About the founder

I'm Joel Comeaux.

I'm an Army veteran and a senior cloud infrastructure engineer. I started Aegis Cloud Group to do one specific thing well: focus on the infrastructure component of federal ATO engagements, so compliance teams have something real to document and federal programs have something real to ship.

The unconventional path

I enlisted in the Army out of high school. After I separated, I came up the engineering side the long way — Linux systems administration, platform reliability, containers back when Kubernetes was new, Terraform when Infrastructure as Code was still a debate. The long way, because I got to senior platform engineering by running production systems under real pressure for a decade. Not by credential-stacking on the consulting track.

Every engagement I've done since then has followed the same loop: build something that works, operate it until you understand what "works" actually means, and refactor toward something better. That loop is the reason I started ACG. It's also why the Design Principles I lead with aren't marketing slogans — they're the lessons I paid for.

Career in brief

Enduvo (2023) — Led the 60-day pre-ATO migration of an immersive learning platform from Azure Kubernetes Service to AWS GovCloud serverless for a DoD customer. Solo engineer, end-to-end delivery, pre-ATO milestone met on schedule. The anchor case study walks through the details.
DocuSign / Liveoak Technologies — Led Site Reliability Engineering for the Remote Online Notary product line supporting Fortune 500 financial services clients. Built the SRE function from scratch during the Liveoak years; continued as team lead through the DocuSign acquisition. Production incident ownership, audit-driven platform engineering under SOC 2 and financial-services posture.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory — Lead Platform Engineer. Scientific and research computing infrastructure at national-lab scale, with the operational discipline that environment demands.
Financial services and fintech platform engineering — PCI DSS audit ownership (current, at Forward); SOC 2 and HIPAA posture work across multiple prior fintech platforms. Compliance-driven infrastructure fixes, audit evidence pipelines, and the boring-but-critical work of keeping production systems audit-ready year after year. HIPAA fluency transfers directly to VA work, where programs run under HIPAA by default.
U.S. Army — Enlisted service; honorable discharge.

How the practice runs

ACG runs lean and agile. Federal contracting often sells you a team of four where one person does the work and three sit in meetings. The practice exists to skip that markup: charge honestly, deliver directly. For engagements that legitimately need more hands, I bring in trusted peer contractors on a per-engagement basis, and they get paid directly, not through an agency layer.

Lean by design means deep ownership, not limited capacity. I take on a small number of concurrent clients where technical ownership matters more than headcount, and I bring in trusted peer contractors when an engagement genuinely needs more hands. Standing up and leading a team isn't new territory: I built the SRE function at Liveoak and led platform teams at DocuSign and Indigo Tech. Lean is the default, not the ceiling. If you need a forty-person delivery team from day one, ACG isn't the fit, and I'll tell you that directly.

How to reach me

The fastest path is the contact form on the homepage or a direct email to joel@aegiscloudgroup.com. I answer my own inbox.