Arin Ekandem
Houston,TX
Summary
Experienced AWS Cloud Engineer with a proven track record at Deloitte, excelling in Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipeline optimization. Spearheaded initiatives that enhanced deployment efficiency by 300%, while fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing. Skilled in AWS services and IaC, passionate about driving innovation in cloud architecture and security practices.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
AWS Cloud Engineer
Deloitte
09.2022 - 05.2025
- Lead engineer driving Infrastructure as Code (IaC) initiatives using Terraform and CloudFormation, and Configuration Management with Ansible, delivering scalable, repeatable, and secure cloud environments.
- Architected and implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub, and Bitbucket, significantly accelerating deployment cycles, improving release reliability, and enforcing best DevOps practices across projects.
- Managed deployment, scaling, maintenance, and troubleshooting of containerized applications on AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) through Fargate and EC2 launch types, achieving uninterrupted rollouts and expedited recovery workflows.
- Key contributor in migrating a 500+ physical server colocation to a secure, multi-account AWS cloud infrastructure, driving both strategic planning and hands-on execution.
- Built and maintained cloud-native solutions leveraging ECS, ECR, EC2, S3, VPC, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Secrets Manager, API Gateway, ALB, and ACM, ensuring high availability, performance, and compliance.
- Collaborated with platform, development, QA, and client teams to continuously optimize CI/CD pipelines and cloud application deployments, streamlining build, test, and release processes.
- Design and implement automated troubleshooting workflows and system health monitoring dashboards with CloudWatch, proactively identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks in ECS and related services.
- Delivered operational excellence by defining and tracking SLI/SLO metrics, conducting detailed root-cause analysis for incidents, and implementing preventative measures.
- Evaluated new AWS services and emerging DevOps technologies, providing recommendations that enhance system resilience and keep the infrastructure at the forefront of innovation.
- Advocated for best practices across AWS engineering communities through knowledge-sharing sessions, ensuring team-wide technical growth and alignment with modern cloud methodologies.
- Optimized cloud infrastructure performance through custom Terraform modules, dynamic CloudFormation templates, and tailored automation scripts, minimizing manual effort and maximizing operational efficiency.
- Strengthened security, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of AWS environments by designing robust VPC architectures, applying intelligent autoscaling strategies, and fine-tuning ECS task definitions and service configurations.
- Drove stakeholder alignment by translating business requirements into actionable, secure, and highly available cloud architectures.
Devops Engineer - Contract
NBC Universal
03.2019 - 08.2022
- Engineer on three person engineering team maintaining large scale systems for Fortune 100 media company, AWS and on-premises located
- Implemented Ansible configuration management for on-premises infrastructure, including writing playbooks, increasing deployment efficiency by 300 percent
- Lead AWS Appstream 2.0 engineer configuring and maintaining instance streaming service for 450+ users
- Perform regular maintenance of Kubernetes infrastructure, including configuration and deployment
- A lead maintainer of AWS infrastructure spanning 20 accounts and several hundred instances
- Integration Veracode static security analysis into CI/CD pipeline
- Installed and configured Tenable security analysis and enforcement tool
- Installation and maintenance Crowdstrike endpoint security and Qualys vulnerability management platforms
- Configuration of Nagios, Datadog and Splunk agents monitoring agents and Splunk dashboard
- Extensive troubleshooting experience on Network issues, including Firewalls, Route 53/DNS, Direct Connect, Security groups, and Internet Gateways
- Create and maintain Bash scripts for automation of various system processes
- Lead engineer in creating and maintaining Jira documentation for team
- Maintenance of CI/CD pipeline through configuration Jenkins and Github repository
- ETL system administration
- Mentored and advised end users and junior engineers
Devops Engineer - Contract
Box, Redwood City, CA
06.2018 - 03.2019
- Performed large scale server provisioning and code deployment using data warehouse configuration systems (DWCS)
- Python scripting utilizing API calls for querying of DWCS
- Provided administration on Atlassian, Artifactory, Jenkins, and Confluence services
- Performed package installation and upgrades on on-premises servers
Devops Engineer - Contract
Sony Interactive Entertainment, San Francisco, CA
05.2016 - 05.2018
- Performed infrastructure configuration management and administration using Cloud Formation and Terraform
- Administration maintaining VMWare, NetApp, Ubuntu, Windows Server 2016 and 2012, Windows 10 and 7, DNS, Windows Exchange, Github Enterprise, Jira, Docker Trusted Registry, Artifactory, Jenkins, Nagios, and Docker
- User Administration through CentOS command line, Window's Active Directory, LDAP, Jenkins, Artifactory, and Docker Trusted Registry
- Automation scripting through Bash, Python, Fabric, and Boto 3 to manage, deploy, and configure on-prem and cloud infrastructure
- Hard drive administration configuring RAID, LVM, and NFS
Junior SysAdmin/MySQL Developer
Flixster, San Francisco, CA
08.2013 - 03.2016
- Created Bash scripts for Big Brother infrastructure monitoring tool and automating querying of MySQL databases
- Configured and maintained network monitoring tool
- Added and updated Puppet configuration management modules
- Delivered MySQL query results to data analyst teams and trained team members to create own queries
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Biology And Psychology
American University
Washington, DCSkills
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CodeFormation)
- CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Github, BitBucket)
- Cloud architecture (AWS)
- Container orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Container service (AWS ECS)
- Penetration testing (Nessus)
- Security service configuration (Tenable, Cloudflare)
- Automation scripting (Bash, Python)
- Knowledge sharing
- Technical documentation (Jira, Confluence)
- AWS architecture design
- Serverless computing (AWS Lambda)
- Cost management (AWS Cost Optimizer)
- Network administration (DNS, TCP/IP)
- Monitoring and logging (AWS CloudWatch, Datadog, Splunk)
- Cloud security (AWS SGs, WAF, Shield)
- DevOps practices
Certification
- AWS DevOps Engineer - Professional
- AWS SysOps Administrator - Associate
- AWS Solutions Architect - Associate
- LinkedIn Learning DevSecOps Certification
Personal Information
Title: Senior Cloud Engineer
Timeline
AWS Cloud Engineer
Deloitte
09.2022 - 05.2025
Devops Engineer - Contract
NBC Universal
03.2019 - 08.2022
Devops Engineer - Contract
Box, Redwood City, CA
06.2018 - 03.2019
Devops Engineer - Contract
Sony Interactive Entertainment, San Francisco, CA
05.2016 - 05.2018
Junior SysAdmin/MySQL Developer
Flixster, San Francisco, CA
08.2013 - 03.2016
Bachelor of Arts - Biology And Psychology
American University
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