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LACINA KONE

Houston,TX

Summary

Highly motivated Cloud Engineer/DevOps Engineer with 7+ years of experience in overall cloud development, cloud migration and implementation of various cloud management products and services. Proven ability to contribute innovation and problem-solving abilities in an AWS-oriented environment with responsibilities including installation, configuration, maintenance, security, and administrating system users.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Experience , IT Consultant/ AWS DevOps Eng

TATA Consultancy Services TCS
01.2022 - Current
  • Implemented AWS Code Pipeline to deploy AWS Infrastructure through Cloud Formation
  • Developed Python Script to model and provisioned AWS resources using AWS CDK
  • Monitor Code Pipeline changes through AWS Cloud Watch Events rules
  • Extensive Git Knowledge, Git flow
  • Implemented Prometheus and Grafana
  • CI CD with Git Ops and Bitbucket
  • On Call Support rotation monthly basis
  • Strong Knowledge Troubleshooting AWS services
  • Built Kubernetes Cluster
  • Deployed microservices Applications to Kubernetes
  • Configured remote backend in Terraform
  • Migrated Terraform state to Terraform Cloud
  • Created custom terraform module
  • Troubleshoot Terraform common errors
  • Setup AWS Glue job
  • Migrated existing Glue jobs from 2.0 to 3.0
  • Use DMS to migrate database for Cost optimization
  • Analyze unstructured and structured CSV, JSON data stored in S3 using Athena
  • Created IAM role and configure EC2 for AWS System manager
  • Setup lambda function with S3 Event Triggers
  • Designed Disaster recovery plan to migrate and replicate on premises application, database, and middleware servers to AWS Cloud by achieving RTO and RPO
  • Performed Recovery Drill, failover, and fail back
  • Designed and develop re-usable components and strategies in cloud infrastructure to support scalability, high-availability and monitoring, back-up and restore.
  • Made recommendations and performed upgrades, assisting businesses in technology planning aligned with growth projections
  • Contributed ideas and suggestions in team meetings and delivered updates on deadlines, designs, and enhancements
  • Collaborated with fellow engineers to evaluate software and hardware interfaces
  • Consulted with engineering team members to determine system loads and develop improvement plans
  • Coordinated efficient large-scale software deployments

AWS Cloud Engineer

Starmind LLC
06.2019 - 11.2021
  • Implemented new EC2 instances and worked with EBS, Virtual Private Cloud (VPCs) and S3
  • Experience with CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment) methodologies
  • Managing user access to AWS resources using Identity Access Management (IAM)
  • Creating and maintaining AMIs templates, EC2 instances, EBS, and S3 resources
  • Build and improve reliability and performance of cloud applications and cloud infrastructure deployed on Amazon Web Services
  • Apply Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing to create high availability and fault tolerance to EC2 instances
  • Run Infrastructure as code using Terraform for various SCP’s and Cloud Formation scripts to build AWS Infrastructure and resources
  • Launch and configure local and external database servers on EC2 and RDS instances
  • Experience working with tools like Git, Jenkins, Ansible and Jira
  • Provision user accounts using IAM in collaboration with enterprise Active Directory
  • Perform full AMI backups for all provisioned instances for critical workloads
  • Manage security keys using AWS KMS to manage cryptographic keys to control user access in wide range of AWS services
  • Perform system monitoring using Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Splunk
  • Participate in change management on JIRA to help track daily work activities
  • Participated in writing and maintaining extensive documentation on applications and system architectures on AWS spanning across Dev, Test and Pre-production and Cloud automation through Open-Source DevOps tools like Chef, Jenkins & Kubernetes.
  • Monitored and tested application performance to identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions and collaborate with developers on solution implementation
  • Performed advanced engineering in configuration, management and deployment of AWS cloud environments
  • Participated in architectural discussions to build confidence and promote customer success when developing new and migrating existing applications, software and services on AWS platform
  • Monitored costs and optimized cloud deployment expenses against business needs
  • Captured and shared best-practice knowledge among AWS community and presented sessions at industry conferences
  • Participated in system development life cycle from requirements analysis through system implementation

AWS Cloud Infrastructure/Network Engineer

Starmind LLC
11.2018 - 05.2019
  • Set up accounts and passwords for specific users with authorization to access networks
  • Possess solid problem solving & troubleshooting skills
  • Leveraged Ansible and terraform to improve deployment velocity, production reliability, and incident management while also meeting regulatory compliance
  • Validating effectiveness of applications, system and network protections along with policy compliance
  • Assisted with maintenance and monitoring of all data communications systems
  • Designing, implementing, troubleshooting, and documenting network security infrastructures and related systems
  • Assessing and monitoring network and security infrastructure architecture and documenting findings and making recommendations based on industry best practices
  • Research and make recommendations with best of breed tools and technologies related to enterprise network.

Cloud Engineer

Inova Health System
07.2016 - 10.2018
  • Ensured level of fault tolerance based on business need
  • Managed backup and disaster recovery processes
  • Implemented AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto-scaling groups
  • Implemented roles and groups for users and resources using AWS Identity Access Management (IAM) and also managed network security using Security Groups and IAM
  • Developed migration plan to migrate On-premise apps into AWS in terms of cost, security and availability
  • Managed, maintained and deployed to test/development, staging and production
  • Supported, managed and maintained researchers’ development efforts with custom applications on AWS
  • Designed AWS Cloud formation templates to create VPC architectures, subnets, route tables
  • Troubleshoot various customer technical problems and adhere to best practices
  • Configuring S3 versioning and lifecycle policies to backup files and archive files in glacier.
  • Monitored and tested application performance to identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions and collaborate with developers on solution implementation

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University Of KORHOGO
IVORY COAST
06.2013

Skills

  • Worked on several POCs for AWS
  • Cloud: AWS (EC2, S3, Glue, EMR, EBS, ELB, ALB, RDS, IAM, VPC, Lambda, Athena, API Gateway, SNS, SQS, High Availability, Cloud front, WAF, Redshift, Disaster Recovery RPO RTO)
  • Operating Systems: Linux (Ubuntu, RHEL7, Amazon Linux, and CentOS)
  • Networking: Route53, DNS, TCP/IP, VPC, Route Table, Direct Connect
  • Software: Apache, Nginx, JIRA, Kanban
  • Databases: RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB
  • Scripting Language: Python, Bash, SQL
  • Containers: Kubernetes
  • Automation: Ansible, Cloud Formation, Terraform, GitHub, Jenkins, AWS Code Build, Code Deploy, Code Pipeline, Git, Bamboo, Bitbucket
  • Monitoring: Splunk, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail

Certification

AWS Solutions Architect Associate

AWS Developer Associate

AWS Sysops Administrator

AWS DevOps Engineer Professional

Languages

French
Native or Bilingual

Work Availability

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Timeline

Experience , IT Consultant/ AWS DevOps Eng

TATA Consultancy Services TCS
01.2022 - Current

AWS Cloud Engineer

Starmind LLC
06.2019 - 11.2021

AWS Cloud Infrastructure/Network Engineer

Starmind LLC
11.2018 - 05.2019

Cloud Engineer

Inova Health System
07.2016 - 10.2018

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University Of KORHOGO
LACINA KONE