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Relevant 5 years as DevOps Engineer managing build and deployment strategies on AWS cloud, adopted DevOps culture and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), implementing & thought leadership for all the latest, best and skewed practices of the IT Industry. Managed production application deployments in Kubernetes cluster using Kubectl. And more than 8 years experienced IT professional with skills including but not limited to capturing applications’ functional and non-function requirements, mapping requirements to a set of AWS services- data, compute, storage, management, network, microservices and security, creating solution proposals in line with an organization’s goals around performance, scalability, elasticity, security, management and monitoring and creating these solutions while democratizing advanced technologies. Effective communicator with strong team management, analytical and problem-solving.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

DevOps Engineer (AWS DevOps, Terraform, EKS)

Apex Systems
Carol Stream, IL
12.2020 - Current

Job Role:

Responsible to design Infrastructure & Application automation solutions, also oversees the Build and Deployment Pipelines.

Infrastructure: Amazon Web Services (AWS), CentOS, Jenkins, Apache Maven, Apache Tomcat, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Bit Bucket, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Consul.

  • · Worked with Docker containerization and deployed applications over Docker containers.
  • Understood well DevOps culture and CI/CD workflow using Jenkins with Git and GitHub Version controls.
  • Experienced in Systems Administration / multi-platform environments, installed and configured software and hardware, installed, configured & maintained servers for disaster recovery management.
  • Understood configuration management with Ansible tool.
  • Experienced with Docker containers and docker hub registry.
  • Built images and shipped images to hub registry then deployed on production servers using docker technology.
  • Configured application health checks Liveness probe and Readiness probe parameters to monitor containers health.
  • Performed rolling updates when new source code version is released.
  • Managed source code version tagging and prepared release notes accordingly while handover to service delivery teams.
  • Wrote Jenkins Pipeline code and automated Build and Deployments to Kubernetes using Helm.
  • Analyzed Jenkins Shared Libraries and integrated Shared Libraries in Jenkins Pipeline for Application Deployments.
  • Wrote custom Pipeline code for project specific built and deployed name spaces for Dev, QA, and Prod environment.
  • Prepared, built and deployed to non-prod environments, released notes to service delivery team for production deployments.
  • Configured and set up database parameters while deploying into specific names spaces.
  • Troubleshooted build issues and coordinated with Dev teams to fix issues.
  • Defined automate process for deployments.
  • Deployed 3-tier architecture infrastructure on AWS cloud using Terraform – IaC.
  • Migrated IAC base from Terraform 0.11 to 0.12.x latest version.
  • Automated Instance configuration tasks using Ansible Playbooks.
  • Experienced with Cloud Computing delivery model IaaS - AWS (EC2, EBS, S3, IAM, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto Scaling, Route 53, Cloud Front, VPC, RDS)
  • Developed and adopted DevOps Model and CI/CD workflow in integrating Git, Bit Bucket, Maven, Sonar, Jfrog, Tomcat, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes clusters in automated deployments.

Cloud Engineer

Cgi Group Inc.
Manassas, VA
12.2018 - 11.2020

Key Deliverables:

  • Worked with AWS Logs agent and created metric filter for cloud watch log groups.
  • Experienced in Management & Deployment of scaling solutions in AWS cloud Platform
  • Deployed AWS EC2 instances behind Elastic Load Balancer and Auto Scaling making sure of high availability by deploying instances in Multi AZ.
  • Deployed RDS instances and provided endpoint details to database teams and managed database snapshot methods.
  • Provisioned EBS volumes and attached to EC2 instances - Created File Systems on EBS, attached volumes as per business need.
  • Scheduled EBS auto snapshot backups using Cloud Watch Events.
  • Configured IAM roles and attached roles to AWS services like EC2, S3.
  • Used VPC architecture and deployed AWS services within VPC - Managed security using security groups, NAT instances, NAT gateways.
  • Experienced in writing Python script and configured lambda function to run daily basis or maintain EC2 AMI backup retention period.
  • Wrote Python script to perform cross region backup for EC2 AMI.
  • Understood organization requirements interns of infrastructure and took decisions accordingly to procure workstations and deploying EC2 instances.
  • Migrated services from one EC2 instance to another to have optimal computing resources utilization.
  • Handled production deployments and conducted performance impact analysis with Quality team.
  • Provided solution to configure Auto Scaling solutions to production extraction services and wrote python script to edit security group inbound rules automatically during Scale In and Scale Out operations.
  • Experienced in configuring Build Pipeline jobs in Jenkins and managing build and release.
  • Identified gaps in market to spot opportunities to create value propositions
  • Worked with cloud architect to generate assessments and develop and implement actionable recommendations based on results and reviews
  • Used metrics to monitor application and infrastructure performance
  • Partnered with infrastructure teams on evaluation and feasibility assessments of new systems and technologies

AWS SOLUTION ARCHITECT

Saic
Middletown, RI
02.2016 - 10.2018
  • Designed for high availability and business continuity using self-healing-based architectures, fail-over routing policies, multi-AZ deployment of EC2 instances, ELB health checks, Auto Scaling, and other models based on customer's functional and non-functional requirements.
  • Developed event processing architecture patterns with event trigger, logging, analysis, visualization, notification and responding.
  • Developed and implemented DDoS-resilient architectures.
  • Eliminated single point of failure in production architecture designs by deploying service instances (e.g., EC2 or RDS) across two or more isolated AZs based on our customer's actual resiliency and availability requirements.
  • Leveraged Auto scaling groups to right-size EC2 pools to match level of demand and helped to manage costs by eliminating excess capacity to maintain optimal level of resources.
  • Planned, architected, and built large-scale data processing systems; orchestrated successful implementation of data movement, transformation, analytics, and reporting solutions with AWS cloud.
  • Managed provisioning of AWS infrastructures using CloudFormation and Terraform.
  • Designed for high availability and business continuity using self-healing-based architectures, fail-over routing policies, multi-AZ deployment of EC2 instances, ELB health checks, Auto Scaling, and other disaster recovery models.
  • Created patch management using Systems Manager automation for multi-region and multi account execution.
  • Implemented detective guardrails using Cloud Custodian policies and AWS config.
  • Designed and implemented for elasticity and scalability using Elasticache, CloudFront – Edge locations, RDS (read replicas, instance sizes), etc.
  • Developed solution design document as well as low-level design for customer's J2C-AWS.
  • Used AWS system manager to automate operational tasks across AWS resources.
  • Project Management -AWS Infra design and application migration.
  • Used System Manager to automate operational tasks across customer's AWS infrastructure.
  • Built kinesis dashboards and applications that reacted to incoming data using AWS provided SDKs and exported data from kinesis to other AWS services including EMR for analytics, S3 for storage, Redshift for big data and Lambda for event driven actions.
  • Developed and documented security guardrails for AWS Cloud environments.
  • Built custom images though docker server, docker compose with multiple local containers, and created production grade workflows and continuous application workflows for multiple images.
  • Implemented multiple container deployments to AWS and maintained sets of containers with deployments.
  • Designed secure, cost-optimized, highly available, and fault-tolerant infrastructure in AWS.
  • Architected and configured Dev / Stage / QA environments in AWS (VPC, subnets, security groups, EC2 instances, load balancer, RDS, Redis, route53, etc.).
  • Implemented security best practices in AWS including multi-factor authentication, access key rotation, role-based permissions, enforced strong password policy, configured security groups and NACLs, S3 bucket policies and ACLs, etc.
  • Optimized cost through reserved instances, selection and changing of EC2 instance types based on resource need, S3 storage classes and S3 lifecycle policies, leveraging Autoscaling, etc.
  • Leveraged EC2 Create Snapshot API call to create snapshots of EBS Volumes on scheduled intervals.
  • Configured CloudWatch alarm rules for operational and performance metrics for AWS resources and applications.
  • Configured S3 events to set up automated communication between S3 and other AWS services.
  • Deployed and configured infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible.

LINUX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

Chrisley Marketing & Management | Maryland, MD
City, STATE
11.2014 - 12.2015
  • Maintained server integrity by applying updates and patches per maintenance policies.
  • Configured and Managed NFS and Samba for File Sharing.
  • Configured and Managed Apache Web Service.
  • Performed package management, system updates using yum and rpm.
  • Prepared Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), work instructions, and related supporting documents based on Quality Systems Unit guidelines.
  • Installed system-wide hardware components, confirming interoperation and compatibility with Linux-based software distros

Education

Master of Arts -

ORU
Tulsa, OK
12.2013

Bachelor of Science -

University of Buea
Cameroon
06.2001

Skills

  • AWS Services:EC2,S3,RDS,Auto Scaling, Load Balancer, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, VPC, IAM, Glacier, SNS, Systems Manager, API Gateway, Route 53
  • CI/CD Tools: Jenkins
  • Skill: Ansible - Terraform - Apache Maven - Apache Tomcat - Jforg - SonarQube - Bit Bucket - Nginx -
  • Container Orchestration & Container Technology: Kubernetes - Docker

Certification

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

AWS Certified Developer Associate

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Additional Information

Cloud Infrastructure Services

Core Competencies

DevOps

  • Working experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins to integrate with Pipeline, Maven, and Deploy plugins.
  • Configuring Jenkins with Tomcat server and setting up the port details.
  • Configuration Management using Ansible tools.
  • Complete understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and use cases of the Automation tools using Ansible and integration with Docker, Jenkins, Tomcat, Maven.
  • Working on various Docker components like Docker Engine, Hub, Machine, Compose and Docker Registry.
  • Integrating Kubernetes Cluster and Ansible Playbooks in Jenkins CI/CD flow.
  • Application deployment using Helm into Kubernetes platform.
  • Amazon Web Services – AWS EC2, S3, EBS, VPC, IAM, Security Groups
  • Understanding the Cloud Computing Stack: SaaS, PaaS, IaaS
  • Implementing AWS Infrastructure services like EC2, EBS, and S3, VPC, ELB, Cloud Watch, Auto Scaling, EFS, VPC
  • Working Knowledge in Amazon Web Services EC2.
  • Overall Implementation and Setup of EC2 instances, S3 Configuration, Load Balancer and Auto scaling for our Production Web Servers.
  • Creating, Copying, moving images from one EC2 region to another EC2 region and creating snapshot in RDS servers and Creating AMI images for EC2 Instances.
  • SSH Backup management using PEM key which is associated with the device.
  • Overall Implementation and Setup of AWS VPC for our Client to deploy applications on AWS Cloud for different environment like Dev, QA and Production systems/Servers.
  • Overall Implementation and Setup of EC2 instances, S3 Configuration, Load Balancer and Auto Scaling for our Production Web Servers.
  • Leveraged EC2 Create Snapshot API call to create snapshots of EBS Volumes on scheduled intervals
  • Setup AWS Single Sign On (SSO) for on premise Active Director (AD)
  • Built kinesis dashboards and applications that react to incoming data using AWS provided SDKs; and exported data from kinesis to other AWS services including EMR for analytics, S3 for storage, Redshift for big data and Lambda for event driven action

Timeline

DevOps Engineer (AWS DevOps, Terraform, EKS)

Apex Systems
12.2020 - Current

Cloud Engineer

Cgi Group Inc.
12.2018 - 11.2020

AWS SOLUTION ARCHITECT

Saic
02.2016 - 10.2018

LINUX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

Chrisley Marketing & Management | Maryland, MD
11.2014 - 12.2015

Master of Arts -

ORU

Bachelor of Science -

University of Buea