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🔒 You need security that actually works — not a report that says it does. The organisations I work with want to find the vulnerabilities that matter, fix them with confidence, and get on with growing their business without security becoming the thing that stops them. I have delivered over 1,000 commercial penetration tests across 27 years. Not side projects. Not internal assessments. Full mission-critical engagements for high street and investment banks, hedge funds, insurance firms, government departments, police, military, national infrastructure, retailers, law firms, airports and more. I led the security architecture for the Athens 2004 Olympics internet-facing systems. I was lead architect on the UK Cyber Essentials scheme at launch. I have published in commercial security press and guest lectured at universities. There is a difference between someone who does penetration testing and someone who has seen every flavour of environment, every attack pattern, and every way organisations deceive themselves about their security posture. That difference is what you are hiring. 🎯 Where can I help: 🗡️ Network & Infrastructure Penetration Testing — adversarial testing of internal and external infrastructure, finding exploitable exposures before an attacker does. 🌐 Application Penetration Testing — web application and API security testing against real attack patterns: authentication, authorisation, input handling and business logic flaws. ☁️ Microsoft 365 Security Assessment — Entra ID, Conditional Access, PIM, Intune, DLP, sensitivity labelling, Exchange Online and Defender for Office 365. 🔷 Azure Security Assessment — identity and access management, network controls, storage and key management, Defender for Cloud posture, and monitoring coverage. 🟢 Google Workspace, GCP & AWS Security Assessments — configuration and access control assessments across Google and Amazon cloud environments. 🏛️ Security Architecture and Risk Advisory — senior technical input on architecture decisions, control design and risk without a full engagement commitment. 👤 Every engagement is delivered directly by me — David Morgan, founder of Metis Security. No account management layer, no junior handoffs, no templated output. You work with the person conducting the analysis and writing the report. 📋 How I work is as important as what I find Every finding in my reports is one I will defend as genuinely material to your environment. No padding, no low-hanging fruit included to justify the fee, no default risk ratings copied from a scanner. If your context changes the risk, the rating reflects that. What you receive: ✅ A visually structured report with clear separation between executive summary, findings and remediation roadmap — written to be read by people who are not security specialists ✅ Risk ratings adjusted to your specific environment and context, not defaulted from a tool ✅ A prioritised remediation roadmap so your team knows exactly what to fix first and why it matters commercially ✅ Immediate escalation of any high-risk finding or schedule-affecting issue during the engagement — you are never waiting until the end to hear something important ✅ Daily status updates so you always know where the engagement stands ✅ A debrief call at close to walk through findings, answer questions and finalise the report before it is delivered CISSP | ISSAP | Microsoft Security certifications | 27 years If you need to know whether your environment is genuinely secure — not whether it looks configured — I am worth a conversation.

Expert-Vetted on Upwork (Top 1% of security professionals). If you're building on the cloud and want to find the security gaps attackers would exploit — before they do — I can help. I’m a cybersecurity consultant and founder of Exfiltra, helping startups and enterprises secure their applications, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps pipelines. I have worked with organizations generating $6B+ in annual revenue and helped companies strengthen security across cloud environments, applications, and compliance programs. I personally lead security engagements and, when needed, bring in specialists from my team at Exfiltra to support larger or complex projects. Most clients hire me when they want to: ✔ Secure Azure / AWS / GCP environments ✔ Perform professional penetration testing ✔ Implement DevSecOps and secure CI/CD pipelines ✔ Prepare for SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, FedRAMP, or CMMC ✔ Improve security posture using industry frameworks CORE EXPERTISE AZURE & CLOUD SECURITY • Azure security architecture reviews • Microsoft Defender for Cloud & Sentinel • Identity security (Entra ID / Conditional Access) • Cloud configuration reviews and CIS Benchmark hardening APPLICATION SECURITY & PENETRATION TESTING • Web application penetration testing • API security testing • Mobile application security testing • Network and cloud penetration testing • Assessments aligned with OWASP Top 10 and OWASP ASVS DEVSECOPS & SECURITY AUTOMATION • Secure CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions) • Infrastructure as Code security (Terraform / Bicep) • SAST and DAST integration in pipelines SECURITY TOOLS • Snyk • Semgrep • OWASP ZAP • Burp Suite • Wazuh • CrowdStrike • Microsoft Sentinel AI & LLM SECURITY • AI application threat modeling • Prompt injection and model abuse testing • Secure architecture for AI-powered applications WHY CLIENTS WORK WITH ME • Upwork Expert-Vetted (Top 1% of freelancers) • Founder of Exfiltra – a cybersecurity services company • Supported by a team of security specialists for larger engagements • Contributor to OWASP ZAP • Experience securing environments for organizations generating $6B+ in revenue • Background in both software engineering and cybersecurity • Security research involving organizations like the U.S. Department of Defense NOT A GOOD FIT IF • You want to hack or recover social media accounts • You want enterprise-grade security but are not willing to invest in it If your goal is to build secure systems instead of reacting to breaches later, feel free to invite me to your job or send a message describing your project.

+10 Years of Experience Helping Client & Business: Develop Software, Manage & Consult 🏆 Top Rated Freelancer / 100% Job Success 🏆 Software Guru 100% Delivery Speed on Both Complex & Difficult Tasks 🏆 AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Certified 🏆 AWS DevOps Engineer Certified 🏆 Built Highly Secure Cloud Architectures for Apache Kafka Applications 🏆 Developed Amazon Lex Chatbot for Multi-Language Support 🏆 Delivered Kubernetes-Orchestrated Solutions for Scalability 🏆 Implemented AWS Lambda for Serverless Application Architectures 🏆 Executed ECS Projects for High-Performance Containerized Workloads 🏆 Enhanced AWS Cloud Cyber Security Infrastructure With over 10 years of IT expertise in DevOps Engineering, Cloud Architecture, Cyber Security, and Infrastructure Automation, I bring a proven ability to deliver secure, scalable, and efficient cloud-based solutions tailored to business-critical applications. Key Skills & Expertise Amazon Lex Chatbot Development: Designed and implemented a multi-language Amazon Lex chatbot for customer engagement, supporting English and Spanish interactions. Container Management and Orchestration: Delivered containerized workloads using Amazon ECS for high-performance applications. Deployed Kubernetes for managing scalable containerized microservices, ensuring robust and reliable production environments. Serverless Architectures: Developed AWS Lambda-based serverless applications integrated with API Gateway and DynamoDB, enabling cost-efficient and event-driven solutions. Highly Secure Cloud Architecture: Built and implemented highly secure cloud architectures for mission-critical applications, including an Apache Kafka-based streaming platform. Enhanced AWS Cloud Cyber Security posture by implementing best practices such as IAM policies, security groups, VPC NACLs, encryption, and AWS WAF for web application security. CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Automated multi-account AWS deployments using Terraform and optimized CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, SonarQube, and Maven. Monitoring and Observability: Implemented Prometheus, Grafana, and New Relic for real-time monitoring and end-to-end application observability. Disaster Recovery and High Availability: Executed a failover recovery plan between on-premises servers and AWS EC2 Reserved Instances to achieve zero downtime during critical operations. Cyber Security and Compliance: Strengthened AWS Cloud security by implementing IAM policies, fine-tuning security groups, ensuring secure container deployments, and following security best practices for applications and data. Recent Highlights Amazon Lex Chatbot: Developed a bilingual chatbot with Amazon Lex, enabling seamless client communication and automating booking workflows. Apache Kafka Secure Deployment: Built a highly secure cloud architecture to support an Apache Kafka streaming application, ensuring optimal performance and security. ECS and Kubernetes: Delivered containerized solutions using Amazon ECS for high-throughput workloads and orchestrated Kubernetes deployments for scalable applications. AWS Lambda Projects: Designed and implemented serverless solutions leveraging AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB for cost-efficient, event-driven architectures. Cyber Security: Enhanced AWS Cloud Cyber Security infrastructure by implementing robust security configurations across all deployed services.

Your infrastructure breaks at 2 AM. Your deploys take 45 minutes. Your AWS bill climbed 40% and nobody can explain why. I fix all three - and I've done it 100+ times on this platform. Former SRE Lead at Yellow AI (100M+ users, AWS + on-prem). Now I run Skybyte, a DevOps and cloud consulting practice focused on startups and mid-market teams that need senior infrastructure work without the senior hire. What 61+ Upwork jobs and a 100% Job Success Score actually look like: Cloud cost optimization - cut AWS/Azure/GCP spend by 40-60% through right-sizing, Reserved Instances, spot fleets, and architecture cleanup. Not guesswork; I run the cost audit, build the dashboard, and hand you the savings. Kubernetes migration and management - moved production workloads to EKS, AKS, and self-managed clusters on Hetzner. Helm charts, ArgoCD GitOps, zero-downtime cutovers. I've handled clusters running 200+ pods and clusters running 6. CI/CD pipeline engineering - GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps Pipelines, Bitbucket Pipelines. Took teams from 45-minute manual deploys to sub-5-minute automated releases with rollback built in. Infrastructure as Code with Terraform - full AWS, Azure, and GCP environments defined in Terraform modules. State management, drift detection, and PR-based infrastructure reviews that your team can maintain without me. DevSecOps and compliance - SOC 2 infrastructure from scratch, cloud security audits, Cloudflare WAF and DDoS protection, network security architecture, and DPDP-aligned data handling. I've built the controls and written the documentation auditors actually accept. Monitoring, observability, and SRE - Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, PagerDuty. Full observability stacks that catch failures before your users file tickets. I set up SLOs, runbooks, and on-call workflows. Beyond core DevOps - SSO/SAML integration, n8n workflow automation, MLOps pipelines, Docker deployments on bare metal and VPS, GCP Cloud Run serverless, and technical documentation your team won't ignore. I work best with funded startups burning money on cloud, engineering teams stuck in deployment hell, and companies scaling past the point where one developer can manage the infrastructure part-time. Stack: AWS (EKS, EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3) · Azure (AKS, DevOps, AD) · GCP (GKE, Cloud Run) · Kubernetes · Helm · Terraform · Docker · GitHub Actions · GitLab CI · ArgoCD · Prometheus · Grafana · OpenTelemetry · Datadog · Cloudflare · n8n Not a "set it up and disappear" contractor. I document everything, train your team, and build systems designed to run without me and scale.

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I migrate, harden, and run hybrid infrastructure across AWS, VMware, and Proxmox so you get one architect for both your cloud and your on-prem stack instead of stitching together three specialists. Whether you're moving on-prem workloads to AWS, building a Proxmox or VMware cluster, recovering a broken Linux server, or automating deployments with Ansible and CI/CD, I've done it across 85 completed jobs at a 100% Job Success score. 13+ years of hands-on enterprise infrastructure experience, AWS-certified (Solutions Architect, SysOps, Developer) and KCNA, with real production work behind every claim below. Cloud & migration On-prem ↔ AWS migrations (MGN/DRS), EC2, ECS/Fargate, Lightsail, CloudFront, NGINX, SSL/certificate setup, and AWS backup configuration. I've moved live workloads both directions AWS to on-prem and Dell PowerEdge to consolidated micro-servers without losing data or uptime. Virtualization Proxmox (installs, v6→v8 upgrades, cluster setup, VM/VMDK exports from AMI) and VMware (vCenter/ESXi cluster setup, vSphere, VMDK migrations). This is repeat work for me, not a side skill. Disaster recovery & resilience Tested DR with real RTO/RPO targets, warm-standby and pilot-light patterns, and backup strategies that actually restore verified, not assumed. DevOps & automation Ansible-first configuration automation, Docker and Docker Swarm, Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, and containerized deployments. I automate the repeatable so your team stops doing it by hand. Linux & hardening Server hardening, security baselines, performance tuning, hosting stacks (Plesk, cPanel), and monitoring with DataDog across Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS, and SUSE. What clients consistently say: clear communication, reliable delivery, and solving the actual problem instead of the surface symptom. Send me a short description of your environment and what you're trying to achieve. I'll reply with a straight assessment and an honest recommendation on whether I'm the right fit usually within a few hours.