Kyle Potter

Technical Manager · Site Reliability Engineering

Spokane, WA kylepotter0902@gmail.com kylepotter92 kylepottercf

Engineer with 8+ years architecting secure, scalable cloud infrastructure for enterprise and government clients. Deep expertise in FedRAMP and GovCloud environments, AWS, Linux systems administration, security tooling, vulnerability management, and Kubernetes-based microservices. Currently focused on the secure adoption of AI and agentic workflows to improve developer velocity and engineering outcomes without compromising compliance posture.

$ cat work_experience.log

Coalfire Systems Inc

Chicago, IL (Remote)

Technical Manager, Site Reliability Engineering Jul 2025 – Present

▸Serve as technical lead for a large enterprise organization in AWS GovCloud, triaging incoming work and assigning duties to team members based on expertise and capacity.
▸Drive technical strategy and project delivery for FedRAMP and DoD IL5 GovCloud environments. Play a lead role in audits by providing evidence and NSS controls for security tooling.
▸Created and optimized GitLab CI/CD pipelines for continuous deployment of containerized workloads to EKS clusters. Automated deployment of Splunk, Trend Micro, and Nessus agents via pipeline.

Senior Engineer, Cloud Services / Senior Site Reliability Engineer Aug 2023 – Jul 2025

▸Led client workshops evaluating application architecture for FedRAMP Moderate and IL5 High environments. Developed architecture diagrams depicting data flow, security controls, and network protocols.
▸Collaborated with architects to design scalable, secure systems meeting FedRAMP requirements. Played a pivotal role in developing company-wide Terraform modules incorporating FIPS endpoints and security best practices.
▸Ensured continuous NIST compliance through automated monitoring and remediation using Ansible. Enforced STIGs across infrastructure using DISA playbooks and leveraged Packer for AMI builds.

2nd Watch

Liberty Lake, WA

Senior Cloud Engineer Feb 2022 – Aug 2023

▸Built and managed AWS cloud infrastructure for McDonald's Managed Services team, supporting environments across 40,000+ locations worldwide.
▸Architected AWS Transit Gateway to securely connect 70+ accounts, replacing legacy VPC peering. Implemented Amazon Identity Center with role-based access for 1,000+ users.
▸Built out a company-wide patching solution leveraging AWS Patch Baselines and Systems Manager scheduled maintenance windows.

CloudOps Engineer Apr 2018 – Dec 2020

▸Drove Infrastructure as Code adoption using Terraform and CloudFormation. Deployed Cloud Custodian, New Relic, Qualys, and SentinelOne across client environments.
▸Developed Python scripts and Lambda functions for multi-region resource automation. Built Bash scripts and Ansible playbooks for consistent Linux configuration management.

Two Barrels

Spokane, WA

Linux Systems Engineer Dec 2020 – Feb 2022

▸Built and maintained open source infrastructure for 500+ employees across Three Barrels companies with full autonomy over tooling decisions.
▸Deployed scalable systems across AWS and on-premises data centers including email servers, company-wide ticketing systems, and Kubernetes clusters.
▸Automated configuration management for 100+ Linux servers using Bash and Ansible. Built a real-time VPN monitoring dashboard with Python/Django.

$ cat skills.json | jq

Cloud Services

AWS GovCloud EKS ECS Fargate Lambda IAM VPC Transit Gateway CloudFormation Systems Manager AWS Identity Center Azure Azure Entra ID SSO

DevSecOps & IaC

Linux Bash Python Terraform Ansible Kubernetes Containers GitLab CI/CD GitHub Actions Packer Jenkins ArgoCD Flux Terragrunt Claude Code Agentic AI

Security Tooling

Tenable Trend Micro Splunk Prisma Cloud Aquasec Anchore BurpSuite SentinelOne New Relic Qualys

$ cat certifications.txt

✓ Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer
✓ Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
✓ HashiCorp Terraform Associate
✓ AWS Solutions Architect Associate
✓ AWS Developer Associate
✓ AWS SysOps Administrator Associate
✓ AWS Cloud Practitioner