About
Kandice Hendricks
Director / Architect — Azure · AWS · OCI · Security · DevSecOps · 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.
Zero Trust Advocate
Security First
AuthZ/Auth0 SME
Compliance Expert
DevSecOps Focus
25+ Years
Career
Experience
Owner
GhostDrill
Founder and Owner of GhostDrill, a red team intelligence and threat simulation platform.
Lead Cybersecurity Solution Architect / Interim Chief Architect
Maveris/Harmonia
Contractor for Government – supporting Veteran Affairs Enterprise Security Architecture team.
Infrastructure & Cloud Architect
EMCOR – EBS
Global hybrid environment with OCI, IBM Gov Cloud, and Azure. Guiding migration from VMware on-prem to cloud.
Principal Architect, Software Platform E2E
Nelnet Bank
Lead Software Platform Architect for AWS, mobile apps, web UI, and backend automation in Node.js and Lambda.
Consulting Manager, DevSecOps
3Cloud Solutions
Managed team of DevSecOps consultants to architect, solution, and deploy Enterprise-grade Cloud Platform Services.
Cloud Automation Solutions Manager / Sr. Delivery Architect
Blue Mantis
Championed automated, standardized delivery. Specialized in DevSecOps pipelines across AWS, Azure, OCI.
Technical Proficiency
Cloud Platforms
Authentication
DevSecOps & CI/CD
Security Tools
Monitoring
Scripting
Certifications
Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
41C739-F89A5B
Azure Administrator Associate
50AAX4-908370
AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Associate
04/2019
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
03/2019
Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
100-210-392