
Stephen Linden engineered and maintained cloud infrastructure for the ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform-ami-builds repository, focusing on secure, maintainable, and production-aligned AMI build pipelines. He applied Infrastructure as Code principles using Terraform and HCL, systematically deprecating obsolete environments and tightening IAM policies to enforce least privilege. His work included hardening S3 access, updating base image configurations, and removing legacy development and test accounts to reduce security risk and deployment drift. By ensuring traceable, auditable changes and resolving configuration bugs, Stephen improved deployment governance and maintainability. His disciplined approach demonstrated depth in DevOps, cloud security, and policy management across complex, evolving infrastructure.

October 2025: Delivered decommissioning and environment cleanup for AMI builds in the Ministry of Justice Modernisation Platform, removing obsolete references and simplifying deployment configurations.
October 2025: Delivered decommissioning and environment cleanup for AMI builds in the Ministry of Justice Modernisation Platform, removing obsolete references and simplifying deployment configurations.
September 2025 monthly summary: Completed a critical environment access alignment for PlanetFM by updating Terraform configuration to remove development and test accounts from the launch_permission_accounts_by_branch list in shared.auto.tfvars, ensuring deployment permissions reflect current targets. This fix reduces deployment drift and shortens incident response by clarifying access boundaries and improving predictability of deployments.
September 2025 monthly summary: Completed a critical environment access alignment for PlanetFM by updating Terraform configuration to remove development and test accounts from the launch_permission_accounts_by_branch list in shared.auto.tfvars, ensuring deployment permissions reflect current targets. This fix reduces deployment drift and shortens incident response by clarifying access boundaries and improving predictability of deployments.
2025-07 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform-ami-builds. Focused on removing obsolete development references and updating base images to ensure stable, production-aligned AMI builds, with clear commit traceability.
2025-07 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform-ami-builds. Focused on removing obsolete development references and updating base images to ensure stable, production-aligned AMI builds, with clear commit traceability.
June 2025 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform-ami-builds: Focused on deprecating the legacy reporting environment within the CI/build pipeline. Delivered by upgrading the Windows Server 2022 AMI build configuration from 0.2.1 to 0.2.2 and removing the nomis-core-reporting-development account from distribution and launch permissions in terraform.tfvars. This change aligns with the deprecation plan, tightens security, and simplifies maintenance within the build system.
June 2025 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform-ami-builds: Focused on deprecating the legacy reporting environment within the CI/build pipeline. Delivered by upgrading the Windows Server 2022 AMI build configuration from 0.2.1 to 0.2.2 and removing the nomis-core-reporting-development account from distribution and launch permissions in terraform.tfvars. This change aligns with the deprecation plan, tightens security, and simplifies maintenance within the build system.
May 2025 performance summary: Implemented S3 Access Policy Hardening in the Terraform SSM patching platform by removing broad s3:* actions from IAM policy, enforcing least privilege. No major bugs fixed this month. Impact: reduces security risk, strengthens compliance, and improves policy governance across the deployment pipeline. Technologies/skills: IAM policy governance, Terraform-based infrastructure changes, commit tracing, and secure-by-default principles.
May 2025 performance summary: Implemented S3 Access Policy Hardening in the Terraform SSM patching platform by removing broad s3:* actions from IAM policy, enforcing least privilege. No major bugs fixed this month. Impact: reduces security risk, strengthens compliance, and improves policy governance across the deployment pipeline. Technologies/skills: IAM policy governance, Terraform-based infrastructure changes, commit tracing, and secure-by-default principles.
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