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GLORY AFUO

USA

Summary

Adept DevOps Engineer with a proven track record at Deloitte for enhancing system reliability and deployment efficiency using AWS Cloud, Terraform, and Jenkins. Skilled in cross-functional collaboration and innovative problem-solving, significantly improving cloud infrastructure and security practices. Demonstrates expertise in AWS services and DevOps tools, ensuring optimal performance and scalability.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

DevOps Engineer

Cash App
San Francisco, USA
02.2022 - 12.2024
  • Used Jira to plan, track, support, and close requests, tickets, and incidents.
  • Implemented Multi-AZ failover for Amazon RDS to enhance server reliability.
  • Utilized Content Delivery Service (CloudFront and AWS Global Accelerator) to cache company data, ensuring low latency for users from different AWS regions.
  • Implemented maintenance and configuration of user accounts for Dev, QA, and production servers, and created roles for EC2, RDS, S3, and CloudWatch resources to communicate with each other using IAM.
  • Using CloudWatch and VPC Flow Logs to monitor and retain account activity related to actions across AWS infrastructure.
  • Supported CI/CD pipeline running on ECS, with the use of Terraform.
  • Created task definitions, tasks, and services for these resources.
  • Performed continuous, in-depth monitoring of cloud applications (CloudWatch, CloudTrail, VPC Flow logs, Config, among others), providing recommendations for minimizing loss and destruction, mitigating exploited or exploitable weaknesses, and minimizing the impact on service, returning to normal service as quickly as possible.
  • VPC built with private and public subnets, coupled with VPNs set back to on-premises data centers and corporate offices.
  • VPC peering with other accounts allows access and routing for services and users of separate accounts to communicate.

CLOUD/DEVOPS ENGINEER

Deloitte
Minneapolis, USA
01.2019 - 12.2021
  • Used Lucid Chart to develop architectural diagrams before implementation, and to give customers and clients a visual workflow of what is required.
  • Used Jira to plan, track, support, and close requests, tickets, and incidents
  • Implemented security best practices in AWS, including multi-factor authentication, access key rotation, encryption using KMS and TLS, firewalls, security groups, and NACLs, as well as S3 bucket policies.
  • Designing and architecting self-healing, secured, high availability (HA), and fault-tolerant infrastructure in AWS makes use of AWS services like Auto Scaling Groups (ASG) and Elastic Load Balancers (NLB and ALB).
  • Leveraged ASG to dynamically scale with ingress traffic and CPU usage, optimizing resource utilization.
  • Supervised infrastructure components ensuring timely resolution of possible problems.
  • Utilized CloudWatch and Data Dog to monitor instances and resources intensively.
  • Architected Amazon RDS with Multi-AZ for automatic failover servers.
  • Utilized SSM to automate AMI patching through patch manager.
  • Executed migration and implementation of multiple applications to the cloud with AWS tools like SNS, Lambda, VPC, CloudTrail and API Gateway.
  • Optimized data transmission for regional users by reducing latency with advanced content delivery techniques.
  • Configured and maintained user accounts across development, quality assurance, and production servers.
  • Performed continuous, in-depth monitoring of cloud applications (CloudWatch, CloudTrail, VPC Flow logs, Config, etc.). And provided recommendations for minimizing loss and destruction, mitigating exploited or exploitable weaknesses, and minimizing impact to service, returning to normal service as quickly as possible.

CLOUD ENGINEER

Insight Global
Saint Louis Park, MN
01.2017 - 01.2019
  • Configured AWS Cloud components such as Elastic Load Balancers, Route 53, VPC, and subnets to support the Enterprise Data Warehouse.
  • Deployed CloudWatch unified agents on instances for monitoring system metrics, application metrics, and logs.
  • Advised and implemented the hosting of company applications within private subnets, and access to those applications was done using a bastion host.
  • Demonstrated expertise in disaster recovery scenarios by backing up data using AWS backup and restore tools.
  • Deployed scalable infrastructure with security groups, auto-scaling policies, and load balancers in a designated VPC.
  • Established VPC connectivity by making use of the Transit Gateway for connecting VPCs and the VPN connection to the center.
  • Provisioned cloud infrastructure to enhance compliance through AWS tools.
  • Suggested AWS SSO in Control Tower to streamline user access management across various platforms.
  • Implemented solutions with AWS tools to ensure retention of actionable insights across cloud environments.
  • Created task definitions, tasks, and services for these resources.
  • Deployed and managed EKS clusters using Terraform.
  • Created cluster resources like pods, ingress controllers, etc.
  • Leveraged Jenkins for automating daily processes.
  • Configured pipeline jobs using Groovy to support testing, building, and code coverage processes.
  • Set up and managed Docker containers running Go and PHP applications for deployment into Kubernetes pods.
  • Engineered deployment processes with AWS CodePipeline, enhancing cost effectiveness in application management.
  • Worked on the database migration project from the client's data center to Amazon Aurora.

JR SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

Bavin Corp Consulting
Burtonsville, MD
04.2015 - 12.2016
  • Optimized performance through proactive maintenance of IT infrastructure.
  • Streamlined processes for increased efficiency by automating repetitive tasks through scripting.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of new technologies into existing infrastructure.
  • Designed, deployed, and clustered high-availability servers on VMware ESXi using vSphere Client.
  • Built and configured Linux servers from scratch, with type-one hypervisors for virtualization and network components.
  • Configured SSL for Apache and Nginx to enhance application security.
  • Performed architectural and implementation roles for continuous integration and deployment of pipelines using Jenkins and other CI tools.
  • Developed and maintained comprehensive documentation for system configurations and procedures.
  • Assessed data processing proposals and requirements to determine project feasibility.
  • Deployed updates across multiple operating systems including Windows and Linux.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Presbyterian University of Cameroon
Bamenda, Cameroon
06.2013

Skills

  • AWS Cloud: EC2
  • EFS
  • VPC
  • RDS
  • S3
  • Glacier
  • IAM
  • Kinesis
  • CloudFront
  • Cloud Watch
  • Cloud Trail
  • Cloud Formation
  • DynamoDB
  • Aurora
  • Memcached
  • Lambda
  • Route53
  • SNS
  • SQS
  • API Gateway
  • Elastic cache
  • Redshift
  • ASG
  • WAF
  • Shield
  • AWS Config
  • Monitoring Tools: Data sync
  • STC
  • DMS
  • SMS
  • AWS Discovery services
  • DR strategies
  • Migration Hub
  • DevOps Tools: GitHub
  • Code Commit
  • Code Pipeline
  • Code Build
  • Code Deploy SSM
  • ECR
  • EKS
  • ECS
  • SSM (systems manager)
  • Migration Tools: Data sync
  • Networking Tools: CIDR Block range
  • VPC Subnets
  • Switches
  • Routers
  • LAN
  • WAN
  • Transit gateway
  • VPC endpoint
  • VPC peering
  • Site to Site VPN
  • Direct connect
  • VPG
  • NACLS
  • Bastion Host
  • Subnetting
  • Scripting Languages: Python
  • YAML
  • JSON
  • BASH Scripting
  • Powershell
  • AWS Organization user management: SSO with OKTA
  • Cognito
  • AWS Organizations
  • Control Tower
  • AWS manage AD
  • STS
  • Programming Language: Bash Shell
  • Python
  • DevOps/CI/CD: Terraform
  • GitHub
  • Git
  • GitLab
  • GitHub Actions
  • Bitbucket
  • Maven
  • SonarQube
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Ticketing tools: Jira (agile/scrum methodology)
  • Operating Systems: Windows
  • MacOS
  • Linux
  • Ubuntu
  • RedHat
  • Centos
  • Databases: MYSQL
  • MYSQL 56
  • T-SQL
  • MongoDB
  • Enterprise Oracle
  • Postgres
  • Documents DB
  • Amazon Aurora
  • Dynamic DB
  • RDBM
  • PL/SQL

Certification

AWS Solutions Architect Associates, 2022

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

DevOps Engineer

Cash App
02.2022 - 12.2024

CLOUD/DEVOPS ENGINEER

Deloitte
01.2019 - 12.2021

CLOUD ENGINEER

Insight Global
01.2017 - 01.2019

JR SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

Bavin Corp Consulting
04.2015 - 12.2016

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Presbyterian University of Cameroon

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