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Elvis Musi

El Paso,TX

Summary

Critical thinking DevOps Engineer with extensive understanding of high availability architecture and concepts. Purpose-driven professional with capacity to be strong team player plus work effectively independently.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

DevOps Engineer

Transamerica
10.2020 - Current
  • Set up the CICD pipeline with Jenkins and Manage GitHub and Bitbucket
  • Use KMS to ensure security within S3 buckets and databases
  • Implement detective guardrails using Cloud Custodian policies and AWS configuration
  • Implement security best practices in AWS, including multi-factor authentication, access key rotation, KMS encryption, firewalls- security groups and NACLs, S3 bucket policies, and ACLs
  • Optimize cost through instances, selection, and changing of EC2 instance types based on resource need, S3 storage classes, and S3 lifecycle policies, leveraging autoscaling, MFA.
  • Configure Cloud Watch alarm rules for operational and performance metrics for the AWS resources and applications
  • Architect DLP ( Data Loss Prevention) solutions using, Monitoring S3 Buckets, Protecting AWS S3-based data Through Policies and Data Classification
  • Implemented AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies and roles to enforce least privilege access
  • Developed and maintained disaster recovery and backup strategies for AWS resources.
  • Improved code deployment efficiency by automating processes with CI/CD pipelines.
  • Automated manual tasks through scripting languages such as Python or Shell, boosting team productivity levels.
  • Maintained version control systems like Git or SVN for seamless collaboration among developers and engineers during project lifecycles.
  • Designed and implemented containerization strategies using Docker and Kubernetes, improving resource utilization and management.
  • Reduced system downtime for critical applications by implementing robust monitoring and alerting tools.
  • Monitored automated build and continuous software integration process to drive build/release failure resolution.
  • Contributed to the creation of a DevOps culture within the organization, leading to increased agility and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Built automation tools and applications to deploy next-generation platforms.
  • Automated and implemented system backup and recovery procedures.
  • Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.
  • Provided 24/7 on-call support for critical systems, ensuring high availability and rapid issue resolution.
  • Collaborated with team to analyze system solutions based on client requirements.
  • Mitigated security risks by conducting regular vulnerability assessments and applying necessary patches.
  • Optimized build processes using tools such as Jenkins or Bamboo for fast feedback loops in development cycles.
  • Documented project design for reference and future use cases.
  • Collaborated with team to determine application requirement specifications.
  • Researched and identified new technologies to use in agile development environment.
  • Implemented best practices to protect data and assets.
  • Increased application scalability by migrating legacy systems to cloud-based platforms.
  • Spearheaded migration efforts from monolithic architectures to microservices-based designs, enhancing modularity and maintainability of applications.
  • Evaluated emerging technologies for potential adoption into existing workflows, driving continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Directed software design and development to meet client needs for functionality and performance.
  • Worked with cross-functional design teams to create software solutions that improved overall functionality and performance.
  • Teamed with business analysts to deliver high-availability solutions for mission-critical applications.
  • Enhanced application performance by optimizing infrastructure configurations based on usage patterns.
  • Drove project lifespan from concept to final rollout in development and deployment.
  • Collaborated closely with product development teams and other stakeholders.
  • Developed incident response plans that decreased resolution times for production issues.
  • Tuned systems to boost performance.
  • Conducted regular post-mortems after incidents to identify root causes and prevent recurrence.
  • Provided technical guidance during product planning sessions, aligning business objectives with technological capabilities.
  • Investigated new and emerging software applications to select and implement administrative information systems.
  • Managed testing cycles and coordination of user acceptance testing for software and applications.
  • Supervised software life cycle from preliminary needs analysis to enterprise-wide deployment and support.
  • Created secure custom coding to prevent network threats.
  • Wrote code and supported architecture in high-throughput systems.
  • Used insight into user needs and requirements to quickly reach development prototyping stage.
  • Coordinated deployments of new software, feature updates and fixes.
  • Tested and deployed scalable and highly available software products.
  • Authored code fixes and enhancements for inclusion in future code releases and patches.
  • Conducted data modeling, performance and integration testing.
  • Built databases and table structures for web applications.
  • Developed next generation integration platform for internal applications.
  • Designed and implemented scalable applications for data extraction and analysis.
  • Contributed ideas and suggestions in team meetings and delivered updates on deadlines, designs, and enhancements.
  • Tested troubleshooting methods and documented resolutions for inclusion in knowledge base for support team use.
  • Documented software development methodologies in technical manuals to be used by IT personnel in future projects.
  • Optimized dust, temperature and humidity controls for installed systems.
  • Designed and developed analytical data structures.
  • Developed conversion and system implementation plans.
  • Designed and developed forward-thinking systems that meet user needs and improve productivity.
  • Created proofs of concept for innovative new solutions.
  • Translated technical concepts and information into terms parties could easily comprehend.
  • Rapidly prototyped new data processing capabilities to confirm integration feasibility into existing systems.

Solutions Architect

Charles Schwab
12.2017 - 09.2020

Architected and configured Dev/Stage/QA environments in AWS and Azure

  • Deployed infrastructure resources such as VPC, subnets, security groups, EC2 instances, load balancer, RDS, Route53, EKS, Lambda
  • Architected staging environment for migration
  • Using Auto-scaling, load balancers, and their components to distribute traffic throughout the environment, all via Terraform equally
  • Developed Terraform modules
  • Architected and created Architecture using Terraform.
  • Creating AMI role based and resource based policies for usage across the environment
  • Uses cloud formation and terraform to provision and deploy both computer and Networking infrastructure is scale
  • Architected and managed storage such as EC2 and EBS volumes
  • Architected and Developed baseline and custom guardrails, policies, centralized policy enforcement, tagging policies, and a well-architected multi- account environment
  • Designing and implementing automation infrastructure for configuration management and orchestration deployment.
  • Built and maintained Kubernetes cluster on AWS EKS
  • Managed Kubernetes cluster and Docker containers
  • Designed and implemented highly available, scalable, and secure AWS Infrastructures using IAAC tools such as Terraform
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to embed security into the DevOps workflow, implementing security automation and continuous monitoring
  • Architected and implemented a production-ready, load-balanced, highly available, secure, and fault tolerant Kubernetes cluster on AWS EC2 instances
  • Used Docker SWAM to orchestrate containers' deployment, scaling, and management
  • Evaluated emerging technologies to stay current on industry trends, making informed decisions for technology adoption.
  • Collaborated with development teams to design scalable and efficient applications tailored to client requirements.
  • Analyzed Cloud Providers solutions proposed to meet diverse business requirements.
  • Maintained current and in-depth understanding of business processes, needs and objectives.

Education

Bachelor of Science -

University of Buea
South West Region Cameroon
01.2014

Skills

  • AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • Grafana
  • Argo CD
  • Prometheus
  • Jenkins
  • Git
  • CI/CD
  • GitHub
  • Shell Scripting
  • Maven
  • Tomcat
  • Continuous Integration
  • Network monitoring
  • Infrastructure Automation
  • Linux Operating System
  • Monitoring and Logging
  • Containerization Technologies
  • Scripting Languages
  • Test Automation
  • API Development
  • Performance Optimization
  • Security best practices
  • Effective Communication

Certification

  • Certified Scrum Master
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional

Languages

French
Professional Working

Timeline

DevOps Engineer

Transamerica
10.2020 - Current

Solutions Architect

Charles Schwab
12.2017 - 09.2020

Bachelor of Science -

University of Buea
Elvis Musi