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Prisca Akondi

Takoma Park,MD

Summary

Cloud Engineer | DevOps Engineer Detail-oriented, experienced, and passionate professional, seeking to apply acquired knowledge on AWS cloud computing services to provide businesses with the most innovative, scalable, highly available, secure, cost-effective, and fault-tolerant system. Looking forward to implementing the most recent technology on their IT infrastructure, operations, and applications on the AWS cloud platform. Critical thinking DevOps Engineer with extensive understanding of high availability architecture and concepts. Purpose-driven professional with capacity to be strong team player plus work effectively independently. Respectful self-motivator gifted at finding reliable solutions for software issues. Experienced in CICD and spunk, Datadog, cloudwatch and offering skills in Git and ansible. Fluent in English and accustomed to working with cross-cultural, global teams. To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

DevOps Engineer/ Associate Consultant

Infosys
Richardson, TX
09.2022 - Current
  • Designed secured, cost optimized, highly available and fault tolerant infrastructure in AWS
  • Architected and configured Dev/Stage/QA environments in AWS (VPC, subnets, security groups, EC2 instances, load balancer, RDS, route53, etc
  • Implemented security best practices in AWS including multi factor authentication, access key rotation, role-based permissions, enforced strong password policy, configured security groups and NACLs, S3 bucket policies and ACLs, etc
  • Optimized cost through reserved instances, selection and changing of EC2 instance types based on re-source need, S3 storage classes and S3 lifecycle policies, leveraging Autoscaling etc
  • Leveraged EC2 Create Snapshot API call to create snapshots of EBS Volumes on scheduled intervals
  • Configured CloudWatch alarm rules for operational and performance metrics for our AWS resources and applications
  • Setup and configured logs files for detail monitoring and alerts notification when changes are made
  • Monitoring from end-to-end view of runtime systems CPU, Memory Usage, disk space and Storage Deployed and configured infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation Conducted periodic capacity planning assessments to predict infrastructure needs and scale resources accordingly
  • Implemented and maintained secure FTP, SSH, and SSL configurations, safeguarding data transmission
  • Evaluated diverse organizational systems to identify workflow, communication, and resource utilization issues
  • Compiled research data and gave professional presentations highlighting finds and recommended optimizations
  • Conducted thorough reviews of operations to devise and deploy improvement strategies
  • Delivered outstanding service to clients to maintain and extend relationship for future business opportunities
  • Supported clients with business analysis, documentation, and data modeling
  • Integrated technology and business operations to identify targeted solutions to customer issues
  • Implemented practices and procedures to reduce expenditures and increase savings
  • Automated system e-commerce features to improve client sales
  • Managed multiple deadlines across several businesses to meet dynamic needs of multiple clients
  • Collaborated with teams to define, strategize, and implement marketing and web strategies

DevOps Engineer / Cloud Engineer

LIFEMATTERS LLC
Silver Spring, MD
05.2020 - 09.2022
  • Architected high availability environment with auto scaling in conjunction with S3 as storage and route 53 as DNS.
  • Utilized Docker to containerize applications, leading to a more scalable and portable infrastructure.
  • Securely deployed MySQL Primary DB and it read replica in private subnet with Muti AZ for disaster recovery and best practice.
  • Configured and maintained monitoring and alerting solutions with Prometheus and Grafana, enabling proactive issue identification and faster incident response.
  • Utilized Helm charts to streamline application deployment and management processes.
  • Migration of high availability webservers and databases to AWS EC2 and RDS with minimum or no downtime Developed automation scripts in Python and Bash to streamline repetitive tasks, resulting in improved team efficiency
  • Ensured data recoverability by automating systems snapshot, AMIs, RDS Replicas and application-level backups
  • Conducted load testing and fine-tuned Istio configurations to ensure service mesh scalability and reliability
  • VPC build with Private and Public Subnet based on requirements, for example Internet Gateways, NAT Implemented node selectors and affinity rules to optimize resource allocation and improve application performance
  • Set up and maintained Amazon ECR repositories for efficient container image management and distribution
  • VPC peering with other Accounts allowing access and routing to service and users of separate account to communicate
  • Aide setup for and configured for logs files detail monitoring and alerts notification using AWS CloudWatch and CloudTrail Successfully leveraged Auto scaling groups to right-size EC2 pools to match the level of demand and helped to manage costs by eliminating excess capacity to maintain optimal level of resources Used EC2 Lifecycle Manager to create snapshots of EBS Volumes on scheduled intervals for backup and define a retention period as a cost saving measure Applied security best practices in AWS including multi factor authentication, access key rotation, role-based permissions, enforced strong password policy, configured security groups and NACLs, S3 bucket policies and ACLs Troubleshot system issues ranging from booting, network, firewalls, and disaster recovery using rescue & single user mode
  • setup and configuration of Istio service mesh to manage microservices communication and observability.
  • Security groups configured and locked down to the various authorized subnet and IP addresses in AWS.

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer/ DevOps Engineer

CITI BANK
Takoma Park, MD
01.2017 - 04.2020
  • Designed secured, cost optimized, highly available and fault tolerant infrastructure in AWS
  • Architected and configured Dev/Stage/QA environments in AWS (VPC, subnets, security groups, EC2 instances, load balancer, RDS, route53, etc
  • Setup and configuration of Istio service mesh to manage microservices communication and observability.
  • Implemented security best practices in AWS including multi factor authentication, access key rotation, role-based permissions, enforced strong password policy, configured security groups and NACLs, S3 bucket policies and ACLs, etc.
  • Optimized cost through reserved instances, selection and changing of EC2 instance types based on re-source need, S3 storage classes and S3 lifecycle policies, leveraging Autoscaling etc.
  • Leveraged EC2 Create Snapshot API call to create snapshots of EBS Volumes on scheduled intervals
  • Configured CloudWatch alarm rules for operational and performance metrics for our AWS resources and applications
  • Managed Kubernetes clusters, scaling applications, and implementing rolling updates to maintain high availability and optimize resource utilization
  • Worked closely with engineering teams to ensure compliance with network policies and industry standards
  • Setup and configured logs files for detail monitoring and alerts notification when changes are made
  • Monitoring from end-to-end view of runtime systems CPU, bandwidth, disk space and log files Deployed and configured infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Buea
Cameroon
10.2010

Skills

  • Python
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • VPN
  • VPC
  • Senior
  • Cloud engineer
  • Solutions Architect
  • Oracle cloud
  • SQL
  • Terraform
  • Cloud formation
  • DevOps
  • CI/CD
  • Ansible
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Oral
  • Communication
  • Leadership
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Demonstrated critical thinking
  • Azure
  • Or other cloud environment
  • NoSQL
  • Application architectures - 3 tier
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • ServiceNow
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Automation scripting using Python
  • PowerShell
  • API
  • SaaS
  • Network
  • Compute
  • Storage
  • EC2
  • ELB
  • RDS
  • Route53 & S3
  • IaaS
  • PaaS & SaaS
  • AWS Control Tower
  • AWS Organization
  • AWS Systems Manager
  • AWS CloudWatch
  • AWS CloudFormation
  • Jenkins
  • Artifactory
  • Git
  • Bash
  • AWS Platform: VPC, EC2, ELB, RDS, S3, Route 53, CloudFront, AWS Auto Scaling Groups
  • Cloud Orchestration/Automation: Have developed working competencies in AWS CloudFormation, AWS Lambda, AWS Systems Manager, AWS SSM Parameter Store, Terraform
  • Identity and Access Management: AWS Organization, AWS IAM, AWS AD Connector, Active Directory, AWS Workspaces, AWS Secrets Manager
  • Governance and Compliance: AWS Config Rules, AWS Organization, AWS Control Tower, AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Well Architected Tool, AWS Budgets, AWS License Manager
  • Monitoring and Event Management: AWS CloudWatch (Events and Logs), AWS SNS, AWS SQS
  • AWS Security: AWS Security Hub, AWS Guard Duty, AWS Shield, AWS Firewall Manager, AWS Inspector
  • Network: VPC, VGW, TGW, CGW, IGW, NGW
  • Programming Languages and File Types: Python, Bash, JSON, YML

Certification

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
  • AWS DevOps Professional

Accomplishments

  • Collaborated with team of 12 in the development of CICD project.
  • Documented and resolved Automated CICD deployment of servers using Docker, Kubernetes and AWS. which led to smooth deployment

Timeline

DevOps Engineer/ Associate Consultant

Infosys
09.2022 - Current

DevOps Engineer / Cloud Engineer

LIFEMATTERS LLC
05.2020 - 09.2022

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer/ DevOps Engineer

CITI BANK
01.2017 - 04.2020

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Buea

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