Pascaline B

About Pascaline B

Senior Cloud Infrastructure & Security Engineer and Cloud Security & DevSecOps Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing, implementing, and securing enterprise AWS cloud environments. Expertise in Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, integrating security into CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration security, and compliance management as ISSO. Proven ability to reduce vulnerabilities by 50-65%, optimize costs by 25-30%, and achieve full regulatory compliance using AWS native services, DevSecOps tools, and zero-trust architectures across high-stakes organizations. Holder of CISSP, multiple AWS Professional certifications, and HashiCorp Terraform Associate.

Experience

1. Senior Cloud Infrastructure & Security Engineer

   IBM

   Feb 2021 — Present · US

   Architected secure AWS multi-account environments using Terraform and CloudFormation, achieving 98% CIS compliance across 150+ resourcesIntegrated DevSecOps security tools (Snyk, Trivy, Checkov, tfsec) into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, CodePipeline), reducing vulnerabilities by 55%Designed and secured Kubernetes (EKS) clusters supporting 35+ microservices with runtime protection and network policiesImplemented AWS security services (GuardDuty, Security Hub, Inspector, CloudWatch) improving incident response time by 35%Automated compliance and auditing using AWS Config, CloudTrail, Python, Bash, achieving 99% compliance adherenceDeployed Zero Trust architecture using IAM least privilege, KMS encryption, WAF, and Secrets ManagerOptimized cloud costs by 28% through rightsizing and monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana)

Education

• Presbyterian University

  Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

• Western Governors University

  Master of Science - MS, Cybersecurity and Information Assurance