Craig Adams

Cloud Engineer · Architect · SRE
cadams10101@gmail.com · 954.417.9985 · linkedin.com/in/cada5000 · Pembroke Pines, FL

Versatile Cloud Engineer with a proven track record of designing, deploying, and managing scalable, secure enterprise cloud solutions. Expert in Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native services — with deep experience building resilient environments that satisfy security, governance, and regulatory requirements at scale.

Experience
Cloud Engineer & Architect
Western Alliance Bank
Jul 2020 — Jun 2025
  • Lead AWS Engineer responsible for architecture design, deployments, site reliability, compliance, and cost optimization for hybrid multi-cloud production environments.
  • Designed high-availability, multi-region architectures using Route 53, Global Accelerator, and cross-region replication — delivering 99.99% uptime for mission-critical applications.
  • Automated a comprehensive Terraform IaC CI/CD pipeline, reducing deployment time by 70% and cloud expenditure by $1M.
  • Implemented Control Tower Organizations to manage security policies, cost controls, and IAM SSO federated access — reducing administrative overhead by 40%.
  • Transformed CIS security posture from 40% to 100% compliance using Wiz Cloud to identify and remediate misconfigurations across production infrastructure.
  • Authored technical documentation including bank microservice diagrams, network topologies, engineering standards, and continuity strategies.
Site Reliability Engineer
Fandango / Movietickets.com
Apr 2015 — Jun 2020
  • SRE for an international movie ticketing platform serving online purchasing at scale — managing AWS workloads connected to hybrid VMware clusters and POS routers.
  • Owned application microservices, networking, CDN, security, automation, migrations, monitoring, incident response, compliance, and disaster recovery.
  • DevOps admin for Atlassian CI/CD pipeline deployments.
Site Reliability Engineer
Hollywood Media Corp.
May 2011 — Apr 2015
  • Managed enterprise AWS LAMP web stack serving 2 million monthly visitors.
  • Administered multi-location office VPN network connected to a hybrid VMware cluster.
  • Provisioned and managed infrastructure using CloudFormation; served as FinOps admin for AWS accounts.
Systems Administrator
Columbia County Clerk of Courts
Apr 2006 — May 2011
  • Administered Linux and Windows server clusters, records and data imaging systems, security, compliance, and disaster recovery.
  • Developed and maintained the Clerk public records website; managed vendor accounts and budgeting.
Competencies
AWS (12 yrs)

EC2, Lambda, S3, FSx, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, Elastic Beanstalk, API Gateway, CloudFront, Route 53, AWS Backup

AWS Security

IAM, Organizations, Control Tower, GuardDuty, KMS, WAF, Shield, CloudTrail, Config

Azure (2 yrs)

Entra, VMs, Storage, VNets, KeyVault, SQL, API Gateway, App Service, Policy

IaC & DevOps

Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, Atlassian, Azure DevOps, Octopus, SonarQube, Checkov

Containers

Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, AKS, ECS, Prometheus

Networking

VPC, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, VPN, Hybrid Cloud, Load Balancing, Cloudflare, Cisco, F5

Security & Identity

CyberArk, Delinea, SSO, Okta, Duo, SailPoint, CIS, NIST, PCI, SOC2, Wiz, CNAPP, CSPM

Monitoring

CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Elastic, New Relic, Sumo Logic, SolarWinds

Code & Scripting

Python, PowerShell, Amazon Q, Claude, Codex

FinOps

Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor, Savings Plans, Reserved Instances

Disaster Recovery

AWS DRS, Azure ASR, Risk Connect, VMware, multi-region backup & DR design

OS & Platforms

Linux, Windows Server, Microsoft 365, VMware

Certifications
HashiCorp Terraform Associate
AWS Solutions Architect Associate
Cisco CCNA