Your cloud,
held to a higher standard.
Senior AWS & Azure infrastructure and security — audits, SOC 2 readiness, Terraform buildouts, and identity migrations. Brought in for the project your team doesn’t have the bandwidth or the scar tissue to do safely.
Fixed-scope work, priced up front.
No open-ended retainers to start. Pick a clear outcome — most clients begin with a Quick-Win, then scale into bigger work once they’ve seen the standard.
Cloud Quick-Win
$450 flatA single, focused review — IAM, network exposure, or a SOC 2 gap snapshot — with a prioritized fix list you can act on this week. The fastest way to see how I work.
2-day turnaroundCloud Environment Audit
$1,500 flatFull AWS or Azure review: IAM, networking, storage exposure, and monitoring gaps — delivered as an executive summary plus a critical/high/medium remediation plan.
5 business daysSOC 2 / CIS Readiness
$3k–8k scopedGap assessment, Terraform and policy-as-code remediation, and an auditor-ready evidence pack — built from real programs that moved orgs from below-baseline to 80+ maturity.
gap → remediationAutomated Access Reviews
setup + retainerQuarterly user-access reviews across every identity system, automated into a one-command evidence pack. The reproducibility auditors want — compounding value each cycle.
recurringInfrastructure Buildout
$100–125 /hrTerraform-based AWS or Azure environments built or refactored — VPC/identity/monitoring, state management, runbook, architecture diagram, and 30-day async support.
20–40 hr typicalIdentity & AD Migration
scopedIdentity Center / Entra ID cutovers, SSO federation, and AD consolidations — snapshot-verified so no access is silently gained or lost. Done without a maintenance outage.
zero-downtimeRecent work, declassified.
Anonymized accounts of real engagements — the problem, the approach, and the measured outcome. Details and identities removed; the engineering is exactly as it happened.
Zero-Trust SSO Federation for Multi-Account AWS
B2B SaaS platform · multi-account AWS · ~12 platform engineers
Cut over an entire engineering org from native AWS logins to corporate-IdP SSO with MFA — zero standing access drift, fully snapshot-verified.
Remote-Access VPN Rebuilt on a Transit Gateway Hub
SaaS company · 11 VPCs across two AWS regions
Replaced a brittle 22-link VPC-peering mesh with a single Transit Gateway hub — collapsing 48 route tables to one and unlocking multi-region scale.
Org-Wide AWS Security Hardening Program
Multi-account AWS organization · 6 accounts
Turned a one-time security assessment into a prioritized, costed remediation program that lifted an org from below-baseline to an 80+ maturity projection.
Automated Quarterly Access Reviews for SOC 2
SaaS company · access reviews across 8 systems
Replaced a multi-day manual access-review scramble with a one-command export that pulls every system into an audit-ready evidence pack.
Why the work holds up.
Most cloud incidents aren’t exotic attacks — they’re a misconfigured guardrail, a stranded permission, a routing change no one verified. My whole method is built to make those impossible to leave behind.
Snapshot before I touch anything
Every engagement starts with a verifiable picture of current state. It becomes the source of truth I reconcile against — so nothing changes silently and rollback is always on the table.
Documented-correct, not trial-and-error
I validate the approach against vendor docs and prove it on the real environment. You get the path that holds up under audit, not the one that happened to work once.
AI-accelerated delivery
I pair two decades of infrastructure judgment with modern AI-assisted engineering. That means senior-grade design and exhaustive verification at a speed a junior toolchain can’t match.
Milton Christ
Principal Engineer · CloudWarden
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer specializing in multi-cloud platform engineering, identity, and security compliance across AWS and Azure.
★ U.S. Navy Veteran · Daphne, AlabamaYou work directly with me — no subcontracting, no junior hand-offs, no account manager between you and the engineer doing the work.
I build and operate production cloud platforms every day: multi-account AWS governance, Transit Gateway networking, Identity Center and Entra ID, SOC 2 and CIS compliance, and Terraform automation. The field reports above are anonymized slices of that work.
Two decades of infrastructure means I’ve seen how things actually fail — and I pair that judgment with a modern, AI-accelerated toolchain so the work ships fast and gets verified exhaustively. That combination is the whole point.
Tell me what you’re dealing with.
A misconfigured environment, a SOC 2 deadline, an identity migration you’d rather not do blind. I’ll tell you honestly whether I can help and what it would look like — no pitch.