Gregory Brown

Who I Am

Engineer, cloud technologist, cost optimization expert.

I started in desktop support and systems management supporting U.S. DoD programs at Eglin Air Force Base — building a foundation in networking, containerization, and security in private data centers. From there I went deep into cloud, freelancing on cost optimization and storage before moving into full-time contract roles and eventually joining AWS as a Senior Technical Account Manager.

At AWS I supported an enterprise Healthcare & Life Sciences company through the height of COVID — building out their cloud operating model, removing blockers, managing escalations, and accelerating key business milestones. After that I drove adoption of AWS cloud foundational services for state and local government customers completing a major data center exit. I'm now at JP Morgan Chase leading infrastructure engineering for the firm's third-largest line of business.

I also coach tech professionals on resume strategy, interview prep, and job search execution.

Three things I do best

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Technical depth

In technical depth, I dive into the details — logs, configs, architecture — to find optimization opportunity.

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Technical breadth

Networking and security foundation, operations management, with AI/ML, big data, containerization, devops.

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Relationship & engagement management

I've presented cloud topics to engineers, executives, and state government agencies — 50+ sessions.

15+ Years in cloud & tech

11 Cloud certifications

8 State and local government agencies migrated to AWS

$45K Monthly savings from WAF optimization

Where I've Worked

Enterprise financial services, government, healthcare, and media — in roles that required both technical depth and executive presence.

JP Morgan Chase

Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Mar 2024 – Present New York City, NY

Lead infrastructure engineering for the firm's third-largest line of business, overseeing a $200M annual cloud infrastructure budget.
Remove blockers for application teams implementing cost-optimized solutions across on-premises and public cloud environments.
Built a cloud optimization center of excellence aligning engineering and FinOps teams around shared business outcomes.
Delivered an automated VPC endpoint runbook that removed thousands of unused endpoints and generated recurring monthly savings.
Won 1st place in the 2024 JPMorgan Hackathon for a cloud-native OpenTelemetry proof of concept using OpenSearch and machine learning.

Amazon Web Services

Sr. Technical Account Manager

Nov 2020 – Nov 2022 Remote

Supported an enterprise Healthcare & Life Sciences company through the height of COVID — building cloud operating procedures, clearing blockers, and driving key business milestones.
Managed technical escalations across AppFlow, DMS, AWS Textract, and Glue — resolving issues that threatened critical workloads and data pipelines.
Led FinOps exercises that identified $400K in annual savings; built and trained dedicated FinOps staff on AWS tooling and frameworks.
Delivered multi-cloud cost dashboards and built proactive alerting for network contention, latency, and DMS issues — turning reactive firefighting into managed operations.
Partnered with sales and channel partners to open new business unit relationships through technical delivery and trust.

Sr. Cloud Architect

State and Local Gov — Data Center Exit Program

Nov 2022 to Aug 2023 Atlanta, GA / Remote

Drove adoption of AWS cloud foundational services for state and local government customers completing a major data center exit. Led hands-on deployments, migrations, and runbook creation.
Delivered 50+ presentations covering onboarding, security, backup, escalation management, alerting, and welcome-to-AWS sessions for agency teams.
Designed a multi-layer ingress VPC inspection architecture with centralized logging, Palo Alto firewall, Gateway Load Balancer, and Transit Gateway.
Implemented an SFTP ingress firewall solution with geolocation controls and a Beyond Trust privileged access runbook for a highly regulated agency.
Member of a Threat and Findings Committee (TFC) that resolved security incidents through tabletop exercises and presented NIST-aligned recommendations.
Partnered with AT&T on migration and DR planning; coordinated with Check Point on SAP migration architecture.

Federal Reserve Bank

Cloud Engineer

Jan 2020 – Nov 2020 Remote, USA

Built CI/CD pipelines in GitHub and Azure DevOps for bank application migrations to the cloud.
Developed Python serverless functions to manage AWS-hosted bank websites.
Presented cloud architecture comparisons and operational transition plans to executives.

Imagination Publishing

AWS Infrastructure Manager (Contract)

Apr 2019 – Nov 2020 Chicago, IL

Migrated accounting software to AWS and improved cloud deployment pipelines for a marketing firm with banking clients under mandatory security audit requirements.
Implemented AWS security controls including SCPs, WAF, and Fortinet firewall rules; built data analytics workflows with S3, Lambda, and Athena.
Led and mentored a new hire through onboarding; managed VMware-to-cloud migration work.

COLSA Corporation

Systems Engineer — U.S. DoD Contractor

May 2016 – Oct 2018 Eglin AFB, FL

Built and managed private cloud infrastructure and VMware environments for Kubernetes control plane testing supporting DoD application suite testing.
Served as CI system administrator for microservice applications — built a strong foundation in networking, containerization, and security.

What I Bring

Technical depth across the full cloud stack — from architecture to delivery to cost governance.

Cloud Platforms

AWS Google Cloud Azure

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform CloudFormation

Containers & Orchestration

Kubernetes Docker Helm

CI/CD

GitHub Actions Azure DevOps

Security & Governance

IAM AWS Organizations / SCPs AWS WAF Okta SSO Palo Alto

Observability

CloudWatch OpenTelemetry OpenSearch

FinOps & Cost Optimization

Savings Plans / RIs Workload right-sizing FinOps frameworks Cost dashboards

Languages

Python Bash

Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect – Professional AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional AWS Cloud Security Specialty AWS Developer – Associate AWS SysOps Administrator – Associate AWS Generative AI Practitioner GCP Professional Cloud Engineer CKA – Kubernetes Administrator CKAD – Kubernetes App Developer FinOps Certified Practitioner Azure Administrator Associate

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Education

Florida State University BS, Finance — Computer Science minor 2009 · Tallahassee, FL