Kuam Salvador
Anna
Summary
Dynamic cloud solutions professional with a strong focus on Amazon Web Services, dedicated to transforming IT infrastructure, operations, and applications for clients. Recognized for resilience and attention to detail, committed to leveraging expertise to design innovative, scalable, and highly available systems. Passionate about implementing secure and cost-effective solutions that enhance performance and ensure fault tolerance on the AWS and AZURE cloud platform. Eager to drive impactful change and elevate client success through advanced cloud strategies.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Cloud/DevOps Engineer
ATLAS PLUS CO
03.2018 - Current
- I am effectively involved in a program geared towards the migration of existing business applications into a cloud-based environment. I lead activities required for re-hosting applications into the cloud, this include activities like modifying architecture, re-hosting application and database servers, and potentially recoding of existing capabilities to exploit cloud platform services.
- Writing Lambda functions in python to query database and integrating the lambda function with API gateway to support end – end integration.
- Design, build and configure applications to meet business process and application requirements.
- Experience on AWS Connect IVR, Lex and Lambda design and development.
- Experience on working in Agile Methodology/Scrum Team.
- Lead and document the Technical Designs for the AWS application components of the project.
- Liaise with the Product Owner/Business Analyst of the AWS workstream and convert the Functional Requirements/Designs into Technical Designs.
- Implement and automated cloud Cost optimization using lambdas
- Built and maintained Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines
- Configuring NACL, Security Groups and WAF to secure applications and VPC network with respect to access parameters and conditions.
- Setup Amazon connect contact center for multiple organizations during the COVID-19 period
- Customized Lambda functions and Amazon Lex to work with Amazon Connect IVR.
- Setup storage for infrastructures in the AWS cloud using server-side encryption Key Managed Service (SSE-KMS).
- Review and integrate all application requirements, including functional, security, integration, performance, quality and operations requirements.
- Review and integrate the technical architecture requirements.
- Provide input into final decisions regarding hardware, network products, system software and security.
- Build expertise in Workflow for Amazon Web services like EC2, S3, ELB, EBS, VPC, Security Groups, IAM, and DevOps tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Git, GitHub, Jenkins, and Ansible.
- CI/CD pipeline management through Jenkins. Version control through GIT.
- Create and manage IAM user accounts and role-based policies for access to AWS services.
- Create and manage users, permissions, directories and files in Linux environment.
- Defining and deploying monitoring metrics and logging systems on AWS environment. Application and system log analysis using Cloudwatch, CloudTrail, and Logic Monitor.
- Design, develop and implement high availability; backup and recovery strategy for applications and database.
- Designed and developed infrastructure using Terraform and cloud formation and automated end-to-end transit hub connectivity resource deployment in AWS via Terraform.
- Hands-on experience and good knowledge of AWS services: EC2, S3, VPC Endpoints, VPC Peering, Transit VPC, Network Protocol, Subnetting, IPsec, VPN, Route53, ELB, Auto scaling, SQS, SNS, IAM, DynamoDB, Lambda, Amazon Kinesis, CloudFront, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, internet Gateway.
- Implement and maintain monitors, alarms, and notifications for EC2 instances using CloudWatch and SNS.
- Developed AWS CloudFormation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT, EC2 instances, ELB, Security Groups.
- Designed secure, scalable infrastructure with AWS and Azure using IaC (Terraform, ARM templates).
- Automated system configuration and deployment using Python and PowerShell, reducing manual errors by 70%.
- Implemented CloudWatch and Azure Monitor dashboards for cost optimization and performance insights.
- Collaborated with development teams to enhance CI/CD pipelines for internal banking applications.
AWS Cloud Engineer
Thanos Consulting
02.2014 - 03.2018
- Setup and implemented AWS shield, AWS config, Amazon Macie and Amazon Inspector for the security and protection of sensitive data.
- Automate provisioning of cloud infrastructure using CloudFormation, terraform; and application configuration and deployment using Terraform and Ansible.
- Implementation of compliance with CIS Benchmark on AWS environment.
- Install Apache and Nginx Web Server on EC2, (proxy server as needed).
- Installed, Configured, Administered Jenkins Continuous Integration Tool also automated Continuous Build and deploy Scripts for Jenkins.
- Launching databases via RDS to support web application functionality.
- Leverage AWS cloud services such as EC2, auto-scaling and VPC to build secure, highly scalable and flexible systems that handled expected and unexpected load bursts.
- Set up ELK stack for Administering and troubleshooting failed deployment of infrastructure.
- Plan, build and configure network infrastructure within VPC with public and private subnets, configure routing tables, security group and internet gateway.
- Provision AWS resources using management console as well as Command Line Interface.
- Set up Ansible environment for configuration management, Dynamo DB, Elastic cache and Lambda.
- Setup and configure VPC PrivateLink (Endpoints), Direct Connect, VPC Peering, Reverse Proxy Caching, CDN, IPsec and VPN for secure data transfer, and secured connection to other AWS services and other AWS accounts.
- Testing and deployment automation with Docker containerization and Jenkins. Automation of manual tasks using Shell scripting.
- AWS EC2 and Cloud watch services. CI/CD pipeline management through Jenkins. Automation of manual tasks using Shell scripting.
- Built a new CI pipeline. Testing and deployment automation with Docker, and Jenkins.
- Deployed company-wide logging system with Docker container on Amazon ECS using Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana.
- Developed AWS CloudFormation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT, EC2 instances, ELB, Security Groups.
- Part of a team of DevOps engineer for infrastructure support on AWS cloud. Creating cloud formation scripts for hosting software on AWS cloud. Automating the installation of software through PowerShell scripts.
- Provide strategies and requirements for the seamless migration of applications, web services, and data from local and server-based systems to the AWS cloud.
- Set up ELK stack for Administering and troubleshooting failed deployment of infrastructure.
- Supporting software development and data management projects that prepare large datasets for delivery
- Used continuous delivery tools like Jenkins with Terraform to deploy files to QA, UAT, and Developer servers
- Used Terraform to provision application infrastructures employing tools like Autoscaling Groups, Security Group, VPC, CloudWatch etc.
- Led hybrid cloud migration to AWS and Azure, achieving 99.9% uptime across enterprise workloads.
- Built reusable Terraform modules that automated provisioning of over 200 resources, cutting setup time by 40% and ensuring continuous SOC2 compliance
- Deployed containerized workloads via Jenkins, ArgoCD, and Helm, cutting release times by 35%.
- Integrated vulnerability scanning and secret management into CI/CD workflows, improving security posture and reducing risk of data breaches
- Developed automated CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps for consistent and reliable deployments.
- Containerized applications with Docker and managed Kubernetes deployments, which streamlined application scaling and improved resource utilization
- Established ELK-based monitoring and log analysis, improving uptime and troubleshooting efficiency
- Worked closely with developers to optimize performance and reduce deployment friction.
Cloud system Engineer
WestPoint Lincoln
01.2013 - 01.2014
- Assist in managing the AWS relationship and AWS interface managing/monitoring the utilized AWS services/resources.
- AWS EC2 and Cloud watch services. CI/CD pipeline management through Jenkins. Automation of manual tasks using Shell scripting.
- Setup and configure VPC PrivateLink (Endpoints), Direct Connect, Transit VPC, VPC Peering, Reverse Proxy Caching, CDN, IPsec and VPN for secure data transfer, and secured connection to other AWS services and other AWS accounts.
- Implement and maintain monitors, alarms, and notifications for EC2 instances using CloudWatch and SNS.
- Proactively develop best practice standards, architectures, and procedures to support the utilization of cloud infrastructure services.
- Work with multiple, concurrent, teams for the migration/re-hosting of applications.
- Work with the architectural lead for the migration of several applications to the cloud.
Education
Bachelor of applied science - mathematics
University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Enugu, Nigeria10.2008
Skills
- Proficient in Azure cloud solutions
- Automation tools for infrastructure
- Experienced with Kubernetes
- CI/CD pipeline automation
- Monitoring tools expertise
- Experienced in scripting with Python, Bash, and PowerShell
- User access control
- Expertise in network configuration
- Proficient in Git and Bitbucket
- DevSecOps integration
- Ansible deployment proficiency
- Database management proficiency
- Container orchestration proficiency
- VPN implementation experience
- Proficient in Terraform and Python scripting
- Cross-platform server administration
Certification
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
- AWS Certified SYSOPS Administrator Associate
- AWS Certified Security Specialty
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Timeline
Cloud/DevOps Engineer
ATLAS PLUS CO
03.2018 - Current
AWS Cloud Engineer
Thanos Consulting
02.2014 - 03.2018
Cloud system Engineer
WestPoint Lincoln
01.2013 - 01.2014
Bachelor of applied science - mathematics
University of Nigeria, Nsukka