Cloud adoption · Governance · DevSecOps

Cloud adoption, governance
& DevSecOps — end to end.

Cloud adoption strategy, cloud governance frameworks and DevSecOps pipelines — from landing zone design to policy-as-code, from classified NATO environments to commercial multi-cloud. Resilience, security and operational maturity built in at the architecture stage, not bolted on after go-live.

Adoption without governance is technical debt at scale

Cloud migrations that skip governance create the same problems on-premises did — but faster and at higher cost. I anchor every adoption engagement on three pillars: a landing zone that enforces security and cost controls from day one, a governance model that scales with the organisation, and a DevSecOps pipeline that makes compliance a side effect of delivery rather than a separate phase.

Patterns: Landing zone · CAF · Well-Architected · Policy-as-code · DevSecOps · FinOps · Zero Trust · SRE

Cloud outcomes

8+Institutional cloud adoptions
99.999%Availability SLA achieved
55%MTTR reduction (DevSecOps)
4Classified environments (NATO · EU · DoD)

Key patterns

Landing zoneCAF · Well-Architected Policy-as-codeDevSecOps FinOpsZero Trust Active-active HADR · SRE

What I offer

Cloud adoption · governance · DevSecOps services

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Cloud adoption strategy

Cloud readiness assessment, migration roadmap, CAF / Well-Architected alignment — phased adoption with security and cost controls from day one.

Adoption roadmap delivered
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Landing zone design

Multi-account landing zone — guardrails, identity federation, network topology, logging and FinOps baselines. AWS Control Tower · Azure Landing Zone · GCP Foundation.

Governed from day one
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Cloud governance framework

Policy-as-code, tagging standards, cost allocation, compliance dashboards — governance that scales without manual overhead. Delivered in NATO Secret and commercial environments.

Policy-as-code in production
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DevSecOps pipeline

CI/CD with integrated security gates — SAST, DAST, container scanning, secrets management (HashiCorp Vault), compliance-as-code. Jenkins · GitLab CI · GitHub Actions.

Security in every build
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Container & platform engineering

Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker — hardened container platforms with RBAC, network policy, image signing and CIS Benchmark compliance.

CIS-compliant clusters
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Resilience & FinOps

Active-active HA, DR orchestration, SRE practices — combined with cost governance. 99.999% availability and -35% infrastructure cost in the same programme.

99.999% · -35% cost

Selected engagements

Cloud mandates — institutional track record

NATO / NCIA — CS-NDW Cloud Adoption · DevSecOps · 2023–2024 · The Hague
Defined and operationalised the cloud governance framework for the NATO Digital Workplace (CS-NDW) programme — cloud adoption roadmap, security cloud architecture, DevSecOps integration across classified NATO environment. Policy-as-code, Zero Trust alignment, classification-aware access controls. Stakeholder governance across 32 NATO nations.
Classified · NDANATO SecretCloud governance · DevSecOpsZero Trust · Policy-as-code32 NATO nations
NATO / NCIA — Hybrid-cloud migration · 2023–2024 · The Hague
Migrated all NATO content-collaboration systems to hybrid cloud. PAM/IAM, SIEM/SOAR and GRC integrated with satellite and terrestrial networks. Immutable / audit-ready versioning. NIST 800-53 and ISO 27001 alignment. 3rd-line operational support across classified estates.
NATO SecretHybrid cloud · PAM/IAMSIEM/SOAR · GRCNIST 800-53 · ISO 27001
EEAS — Cloud migration · DR · DevSecOps · 2022–2023 · Brussels
Cloud-security and architecture across AWS, Azure and GCP — containerisation, serverless and hybrid-cloud patterns for operational resilience. Disaster Recovery Centre design and implementation for EEAS critical mission systems: RTO/RPO definition, failover testing, continuity evidence. AWS Well-Architected, Azure CAF, ISO 22301 / 27031 / NIST CSF aligned.
EU classifiedAWS · Azure · GCPDR · ISO 22301DevSecOps · ContainersAzure CAF
U.S. DoD — JEDI / JWCC / JADC2 · 2019–2022 · via Innovation Center
Classified — details withheld.
Classified
Innovation Center — DevSecOps · Containers · 2019–2022 · Worldwide / Bucharest
Containerised workloads (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift) with DevSecOps pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, HashiCorp Vault) enforcing security-as-code across delivery. CIS Kubernetes Benchmark, OWASP, NIST 800-53, ISO 27001 aligned.
Kubernetes · OpenShiftDevSecOps · GitLab CI/CDHashiCorp VaultNIST 800-53 · CIS Benchmark
UN OICT / UN HQ — Hybrid cloud · Active-active DC · 2016–2019 · New York
Active-active data-centre architecture with automated failover (VMware SRM + Azure Site Recovery) — 99.98% availability, RTO < 4h, RPO 15 min (tested). Drove cloud requirements, security controls and implementation (Azure and AWS) alongside IoT, DLT, big data, DevSecOps and Office 365 adoption. Significant cost savings via Microsoft / Oracle / Cisco renegotiation.
Active-active DCAzure · AWS99.98% availability · RTO < 4hISO 22301 · NIST CSF
NATO HQ — DR · Server virtualization · 2015–2016 · Brussels
Designed and executed NATO HQ's first disaster-recovery centre failover. Successful DR and business continuity plan. Led server virtualization — 90% of systems infrastructure virtualised. AIS audits and system accreditation for classified systems.
DR · BCP90% virtualisationClassified systemsAIS accreditation
European Central Bank — Cloud & Digital Architecture · 2014–2015 · Frankfurt
Led Solution Design team for ECB cloud / digital architecture and digital-currency research. Identified and documented business flows, data exchanges, identity authorisation and security levels. Integrations with European and governmental agencies. Updated Business Continuity Plan.
Cloud architectureDigital · CryptocurrencyBCP · IdentityEU governmental integrations

Methodology

DevSecOps — security woven into every stage

Security is not a gate at the end — it is embedded across the full delivery loop. Applied on engagements from 2013 onward (EEAS · Innovation Center · NATO / NCIA · PIR2).

01Plan
Threat modeling · security requirements · abuse cases
02Code
Secure coding · SAST · secrets scanning · pre-commit hooks
03Build
SCA · SBOM · signed artifacts
04Test
DAST · IAST · fuzzing · security regression
05Release
Policy-as-code gates · artifact signing · SLSA provenance
06Deploy
IaC scanning · admission control (OPA / Kyverno) · Zero-Trust
07Operate
Runtime security · CSPM · secrets mgmt (Vault) · least privilege
08Monitor
SIEM / SOAR · observability (OTel) · continuous compliance
↻ Continuous feedback — Monitor feeds back into Plan
Methodologies
Shift-left / shift-right · GitOps · Platform Engineering · Policy / Security-as-Code · Supply-chain (SBOM · SLSA) · MLSecOps · AIOps · SRE · FinOps · Progressive delivery · Chaos engineering

Visual reference

Cloud platform infographic

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