I had a moment of extreme motivation and inspiration at the end of last year. I was full of optimism after delivering a day-long bootcamp on Cloud Networking 101 for some great people as part of a DevOps Girls event. This was the moment I decided to put in a submission to 0xcc Conference to deliver a 2-day course on Cloud Network Security. Then the world changed… — My role at SEEK is to support a lot of the edge networking infrastructure, which includes a lot of YAML, NGINX and BASH — it also includes a solid understanding of AWS cloud networking resources and the flow of traffic through SEEK’s websites. …

More often than not, we believe our infrastructure in the cloud is supported by magic. There’s a team on the 5th floor who cast spells to weave webs of cloud infrastructure that allows us to securely and reliably host web applications. This mysterious skillset is not part of our day-to-day job, but when it goes wrong we call upon this team to help us fix it. The magic I speak of is cloud networking and a team of us had a mission to dispel some mysteries.

Some days you love where you work more than others. But I never thought that day would be a Saturday. If you work in tech, having to show up on a weekend isn’t normally a good news story. Thankfully, this was different. I went to bed the night before hoping…