Summary

Infrastructure and cloud security engineer with 6+ years of progressive IT experience, including 2+ years securing production AWS and Kubernetes in a regulated payments environment. MSc Computing (Internet Technology & Security), Distinction.

Experience

Infrastructure Engineer

Jul 2024 - Present

Prymo Ltd (Fintech / Digital Payments)

  • Sustain 99.99% uptime against a 99.9% SLA on real-time payment infrastructure
  • Cut MTTR on critical incidents by 30% by building the observability and SIEM platform end to end
  • Eliminated an entire credential-theft attack class by replacing all long-lived cloud credentials with OIDC federation
  • Stopped vulnerabilities reaching production: security gates on 100% of CI/CD pipelines across 16 repositories
  • Passed ISO 27001 and PCI DSS audits with zero critical findings
  • Cut AWS spend by 25% with zero impact on availability or performance

IT Support Specialist (Team Lead)

Aug 2021 - Jul 2024

Lightwave E-Healthcare Solutions

  • Built a high-performing team of 6 serving 1,000+ users across 350+ healthcare facilities, resolving 95% of incidents within 24 hours
  • Reduced security incidents by 30% through ISO 27001-aligned controls and IAM hardening
  • Protected regulated health data with 99.9% success on daily encrypted S3 backups

Systems Administrator

Jul 2020 - Jan 2021

Zylofon Media

  • Blocked 95% of unauthorised access attempts and sustained 99.9% network uptime
  • Reduced known vulnerabilities by 25% through scanning and rapid remediation

IT Support (National Service Programme)

Sep 2016 - Oct 2017

GCB Bank

  • Supported branch banking systems and secure onboarding of 500+ new accounts

Education

MSc Computing (Internet Technology & Security), Distinction

University of Northampton, 2025-2026

Dissertation: Integrating ML-Based Anomaly Detection into a DevSecOps Pipeline with Centralised Log Monitoring via Graylog

BSc Computer Science

Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA)

Skills

Cloud & Platform

AWS (EC2, EKS, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch)KubernetesDockerHelmTerraformAnsible

Pipelines & Supply Chain

GitHub ActionsGitLab CIOIDCGitleaksTrivySonarQube

Detection & Response

Graylog SIEMVictoriaMetricsLokiGrafanaAlertmanagerIncident ResponseRoot Cause Analysis

Security & Compliance

IAM HardeningNetwork SegmentationAWS WAFIPsecCIS BenchmarksISO 27001PCI DSS

Code

Python (Boto3, pandas, scikit-learn)Bash

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • CompTIA Security+ CE
  • Google Cybersecurity Certificate
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