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Nadege Zee

Cypress,IL

Summary

Experienced and self-motivated Cloud AWS Solution Architect with a proven track record of over 9 years in supporting and optimizing mission-critical deployments within AWS. Proficient in designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, and adept at provisioning and managing highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable infrastructures on AWS through Terraform as Infrastructure as Code (IAC), complemented by Ansible for automated configuration management.

Expertise extends to cloud security, identity and access management, monitoring and event management, governance and compliance, application delivery, data protection, image and patch management, as well as self-service and ops analytics within the AWS platform.

Possess a solid background in containerization technologies, proficient in creating and managing containers with Docker and Kubernetes. Technical proficiency extends to scripting with Bash and Python, enhancing automation and operational efficiency.

Seeking opportunities to leverage extensive skills and experience in architecting robust, scalable, and secure cloud solutions, contributing to the success of cutting-edge projects and initiatives.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

AWS Solution Architect

Airlines Reporting Corporation
01.2020 - Current
  • Collaborated with software development teams to build scalable solutions on AWS, providing technical guidance in design and deployment strategies.
  • Automated backup strategies using Amazon RDS snapshots, ensuring data integrity during disaster recovery scenarios.
  • Utilized AWS console and Terraform to provision infrastructures on AWS, including defining Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), EC2 instances, subnets, security groups (SG), Elastic Load Balancers (ELB), Auto Scaling Groups (ASG), Elastic Block Store (EBS), Elastic File System (EFS), S3 buckets, and Route 53 configurations, ensuring robust high availability of resources
  • Developed and applied baseline and customized guardrails and policies, implementing centralized policy enforcement and tagging policies within well-architected multi-account environment. Managed Kubernetes clusters and Docker containers, facilitating seamless upgrades and downgrades of applications based on evolving requirements of development teams.
  • Collaborated with fellow engineers to conduct deployments during off-peak hours, ensuring minimal disruption to normal operations and maximizing system availability.
  • Optimized cloud storage solutions with Amazon S3 lifecycle policies, reducing storage costs over time.
  • Implemented efficient cost tracking with AWS Cost Explorer, enabling better budgeting decisions across multiple projects.
  • Designed and implemented highly available, scalable, and secure AWS infrastructures utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IAC) principles, particularly leveraging Terraform. This involved architecting robust solutions to ensure fault tolerance and scalability while maintaining stringent security measures within AWS environment.
  • Designed and managed automated Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for applications using Jenkins. By automating these processes, up to 70% of manual work was eliminated, leading to significant reduction in human error and notable acceleration in production timelines.
  • Increased high availability and fault tolerance by configuring multi-AZ deployments in RDS instances.
  • Collaborated with cross functional teams to successfully migrate legacy applications like Jasper, Automic, Talend and Tableau workloads from on-premises data centers to AWS environments. Hence, modernizing technology stack and increasing overall efficiency.
  • Maximized network performance by leveraging Direct Connect for dedicated connectivity between on-premises networks and AWS environments.
  • Streamlined AWS infrastructure by implementing best practices in architecture, resulting in improved performance and cost optimization.
  • Utilized AWS Lambda functions for serverless computing solutions, simplifying infrastructure management tasks.
  • Delivered cloud-native applications by leveraging AWS services like API Gateway, Lambda, and DynamoDB.
  • Streamlined application deployment processes with CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodeStar services such as Code Commit, Code Build, and Code Deploy.
  • Enhanced security measures by designing and implementing multi-layered VPC solution to segregate data and services.
  • Improved scalability by utilizing AWS Elastic Beanstalk for seamless application deployment and management.
  • Collaborated extensively with sales teams, vendors, customers, and stakeholders to align strategies and initiatives, ensuring achievement of sales goals. This involved fostering strong relationships, facilitating communication, and implementing targeted strategies to meet and exceed sales targets.
  • Extensively engaged in pre-sales activities with customers, providing technical consultations, product demonstrations, and spearheading proof-of-concept (POC) projects. objective of these interactions was to elucidate value proposition of AWS services and showcase their applicability to address unique business requirements of customers.
  • Successfully deployed production-ready Kubernetes cluster on AWS EC2 instances, ensuring load balancing, high availability, security, and fault tolerant.
  • Leveraged code repositories such as GitHub, CI/CD tool Jenkins, and configuration management tool Ansible to automate build and deployment processes, streamlining operations and enhancing efficiency.
  • Played pivotal role in collaborating with developers to refactor monolithic application into microservices architecture. This initiative resulted in enhancing developer workflow, scalability, and speed optimization, aligning application with business objectives and ensuring improved agility and efficiency.
  • Constructed and maintained development and testing environments while providing support to developers in diagnosing application issues within containers. Monitored and troubleshooted failed builds across multiple pipelines, ensuring seamless development and deployment processes.
  • Architected and configured development, staging, and QA environments in AWS, encompassing VPC setup, subnet configurations, security group implementations, deployment of EC2 instances, load balancer configurations, deployment and management of RDS instances, integration of Redis, and DNS management with Route 53.
  • Established robust security protocols for S3 buckets including policies and Access Control Lists (ACLs) and implemented measures to mitigate Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, ensuring integrity and confidentiality of data and infrastructure.
  • Implemented comprehensive security measures in AWS, adhering to industry best practices such as multi-factor authentication (MFA), access key rotation, encryption utilizing AWS Key Management Service (KMS), and firewall configurations through security groups and Network Access Control Lists (NACLs).
  • Utilized AWS Systems Manager to automate operational tasks across our AWS infrastructure.

Devops Engineer/AWS Solution Architect

Benchmark Mortgage
06.2014 - 11.2019
  • Improved code deployment efficiency by automating processes with CI/CD pipelines.
  • Automated manual tasks through scripting languages such as Python or Shell, boosting team productivity levels.
  • Maintained version control systems like Git or SVN for seamless collaboration among developers and engineers during project lifecycles.
  • Designed and implemented containerization strategies using Docker and Kubernetes, improving resource utilization and management.
  • Monitored automated build and continuous software integration process to drive build/release failure resolution.
  • Contributed to creation of DevOps culture within organization, leading to increased agility and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Automated and implemented system backup and recovery procedures.
  • Conducted installation, upgrades, patches, troubleshooting, maintenance, and monitoring of Linux servers, ensuring optimal performance and reliability of applications.
  • Executed security setup, networking configuration, system backups, and patch management for both AWS cloud and on-premises environments, ensuring comprehensive protection and operational resilience.
  • "Applied diverse design principles for cloud security and utilized various AWS services to enhance our security posture across Authentication, Authorization, Monitoring, Auditing, Encryption, Data path security, and incident response mechanisms.

Senior Scrum Master

Texas Department Of Criminal Justice, TDCJ
12.2012 - 05.2014
  • Championed change management initiatives, guiding teams through successful transitions to new methodologies and techniques.
  • Resolved impediments to team progress by proactively identifying issues and facilitating effective solutions.
  • Enhanced team productivity by implementing Agile methodologies and improving communication between cross-functional teams.
  • Successfully led multi-disciplinary teams towards achieving project milestones while adhering to established budgets and timelines.

Mortgage Underwriter

Benchmark Mortgage
11.2011 - 12.2012
  • Approved or denied loans based on established criteria and underwriting guidelines.
  • Identified possible fraud risks through meticulous evaluation of application materials, protecting both lenders and homebuyers from potential losses.
  • Analyzed and verified applicant income, assets and credit history to support compliance with underwriting guidelines.
  • Determined credit risks by reviewing files in advance and comparing data against internal checklists and guidelines.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Buea
Cameroon
06.2011

Skills

  • Auto Scaling Groups
  • Identity and Access Management
  • Application Migration
  • Infrastructure Automation
  • Containerization Technologies
  • Monitoring and Logging
  • Linux Operating System
  • AWS Services Expertise
  • Cost optimization strategies
  • High Availability Planning
  • Cloud Architecture Design
  • Cloud Formation Templates
  • Lambda Functions
  • API Gateway Management
  • Scripting Languages
  • Effective Communication

Certification

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

AWS Certified Developer-Associate

Certified Scrum master

Additional Information

Technical Skills

  • Cloud Orchestration/Automation: AWS CloudFormation, AWS Lambda, AWS Systems Manager, Ansible, Docker
  • AWS Security: AWS Security Hub, AWS Guard Duty, AWS Shield, AWS Firewall Manager, AWS Inspector
  • Monitoring & Event Management: AWS Cloud Watch, AWS SNS, AWS S3
  • Identity & Access Management: AWS Organization, AWS IAM, AWS AD Connector, AWS Workspaces, AWS Secrets Manager
  • Governance & Compliance: AWS Config Rules, AWS Control Tower, AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Well Architected Tool
  • Programming Languages: Bash, JSON, YAML, Python,NodeJs
  • Application Delivery: Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Bitbucket, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeCommit
  • Data Protection: AWS Certificate Manager, AWS KMS, Snapshot Lifecycle Manager, AWS CloudHSM
  • Network: VPC, VGW, TGW, CGW, IGW, NGW
  • Image & Patch Management: AWS SSM Patch Manager, AWS Golden AMI Pipeline
  • AWS Platform: AWS CloudFormation, AWS Lambda, AWS Systems Manager, S3, VPC, EC2, ELB, RDS, SNS, SQS, SES, Route53, CloudFront, Service Catalog, AWS Auto Scaling, Trusted Advisor, CloudWatch

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual
French
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

AWS Solution Architect

Airlines Reporting Corporation
01.2020 - Current

Devops Engineer/AWS Solution Architect

Benchmark Mortgage
06.2014 - 11.2019

Senior Scrum Master

Texas Department Of Criminal Justice, TDCJ
12.2012 - 05.2014

Mortgage Underwriter

Benchmark Mortgage
11.2011 - 12.2012

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Buea

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