Arno Landry Takuo

IT professional

Gaithersburg,MD

Summary

A self-motivated AWS Solution Architect offering about 7 years of experience in Cloud environments with proficiency in cloud orchestration, security, identity & access management, monitoring and event management, governance & compliance, application delivery, data protection, image and patch management, self-service and ops analytics in AWS platforms.

Overview

years of professional experience

Certification

Work History

AWS Architect

Pani Computer Solutions

Beltsville, MD

02.2020 - Current

Developed and leveraged baseline and custom guardrails, policies, centralized policy enforcement, tagging policies and a well architected multi account environment
Migrated legacy applications to AWS cloud environment
Developed LLDs for migrating various applications including network sizing, Instance types, tags etc
Developed required and optional tagging reference document for automation, compliance and consolidated billing
Used System Manager to automate operational tasks across AWS infrastructure
Developed baseline VPC and Network design including leveraging VPN connectivity and Direct Connect
Developed baseline AWS account security, implemented/integrated end-point protection, vulnerability scanning and intelligent threat detection
Built serverless architecture with Lambda integrated with SNS, CloudWatch and other AWS services
Leveraged automated DevOps tools deployment and Blue-green deployment patterns and strategies
Configured CI/CD Pipelines using Jenkins connected to GitHub and build environments
Implemented IAM best practices and role-based access control
Solution and Manage enterprise architecture in AWS (Control Tower, AWS Organization, Trusted Advisor, Landing Zone)
Implemented AWS Organization to centrally manage multiple AWS accounts including consolidated billing and policy-based restrictions
Implemented Control Tower Preventive and Detective guardrails and leveraged Account Factory, integrated with Lambda for new AWS account creation and setup
Setup Ansible control and slave nodes and developed playbooks to automation configuration of servers across environments
Configuration of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) using Code Pipeline and Code Deployments for automation
Leveraged different design principles for security in the cloud and implemented various AWS services to improve our security posture for Authentication, Authorization, Monitoring, Auditing, Encryption and Data path security and incident response
Implemented and automated security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation
Good experience in creating and editing shell, bash and python scripts for automation
Working with configuration management tools like Ansible, Source Code Management tool GitHub and Jenkins for Continuous Build Management
Use Jira to plan, track, support and close requests, tickets and incidents.

AWS Cloud Administrator

Data Services Group Inc

Bear, DE

05.2018 - 02.2020

Manage Amazon Web Services - ELB, EC2, S3, RDS, SNS, CloudWash
Experience in architecting secure VPC solutions in AWS with the help of network ACLs, security groups, publics and private network configurations.
Create S3 buckets and also managing policies for s3 buckets.
Experience in managing and maintaining IAM policies for organizations in AWS to define groups, create users, assign roles and define rules for the role based access to AWS resources.
Create snapshots and amazon machine image (AMIs) of the instances for backup and creating clone instances.
Hands on experience in writing Ansible scripts for servers to install LAMP Stack.
Used JIRA to track issues and Change Management.
Troubleshooting Nagios Alerts
Manage systems routine backup, scheduling jobs, enabling cron jobs, enabling system logging and network logging of servers for maintenance.
Create and maintain user's accounts, profiles, security, rights disk space and process monitoring.
Provide technical support by troubleshooting day-to-day issues with various Servers on different platforms.

Linux System Administrator

Actionet Inc

Largo, MD

02.2017 - 04.2018

Installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux using kickstart and applying security policies for hardening the server based on the company policies.
Created and maintained user accounts, profiles, security rights, disk space and process monitoring.
Excellent knowledge of services like DNS, DHCP, NFS, Sendmail, Apache Web Server, Samba, SSH, HTTP, YUM, RPM Package Management, LAMP Stack.
Applied OS patches and security update on over 600 servers.
Developed UNIX shell scripts to accomplish redundant tasks to simplify in distributed administration.
Performed daily system monitoring , verified the integrity and availability of all hardware and server resources and reviewed system and application logs.
Evaluated performance of the systems to see that they meet business needs.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Math and Computer Science

University of Yaoundé 1

Skills

Technical Skills
AWS Platform: AWS CloudFormation, AWS Lambda, AWS Systems Manager, S3, VPC, EC2, ELB, RDS, SNS, SQS, SES, Route53, CloudFront, AWS Auto Scaling, etc
Identity & Access Management: AWS Organization, AWS IAM, AWS Secret Manager, AWS Workspace
Cloud Orchestration/Automation: Ansible, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation
Security: AWS firewall Manager, firewalld, Selinux, AWS Inspector, AWS Guard Duty, AWS Security Hub

Application Delivery: Jira, confluence, ServiceNow, Jenkins, Git, Github, Docker
Networking: VPC, IGW, VGW, DNS, NGW, TCP, NFS, SSH, SAMBA, DHCP,
Programming Languages: Bash, Yaml, Python(Basic)
Virtualization: VMWARE, Visual Studio Code(vsc), AWS CLI