Jerome Smith
Senior Devsecops Engineer at United States Air Force
Montgomery, Alabama, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJerome Smith is an AWS-focused security and DevSecOps engineer with a decade of hands-on experience protecting mission-critical systems across finance, defense, and aerospace. He blends cloud-native engineering (Terraform, CloudFormation, EKS) with practical compliance and hardening for DoD/FedRAMP/NIST environments, having supported ATO efforts and RMF validations. Jerome pairs his Citi Bank and GovCIO enterprise experience with active mission defense roles in the U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard, where he builds observability pipelines and leads incident response and forensic investigations. He’s skilled at automating secure deployments, IAM least-privilege, and security telemetry (ELK, GuardDuty, Security Hub) to shrink MTTD/MTTR and reduce manual risk. Holding a TS/SCI polygraph and Security+ plus ongoing AI graduate study, he uniquely combines high-assurance operational security with emerging AI-informed perspectives. Colleagues rely on him to translate rigorous compliance requirements into repeatable, automated cloud controls that keep sensitive data both accessible and safe.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Southern Connecticut State UniversityAssociate of Science - AS Electronics and Telecommunications, Associate of Science - AS Electronics and Telecommunications at Community College of the Air ForceMaster of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at University of ConnecticutMaster of Science - MS Cybersecurity and Information Assurance, Master of Science - MS Cybersecurity and Information Assurance at Western Governors University
English
Github Skills (9)
spring-boot4
spring4
internet3
fundamentals3
java3
jenkins1
continuous-integration1
pipeline1
jenkins-pipeline1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
perryblunt/data.d3
Apr 2017 - Mar 2023
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
perryblunt/201701-csc-443-01
Feb 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 months
spring-bootfundamentalsspringinternetjava
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