LUNIC NGWA
Charlotte,NC
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
DevOps Engineer
ZH Tech Company
08.2023 - Current
- Integrating Git with project management tools like JIRA and Confluence to link commits with tasks and documentation.
- Automated artifact storage and distribution, reducing manual effort by using AWS CodeBuild and Amazon S3.
- Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline and Jenkins, ensuring seamless integration and deployment.
- Supporting manual deployment into development, test, and then production environments while progressively automating the process
- Monitoring application performance and system health using AWS CloudWatch, setting up custom metrics dashboards and alerts.
- Working with engineers and developers to design and build scalable, automated CI/CD pipelines with latest open source resources
- Implementing AWS Organization to centrally manage multiple AWS accounts including consolidated billing and policy-based restrictions
- Reduced operational costs by optimizing resource usage based on insights from Grafana dashboards.
- Achieved faster recovery from failures using automated restart policies in Amazon ECS.
- Improved application performance through efficient load balancing and resource management with Kubernetes.
- Reduced infrastructure cost by 70% by implementing serverless architecture with AWS Lambda.
- Enhanced resource management efficiency by 40% by using Terraform for version-controlled infrastructure changes.
Cloud Engineer Associate
Duke Energy
05.2021 - 05.2023
- Built and deployed serverless stacks using the IaC CI\CD pipeline and troubleshoot using AWS CloudWatch logs and metrics
- Gathered and documented functional and non-functional requirements using JIRA, creating detailed user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Worked with business, architects and other IT and business groups to identify technical and functional needs of applications
- Testing code deployment by identifying and fixing cloud environment issues using GitLab
- Worked with Terraform to define the infrastructure as code and automating the deployment of the cloud resources
- Improved application scalability through dynamic resource allocation with Amazon EKS.
- Creating custom dashboards and analyzing performance data to identify bottlenecks and optimize resources using Dynatrace and Splunk
- Enhanced system visibility through unified dashboards and monitoring in AWS Systems Manager.
- Increased visibility into application performance by custom dashboards and detailed metrics in AWS CloudWatch.
- Reduced manual monitoring efforts through automated metric collection and alerting in Prometheus.
- Improved disaster recovery readiness by 60% with automated environment replication using AWS CloudFormation.
- Achieved 25% faster recovery from failures with automated rollback and backup features in AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
IT Support – Level II
Sobuar Realty
01.2018 - 12.2021
- Managed user accounts, network access and file permissions using DOS and UNIX utilities
- Installed newly built and re-imaged desktops/laptops in offices
- Troubleshoot and resolved network related issues over the phone and remotely via WebEx/GoToMyPC
- Installed new software and hardware drivers and updating existing ones as need
- Answered employee questions regarding computer systems
- Set up advanced network firewalls and switches
- Ensured all requests are resolved promptly and with high-quality results
- Researched, designed, and deployed new solutions required by end-users.
Education
BSc - Information Technology
North Carolina A & T State University
Greensboro, NC01.2021
Skills
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation
- Containerization and Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes
- CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab
- Monitoring and Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, CloudWatch
- Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure
- Scripting and Automation: Python, Bash
- Version Control: Git, Code Commit
- AWS DevOps: Codebuild, CodeDeploy, Lambda, EKS, ECS, ECR, SystemsManager, CodePipeline
Certification
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner | AWS | 2022
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate | AWS | 2022
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional | AWS | 2023
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator – In Progress
- Agile (Scrum/Kanban), Baltimore, MD, 2022
Timeline
DevOps Engineer
ZH Tech Company
08.2023 - Current
Cloud Engineer Associate
Duke Energy
05.2021 - 05.2023
IT Support – Level II
Sobuar Realty
01.2018 - 12.2021
BSc - Information Technology
North Carolina A & T State University
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner | AWS | 2022
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate | AWS | 2022
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional | AWS | 2023
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator – In Progress
- Agile (Scrum/Kanban), Baltimore, MD, 2022