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Alain Angwabu

Lithia Springs,Georgia

Summary

Well-rounded and result-driven AWS Solutions Architect/Cloud Engineer, with over eight years' IT experience, six of which have been spent architecting and building multi-tier environments, focusing on highly performant, highly available, improved reliability, and secured environments. With an unrivalled sales and RFP experience, coupled with excellent verbal and written communication skills, business acumen, solid understanding of cloud-native technologies and best practices and broadly proven knowledge of the AWS platform and services. Direct experience executing successful business transformation projects with measurable outcomes, team leadership, and senior client relationship ability.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

AWS Solutions Architect/AWS Devops Engineer

Cardinal Health
04.2020 - Current
  • Designed fault tolerant architecture to achieve resilient environment for the clients
  • Integrated security best practices to harden the client environment by identify the asset to be protected, taking proactive active actions to protect assets, and detecting security breaching
  • Recommended solutions to achieve cost saving for the client by using Lambda for instance scheduler, auto scaling groups for elasticity, life cycle manager, and right sizing
  • Designed disaster recovery solution based on client’s RTO and RPO by leveraging DL Multi AZ deployments and cross region replication
  • Review environments to validate the architecture, security, and compliance requirements
  • Leverage enterprise solution to provide clients governance at scale using, AWS config, AWS organization, AWS Control Tower
  • Managed provisioning of AWS infrastructures using both Terraform and CloudFormation Design 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
  • Implemented preventive guardrails using Service Control Policies (SCPs) 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 Implemented security best practices in AWS including multi factor authentication, access key rotation, encryption using KMS, firewalls- security groups and NACLs, S3 bucket policies and ACLs, mitigating DDOS attacks etc Implemented Jenkins, GitHub and Git for version control, code build, testing and release and CI/CD.

Cloud Solutions Architect

WELLS FARGO BANK
06.2018 - 12.2019
  • VPC build with Private and Public Subnet coupled with VPNs setup back to on premise datacenter and cooperate offices VPC peering with other Accounts allowing access and routing to service and users of separate account to communicate
  • SSL setup for Apache and Nginx application couple with AWS ELB SSL for all http to https thereby maximizing security Network, CPU, Disk and connectivity monitoring with CloudWatch and setup to trigger alarm and notify system administrators Aide setup for and configured for logs files detail monitoring and alerts notification when changes are made
  • Performed root-cause analysis of recurring issues, system backup, and security setup Created patch management using Systems Manager automation for multi-region and multi account execution.

AWS Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Empire Distributor
05.2017 - 12.2018
  • Responsible for launching Amazon EC2 instances using Amazon web services and configuring launched instances with respect to specific applications and regions
  • Installed applications on AWS EC2 instances and configured the storage on S3 buckets
  • Responsible for S3 buckets, bucket policies and IAM role-based policies creation
  • Responsible for creating EBS volumes and building servers using importing volumes
  • Responsible for creating Security Groups as well as Network access control lists, load balancers in the defined virtual private network
  • Responsible for creating CloudWatch alarms, event and notifications using SNS
  • Involved in migrating and implementing multiple applications from on premise to the cloud using services such as DBMS, CloudFormation, S3, Route 53, EC2, RDS, Lambda, VPC and SMS
  • Monitored end-to-end infrastructure using CloudWatch and SNS for notification Used AWS system manager to automate operational tasks across AWS resources Project Management -AWS Infra design & application migration 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 a continuous application workflow for multiple images.

Scrum Master/AWS Architect

BANK OF THE WEST
07.2016 - 02.2017
  • Created AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for instance RDP/SSH logon, worked with teams to lock down security groups Used Jira to plan, track, support and close requests, tickets and incidents Delegated access across AWS accounts using IAM cross account roles Security groups configured and locked down to the various authorized subnet and ip addresses in AWS
  • Designed CloudFormation templates to create multi region web applications and databases
  • Configured Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) using Git, Github, Jenkins, CodePipeline, and CodeDeploy for automation Handled more complex issues on the accounts
  • Worked on special projects/assignments as needed.

Linux Admin

Orange Cameroon
08.2014 - 03.2016
  • Maintained server integrity by applying updates and patches per our maintenance policies Configured and Managed Firewalls Configured and Managed Apache Web Service Controlled access to files and directories using ACL permissions Performed package management, system updates using yum and rpm Configured and Managed Unbound DNS Hardened Linux servers based on recommendations provided by our security team and best practice Prepare Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), work instructions, and related supporting documents based on Quality Systems Unit guidelines.

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science -

University of Buea

Skills

  • VPC
  • EC2
  • Auto Scaling
  • EFS
  • S3 Life Cycle
  • RDS with Multi AZ and Read Replicas
  • Route 53 DNS Designing
  • IAM role
  • AWS Migration
  • SNS topic with CloudWatch alarms
  • AWS CLI
  • Code Commit
  • Code build code deploy Code Pipeline
  • Lambda
  • Bash
  • Python
  • JSON
  • Shell
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Gitlab
  • Jenkins
  • Docker
  • JIRA
  • CloudFormation

Certification

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Timeline

AWS Solutions Architect/AWS Devops Engineer

Cardinal Health
04.2020 - Current

Cloud Solutions Architect

WELLS FARGO BANK
06.2018 - 12.2019

AWS Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Empire Distributor
05.2017 - 12.2018

Scrum Master/AWS Architect

BANK OF THE WEST
07.2016 - 02.2017

Linux Admin

Orange Cameroon
08.2014 - 03.2016

Bachelor of Computer Science -

University of Buea

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