Summary
Jerome 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