Kandice Hendricks
Director / Architect — Azure · AWS · OCI · Security · DevOps · Leader
Seasoned Cloud Technology Leader with 25+ years of success architecting secure platforms, software and IaC development. SME in security integrations, QA, automated testing, release management, vulnerability assessments, pipelines, CI/CD, and zero trust architecture. Strong ability to influence top-level executives toward secure, scalable, and best-practices solutions.
Career Experience
My non profit site to display my skills in hopes that it lands me a good job!
Contractor for Government – supporting Veteran Affairs Enterprise Security Architecture team.
Global hybrid environment with OCI, IBM Gov Cloud, and Azure. Guiding migration from VMware on-prem to cloud.
Lead Software Platform Architect for AWS, mobile apps, web UI, and backend automation in Node.js and Lambda, fronted by CloudFront, Cognito, WAF, and API Gateway.
Managed team of DevOps consultants to architect, solution, and deploy Enterprise-grade Cloud Platform Services for clients including Kohler, PwC, HealthPartners, Fastenal, Kestra Financial, Clinisys, and Merit Energy.
Cloud Automation Solutions Manager / Sr. Delivery Architect – DevOps/Cloud
Blue MantisChampioned automated, standardized delivery. Specialized in DevOps pipelines across AWS, Azure, OCI using Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Chef, GitHub, and JFrog. Clients included DEKA Research, Salesforce, Liberty Mutual, Cole Haan, and more.
Directed Production Data Operations ETL team and served as Lead Infrastructure Engineer on CMS consulting projects. Built Change Management system and established Automation Pipeline.
Led all cloud architecture and infrastructure efforts as Lead Cloud Architect using AWS and VMware in an Agile Scrum SDLC environment.