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Priscilla Addo

DevOps Engineer
Maryland

Summary

Innovative professional in software development, known for productivity and efficiency in completing projects. Possess strong skills in algorithm design, system architecture, and code optimization. Excel in problem-solving, communication, and teamwork, ensuring successful collaboration on complex projects.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

DevOps Engineer

Neurorestorative
Beltsville
06.2022 - Current
  • Lead the management, maintenance, and delivery of tasks using DevOps tools, including Bitbucket, Maven, Jenkins, Slack, Terraform, and Ansible.
  • Develop a Jenkins Pipeline job for building and deploying Docker images on a Docker deployment server and Kubernetes Cluster.
  • Managed Rollout and Rollback Strategies for deployments on Kubernetes ensuring a smooth and controlled release process.
  • Employed blue-green deployment strategies to minimize downtime and risk during application updates.
  • Implemented monitoring and logging solutions for Kubernetes clusters using tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana, enabling real-time visibility into cluster performance and health metrics.
  • Collaborated with DevOps and development teams to define and enforce security policies and best practices for Kubernetes clusters, including pod security policies, network policies, and role-based access control (RBAC)
  • Utilized Ansible automation tool to streamline and automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment tasks in AWS cloud environments, reducing manual effort and improving operational efficiency.
  • Implemented Ansible Vault for encrypting sensitive data and credentials within playbooks and configuration files, ensuring secure handling of sensitive information in AWS cloud environments.
  • Provided technical expertise and guidance on Kubernetes cluster architecture, deployment, and operations to cross-functional teams, enabling efficient adoption and utilization of container orchestration technology in cloud environments.
  • Implementing DevSecOps practices by integrating essential security tools such as SonarQube, and Docker Scout into CI/CD pipelines, enforcing build failures triggers in case of code quality issues, vulnerabilities, or security concerns, thereby ensuring robust security measures, and fortifying the deployment process.
  • Utilized Ansible to streamline the patching of over 20 servers, enhancing efficiency for system administrators.
  • Implement, deploy, and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) for provisioning infrastructure using Terraform.
  • Implemented Helm for managing Kubernetes applications in cloud environments, streamlining the packaging, deployment, and lifecycle management of complex containerized applications.
  • Implemented robust security measures in cloud environments, ensuring adherence to compliance standards and best practices such as encryption, identity and access management (IAM), and network security configurations.

DevOps Engineer

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
07.2020 - 06.2022
  • Setting up and managing applications on various cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google)
  • Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure issues. These can be network connectivity related issues, issues with cloud services and follow up with cloud providers on resolution status.
  • Implemented tools and support automation for AWS infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, diagnostics, and scaling.
  • Created IAM users, groups, and access policies, ensuring secure and controlled access to AWS resources.
  • Worked extensively with AWS services, including EC2, ELB, Auto Scaling, EBS, VPC, S3, CloudFormation, RDS, IAM and Route 53 for deployment and maintaining infrastructure.
  • Built and supported AWS infrastructure using Cloud Formation and Terraform, contributing to the scalability and reliability of the overall system.
  • Collaborated with team members to ensure the successful delivery and implementation of assigned tasks, fostering a culture of teamwork and accountability.
  • Monitored and managed submitted tickets through Jira and Slack workflows, ensuring effective communication and issue resolution.
  • Collaborated with business analysts to deliver high-availability solutions for mission-critical applications.

DevOps/Cloud Engineer

Northrop Grumman
Baltimore
05.2018 - 07.2020
  • Managed, maintained, and delivered tasks on the DevOps roadmap, ensuring alignment with project objectives and timelines.
  • Advise the team on solutions to work within our AWS environment.
  • Assist with the installation, configuration, testing, and maintenance of operating systems, application software and system management tool.
  • Provided expert advice on team architecture, offering advanced knowledge in building, configuring, operating, monitoring, and maintaining scripts and code used to administer and automate servers and systems.
  • Maintained continuous integration and deployment pipelines, streamlining the software development and release processes.
  • Ensured the ongoing documentation of infrastructure, capturing changes and configurations for reference and knowledge sharing.

Education

University of Maryland Global Campus
United States

Certification

  • AWS Solutions Architect - Associate Certification
  • CompTIA Linux

Timeline

DevOps Engineer

Neurorestorative
06.2022 - Current

DevOps Engineer

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
07.2020 - 06.2022

DevOps/Cloud Engineer

Northrop Grumman
05.2018 - 07.2020

University of Maryland Global Campus

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