Brandon Brinson
Cloud Engineer · AWS Solutions Architect
I help teams migrate to AWS, automate away toil, and ship serverless systems that scale. Four years supporting 8,000+ enterprise users with a track record of 20%+ cost reductions and near-zero downtime.
Cloud infrastructure that quietly just works
I'm a Cloud Engineer based in Suwanee, Georgia, focused on the intersection of AWS infrastructure, automation, and enterprise reliability. Over the last four years I've migrated legacy applications to AWS, automated repetitive Ops work with Python, and administered Linux and Windows fleets serving thousands of end users.
My favorite work sits at the seam between Ops and Dev — Terraform modules that anyone on the team can reuse, Lambda pipelines that replace fragile scripts, IAM policies scoped to least privilege, and CI/CD workflows that make deployments boring in the best way. If it's manual and error-prone, I want to automate it.
Cloud Projects
A collection of AWS infrastructure projects showcasing serverless architectures, migrations, and automation. Every project is fully provisioned with Terraform and includes a working GitHub repository.
Static Site + CloudFront CDN, Provisioned with Terraform
Production-ready static hosting on S3 with a private origin, CloudFront edge delivery, HTTPS via ACM, custom domain via Route 53, and a GitHub Actions pipeline that syncs and invalidates on every push.
Serverless Contact API with Lambda, SES & API Gateway
Fully serverless contact-form backend: Lambda handles validation and spam filtering, SES delivers verified email, API Gateway exposes the HTTP endpoint, all wired with least-privilege IAM and reproducible via Terraform.
Multi-Environment EKS Cluster with GitOps
Building an EKS cluster provisioned with Terraform, application deployments driven by ArgoCD, and observability via Prometheus + Grafana. Coming soon — follow along on GitHub.
Professional Experience
Impact over responsibilities. Metrics where I have them.
- Maintain 99.9% uptime across 12+ RHEL servers hosting 30+ production applications
- Automated recurring maintenance workflows in Python and Bash, cutting manual toil by 30%
- Authored runbooks and system documentation, halving new-hire onboarding time
- Triaged and resolved support tickets in Labtrack while consistently meeting SLA targets
- Administer Active Directory environment serving 8,000+ associates enterprise-wide
- Manage 750+ iOS devices in Microsoft Intune — provisioning, MDM policy, remote support
- Led SQL Server → AWS RDS migration, reducing operational costs by 20% and DBA overhead
- Migrated 350+ warehouse associates from Citrix to Windows 365, improving performance and cutting per-seat licensing spend
- Led Dentrix ERP migration from on-prem to AWS EC2, delivering 15% cost savings and improved DR posture
- Migrated on-prem file server to AWS with automated snapshots and versioned backup
- Built containerized Python service on Docker + DynamoDB, deployed with ECR-style workflow
- Modernized company website to S3 + CloudFront, reducing latency and eliminating server maintenance
Certifications & Skills
- AWS EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda
- API Gateway, SES, DynamoDB
- CloudFront, Route 53, ACM
- Terraform (modules, remote state)
- Azure AD
- Linux / RHEL administration
- Active Directory / Group Policy
- Windows Server
- Microsoft Intune (MDM)
- Python (boto3, automation)
- Bash scripting
- Docker / containers
- Git & GitHub Actions CI/CD
- pytest
- TCP/IP, VPN, VPC design
- IAM least-privilege policy
- Meraki firewalls
- Network architecture
- Terraform
- GitHub Actions
- CI/CD Pipelines
- OIDC Federation
- Infrastructure as Code
Let's Connect
Hiring for a Cloud Engineer, DevOps, or SRE role? Building something on AWS and want a second set of eyes? I usually reply within 24 hours.
Ready to discuss your cloud infrastructure needs?