Kyle Michael

About Me

NOC Technician transitioning to Cloud Engineering with hands-on AWS experience. Monitors security alerts, troubleshoots infrastructure issues, and assists cloud team while building practical skills through projects using Terraform, Docker, ECS, Lambda, and CI/CD automation. Combines operational troubleshooting expertise with growing cloud architecture knowledge.

Skills

• AWS Architecture & Services: VPC (public/private subnets, NAT Gateway), EC2, Auto Scaling Groups, Application Load Balancer, RDS (Multi-AZ), EFS, S3, CloudFront, Route 53
• Serverless & Automation: AWS Lambda, EventBridge, CloudWatch (Alarms, Logs, Metrics), SNS, event-driven workflows
• Security & Networking: IAM (least privilege policies), Security Groups, NACLs, network segmentation, bastion host access, private subnet isolation
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform for provisioning repeatable, version-controlled AWS infrastructure
• DevOps & Containerization: Docker, Amazon ECR, Amazon ECS, CodePipeline, automated deployments with GitHub integration
• Programming & Tooling: Git/GitHub, Python (Lambda functions, automation scripts), Linux, CloudWatch monitoring

Projects

• ChatOps Automation on AWS - Built a serverless Slack-based operations tool using AWS Lambda, CloudWatch, and IAM to automate monitoring and incident response.
• Highly Available AWS Architecture - Designed a multi-AZ, auto-scaling infrastructure with ALB, RDS Multi-AZ, EFS, and Terraform following AWS Reliability best practices.
• Secure Application Deployment on AWS - Implemented a security first VPC architecture with public/private subnets, ALB only ingress, bastion access, and least privilege IAM.
• Event Announcement System on AWS - Built a serverless notification platform using Lambda, SNS, and DynamoDB to automatically send event updates.
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform - Deployed a dynamic website using Terraform, ensuring reproducible, secure, and version-controlled cloud infrastructure.

Education

• Bachelor of Science in Cloud and Network Engineering, Western Governors University - 2028 Focus: Networking, AWS, and Cloud Engineering.
• Associate of Applied Science in Networking and Cybersecurity, Grossmont College - 2021 Focus: Network Security, Ethical Hacking, and Information Assurance.
• Associate of Applied Science in Information Technology, Grossmont College - 2021 Focus: Networking Fundamentals, Operating Systems, and Hardware Support.

Certifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
• CompTIA Cloud+
• CompTIA Network+
• CompTIA A+