platform Engineer · RemoteFeb 2022 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos
Relationship Officer, Operations & Digital Channels · Equity Bank KenyaJul 2021 – Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Education

Bachelor of Science (Electrical & Electronics Engineering) · University of Nairobi2016 – 2021
Bachelor of Science in Electrical & Electronics Engineering (Second Class Honours) · University of Nairobi2016 – 2021
BSc in Electrical & Electronics Engineering (Second Class Honours) · University of Nairobi2016 – 2021

Certifications and awards· 24

AWS Certified Security - Specialty2030 – 2026
SecOps Group CCSP (AWS)2030 – 2026
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)2030 – 2026
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional2030 – 2026

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