Beryl Watangwa
Plano,United States
Summary
A DevSecOps Engineer with over 7+ years’ experience in setting up environments, build automations, continuous integration, managing databases, scripting, and deployments in cloud while supporting overall infrastructure in Development, Test, and Production environments. Experienced in automating CI/CD pipelines, as well as adept in safeguarding clients and end users’ information while optimizing application deployments in a cloud environment. I am passionate in using my skills to impact knowledge in teams.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
DevSecOps
Avidity Technologies & Consulting
Dallas, TX
03.2024 - Current
- Integrated applications with SSO using SAML and OIDC , ensuring seamless authentication and authorization.
- Configured and troublshot SAML assertions, attributes, and authentication flows for identity providers(idp's) and service providers (SPs)
- Managed OAuth service accounts for applications requiring OIDC-based authentication and API access.
- Created and maintained Test Accounts for lower environments to validate authentication flows.
- Updated and deployes UAA SAML-based XML files for applications using OIDC/OAuth authentication, ensuring proper role configurations.
- Automated metadata updates to streamline deployments and reduce manual errors.
- Created and modified SSO Catalog tiles for applications, improving accessibility and navigation for end users by tunneling into databases ensuring correct configurations
- Troubleshot SSO authentication issues using logs, debug tools, and security assertion validation.
- Collaborated with developers ,Devops and security teams to enhance identity and access management processes
- -Participated as a Deployment Manager, DevSecOps lead for managing cloud servers & system infrastructure.
- Managed and implemented directory services, authentication and authorization protocols, single sign-on, RBAC, ABAC, privileged access management solutions, and identity lifecycle management processes.
- Worked with Cloud Identity Services to streamline & secure user access across various environments
- Worked with operations, security, & development teams throughout the application development & code deployment lifecycle.
- Aligned Identity management & Access control with ICAM principles & industry best practices.
- Performed zero-downtime deployments using CI/CD pipelines.
- Proficient in AWS CloudWatch Logs
- Managed, maintained, & built deployment pipelines.
- Adhered to DevOps practices and behaviors & supported continuous improvement throughout the agile delivery process.
- Worked with POCs (Point of Contacts) & performed testing to determine functionality of third-party applications.
- Experience with Identity Providers such as CyberArk , Okta and Shibboleth to enhance AuthN , AuthZ & Privileged access security.
- Provided technical support for troubleshooting issues related to identity management systems.
- Configured and maintained identity access management tools such as Active Directory, LDAP.
- Used cloud service providers like AWS(including & not limited tonEC2,S3,RDS,IAM and Route53)
Worked with Linux and Scripting languages-Bash - Experience in creating and maintaining AWS User Accounts, Security Groups, VPC, Route53, , RDB, SNS, and AWS storage services like S3, EBS.
DevOps Engineer
Consumer Technology Solutions
03.2020 - 04.2024
- Mastery of DevOps end-to-end automation, building, deployment, and configuration of processes in different environments while ensuring security, best practices, and compliance.
- Automated builds and deployment using Jenkins, Maven, and Docker to reduce human error and speed up production processes and eliminating 80% of Manual work.
- Administration and supporting applications in Linux, Unix, and Windows environments.
- Maintained a highly secure Git and GitHub environment for developers, created repositories, branches and managed access using least privilege.
- Built JAR, WAR and EAR artifacts using Maven and uploaded artifacts to Nexus acting as a disaster recovery for Maven.
- Monitor the health of application servers, disk usage & other statistics using Monitoring tool like Prometheus and Grafana and New Relic.
- Launched Amazon EC2 Instances on different platform such as Linux, Ubuntu, RHEL through Terraform to preserve codes.
- Engaged Ansible playbooks to automate plays to different servers thereby saving resources and time for other projects.
- Configured and deployed Docker containers for microservice applications and created Docker files, Docker images and pushed to private repository in Docker Hub to ensure security of Images.
- Worked closely with development team to ensure cloud-based solutions are designed and developed in accordance with security standards and policies.
- Configured and deployed highly available and scalable resources in AWS such as EC2, S3, EBS, EFS, RDS in supporting applications.
- Configured CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins setup webhook for GitHub and integration with other DevOps tools for complete automation of projects.
- Implemented highly scalable infrastructure using ELB and Auto Scaling Group. Created public and private Subnets, Routing tables and Internet Gateway in VPC.
- Designed and implemented continuous deployment pipeline using Jenkins, Maven, Git and Ansible.
- Hands on experience in development of utilities using Shell and YAML scripting to automate processes.
- Built and deployed Docker containers in breaking up monolithic applications into microservices hereby increasing workflow, improving scalability, and optimizing speed using Kubernetes clusters in AWS EKS.
- Deployed and managed containerized applications using Kubernetes, including creating and configuring deployments and services,reducing deployment time by 50% and improving scalability and reliability.
DevOps Engineer
Innovation Network Technology
04.2016 - 01.2020
- Maintained Git workflows for version control & source code management
- Developed and maintained automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using Jenkins
- Experience with network concepts VPC,VPN,NAT,Internet gateway,subnets,Elastic Load balancers, CDN,configured Route Tables
- DevOps and continuous integration/Delivery integrating Jenkins(CI/CD) with build and test tools with Maven, Artifactory with Nexus,code quality analysis with Sonarqube, deploying java based applications with Tomcat.
- Implemented and configured security services to properly harden infrastructure.(IAM,AWS Shield ,AWS Macie, RBAC etc)
- Hands-on experience with EC2, ECS, ELB, EBS, S3, VPC, IAM, SQS, RDS and other AWS services
- Experience with container orchestration systems such as AWS ECS,Kubernetes
- Solid experience with Linux(ubuntu)administration
- Database management experience to meet different use cases and requirements(RDS,DynamoDB)
- Experience with both Monolithic and Microservices Architecture
- Experience with Web/Application servers (JBOSS, Apache,Tomcat Nginx)
- Tested and troubleshot application and documented issue resolutions for development team.
- Participated in team-based assessments to ascertain DevOps assignment goals.
- Collaborated with development, QA and IT operations staff to enhance software productivity.
- Experience with server monitoring systems/tools like Prometheus and Grafana
- Automated application build and deployment, driving efficiency of code development process.
- Drove operational tools and processes to monitor and maintain platforms at target service levels.
- Participated in and brainstormed with technical working groups, progress meetings to solve issues.
- Implemented and configured security services to properly harden infrastructure.
Education
Bachelor of Science , BS Computer Science
Landmark Metropolitan University
02.2016
Skills
- Version Control: Git/GitHub
- Build Management: Maven
- Application Servers: Tomcat, JBoss
- Integration,CI/CD: Jenkins
- Configuration Management: Ansible
- Provisioning (cloud infrastructure):Terraform
- Containerization: Docker
- Artifactory: Nexus, JFrog
- Code Quality: SonarQube, SonarCloud
- Container Orchestration: Kubernetes
- Web Servers: Apache, Nginx
- Databases: RDS, MySQL
- Languages: YAML, Groovy, Bash, Shell Script, Java,
- Operating Systems: RHEL, Linux, Unix, Windows, Ubuntu, Solaris , MacOS
- Cloud Technologies: AWS (S3, VPC, EC2, EKS, RDS, IAM,DNS,Route53,ELB,EBS,EFS)
- Tools/Utilities: Terraform, Prometheus and Grafana, New Relic, Splunk, Jira, Confluence
- Identity management
- Cybersecurity awareness
- DevSecOps practices
- System troubleshooting
Languages
Swahili
Professional
English
Professional
Additional Information
KEY SKILLS
- Git
- AWS
- Scripting
- Maven
- Tomcat
- Nexus
- Jenkins
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Ansible
- Terraform
- Docker
- Docker Swarm
- YAML
Timeline
DevSecOps
Avidity Technologies & Consulting
03.2024 - Current
DevOps Engineer
Consumer Technology Solutions
03.2020 - 04.2024
DevOps Engineer
Innovation Network Technology
04.2016 - 01.2020
Bachelor of Science , BS Computer Science
Landmark Metropolitan University
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