Glen Burnie, Maryland

Solomon Williams

DevSecOps, AI/ML, and Kubernetes for programs that cannot miss a release or an audit.

U.S. citizen · DoD Top Secret · (240) 461-3010 · solomon.fwilliams@gmail.com

Résumé, PDF Seventeen years of record
17+ Years from Unix administration to AI platform engineering
Top Secret DoD clearance. Cleared for federal mission programs
120–230 Kubernetes clusters under fleet governance
20,000+ Hosts across a federal compute estate

How the work is run

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Senior DevSecOps, cloud platform, and Kubernetes architect. The practice is path-to-production, compliance evidence, and day-2 operations, held as one system so a platform stays ready for mission change.

Platform architecture

Multi-cloud and hybrid control planes, fleet governance, and a cloud-native operating model that application teams can actually use.

DevSecOps

Pipelines, GitOps, and infrastructure as code. Environment promotion is a path, not a meeting.

Security and compliance

Continuous authorization, Zero Trust, and supply-chain evidence that travels with the release.

AI and data platforms

GPU Kubernetes, model serving, retrieval, and agentic workflows on the same control plane as production.

Selected record

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The lines below are the engagements. The PDF is the full record, including every bullet.

Aug 2025 — Present

DevSecOps / Software Engineer

ActioNet — Washington, DC

Lead DevSecOps and platform engineering for secure multi-cloud Kubernetes estates supporting mission-critical federal workloads. Architecture spans delivery pipelines, compliance controls, AI/ML platform enablement, and developer self-service.

GitLab CI/CD · GitHub Actions · Argo CD · Helm · Kubernetes · EKS · AKS · RKE2 · Terraform · Ansible · Harbor · Trivy · SonarQube · Prometheus · Grafana · Vault

Nov 2024 — Jul 2025

DevSecOps Engineer

Clarity Innovations — Reston, VA

DevSecOps and enterprise Kubernetes for multi-cloud AI/ML and mission demonstration environments. Cluster fleet governance, GitLab-centered delivery, and a secure path to production for client-ready platforms.

GitLab · Argo CD · OpenShift · Rancher · Spectro Cloud · Istio · Cilium · Keycloak · NVIDIA GPU Operator · Kubeflow · vLLM

Jun 2023 — Oct 2024

DevSecOps Engineer

Raytheon / Nightwing — Plano, TX

Enterprise DevSecOps for large Kubernetes fleets and mission demonstration platforms. Delivery moved from Tekton to GitLab, security gates sat in every pipeline, and Linux estates were hardened to STIG and CIS.

GitLab · Jenkins · Argo CD · Harbor · Trivy · Istio · Cilium · Keycloak · Terraform · Packer · Prometheus

Feb 2023 — May 2023

Cloud DevOps Engineer

GridIron — El Segundo, CA

Federated observability, pipeline modernization, artifact governance, and GitOps promotion across Kubernetes and OpenShift. One operational pane for metrics, logs, and alerts.

EKS · AKS · OpenShift · Vault · Artifactory · Thanos · Grafana · ELK · Dynatrace · Semgrep · OWASP ZAP

Feb 2022 — Jan 2023

Kubernetes Engineer

SASSI · DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory — Laurel, MD

RKE2 and Rancher for Army research workloads, AWS automation, Harbor-secured supply chains, Crossplane provisioning, and RHEL Satellite for compliant infrastructure.

RKE2 · Rancher · Crossplane · Argo CD · Harbor · Vault · Apache NiFi · RHEL Satellite · Terraform

Sep 2018 — Jan 2022

DevOps Kubernetes Engineer

ActioNet — Washington, DC

Federal judiciary platforms. Delivery modernization, hardened Linux and Kubernetes, and hybrid cloud operations under NIST and CIS controls.

Kubernetes · OpenShift · Jenkins · Ansible · AWS GovCloud · CyberArk · Active Directory · JBoss · Oracle

Jul 2012 — Aug 2018

Linux DevOps Engineer

IIA Web – USPTO — Alexandria, VA

Day-2 operations for one of the federal government’s large compute estates: 20,000+ hosts across RHEL, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, VMware, and AWS GovCloud, including patent, trademark, and financial systems.

RHEL Satellite · Ansible Tower · Puppet · Oracle RAC · Hadoop · Spark · OpenStack · OpenShift

Dec 2008 — Jun 2012

Linux Administrator

Future Electronics — Bolton, MA

Linux and Solaris administration: storage, backup, Oracle RAC availability, and the hardening discipline that later scaled into platform engineering.

Solaris · Red Hat · VERITAS · Oracle RAC · ZFS · Jumpstart

Credentials

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  • CompTIA Security+
  • Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
  • AWS Certified Security – Specialty
  • AWS Certified Developer – Associate
  • Docker Certified Associate
  • Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
  • Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • ITIL v3
  • Oracle Solaris Certified Associate (OCA)
  • B.Sc. Cyber Security — UMUC
  • Claude Academy — Generative AI