Cloud / DevOps Engineer based in Aichi, Japan 🇯🇵
I build and operate production AWS infrastructure — Terraform, CI/CD, containers, monitoring, and security-first pipelines. Currently running cloud infrastructure solo for an e-commerce company in Japan.
🇺🇸 US Citizen · 🗾 Japan Permanent Resident (no visa sponsorship needed) · 💬 Native English / Japanese BJT L4
Cloud: AWS (EC2, VPC, S3, ECS/Fargate, EKS, RDS, ALB, CloudWatch, IAM, Lambda) · GCP · Azure (foundational)
IaC & Automation: Terraform (modules, remote state) · CloudFormation · Ansible
CI/CD: GitHub Actions · GitLab CI · Jenkins · AWS CodeBuild
Containers: Docker · Kubernetes · Helm · Amazon EKS/ECS
Monitoring & Security: Prometheus · Grafana · Trivy · Snyk · Docker Scout · GuardDuty · least-privilege IAM · NIST/CIS frameworks
Scripting: Python · Bash · Linux
AWS Solutions Architect – Associate · GCP Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer · HashiCorp Terraform Associate · CompTIA Security+ · Google Professional Security Operations Engineer · CCSK v4 · Azure AZ-900 · Oracle OCI Foundations + AI Foundations · AWS Cloud Practitioner
Credential IDs and verification links (Credly/Accredible) available on request.
Production-style AWS workload: containerized app on ECS Fargate behind an ALB, VPC with public/private/DB subnets, VPC endpoints, Secrets Manager & KMS — all provisioned with Terraform.
Classic 3-tier architecture (VPC / EC2 app tier / RDS data tier) built entirely with Terraform — security groups, networking, and modular design.
High-availability web app via AWS CDK: Auto Scaling, ALB, CloudWatch monitoring & CPU alarms, and automated AWS Backup snapshots.
5 hands-on projects: multi-cloud Terraform + Checkov, DevSecOps pipeline with security gates (SAST/SCA/container scanning), GuardDuty automated response, and Kubernetes hardening.
- Email: alexander_jelani@yahoo.com
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jelani-alexander
- GitHub: you're already here 🙂
Open to Cloud / DevOps / SRE opportunities — Japan (remote or Aichi/Nagoya) and worldwide-remote roles.