Ewen McNaught

About Ewen McNaught

Senior Cloud Engineer with over 15 years of experience architecting and managing secure, scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS. A proven subject matter expert in Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation), and CI/CD automation. Adept at enhancing system observability, strengthening platform security, and optimizing microservice architecture for peak performance and zero-downtime deployments.

Experience

1. Senior Infrastructure Engineer

   Raya

   Oct 2025 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US

   Architecting the Next-Gen IaC Platform: Designing and implementing a scalable Infrastructure-as-Code platform from the ground up using OpenTofu to provision and manage secure AWS environments.Service Migrations & Legacy Decommissioning: Executing seamless service migrations to the modernized OpenTofu stack, enabling the safe decommissioning of insecure, outdated legacy infrastructure and upgrading overall system specifications.CI/CD & Cloud Security: Building robust automation pipelines using GitHub Actions to streamline deployments, hardening cloud security postures, and managing core infrastructure services within Kubernetes.AI-Driven Engineering Workflow: Accelerating IaC development and infrastructure management by integrating frontier AI models (GPT-5.3-Codex, Claude, Gemini) and agentic IDEs (Cursor, Copilot) into daily workflows.

Education

• University of York

  MSc., Music Technology

• University of Sussex

  BSc, Experimental Psychology

Skills

• Puppet
• Git
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Amazon Ec2
• Docker
• Coreos
• Mcollective
• Maven
• Bamboo
• Ant
• Accurev
• Subversion
• Freeipa
• Tomcat
• Agile Methodologies
• Perl
• Unix
• Cvs
• Continuous Integration
• Hudson
• Apache
• Java
• Bash
• Sonar
• Linux
• Jenkins
• Xml
• Python
• Solaris
• Shell Scripting
• Software Configuration Management
• Jboss Application Server
• Mysql
• Windows
• Configuration Management
• Scrum
• Scripting
• Perforce
• Sql
• Release Management