Kyle Potter - Technical SRE Manager

Professional Summary

kyle@cloudops : ~ $ cat /etc/profile.d/summary.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Kyle Potter - Professional Profile v2.0
# Last Updated: 2025

export ROLE="Technical Manager | Senior Site Reliability Engineer"
export EXPERIENCE="8+ years"
export SPECIALIZATION="Cloud Infrastructure | Security | DevSecOps"

# Core Competencies
declare -a EXPERTISE=(
"FedRAMP and IL5/DoD compliant environment design"
"AWS services architecture and optimization"
"Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)"
"Security compliance automation"
"Linux administration and container orchestration"
"CI/CD pipeline development"
"NIST security standards implementation"
"STIG enforcement across multi-account AWS"
)

# Mission Statement
printf "%s\n" "Driving successful cloud transformations through strategic" \
"leadership and innovative technical solutions for enterprise" \
"and government clients."

kyle@cloudops : ~ $

Current Position

kyle@cloudops : ~ $ journalctl -u current-role --no-pager

-- Journal begins at Jul 2025 --
[INFO] Starting role: Technical Manager - SRE
[INFO] Organization: Coalfire
[INFO] Location: Chicago, IL (Remote)
[INFO] Start Date: July 2025 - Present

[TASK] Loading primary responsibilities...

→ Leading engineering team in designing scalable, reliable, and
secure systems meeting FedRAMP and IL5 requirements

→ Representing team during on-site client workshops for
GovCloud Management plane architecture solutions

→ Ensuring continuous compliance with defense-in-depth
security postures across multi-account environments

→ Developing architecture diagrams for system boundaries,
data flows, and external service integration points

[SUCCESS] Role loaded successfully
[STATUS] Active | Performance: ████████████ 100%

kyle@cloudops : ~ $

Technical Skills

Amazon Web Services

IAM EC2 S3 RDS VPC Transit Gateway Route53 Lambda CloudFormation ECS EKS DynamoDB KMS SSO

Linux Administration

Bash Scripting Ansible RHEL NGINX Systemd Networking Logging Monitoring

DevOps & Security

Docker Kubernetes Terraform GitLab CI/CD Jenkins Tenable Splunk Python Ruby GitOps FedRAMP NIST STIG

Notable Achievements

Enterprise Cloud Architecture at McDonald's

Orchestrated network management across 70+ AWS accounts using Transit Gateway, facilitating user role access via Amazon SSO through a centralized organization account.

Government Compliance Implementation

Deployed net-new management plane environments for FedRAMP Moderate and IL5/DoD environments, including full SecOps tooling stack with Tenable Nessus, Trend Micro, and Splunk.

Automation & Security Enhancement

Developed advanced automation scripts in BASH and Python to streamline security assessment tasks, significantly reducing resolution time and improving operational efficiency.

Let's Connect

I'm always interested in discussing cloud architecture, DevSecOps practices, and new opportunities in the cloud engineering space.

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