ELVONNE AKONI
Charlotte,NC
Summary
AWS ARCHITECT / AWS ENGINEER / DEVOPS ENGINEER I’m a dependable, reliable and innovative professional with over 8years’ experience as an AWS Cloud Architect, DevOps Engineer and Linux exposure with excellent skills in managing and configuring systems, Managing Applications and Databases like RDS, Setting up CI/CD pipelines in an on-premise and cloud based environments with Jenkins as CI server and integrating other DevOps tools like GI, GitHub with Ansible as the configuration management tool to ensure Applications are easily deployed to various target environments. CloudWatch and Splunk to monitor Application performance in real time. Creating CloudFormation templates for application infrastructure build out and application installation and configuration. Supporting applications that run on Docker containers by helping the application team to create a Dockerfile for Docker image creation. Docker compose, yaml file for Docker image and run. Using kubernetes to support container orchestration. Strong analytical skills in assessing business requirements at the enterprise level and designing efficient and effective technology solutions for clients. Current interest is in cloud strategy, cloud migration, and optimization.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
4
4
Certification
Work History
Systems Manager, Guard Duty
- Cloud Orchestration / Automation: AWS CloudFormation, AWS Lambda, AWS, , AWS SSM Parameter Store, Ansible, Docker, Jenkins, ECS, EKS, Terraform
- AWS Security: AWS Security Hub, AWS, , AWS Shield, AWS Firewall Manager, AWS Inspector
- Monitoring and Event Management: AWS CloudWatch (Events and Logs), AWS SNS, AWS S3
- Identity and Access Management: AWS Organization, AWS IAM, AWS AD Connector, Active Directory, AWS Workspaces, AWS Secrets Manager, etc
- Governance and Compliance: AWS Config Rules, AWS Organization, AWS Control Tower, AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Well Architected Tool, AWS Budgets, AWS License Manager
- Programming Languages: Bash, JSON, YML, Python
- Application Delivery: Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Bitbucket, AWS Code Pipeline, AWS Code Commit, AWS Code Build, AWS Code Deploy
- Data Protection: AWS Certificate Manager, AWS KMS, Snapshot Lifecyle Manager, AWS Cloud HSM
- Self Service: Service Catalog
- Network: VPC, VGW, TGW, CGW, IGW, NGW
- Image and Patch: AWS SSM Patch Manager, AWS Golden AMI Pipeline
- Ops Analytics: Splunk
- AWS Platform: AWS CloudFormation, AWS Lambda, AWS Systems Manager, S3, VPC, EC2, ELB, RDS, SNS, SQS, SES, Route53, CloudFront, Service Catalog, AWS Auto Scaling, Trusted Advisor, CloudWatch, Dynamo DB, Event bridge
- AWS Migration: Phases (Assess, Mobile, Migrate and Modernize), Tools (CART, ADS, Migration Hub, CloudEndure, DMS, SCT.
Linux/AWS Cloud Engineer
TCS
07.2021 - Current
- Responsible for launching Amazon EC2 instances using AWS (Linux) and configuring with respect to specific applications and regions
- Use and configure AWS CLI to optimize data transfer from servers to S3
- Responsible for S3 buckets creation, policies and IAM role-based policies
- Build servers using AWS, importing volumes, launching EC2 instances, RDS, creating SGs and NACL, auto-scaling, ELB in the defined VPCs
- Configure monitoring, alarms, and notifications for EC2 hosts using Cloud Watch, SNS, SMTP
- Migration and implementation of multiple applications from on premise to cloud using AWS services like, CloudFormation, S3, Route 53, EC2, RDS, SNS, Lambda, Kinesis and VPC
- Designed solutions that mandate security best practices
- Build and configure virtual data centers in the AWS Cloud to support Enterprise Data Warehouse hosting
- Using Command Line tool to deploy and manage AWS resources
- Work with internal teams to create the migration process of legacy systems to the AWS cloud
- Work with business unit managers to understand project scope, suggest possible alternatives and document each step of the design
- Work with Security division to design and manage IAM roles for users, and vendors
- Work with several third-party vendors in big data and other areas to support our overall cloud initiative
- Partner with the sales team, formulate and execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives through the adoption of AWS
- Configuration of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) using Code Pipeline and Code Deployments for automation
- Guide Cloud Security Team in solving enterprise security challenges
- Good Linux administration experience (troubleshooting, managing users, storage, directories, and files, setting permissions, installing packages, managing system services and scheduling cron jobs)
- Working with configuration management tools like Ansible, Source Code Management tool GitHub and Jenkins for Continuous Build Management
- Use ServiceNow to plan, track, support and close requests, tickets, and incidents
- Experience in Shell, Bash, Yaml, Json and Python scripting languages, for day-to-day automation operations
- Designed for high availability and business continuity using self-healing-based architectures, fail-over routing policies, multi-AZ deployment of EC2 instances, ELB health checks, Auto Scaling, and other disaster recovery models
- Performed common system administration task including adding users, creating file systems, configuring volumes weekly mksysb
- Lead the monitoring team to set up security alerts and automate remediations
- Extensive experience in the concept of LVM, User & System Resource Management and Job Scheduling
- Implemented detective guardrails using Cloud Custodian policies and AWS config
- Designed and implemented for elasticity and scalability using ElastiCache, CloudFront – Edge locations, RDS (read replicas, instance sizes), etc
AWS Solution Architect
Verizon
01.2020 - 01.2021
- Leading on designs/development aspects of migration journey - assess, mobilize and migrate phase including leveraging ADS, CART, Migration Evaluator, Cloud Endure, DMS etc
- Automatically remediated Trusted Advisor findings using Amazon CloudWatch events and AWS Lambda
- Designed for high availability and business continuity using self-healing-based architectures, fail-over routing policies, multi-AZ deployment of EC2 instances, ELB health checks, Auto Scaling, and other disaster recovery models
- Implemented AWS Systems Manager management service capabilities to automatically collect software inventory, apply OS patches, and automate administration tasks and complex workflows across our environments
- 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
- Implemented docker containers on AWS using ECS and complementary services, including Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
- Implemented and managed Ansible Tower to scale automation and handle complex deployments
- Developed terraform modules and CloudFormation templates to provision infrastructures in cloud
- Leveraged AWS Control Tower to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment based on
- Developed and created custom Service Control Policies and attached them to approved OUs and AWS accounts as required
- Deployed Guard Duty across our Control Tower managed organization with the Audit account being the delegate administrator
- Designed secured, cost optimized, highly available and fault tolerant architecture designs and infrastructure in AWS
- 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
- 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
- Leveraged EC2 Life Cycle Manager to create snapshots of EBS Volumes on scheduled intervals for backup and define a retention period as a cost saving measure
- Configured CloudWatch alarm rules for operational and performance metrics for our AWS resources and applications
- 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
- Managed tools like JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins and their usage / process ensuring traceability, repeatability, and quality.
AWS Architect/ Infrastructure Engineer
Bank of America
07.2017 - 12.2019
- Designed secure, cost-optimized, highly available, and fault-tolerant infrastructure in AWS
- Architected and configured Dev / Stage / QA environments in AWS (VPC, subnets, security groups, EC2 instances, load balancer, RDS, Redis, route53, etc.)
- 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, etc
- Configured CloudWatch alarm rules for operational and performance metrics for AWS resources and applications
- Configured S3 events to set up automated communication between S3 and other AWS services
- Monitored end-to-end view of runtime systems CPU, bandwidth, disk space, and log files using NewRelic
- 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, etc
AWS Security Architect
QVC
01.2015 - 06.2017
- Managed provisioning of AWS infrastructures using CloudFormation and Terraform
- Develop secure account access solutions using IAM and Active Directory
- Guide Cloud Security Team in solving enterprise security challenges
- Designed solutions that mandate security best practices
- Lead the monitoring team to setup security alerts and automate remediations
- Designed and implemented AWS inspector for vulnerability scans
- Assist in performing regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions
- Designed for high availability and business continuity using self-healing-based architectures, fail-over routing policies, multi-AZ deployment of EC2 instances, ELB health checks, Auto Scaling, and other disaster recovery models
- Implemented detective guardrails using Cloud Custodian policies and AWS config
- Designed and implemented for elasticity and scalability using ElastiCache, CloudFront – Edge locations, RDS (read replicas, instance sizes), etc
- Developed a solution design document as well as low-level design for customer’s J2C-AWS
- Used AWS system manager to automate operational tasks across AWS resources
- Created patch management using Systems Manager automation for multi-region and multi account execution
- Used System Manager to automate operational tasks across customer’s AWS infrastructure.
Education
Bachelor of Science (BS) - Math and Computer Science
University of Buea
Skills
- Troubleshooting skills
- Remote Support
- IT Infrastructure Management
- IT Asset Management
- System Troubleshooting
- Information Security Policies
- Data Center Operations
- Hardware troubleshooting
- Application support
- Incident Management
- Performance Improvements
- Hardware maintenance
- Backup and recovery
- Technical Support
- Cost Analysis
- Technical Documentation
- Server Management
- Application testing
- Systems Analysis
- Capacity Planning
- Network Administration
- Storage procedures
- ITIL Framework
- Software Development
- IT Security Management
- Virtualization Technologies
- Disaster Recovery
- Operating Systems Expertise
Certification
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Timeline
Linux/AWS Cloud Engineer
TCS
07.2021 - Current
AWS Solution Architect
Verizon
01.2020 - 01.2021
AWS Architect/ Infrastructure Engineer
Bank of America
07.2017 - 12.2019
AWS Security Architect
QVC
01.2015 - 06.2017
Systems Manager, Guard Duty
Bachelor of Science (BS) - Math and Computer Science
University of Buea