Ryan Howard

Senior DevSecOps & Cloud Architect | AWS GovCloud & Azure | Terraform | Kubernetes | Jenkins | GitOps & CI/CD Automation | FedRAMP | Cloud Security | Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)

Role
Senior System Engineer at Leidos
Location
Abingdon, MD, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers

About Ryan Howard

Twenty years in cloud, infrastructure, and software development. Most of it spent…

Experience

  1. Senior System Engineer

    Leidos

    Jul 2023 — Present · Ft Meade, MD, US

    Delivered 99.9% uptime across 200+ mission-critical workloads in AWS GovCloud and Azure, supporting DoD users. • Cut MTTR by 40% by building automated runbooks and troubleshooting guides, improving incident response across 6 teams. • Strengthened FedRAMP High security by embedding SonarQube and Snyk into 12+ CI/CD pipelines. • Reduced deployment inconsistencies by 35% through enhanced GitOps-based Jenkins pipelines. • Boosted Agile team velocity 25% by refining JIRA-based sprint planning and backlog workflows.

Education

  • The Johns Hopkins University

    Master's degree, Computer Science

  • Towson University

    Dual Bachelors Degree, Computer Information Systems/Business Administration

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