Chad Noble

Senior Cloud DevSecOps Engineer at Applied Insight/CACI

Technical Lead for Air Force Platform One Enterprise Services Cloud Native Access Point (CNAP). Architected CNCF-compliant Kubernetes distributions and containerized solutions. Designed Zero Trust architecture with device validation/compliance, RBAC, and Software Defined Perimeter (SDP). Configured secure access solutions with CAC authentication for federal compliance. Optimized system performance using managed EFK Stack (Elasticsearch, Fluentd, Kibana). Led and mentored a team of 11 engineers, providing technical leadership and resource allocation.

Director of DevSecOps Engineering / Lead DevSecOps Architect at Dynepic, Inc.

Architected, deployed, and managed 8+ Kubernetes clusters, achieving 99.9% uptime across development, staging, and production environments. Implemented GitOps with Kustomize overlays and ArgoCD, reducing deployment times by 70%. Collaborated with Cyber Security teams to shift security controls left, reducing vulnerabilities by 80%. Successfully obtained full Authority to Operate (ATO) on first assessment. Architected MOTAR in a Box for deployment in air-gapped environments using CDS solutions and complex data tagging.

Senior Lead DevSecOps Engineer at Netrist Solutions

Designed AWS architecture with segregated management, security, logging, and mission application accounts connected via AWS Transit Gateway. Integrated with DISA BCAP for users/mission owners on NIPRnet. Designed custom CI/CD pipelines for multi-language support, security gates, and integrated promotion stages. Automated security tool implementation using Terraform and Ansible. Integrated SAST and DAST gates into GitLab CI with custom Python utilities. Created PKI and FIPS 140-3 compliant systems connecting OAuth2 with CAC/PKI authentication.

Senior Lead DevSecOps Engineer at Millennium Group

Transitioned security tools to containerized implementations on RedHat OpenShift. Migrated security stack deployments to Helm charts for consistency across multiple enclaves. Streamlined security testing processes, reducing validation time by 40%.

Senior Lead DevSecOps Engineer at Booz Allen Hamilton

Led DevSecOps engineering for the Air Force Research Labs (AFRL) ID/IQ contract. Refactored legacy applications to a serverless AWS architecture. Implemented CI/CD prototype for satellite operations, reducing deployment cycles from months to days.

DevOps/Software Engineer at CACI International

Provided DevOps/Software Engineering support across multiple federal initiatives, leveraging cloud-native solutions and secure CI/CD practices.

Full Stack Software Engineer at LnL Publishing

Full-stack development spanning front-end and back-end systems, collaborating with product teams to deliver features.

.NET Application Developer at Genesis Financial Technologies

Developed .NET applications for financial services, focusing on reliability and performance.