Cletus Chofong

• Spearheaded cloud transformation efforts through automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
• Led DR planning, risk assessments, and impact analysis, ensuring high system availability and business continuity.
• Designed and enforced AWS security strategies including IAM policy design, NACLs, GuardDuty, and Security Hub.
• Orchestrated Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS and OpenShift; optimized authentication and RBAC for security.
• Implemented Jenkins and GitLab pipelines to streamline CI/CD processes, improving deployment frequency by 70%.
• Enabled observability through Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK, improving MTTR and system health awareness.
• Drove containerization of legacy apps into Docker and microservices architecture, reducing downtime and increasing scalability.

• Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines integrated with GitHub, Jenkins, and Terraform.
•Architected and deployed secure, scalable cloud environments using AWS Direct Connect, VPC, EC2, RDS, and Route53.
• Built and deployed Docker containers to break up monolithic applications into microservices, improved developer workflow, increased scalability, and optimized speed.

Designed highly available architecture and migrated monoliths to microservices using Docker and EKS.

• Automated environment configurations and app deployments via Terraform and CloudFormation
• Wrote custom Lambda functions to enable automation in environment.
• Secured cloud environments using best practices including MFA, access key rotation, and RBAC.
• Migrating on-premises based workloads into Cloud infrastructure
  

• Directed design and development of AWS-native solutions and secure infrastructure roadmaps.
• Led VPC, network, and security configurations to ensure scalable, cost-effective architecture.
• Created data extraction pipelines using AWS Glue; monitored infrastructure via CloudWatch and SNS.
• Provided mentorship on CI/CD, IaC, and cloud security across teams, improving team efficiency and delivery.
• Authored reusable development frameworks and standards improving productivity across multiple teams.

• Organized and facilitated all scrum ceremonies and release planning- including daily scrums, sprint planning, sprint reviews, backlog grooming and sprint retrospectives.
• Mentored teams, sharing skills and expertise and encouraged each member to bring forward ideas and suggestions for improvement.
• Coached scrum teams in agile best practices such as continuous integration, project transparency, code review, Jira ticket tracking, product visioning, self-organization and pair programming.
• Served as scrum master to 3 engineering teams (20+ people), helping build team consensus team discussions, promoting process improvements and resolving impediments/ conflicts when needed.
• Assisted development teams and Business Analysts to refine product functionality , communicating project progress, risks, and issues to product owners and stakeholders as needed.
• Collaborated with product owners and team members, to ensure product backlogs were consistently ordered and refined to achieve business needs
• Mentored teams , leading them to be self-organized with strong decision making , accountability and conflict resolution traits.
• Helped teams in estimating user stories to fit within capacity , keeping them focus during sprint planning ensuring team members understand sprint priorities, sprint goals and never over commit to work
• Consistently reminded teams daily about updating JIRA tasks for more accurate reporting and analysis of project burndown charts
• Motivate teams to work towards continuous improvement and delivering shippable products that deliver business value in every sprint.

• Improved IAM security by conducting regular audits and assessments of user access rights.
• Developed customized IAM solutions for clients, resulting in streamlined processes and enhanced security.
• Implemented multi-factor authentication to increase system protection and reduce unauthorized access risks.
• Performed risk and vulnerability assessments and provided results and recommendations to senior management.
• Represented company's technical security interests to partners to provide bi-directional flow of technical information and best practices in information security.
• Validated and verified system security requirements definitions and analyzed system security designs.
• Applied leading theories and concepts to development, maintenance, and implementation of information security standards, procedures, and guidelines.