Joseph Hocson

AWS Solutions Architect - Cloud Engineer at CAMPF Cloud Consulting Services Inc. (2024-09 – 2024-12)

Designed and deployed production cloud solutions, matching AWS infrastructure services to specific business demands for scaling and redundancy.
Controlled cloud spend by analyzing resource usage, creating budget forecasts, and resizing underutilized infrastructure to balance cost with performance.
Managed on-premises to cloud migrations, auditing legacy application setups and executing step-by-step data and workload transfers.
Hardened environment security by implementing data encryption, setting up strict Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies, and reviewing systems for compliance gaps.
Worked directly with clients and internal developers to translate business needs into technical designs, recommending platform, software, and network configurations.
Created disaster recovery plans, setting up automated backup validation routines to ensure data could be recovered quickly during a failure.
Wrote and presented technical documentation, including test plans, architectural blueprints, lab reports, and stakeholder briefings for enterprise configurations.

AWS Server Engineer/Junior DevOps at Vavasoftware Corporation (2024-12 – Present)

Built automated log analysis pipelines using n8n and custom Bash scripts, cutting down the time it takes to detect and fix daily server anomalies across AWS EC2.
Set up and configured monitoring tools (Grafana, Zabbix, ELK Stack, Percona PMM, Uptime Kuma) on Ubuntu EC2 instances, using event-driven n8n workflows to push real-time critical alerts straight to Telegram.
Handled edge security and domain performance by managing Cloudflare WAF rules, DNS routing, SSL/TLS certificates, and caching strategies.
Managed multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure, handling day-to-day provisioning for EC2/VM instances, S3 storage buckets, IAM roles, and Network Security Groups.
Deployed and configured Nginx web servers and reverse proxies to manage backend application traffic, load distribution, and SSL termination.
Automated server backups and data retention policies using AWS Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) and scheduled Bash scripts to reduce unnecessary storage costs.
Acted as first line of defense during active DDoS attacks, maintaining system uptime by analyzing live CPU/memory metrics and spinning up Cloudflare's Advanced DDoS protection.
Provisioned and initialized self-hosted GitLab instances on AWS EC2, establishing the secure baseline infrastructure required for the team's CI/CD workflows.

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