Kiki Kameni
La Plata,MD
Summary
Highly-motivated cloud engineer with 5+ years of experience with desire to take on new challenges. Strong worth ethic, adaptability and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Cloud/DevSecOps Engineer
Accenture Federal Services – Defense Logistics Agency
Arlington, VA
11.2021 - Current
- Configured infrastructure monitoring and alerting using AWS CloudWatch
- Collaborated with development teams to implement infrastructure requirements and resolve issues
- Developed and maintained AWS CloudFormation templates to manage infrastructure across multiple environments, including production, staging, and development
- Implemented CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and AWS CodePipeline to improved deployment speed
- Conducted regular security audits and remediated identified vulnerabilities
- Developed a multi-tier architecture strategy on AWS that improved system scalability and availability
- Promoted from Associate AWS Cloud Engineer to AWS Cloud Engineer II within 18 months, taking on additional responsibilities such as mentoring junior engineers and leading critical projects
- Reduced infrastructure costs by $200K by moving servers to less costly, energy-efficient hardware
- Improved system performance by 70% by designing and implementing Elastic Load Balancing and Auto Scaling.
- Created continuous delivery pipeline with AWS codepipeline, codecommit/github, codebuild, codedeploy using aws beanstalk adding a review stage for approval.
- Reduced expenses by $300K annually by identifying and eliminating unused resources through meticulous AWS cost analysis.
- Collaborated with the software development team to deploy software updates more frequently due to streamlined AWS processes.
- Boosted team's automation and efficiency by 65% by creating and managing user accounts and access control via AWS Identity Access Management (IAM).
- Configured AWS GuardDuty and Security Hub to monitor and alert on potential security threats
- Conducted regular security audits and remediated identified vulnerabilities
AWS/Azure Cloud Engineer
Mobomo – International Trade Administration
Vienna, VA
12.2019 - 11.2021
- Integrate AWS SSO with AAD to simplify and monitor users' activities.
- Remediate findings for server vulnerabilities scan
- Implement Flexera data platform with user console to help my company visualize all IT assets for better decision making.
- Implement Microsoft Privileged identity management to manage, control and monitor access to important resources
- Implement Microsoft Azure PIM to manage Microsoft Entra privileged roles and users
- Implemented and monitored backup, recovery, and configuration management using AWS native services.
- Earned AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, demonstrating deep knowledge of AWS services and best practices
- Utilized AWS CloudWatch and AWS Config for monitoring and compliance
- Configured AWS GuardDuty and Security Hub to monitor and alert on potential security threats
- Improved system uptime by 25% via sophisticated monitoring based on AWS CloudWatch and CloudTrail services.
- Implemented AWS IAM policies and roles to enforce least privilege access
Education
Bachelors - software development and security
University of Maryland Global Campus
03-2020
Associate - information technology
Prince George Community College
12-2017
Skills
- Git
- GitHub
- Ansible
- Docker
- Amazon container registry (ECR)
- CI/CD Pipeline
- Code Commit
- Code Built
- CodePideline
- Windows server 2016
- Windows server 2019
- TCP/UDP
- Linux
- Python programming language
- Jira
- Jenkins
Certification
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
- AWS Certified SysOps Associate
- Microsoft Certified administrator Associate
- CompTIA security+
Languages
Fluent in English and French
Timeline
Cloud/DevSecOps Engineer
Accenture Federal Services – Defense Logistics Agency
11.2021 - Current
AWS/Azure Cloud Engineer
Mobomo – International Trade Administration
12.2019 - 11.2021
Bachelors - software development and security
University of Maryland Global Campus
Associate - information technology
Prince George Community College
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