CHARLOTTE TCHUIDJANG
Fort Worth,TX
Summary
SKILL SET Highly motivated professional with over 6years of experience in AWS cloud and DevOps Engineer with Linux and Windows background who has worked on deployments of mission critical applications for over the years. I have designed and constructed CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins. I have also provisioned and managed highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable infrastructures on AWS with Terraform for orchestration, and Ansible for configuration management. Cloud security, Identity and Access Management, monitoring and event management, governance, and compliance are all areas where I excel.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
Work History
AWS Cloud/DevOps Engineer
GNC Tech Solutions
07.2018 - Current
- Designed secured, cost optimized, highly available and fault tolerant architecture designs and infrastructure in AWS
- Help engineers deploy code from keyboard to production using Github Actions, Jenkins, Artifactory
- Implemented security best practices in AWS including multi factor authentication, access key rotation, role-based permissions, enforced strong password policy, configured security groups and NACLs, S3 bucket policies and ACLs
- Experience with automation of provisioning and SDLC deployment, scripting skills
- Optimized cost through reserved instances, selection and changing of EC2 instance types based on resource need, S3 storage classes and S3 lifecycle policies, leveraging Autoscaling
- Leveraged EC2 Lifecycle Manager to create snapshots of EBS Volumes on scheduled intervals for backup and define a retention period as a cost saving measure
- In depth understanding of the principles and best practices of Software Configuration
- Enabled Logging on S3 bucket access, VPC flow, Cloud trail, AWS config, IAM, AWS inspector, Lambda, RDS, Dynamo DB, Cloud Front, liquid base, AWS API gateway, EC2 Application servers
- Configured CloudWatch alarm rules for operational and performance metrics for our AWS resources and applications
- Monitoring major services related to Compute, Storage, Network and Security
- Performance tuning on the Aurora PostgreSQL via index modifications
- Setup and configured logs files for detail monitoring and alerts notification
- Configured S3 events to set up automated communication between S3 and other AWS services
- Designed highly available infrastructure using Elastic load balancer and auto-scaling for Web servers which Scale in and Scale out automatically, also isolated environment by having security groups and NACL across subnets for EC2 instances
- Architected and Implemented AWS Cloud cost effective solution for Non-Production environment such as Development, and Test
- Designed templates for AWS Infrastructure as a Code using Cloud Formation to build staging and production environments
- Managed tools like Git, Github , Jenkins and their usage / process ensuring traceability, repeatability, and quality for Pipe line build.
Windows Systems Administrator
GE Innovative Solutions
03.2016 - 07.2018
- Monitoring systems and responding to incidents (at times during off-hours)
- Maintained minimum organizational performance threshold for Linux server-based operations
- Generated OS-specific custom coding to automate deployment processes
- Configured and updated Linux servers with latest releases and patches
- Oversaw Linux system administration and configuration maintenance governing user access, privacy and data integrity
- Performed patch, update, security scanning and configuration to meet OS performance mandates
- Configured, and administered multiple production Red hat 5,6,7 servers across multiple platforms
- Responsible for Installation, maintenance and regular upgrades of Red hat Linux Servers using kick start based network installation
- Architect a secure infrastructure with a NAT Gateway to allow instances in a private subnet to access the internet for updates
- Used AWS Code Deploy for migrating and automating application deployments to Amazon EC2 instances, on-premises instances, serverless Lambda functions, or Amazon ECS services
- Managed Disk using LVM, resized disk space when required
- Setup NTP server and synchronized clients with NTP server
- Opensource and commercially available Linux services, applications, and technol
Education
Master of Science - Communications
University of Yaounde
Yaounde/Cameroon 10.2011 - 08.2014
MSC - Communication
Skills
AWSStrong hands-on knowledge in AWS cloud environments with proficiency in cloud orchestration, and management of AWS resources such as VPC, EC2, S3, Lambda, SQS, ElastiCache (Redis), Route 53, IAM, SNS, CloudWatch, CodeCommit, CodePipeline, CodeDeploy, Systems Manager, AWS Backup, AWS Organization, Cloud Formation, RDS, AuroraCloud/Virtualization Technologies: Amazon Web Services, Vmware, vSphere, ESXiVersion Control: Gitlab, GitHub, BitbucketPlatforms: AWS, Linux, WindowsCICD Tools: Jenkins, CodePipeline, CodeCommit, CodeDeployConfig Management/Orchestration Tool: Ansible, TerraformIssue Tracking: Jira, Service NowPrograming LanguagesShell, Python, Yaml, JSONMonitoring: CloudWatch, Splunk, Nagio
Timeline
AWS Cloud/DevOps Engineer
GNC Tech Solutions
07.2018 - Current
Windows Systems Administrator
GE Innovative Solutions
03.2016 - 07.2018
Master of Science - Communications
University of Yaounde
10.2011 - 08.2014