I’m Jeff Bilder — a DevOps and infrastructure leader with 20+ years across the software, risk management, and security sectors.
My career started where a lot of good infrastructure people start: hands-on, configuring redundant Cisco networks, building Linux mail clusters, and writing scripts to make manual work disappear. Over time that grew into architecting datacenters, managing multi-million-dollar budgets, and today leading a team of 7 DevOps engineers operating a multi-region SaaS platform across AWS commercial, AWS GovCloud, and Azure DevOps.
The throughline has never changed: take systems that are sprawling, fragile, and scary to touch, and turn them into platforms that are automated, observable, and secure by default — then build the team and process that keep them that way.
I’m equally comfortable diagnosing a 2 AM production outage and presenting architectural trade-offs to executive stakeholders. I pair deep hands-on engineering — Terraform, Ansible, Python, ECS/Fargate, IAM — with the program leadership to translate complex infrastructure decisions into clear business outcomes.
What I care about
- Automation over heroics. If a deploy needs someone who “knows the trick,” it’s broken.
- Security as a default, not a gate. Least-privilege IAM, STIG-hardened, audit-ready — by design.
- Healthy teams. Predictable sprint velocity, a prioritized backlog, and engineers who own their domains and grow.
- Clarity. The best systems explain themselves. So should the people who run them — which is why I write.
Recent work
At Origami Risk I’ve led a VPC-peering to Transit Gateway migration, standardized Azure DevOps pipeline templates for the whole engineering org, run IAM least-privilege audits across our environments, and shipped DISA STIG-compliant imaging — all under Git peer review.
Let’s talk
If you’re scaling a platform, migrating to the cloud, or hardening your security posture, I’d love to hear about it. Find me on LinkedIn or GitHub.