REM Waste Management - Senior AWS DevOps (Governance & Resilience)

This documentation demonstrates practical experience in:

• IAM risk reduction

• Disaster recovery validation

• Terraform governance

• CI/CD production controls

• AWS environment ownership

Each section reflects real-world production practices and operational decision-making.

Contents:

• Q. Last IAM change you led that reduced risk (what + why)
• Q. Last restore test you ran (what failed, what changed after)
  • Restore Scenario
  • What Failed
  • Actions Taken
  • What Changed After
  • Outcome
• Q. How you run Terraform in prod (modules/state/approvals/drift)
  • Modules and Structure
  • State Management
  • Approvals and Workflow
  • Drift Detection (Day-to-Day)
  • Bringing Manual Resources into Terraform
  • Policy Checks (OPA / Rego)
  • Security Scanning (Checkov)
  • Summary
• Q. CI/CD protections you enforce (specific controls) (GitLab CI/CD)
  • Source Control Controls
  • Pipeline Enforcement Controls
  • Security Controls (GitLab Ultimate Features)
  • Approval and Deployment Controls
  • Secrets and Access Controls
  • Policy and Guardrails
  • Rollback and Recovery Controls
  • Audit and Traceability
  • Summary
• Q. Size/shape of AWS you owned (accounts, regions, scale, on-call)
  • Overall Environment Shape
  • IBM – Hybrid and DR Foundations
  • Xebia – Architecture and Scale
  • OpenText – Production Operations
  • Diehl Metering – Governance and Security
  • Operational Ownership
  • Architectural Perspective
  • Summary