MARK ANIMUONYAM BOAKYE
Devops Engineer
Hagerstown,Maryland
Summary
A dedicated and highly DevOps Engineer with over five years experience in IT industry, including cloud computing and Migration, software development, Information and Cyber Security, and Database Administration. Proven track record of designing and implementing advanced cloud-based solutions, coupled with a deep understanding of cloud architecture, software development lifecycle, CI/CD pipelines, SCM, Network Security, Data Security, Security Controls, Security Policies, and their impact on business outcomes. Experienced in assisting enterprises to transition their infrastructure, applications, and workloads to the AWS cloud. Demonstrated success in optimizing cloud resources to enhance performance, reduce costs, exceed expectations, and meet tight deadlines. Seeking the opportunity to leverage the skills and knowledge to drive the adoption of AWS services while collaborating with cross-functional teams, and enterprise customers to ensure business continuity.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
Work History
DevOps Engineer
Amazon
Williamsport, MD
11.2020 - Current
- Developed and maintained automation tools, CI/CD pipelines, scripts, and software to help maintenance and enable user self-service capabilities to decrease operational cost by 50%.
- Designed and implemented automation tools, CI/CD pipelines contributing to development of high-performing software solutions to increase performance by 45%.
- Utilized Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, EKS, GitHub, and other cloud technologies to streamline application development processes to minimize 40% application downtime.
- Successfully built and deployed cloud infrastructures using Terraform and Cloud Formation ensuring scalability and availability of AWS environments.
- Solid understanding of OS (Windows and Linux, Networking principles-HTTP/S, TCP/IP, OSI model, DNS, LAN/WAN, Routing, Switching, and Firewalls.
- Administered and troubleshooted DevOps, Container Orchestration Management, and Configuration Management to increase 45% performance and scalability by 50%.
- Experienced in Blue/Green, Weighted, and Canary deployment models.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to address challenges and ensure overall quality of delivered components, conducting tests, reviews, and assessment.
- Monitored system metrics, such as CPU utilization, memory, and storage using CloudWatch or Prometheus and Grafana improving system reliability by 60%.
- Experienced in Azure IaaS – Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, SQL Databases, Resource Groups and Cloud Services and Used Data Migration Assistant to migrate databases to Azure Cloud.
- Hands on GCP Compute Engine, VPC, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, and Cloud Identity.
Cloud Support Engineer
Giant Food
Germantown, MD
10.2018 - 10.2020
- Assisted migration team in moving applications, data, and workloads from on-premises environments to AWS.
- Gained hands-on experience with AWS migration tools like CAF, MRA, ADS, AWS Migration Hub, DMS, Data Sync, and Server Migration Service.
- Helped in testing the functionality and performance of applications post-migration to ensure it meets expected benchmarks.
- Assisted in documenting migration processes and configurations.
- · Configured virtual networking environments with Amazon VPC by creating public and private subnets, route tables, Internet gateway NAT gateway, NACLs, and Security groups.
- Managed users groups, roles, and policies using AWS IAM by granting console and programmatic access to users, enabling MAF and generating access keys and secret keys.
- Provisioned and configured basic AWS services like EC2 instances, S3 buckets, VPC and RDS databases.
- Helped in testing the functionality and performance of applications post-migration to ensure it meets expected benchmarks.
- Monitored AWS environments using tools like Amazon Cloud Watch to ensure stable operation and performance.
Education
Bachelor of Arts Philosophy and Psychology- U.S.A. Equivalency, evaluated by WES. -
University of Ghana
Accra, Ghana 08.2003 - 05.2007
Skills
VPC, EC2, S3, and RDS
Auto Scaling, ELB, AWS Lambda and Cloud Front
Cloud Formation, Terraform and Ansible
IAM , Security Group, NACLs, and NAT Gateway
Route 53, HTTPS, TCP/IP and OSI Model
Jenkins and Git Actions
Docker, EKS, ECR and ECS
Git, GitHub, CI/CD, and Version Control Management
MSSQL Database and DynamoDB
Prometheus and Grafana
Microservices Architecture, Containerization and Kubernetes
Agile-Scrum-Jira
Very good team player and energetic
Have a good customer and co-worker relationship
Have good effective communication skills
Can easily adapt to new environment
Ready to learn new things or technologies
KMS, ACM, and WAF
AWS Code Commit, Code Build, Code Pipeline and Code Deploy
Certification
CompTIA Certificate: CompTIA Security+, 01/2024
Timeline
DevOps Engineer
Amazon
11.2020 - Current
Cloud Support Engineer
Giant Food
10.2018 - 10.2020
Bachelor of Arts Philosophy and Psychology- U.S.A. Equivalency, evaluated by WES. -
University of Ghana
08.2003 - 05.2007