Richard Fenoglio
Senior Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer. Engineering, Automation, & Reliability. FedRAMP, Security & Regulated Environments. Architecture & Technical Leadership.
Senior infrastructure and cloud engineer with 9+ years of experience designing, stabilizing, and modernizing complex systems across cloud, hybrid datacenters, and highly regulated environments. Known for bridging technical and non-technical worlds, translating between engineers, auditors, leadership, and business stakeholders to keep complex initiatives aligned and moving.
About Me
I’m Rich Fenoglio, a senior infrastructure and cloud engineer with 9+ years of experience designing, stabilizing, and modernizing complex systems across cloud, hybrid datacenters, and highly regulated environments. I’ve repeatedly been brought into environments where systems, processes, or relationships were struggling and helped turn them into stable, scalable, and defensible platforms.
Quick Facts
Current Role
👨💻 Site Reliability Engineer at Coalfire
Education
🎓 Hamilton High School - East, High School Diploma
📚 Elizabethtown College, Information Systems
📚 Thomas Edison State University, Computer Information Systems
Recent Achievements
🎓 Vanguard Leadership Development Program - Graduate (2022)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (2021)
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (2020)
ITIL 4 Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management (2019)
Languages
Interests
Skills
9+ years of experience designing, stabilizing, and modernizing complex systems across cloud, hybrid datacenters, and highly regulated environments.
Cloud Security Architecture
Building secure and scalable public and private cloud infrastructure designed to meet business and client requirements.
Infrastructure Automation
Implementing infrastructure automation to reduce engineering toil and maximize uptime and reliability.
Leadership and Team Collaboration
Leading cross-functional teams across business units, clients, and vendors; managing complex projects and ensuring effective communications and efforts leading to desired outcomes.
Risk Management and Governance
Ensuring technical risk is identified and communicated effectively amongst business and technical stakeholders and remediated in a timely manner.
Troubleshooting and Problem Solving
Evaluating complex problems and issues methodically and implementing effective solutions to mitigate them and prevent them from recurring.
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR)
Developing, implementing, and regularly testing business continuity and disaster recovery plans and measures that allow effective and timely remediation of critical business assets and infrastructure should the worst occur.
Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Designing, implementing, and maintaining effective and secure enterprise identity and access solutions that meet the needs of businesses now and in the future as they continue to expand and grow.
IT Service Management
Ensuring effective IT service management principles are implemented and followed so that work is able to be effectively prioritized, actioned, and issues resolved timely while following change control best practices.
Experience
From network security engineering to architecture leadership and consulting, I've been engaged in architecture, planning, administration, and support for a wide array of modern information technology platforms and services.
Coalfire
Site Reliability Engineer / Senior Consultant, Cloud Services
Global services and solutions company that specializes in cyber advisory, assessment, and security
Key Achievements
- Stabilized an at-risk FedRAMP client engagement by acting as dedicated technical lead, restoring trust through clear architectural guidance and delivery execution.
- Implemented agile workflows and delivery tracking for an at-risk client engagement, achieving a significant turnaround in client satisfaction and communication despite an inherited decision to transition away.
- Designed FedRAMP-ready cloud architectures incorporating zero-trust network access, ITSM-aligned change control, and scalable operational patterns.
- Led FedRAMP discovery and architecture workshops for new clients, producing readiness roadmaps, risk assessments, and project plans that consistently converted to delivery engagements.
- Automated complex configuration management asset discovery workflows, reducing inventory collection errors by 98% and eliminating a major source of compliance drift.
- Diagnosed and resolved systemic AWS discovery and visibility issues impacting continuous monitoring and audit readiness.
- Standardized engineering and operations documentation across MSS engagements, improving onboarding speed, consistency, and troubleshooting effectiveness.
- Served as a trusted technical advisor to clients maintaining regulated cloud environments across AWS infrastructure, endpoint protection, and vulnerability management platforms.
U.S. Bank
Senior Cloud Audit Specialist, Digital, Technology & Operations Services
The company serves millions of customers locally, nationally and globally through a diversified mix of businesses including consumer banking, business banking, commercial banking, institutional banking, payments and wealth management
Key Achievements
- Served as technical authority for cloud and infrastructure audits, ensuring audit teams asked the right questions and accurately evaluated complex technical evidence.
- Led a comprehensive audit of the enterprise cloud migration program, assessing technical design, financial governance, security controls, and operational readiness.
- Bridged engineering, audit, and risk teams by translating modern cloud architectures into clear control implications and remediation actions.
- Integrated evolving regulatory expectations and internal risk partner guidance into audit procedures to align reviews with emerging risk trends.
- Supported non-technical audit teams when technology became a factor, preventing misinterpretation of evidence and improving audit accuracy and credibility.
Ansys Government Initiatives (AGI)
Senior Systems Engineer, Infrastructure Services
Ansys Government Initiatives (AGI) is the United States national security subsidiary of Ansys, the global leader in engineering simulation
Key Achievements
- Re-architected a multi-site VMware platform suffering from years of misconfiguration, delivering significant uptime improvements and eliminating recurring outages through a phased redesign.
- Implemented governance controls including change management, t-shirt sizing, and tagging strategies that eliminated uncontrolled capacity growth and emergency hardware purchases.
- Designed and launched a ground-up HPC compute and storage platform supporting hosted client workloads, achieving meaningful performance gains for Ansys Fluent and Mechanical environments.
- Rebuilt Active Directory and RBAC architecture, correcting long-standing technical debt and aligning identity controls with CMMC requirements.
- Implemented business-driven backup automation via self-service tagging, improving recoverability while reducing operational overhead.
- Architected and validated disaster recovery and cyber recovery strategies, including an air-gapped clean-room environment.
- Embedded CMMC readiness requirements into all infrastructure design and operational practices.
The Vanguard Group
Project Manager / Senior Auditor, Global Technology Audit Services
One of the world's leading investment management companies
Key Achievements
- Served as the department's technical authority on cloud and infrastructure audits during the enterprise AWS migration.
- Identified compliance gaps in critical infrastructure areas that had gone undetected through prior review cycles.
- Promoted to Project Manager; owned audit engagements end-to-end, coordinating internal teams and external partners.
- Contributed to formal performance reviews for 3-5 auditors and 1-3 contract staff per cycle, delivering feedback that influenced compensation and promotion decisions.
- Built automation and reporting tools using scripting, Excel, SharePoint, PowerBI, and PowerApps to streamline testing and documentation.
- Co-developed and delivered a Cloud Infrastructure Audit Training program, increasing department efficiency and reducing reliance on senior technical auditors.
Flexential
Engineer, Professional Services
Specializing in hybrid IT solutions, integrated colocation, cloud, connectivity, data protection, managed and professional services.
Key Achievements
- Served as senior engineer for complex migrations, production recoveries, and compliance-driven infrastructure engagements.
- Led high-risk migrations requiring precise orchestration to prevent data loss and minimize downtime.
- Diagnosed catastrophic Active Directory corruption missed in initial troubleshooting. Designed and executed an unconventional recovery approach, rebuilding the forest from raw extracted data over a 3-4 day outage window, restoring operations for hundreds of users and preserving the client relationship.
- Owned white-glove backup and disaster recovery implementation and testing across customer environments.
- Managed patching and remediation for the full customer base, improving audit outcomes and reducing incidents.
- Contributed to ITIL/ITSM adoption, standardizing service delivery and documentation.
- Acted as Northeast Professional Services liaison to Sales, supporting pre-sales solutioning and drafting legally binding Statements of Work.
MARS Technology, Inc.
CIO (Founding Team)
Specialized in IT managed solutions and security
Key Achievements
- Joined as one of the first two employees, helping build the company across sales, architecture, delivery, and MSP operations.
- Built and led the technical operation from company founding, scaling to 10 clients, 100+ managed locations, and 2,500+ endpoints across four datacenters with a four-person team.
- Architected the initial datacenter footprint and subsequent expansions, overseeing vendor selection and platform deployment.
- Evaluated and integrated tooling to support endpoint, server, and mobile device management.
- Led client onboarding and delivery for SMB and mid-market customers, including regulated PCI environments.
Signature Systems, Inc.
Network Security Engineer / Product Specialist
Software developer and managed solutions provider specializing in point of sale, cybersecurity, and IT services
Key Achievements
- Promoted to Network Security Engineer after 5+ months of functioning in the role while formally part of the support organization.
- Supported nationwide rollout of a PCI-in-a-Box POS and back-office solution serving 3,500+ customers.
- Co-led deployment efforts, owning endpoint configuration, UTM firewall integration, and SIEM tuning.
- Built automation tooling that reduced deployment times by up to 75%.
- Migrated the MSSP SIEM platform from AlienVault USM to LogRhythm.
- Partnered with auditors and pentesters to harden platforms beyond PCI-DSS requirements.
- Built a custom Sophos UTM management platform managing 2,500+ firewalls, reducing administrative effort by over 90%.
Tech Stack
Technical expertise spanning datacenter infrastructure, DevOps, endpoint management, network engineering, database administration, IT service management, and everything in between.
Infrastructure Platforms
Public Clouds Infrastructure
DevOps Tools
Server Administration & Engineering
IT Service Management
Endpoint Management
Scripting Languages & Tools
Databases
Web Technologies
Let's Connect
Contact Information
Let's connect! I'm always interested in hearing about new projects and opportunities.
Location
Pottstown, PA, United States