Jack Salamone

Network Engineer  ·  Cloud Architect

CCNP and AWS SAA certified IT professional specializing in hybrid cloud connectivity for healthcare environments. BGP route policy, IPSec tunnels, and Terraform-provisioned infrastructure across AWS and Azure.

Jack Salamone

About

I design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure, from the network layer all the way up to the pipelines and applications running on top of it. That means Terraform and Bicep defining the environment, CI/CD through Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions shipping it, AKS and Azure Functions serving the workloads, and the BGP routing, IPSec tunnels, and firewall policy that connect on-premises systems to the cloud safely.

For the past several years I have done this work in healthcare, where the systems I run are part of clinical infrastructure and downtime is not an option. My CCNP background gives me a routing and switching foundation most cloud engineers do not have, and my AWS Solutions Architect certification formalizes the cloud and DevOps side. I work comfortably on both sides of the VPC boundary, which is exactly where hybrid-cloud problems tend to live.

5+ Years cloud
networking
CCNP Enterprise
certified
AWS Solutions Architect
certified
IaC All labs in
Terraform

Skills

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Cloud Networking

  • AWS VPC, Transit Gateway
  • Site-to-Site VPN, Direct Connect
  • Azure VNet, ExpressRoute
  • Security Groups, NACLs
  • VPC Flow Logs, CloudWatch
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Enterprise Networking

  • BGP, OSPF, EIGRP
  • HSRP, VLAN, STP
  • SD-WAN, QoS
  • MPLS, WAN connectivity
  • Network segmentation
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Security

  • FortiGate NGFW
  • IPSec / SSL VPN
  • RADIUS, 802.1X
  • Conditional Access, MFA
  • Zero Trust architecture
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Infrastructure as Code

  • Terraform (modules, state)
  • CloudFormation
  • AWS CLI, boto3
  • GitOps / CI/CD pipelines
  • Linux scripting
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Platforms

  • Cisco IOS / IOS-XE
  • FortiOS
  • Cisco Meraki
  • AWS, Azure
  • Linux (Ubuntu, RHEL)

Projects

Six reproducible labs. Every AWS resource provisioned with Terraform.

router-cloud (AS 65001) — eBGP over IPSec → AS 65002 SNAPSHOT
router-cloud# show ip bgp summary

                

BGP Dynamic Routing Lab

On-demand infrastructure

Two FRR routers peered over an IPSec tunnel in AWS. This is the exact protocol stack behind AWS Direct Connect: eBGP over encrypted transport, route advertisements flowing between autonomous systems. The terminal shows a captured snapshot from a real session that stayed established for over five weeks.

Spun down to keep cloud cost at zero between demos. The full stack (VPCs, EC2, FRR, IPSec, IAM, Lambda) redeploys from Terraform in a few minutes.

AS 65001 ←── eBGP / TCP 179 / IPSec ──→ AS 65002
BGP / FRR IPSec AWS Terraform Lambda SSM
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Shared Services VPC Hub Prod VPC Spoke Dev VPC Spoke no direct peering

Multi-VPC Hub-and-Spoke

Hub-and-spoke topology across three VPCs: Shared Services at the center, Prod and Dev as isolated spokes. Each spoke reaches shared resources. They cannot reach each other. This is the standard segmentation pattern for enterprise-scale AWS environments.

AWSTerraformVPC PeeringNetwork Design
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Application Load Balancer AZ-a AZ-b EC2 (Auto Scaling) EC2 (Auto Scaling) RDS Multi-AZ (private subnets)

Highly Available Web Application

Production-grade fault tolerance: ALB distributing traffic across an Auto Scaling Group in two Availability Zones, with Multi-AZ RDS in private subnets. Failover tested by terminating instances and verifying automatic recovery.

AWSTerraformALBAuto ScalingRDS
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module "vpc" { } env = var.env cidr = var.cidr azs = var.azs Prod VPC 10.0.0.0/16 Dev VPC 10.1.0.0/16

Reusable Terraform VPC Module

A parameterized Terraform module that provisions a complete VPC from a single definition. Instantiated with different inputs for prod and dev, eliminating configuration drift between environments. This is the pattern used in production IaC at scale.

TerraformAWSIaC Modulefor_each
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VPC Flow Logs S3 / CW CloudWatch Logs Insights Alarms + Dashboard

Cloud Network Monitoring

VPC Flow Logs piped to CloudWatch with custom Logs Insights queries for detecting rejected connections, unusual traffic patterns, and lateral movement. Rejection alarms and a live dashboard built for real incident investigation, not just log storage.

AWSTerraformCloudWatchFlow Logs
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Blog

Writing on cloud networking, infrastructure, and the work behind the portfolio.

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