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Reuben Tabali

Summary

I am a highly motivated and self-driven DevOps/ Cloud Engineer with 6+ years of overall cloud deployment, cloud migration and implementation of various cloud management products and services. I also have experience in providing operational and maintenance support for AWS cloud resources such as launching, maintaining and troubleshooting EC2 Instances, S3 buckets, VPCs, Application Load Balancer (ALB), Relational Database Services(RDS), Automation via Ansible, monitoring via Cloudwatch, CloudTrail, Azure Audit Logs, Governance and Compliance, Leveraging of DevOps culture and scanning tools to help ensure both security and efficiency of CI/CD pipeline such as Trivy, Sonarqube etc.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

DevOps Engineer

Verizon
07.2021 - Current
  • Designing, developing, and testing solutions for on-prem or Cloud platforms.
  • Support DevOps operations by integrating into CI/CD pipeline build.
  • Install, configure, automate, and monitor various Cloud Services.
  • Architect, design, develop, troubleshoot, and implement new cloud solutions.
  • Work closely with the Development team to support Cloud application, database, and network performance.
  • Work closely with the IT security team to ensure the applications and solutions are secure and compliant Used CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Git/GitHub, Jira and Docker registry/daemon for configuration management and automation using Ansible.
  • Used SonarQube for code quality where I set up quality gates and Quality profiles to define rules in a code (Code coverage, vulnerabilities, and Code smell).
  • Implemented Kubernetes to deploy scale, load balance, scale and manage docker containers with multiple namespace versions and using RBAC controls to control access to namespaces.
  • Deployed applications onto Application servers such as Apache Tomcat.

DevOps Engineer

American Express
02.2018 - 06.2021
  • Developed CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Jenkins and AKS.
  • Automate the publishing of python packages to Azure Artifacts by creating scripts.
  • Designed and Developed solutions for CI/CD and Release Management using GIT, Jenkins, Maven, Docker, Kubernetes for building and propagating microservices.
  • Used CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Git/GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Maven, SonarQube, Aqua Trivy scan and Docker registry/daemon for SDLC and Ansible for configuration management.
  • Deployed AWS resources like S3 buckets, IAM roles, EC2 instances, EKS, ALB and Infrastructure as a code using Terraform, AWS console and AWS CLI and monitoring OF infrastructure using Cloudwatch, CloudTrail etc.
  • Build scripts and automated solutions using scripting languages such as Shell Scripting and Power Shell.
  • Designed and Developed solutions for CI/CD and Release Management using GIT, Jenkins, Maven, Docker, Kubernetes which propagates microservices from dev to production.
  • Automated the creation of dashboards and incorporated new features into Azure DevOps.
  • Implementing test automation frameworks and scripting solutions utilizing Python and PowerShell

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer & Information Systems

University of Buea

Skills

  • Cloud Orchestration / Automation / Container Management Tools: SSM Patch Manager, AWS Systems Manager, AWS SSM Parameter Store, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform
  • AWS Security: AWS Security Hub, AWS Guard Duty, AWS Shield, AWS inspector, Amazon Macie, WAF, AWS Firewall Manager, NACLs and Security Groups
  • Monitoring and Event Management: Amazon Web Service CloudWatch (Events and Logs), Amazon Web Service SNS, Amazon Web Service CloudTrail
  • Identity & Access Management: AWS IAM, Active Directory, AWS Secrets Manager Governance & Compliance: AWS Comfit Rules, AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Organization
  • Programming Languages: JSON, YAML, Shell Scripting, JavaScript, Groovy (for CICD)
  • Network: VPC, Transit Gateway etc
  • AWS AMI & Patch: AWS SSM Patch Manager Application delivery: GIT, GitHub, Maven, SonarQube, Nexus, , Trivy Image scan
  • AWS Platform: AWS CloudFormation, AWS System Manager, S3, VPC, EC2, ELB, RDS, Amazon Aurora, SNS, Route53, CloudFront, Migration, AWS Auto Scaling, Trusted Advisor, CloudWatch
  • Kubernetes Monitoring tools: Prometheus and Grafana
  • Agile Project Management: Jira, Teams, Kanban, Slack etc
  • Programming Languages: JSON, YAML, Shell Scripting, JavaScript, Groovy (for CICD), python
  • AWS AMI & Patch: AWS SSM Patch Manager Application delivery: GIT, GitHub, Maven, SonarQube, Nexus, Trivy Image scan

Timeline

DevOps Engineer

Verizon
07.2021 - Current

DevOps Engineer

American Express
02.2018 - 06.2021

Bachelor of Science - Computer & Information Systems

University of Buea
Reuben Tabali