Prince Lucien Kombou
AWS Solutions Architect
Atlanta,GA
Summary
I am a highly accomplished and solutions-oriented IT Professional with broad-based knowledge in Systems Design and Development. I implement and integrate cost-effective, high-performance technical solutions and cloud implementations to meet challenging business needs. Cognitive about designing, deploying, and operating highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant systems using Amazon Web Services (AWS). I am proficient in writing CloudFormation Templates (CFT) in YAML and JSON format to build AWS services with the Infrastructure as a Code (IaaC) paradigm.
I have advanced knowledge of deployment, data security, and troubleshooting applications using AWS. I own the organization's DevOps strategy across Linux and Windows servers. I possess high working qualities, good interpersonal skills, increased motivation, am a fast learner, a good team player, and am very proactive in problem-solving to provide the best solutions. Experience in onsite/offshore development model, including remote work. I install AWS CLI to control various AWS services through SHELL/BASH scripting. I lead the development and architecture of highly scalable Cloud Solutions (e.g., IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) with detailed blueprints and platform requirements.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
AWS Solutions Architect
Copper Mobile
Dallas, TX
06.2020 - Current
- AWS Architect that provisions resources as IAAC for network, computer, and database resources
- Owns, creates, and updates network ACLs through AWS command-line interface
- Proficient in AWS services like; VPC, EC2, S3, ELB, Auto Scaling Groups (ASG), EBS, RDS, IAM, CloudFormation, Route 53, CloudWatch, CloudFront, CloudTrail
- Automate account creation process for AWS Control Tower account provisioning
- Manage AWS organization; including SCPs, Tag policies, Tag Enforcement & Compliance
- Experienced in creating CloudFormation stacks to provision for VPCs, public & private subnets, NAT, and RTs as per requirement and distributed them as groups into various availability zones of the VPC
- Used security groups, network ACLs, internet gateways, and route tables to ensure a secure zone for the organization in AWS public cloud
- I have worked with the Amazon glue service, including deploying data catalogs, databases, tables, crawler, job, scheduler, and s3 data lake to transform data.
- Create and manage teamwise security for GitHub repo for dev QA and Prod environments
- Manage recovery and failover plan for all environments
- Setup WAF in front of web applications for security and vulnerabilities
- Migrate application and database to AWS using 6Rs strategy for migrating to AWS
- Check the health and performance of containers running inside nodes of the EKS cluster using an elastic search cluster.
- Used Grafana for monitoring DevOps CI/CD pipeline
- Create and configure elastic load balancers
- Auto-scale groups to distribute traffic for a cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and highly available environment
- Created S3 buckets in the AWS environment to store files required to serve static content for a web application
- Used AWS Beanstalk for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java
- Implemented domain name service (DNS) through route 53 to have highly available and scalable applications
- Maintained the monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers using the Cloud Watch service
- Experienced in creating RDS instances to serve data through servers for responding to requests
- Created snapshots to take backups of the volumes and images to store launch configurations of the EC2 instances
- Setup cloud intranet for internal portal for an application running in EC2 instance and service running on AWS platform
- Configure routing in FortiGate firewall to filter traffic for machines setup for internal users
- Create hosted zones in Route53 while routing policies for web domain traffic to applications sitting on the cloud
- Facilitated DevOps CI/CD projects for web application development within AWS
- Create CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and AWS CodePipeline to build applications using containers in the EKS cluster
- Create a Fargate profile in the EKS cluster, and manage tasks to deploy containers to EC2 instances
- Provision of AWS-managed ElasticSearch instance to ingest application container logs
- Integrate ElasticSearch with CloudWatch to stream application log files
- Use Terraform to provision new resources in AWS and update existing resources within AWS cloud services.
Database Administrator
SystemsPlus Inc
Washington, DC
12.2016 - 06.2020
- Worked as a team member for 24x7 support with on-call rotation in all Production, Stage, and QA environments
- Configured SQL Server Agent-Events, Jobs, Alerts, maintenance plans, Database Mail, and Operators
- Installed new versions of the SQL Server RDBMS and its tools and any other tools that access the Oracle database
- Created, Executed, and Deployed SSIS Packages using Visual Studios
- Administrated over 135 servers and worked on large databases ranging from 1TB to 2TB.
- Automated routine DBA jobs like backups
- Restored and monitored the integrity of the databases, configured DB Mail, and assigned required roles to users
- Monitored, logged, and cost-managed tools that integrated with AWS.
- Created and implemented automation for cloud platforms for monitoring and alerting purposes
- Managed critical unit testing & continuous integration
- Identified and drove CSI and automation initiatives
- Developed high-level design documents and design reviews
- Provided training to development teams on how to track, plan and analyze using JIRA
- Used Execution Plan, SQL Profiler, tuning SQL query, and Database Engine Tuning Advisor to optimize queries and tune databases
- Created and managed databases, schema objects such as tables, views, indexes, procedures, triggers, and database constraints to meet business requirements and policies and maintained referential integrity
- Configured SQL Server Agent-Events, Jobs, Alerts, maintenance plans, Database Mail, and Operators
- Managed High Availability solutions (Always On, Clustering). Mirrored, Log Shipping, Replication (Transactional and Merge)) and HA/Always ON
- Solved database/Server performance problems like slow running queries, blocking, and high CPU Utilization.
- Worked with OLTP systems as well as reporting and historical OLAP environment on data warehousing projects
- Migrated Access Databases to SQL Server
- Installed and created 11G databases for Testing & Development
- SQL tuning - AWR history of SQL execution, index recommendations, SQL Tuning Advisor, SQL Access Advisor, Real-Time SQL Monitoring, Interpret Execution plans, Re-write more efficient SQLs using OEM
- Work with Oracle Data Pump & SQL Server Import Expert utility (expdp and impdp) which provides high speed, parallel, bulk data and metadata movement of Oracle database contents.
- Monitored the growth of tables and managed necessary re-organization of the database, capacity planning
- Provided support to developers to enhance their T-SQL codes
- Setup Physical Standby Data Guard environment for production & non-production databases
- Improved performance by using the Hints, Indexes, and Explain Plan
- Handled High volume production databases around 5 TB size along with Physical standby databases
- Performed Data file recovery from logical and physical block corruptions
- Configured ASM, OCFS, and RAW devices
- Troubleshoot and tracing of RAC processes & CRS components, relocated service, and tuned RAC environment
- Managed fail-over of instances, monitored resource utilization on each node and top objects in cache fusion.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Skills
- Software Architecture
- System and Network Security
- Backup Recovery
- AWS Services; EC2, S3, ELB, Auto scaling groups, Glacier, EBS, Elastic Beanstalk, Cloud Formation/Terraform, Cloud Front, RDS, Redshift, VPC, Direct Connect, Route 53, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, OpsWorks, IAM, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, ElastiCache, RedShift
- CI/CD Tools; Github, Gitlab, Jenkins
- Web Technologies; HTML5, CSS3, Twitter Bootstrap, Media Queries, XML, JS/JQuery
- Programming; JSON, YAML, html, C, C, Core JAVA, Python, SQL/PLSQL
- Database Software; Oracle, MySQL, SQLServer, MongoDB, DynamoDB
- Servers; Apache Tomcat, WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss, Nginx, IIS
- Methodologies; SDLC, Waterfall, Agile, DevOps
- Operating Systems; MS Windows, UNIX/LINUX, Ubuntu
- MS Windows, Visual Studios, UNIX (Solaris 8/9/10, AIX, HP-UX), LINUX
- MS SQL Server 2008-2019
- Oracle 10g, 11g, 12c
- SQL, PL/SQL, UNIX Shell Scripting
- EXPLAIN PLAN, AWR, and ADDM Putty, WinSCP, Remote Desktop Connection, VNC, Cisco VPN Client, JIRA
- Solar Winds, Cohesity, SQL
- Plus, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Real Application Cluster, ASM, Transportable Tablespaces, SQL
- Loader, RMAN, DataPump, Export, Import
- Ability to design high availability applications on AWS across availability zones and availability regions
- Implement highly available, scalable, and self-healing systems on the AWS platform
- Deploying, managing, and operating scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS
- Advance knowledge of MS Azure
Certification
- Oracle Certified Associate
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA)
- SQL Certified
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Timeline
AWS Solutions Architect - Copper Mobile
06.2020 - Current
Database Administrator - SystemsPlus Inc
12.2016 - 06.2020
Bowie State University - Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
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