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KARL-PATRICK DIGBEU

Derwood,MD

Summary

Senior Consultant in the Technology Strategy & Cloud Engineering Service line who specializes in the areas of Cloud Native and Infrastructure with a focus on DevSecOps Engineering. Dedicated DevSecOps Engineer with 6 years of experience in IT Infrastructures and IT Operations services. Experienced in deploying and maintaining containerized and scalable applications in the Cloud. Enthusiastic problem solver who demonstrated success by utilizing technical experience in supporting diverse IT teams to maximize levels of productivity. Proven ability to bridge technology and to adapt quickly to any IT investments.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Stratus Solutions
04.2020 - Current

Configure Terragrunt.hcl files to deploy AppGate VPN backup stacks for compliance routine tasks.

  • Leverage Terraform modules to deploy IaC stacks on AWS GovCloud.
  • Use OPA and Conftest as a security compliance tool to configure CI/CD pipeline utilizing Rego compliance policies conform to the DoD security standards to perform scans against Terraform codes commit.
  • Configure and deploy Platform One Big Bang containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, Helm and Flux.
  • Configure Kubernetes secrets using SOPS encryption to encrypt application secrets.
  • Automate Kubernetes secrets upload in Vault to tightly control applications access tokens and passwords.
  • Configure, deploy and maintain Twistlock and NeuVector as the main tool to provide anomaly, signature-based runtime defense, vulnerability, and compliance scanning for ecosystem hosts and containers.
  • Automate RDS backup as Kubernetes CronJob. Task involved: Postgres Docker build with pre-baked RDS dependencies, CronJob Helm chart configuration, Helm plugins configuration with SOPS encryption, CronJob deployment resulting in automated RDS backup dump in S3.
  • Build and maintain private registry docker images to be conformed with Platform One ecosystem.
  • Type up in-depth SOP's application deployment processes to pass on to Operations team to use as an internal guide line for client support.

Senior Consultant

Deloitte
02.2019 - 03.2020
  • Deployed SEMOSS application per client request. Task involved: Installation and configuration of NGINX proxy, configuration of application databases on central server, creation of application docker containers, construction of standard configurations scripts, and testing DNS.
  • Built Docker images to support Development and Testing teams.
  • Maintained SEMOSS Docker scripts (tomcat, docker- r, docker -r-packages, docker -r-python, docker/SEMOSS) in Git by updating the necessary libraries to allow a successful build prior to major releases.
  • Configured and deployed AWS EKS clusters to host MissionGraph core services for USAID.
  • Deployed MissionGraph core services using Helm and ArgoCD.
  • On call monitored and tuned MissionGraph core services through pods debugging sessions.
  • Configured and attached Kubernetes persistent volume to application deployment YAML files to maintain users' data across production servers.
  • Developed and promoted standard operating procedures for operation efficiency and new team members onboarding training materials.

Cloud Engineer

Westat
10.2014 - 01.2019
  • Performed LAMP and Drupal installations on Ubuntu and AWS Linux EC2 instances.
  • Debugged LAMP installation on virtual machines hosting client's applications.
  • Maintained AWS IAM roles and policies for internal project teams and provided access to AWS accounts to support internal projects' cloud adoption.
  • Configured AWS Security Groups to allows MEPS (Medical Expenditure Panel Survey) users to connect to their virtual machines.
  • Wrote technical documentation to support new projects cloud adoption.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Political Science And Government

Loyola University Maryland
Baltimore, MD
05.2011

Skills

    Cloud Platforms : AWS , AWS GovCloud

    IaC Tools : Terraform, Terragrunt

    CI/CD Tools : Gitlab Pipelines, Atlantis, Flux

    Version Control Tools : GIT, Gitlab, GitHub

    Containers : Docker, Kubernetes

    Databases : MySQL

    Operating System : Linux, MacOS

    Monitoring Tools : Prometheus, Grafana

    Containers Scanning Tools : Twistlock, NeuVector

    Configuration Management : Ansible

    Policy-as-Code: Conftest

    IT Delivery Methods : Agile

Certification

  • CompTIA Security+ (SY0-601)

Languages

English
Full Professional
French
Native or Bilingual

Affiliations

  • Loyola University Maryland Cloud Alumni Panel
  • Loyola University Maryland Men's Soccer Alumni

Timeline

Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Stratus Solutions
04.2020 - Current

Senior Consultant

Deloitte
02.2019 - 03.2020

Cloud Engineer

Westat
10.2014 - 01.2019

Bachelor of Arts - Political Science And Government

Loyola University Maryland
KARL-PATRICK DIGBEU