Angele Soppo
Rockwall,TX
Summary
Experienced IT Professional, Self-motivated and Highly skilled Solution Architect, designing and implementing scalable, high available, fault tolerant system, Result Driven Cloud Security Architect with notable success in Planning, analysis, and implementation of security initiatives. Designed and leveraged Top security best practices such as Identity and Access Management, Logging and Monitoring, infrastructure security, Data Protection and Incident Response using Ansible and Systems Manager as configuration management tools for automation. Demonstrated abilities in communication and learning new Technologies skills during my years in IT career. Career Driven, Persistence, Team player, Agile mind set, hard work are what best describes me.
With a proven track record from various projects, leveraged expertise in network configuration and exceptional attention to detail to architect and secure cloud environments, significantly enhancing security postures. My collaborative approach and agile methodologies fostered team success, demonstrating a strong blend of technical acumen and interpersonal skills.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Cloud Security /Architect/ Engineer
Insureone Insurance Agency
01.2020 - Current
- Selected appropriate AWS service based on compute, data or security requirements.
- Configured computing, networking and security systems within cloud environment.
- Implemented cloud policies, managed technology requests and maintained service availability.
- Ensure that our architecture designs meet the business security requirements.
- Implemented AWS Security best Practices including Identity & Access Management | Logging & Monitoring | Infrastructure Security | Data protection | Incident Response.
- Enabled Traceability, leveraging AWS Cloudtrail | AWS Config | used AWS Cloudwatch Logs | -Implemented Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) such as CloudTrail | Config.
- Implemented Encryption and Key Management for Data at rest and in transit to maintain traceability and security in S3 | EBS | RDS.
- Automated security best practices using Infrastructure as Code such as AWS Cloudformation | Terraform.
- implemented Strong Identity and access Management including multifactor authenticator, access key rotation, configured AWS Identity and Access Management policy using the Principal of least Privilege permission.
- Used Configuration management such as Systems Manager Patch Manager to Automate the process of patching managed instances with security related updates, leveraged AWS Maintenance Windows to define a schedule for when to perform potentially disruptive actions such as update or installing software.
- Monitor end to end infrastructure using Cloudwatch.
- leveraged AWS Guard Duty, AWS WAF, AWS Shield for maximum protection.
- Experimented in Jenkins, GitHub and Git for version control, code build testing, release and CI/CD.
AWS Solutions Architect (Remote)
Pariveda · Full-time
05.2018 - 01.2020
- Assisted clients in determining suitable architectures based on their unique requirements and constraints while adhering to industry standards and best practices for cloud-based infrastructures.
- Reduced operational costs with the migration of legacy systems to AWS.
- Mentored junior team members in best practices for AWS solution design and implementation processes.
- Championed a culture of continuous improvement within the organization by sharing lessons learned from previous projects and encouraging team members to contribute their own insights and experiences.
- Designed / developed aspects of migration journey - assess, mobilized and migrated phase including leveraging cloud Adoption Readiness (CART), ADS. Migration Elevator,DMS, Cloud Endure and more.
- Designed and Implemented Disaster recovery/Failure Architecture in a multi-region topology that automatically engages Stand-by resources when outages are detected, Leveraged Multi AZ Cluster deployment where you can have up to two instances in two other AZ for intensive high availability.
- Designed and implemented a more secured environment leveraging Security Best Practices including enforcement of strong password policy, Multi factor authentication , secured a VPC and portioned it in publics and private subnets, storages instances, Availability zones including NACLES, Security Groups, VN, policy at the bucket level S3, using IAC (Terraform).
- Built high-performing, available, resilient, and efficient 3-tier architecture for customer applications, and performed reviews for architecture and infrastructure builds, following AWS best practices.
- Identified Key services used to automate our continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD process such as Jenkins.
- Leveraged security at all level such as putting in place Guard duty, AWS WAF,AWS Macie, AWS Shield for DDoS attacks, reinforced by implementing monitoring Tools such as CloudTrail, AWS Config, SNS, SQS, integrating remediation tools such as Lambda, Amazon API Gateway.
- Designed CloudFormation template to create multi region web application using system manager parameter store.
AWS Cloud Architect (Remote)
DinoCloud · Full-time
01.2017 - 04.2018
- Recommended design changes to production systems in response to changing business process, capacity, risks and performance requirements.
- Partnered closely with technical stakeholders to implement security, operational, compliance and privacy-related controls as part of cloud blueprints.
- Provided architectural leadership and guidance to technical teams to deliver robust, highly scalable and cost-effective solutions.
- Displayed sound understanding of standard networking protocols, virtual networks and load balancing.
- Identified, evaluated and presented technologies and services to improve operational efficiencies and leverage cloud solutions to address shadow IT challenges using AWS best practices.
- Developed scripts using cloudFromation to automatically create Infrastructures.
- Communicated with clients to understand system requirements.
- Ensured the effectiveness of Migration process by evaluating client readiness with AWS tool called Cloud Assessment & Readiness (CART), designed a Migration plan using tool such as the Application Discovery Service (ADS), designed and operated Cost optimization incorporating all the tools of cost optimization such as ASG, ALB or ELB , leveraged all security tools using AWs security best practices, improving security posture for Authentication, Authorization, Monitoring, Auditing, Data Encryption at rest and in transit using KMS and TLC.
- Implemented a virtual private network ensuring high availability and business continuity using self-healing based architectures, fail-over routine policies, multi-Az deployment of EC2 instances, routes53 for scalability which also incorporates health checks, Autoscaling group.
- Leveraged AWS Systems Manager management capabilities to automatically collect software inventory, apply OS patches and automate administration tasks and complex workflow across the environment.
- Designed,developed, and leveraged baseline and custom guardrails, policies, centralized policy enforcement, tagging policies and a well architected multi account environment.
Education
Accounting And Finance
ESSEC (ECOLE SUPERIEURE DE SCIENCE ECONOMIC)
DOUALA - CAMEROUNBachelor of Science - Accounting And Finance
UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDE
YAOUNDE - CAMEROUN06.1996
Skills
- Network configuration
- Attention to detail
- Excellent communication
- Problem resolution
- Team collaboration
- Agile methodologies
Languages
English
French
Timeline
Cloud Security /Architect/ Engineer
Insureone Insurance Agency
01.2020 - Current
AWS Solutions Architect (Remote)
Pariveda · Full-time
05.2018 - 01.2020
AWS Cloud Architect (Remote)
DinoCloud · Full-time
01.2017 - 04.2018
Accounting And Finance
ESSEC (ECOLE SUPERIEURE DE SCIENCE ECONOMIC)
Bachelor of Science - Accounting And Finance
UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDE
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