Stanley Ndika Ticha
Hagerstown,MD
Summary
Professional with over 5 years of experience in IT industry comprising of build release management, software configuration, design, development and cloud implementation.
Hands - on AWS Certified Solution Architect with 3 Years in setting and managing cloud data platforms on AWS (including Compute, Storage, Database, Management
Governance, Migration and Transfer.
Highly skilled in deployment, data security and troubleshooting of the applications using AWS services.
Proficient in writing Cloud Formation Templates (CFT) in YAML and JSON format to build the AWS Services with the paradigm of Infrastructure as a Code.
Implemented security frame work in AWS using IAM, Security Policies, Roles, Groups
and Users for integration with OKTA
Designed and Developed cluster management solution for the automated start and shutdown of the EMR/EKS clusters and EC2 instances based on the work load
Experienced with event-driven and scheduled AWS Lambda functions to trigger various AWS resources.
Acquired practical exposure with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery tools such
as GitBucket, bug-tracking tool JIRA and Jenkins to merge development with testing
through pipelines.
Experienced with installation of AWS CLI to control various AWS services through
SHELL/BASH scripting.
Experienced in version control and source code management tools like GIT, SVN, and TFS.
Good knowledge in relational and NoSQL databases like MySQL, SQLServer, Redshift and AWS RDS.
Possess working knowledge with bash in writing scripts to automate software and configuration process
A self-motivated, responsible and reliable team player with a set of strong technical skills
Excellent organizational and documentation skills, Strong verbal and written
communication skills
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
Work History
DevOps Engineer /AWS Cloud Engineer
Volvo Group Truck
10.2018 - 05.2023
- Built and configured Kubernetes clusters to ensure nodes/pods can auto scale and load balance
- Integrating Kubernetes Cluster and Ansible Playbooks in Jenkins CI/CD flow
- Installed and configured Jenkins for automated build and deployments
- Leveraged AWS Organization and AWS Config to centrally manage account and to enforce organizational policy and compliance
- Creating and maintaining jobs in Jenkins for automated build and deployments
- Provision resources in our AWS environment using Terraform
- Perform Deployment of War files in Tomcat application servers using Shell scripts
- Setup a CICD pipeline in AWS using AWS native tools like code build ,Code pipeline, Code deploy Elastic Container Services
- Worked with Kubernetes to deployed application through a full CI/CD pipeline using Jenkinsfile
- Monitor AWS environment using Cloud watch and Cloud trail
- Leverage transit gateway to set up a secured VPN connection between our AWS Cloud environment and On-premise infrastructure
- Leveraged AWS lambda to shutdown instances at certain time of the day to reduce cost, making use of python boto3 as runtime
- Deployment and orchestration of micro services applications in Kubernetes, ensuring optimal performance using Prometheus and Grafana
- Deployed an E-commerce application using Cloud front ,creating edge locations in Europe and Asia to reduce latency
- Deploying RDS instances and providing endpoint details to the database teams and managing database snapshot methods
- Collaborate with SRE team to run python script and create IAM user account making use of least privilege
- Configuring application health checks Liveness probe and Readiness probe parameters to monitor containers health
- Designed and developed automation workflows, performing unit tests and conducting reviews to make sure your work is rigorously designed, elegantly coded, and effectively tuned for platform performance, and assessing the overall quality of delivered components
- Deployed AWS services within VPC and managing security using security groups, Access control policies and NAT gateways
- Managed Amazon Web services like EC2, S3 bucket, RDS, ELB, Auto-Scaling, AMI and designing VPC, Route Table, Internet gateway, Security Group, and monitoring Cloud watch alerts
- Working on S3 storage life cycle management to move the objects to glacier storage when it meets life cycle policy
- Developed shell scripts for automation of the build and release process
Junior Systems Engineer
Parkland Hospital
03.2017 - 10.2018
- Review and debug java-based applications to reduce errors and improve performance during deployment
- Responsible for tagging and maintaining code on version control
- Creating the Build & Deployment plans in Jenkins as per the project requirement
- Configuring Jenkins as a common CI engine to build and deploy application to Development and production environment
- Monitoring and optimize the AWS cloud environment to ensure costs and performance scale on demand
- Reduced costs by $3,000 each month by eliminating unnecessary servers and consolidating databases
- Deploying code to test environments using automated deployment tool like Jenkins
- Collaborate with Development, QA, and Product Management team on Build plans & schedules
- Gathered requirements and provided strategies for seamless migration of applications, web services and data from local server-based systems to the AWS cloud enviromment
- Worked closely with Development, QA teams to identify and troubleshoot Build and Deployment issues
- Troubleshooting application related issues by log verification
- Setup a Tier-3 architecture using terraform, with AWS load balancer in front of web server attached to an auto scaling group
- Implemented security best practices in AWS including access key rotation, multi-factor authentication, role-based permissions, enforced strong password policy, configure security groups and NACLs, S3 bucket policies
- VPC peering with other accounts allowing access and routing to service and users of separate account to communicate
- Monitored end-to-end infrastructure using Cloud Watch and SNS for notifications
- Setting cloud watch metrics and Alarms
- Actively manage, improve, and monitor cloud infrastructure on AWS, EC2, S3, and RDS, including backups, patches, and scaling
Infrastructure Engineer
Parkland Hospital
12.2013 - 03.2017
- I was part of the team that deployed provision and set up the entire network infrastructure at the hospital
- I configured Routers and Switches (more than 100)
- Deploy and configure network printers (zebra and laser printers) use by doctors and nurses to print patient’s information
- Troubleshoot routers, switches, printers and desktop computers including working with Doctors and nurses to resolve problems with windows interconnectivity software (Electronic Medical Record) and custom developed software release
- Configure, maintain and perform preventive maintenance on various network and data center equipment (CISCO routers and switches) to ensure efficient operations
- Network installation and maintenance (rack & stack, cabling, parts replacement, running of data cables during installation of new equipment
- Monitoring network performance, ensure systems availability and performance using PRGT monitoring and solar winds
- Active directory management (provision users, password reset, group policy, promote standard windows
Education
Bachelor of Science - Mathematics and computer science
University of Yaoundé 1
Yaoundé08.2006
Skills
- AWS
- DevOps
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Jenkins
- Python
- EC2, VPC, IAM, Cloud Front, Route53
- Tomcat, Maven, Git, Bit Bucket, CI
- CI/CD Pipeline
- Kubernetes , Docker
Certification
AWS Solutions Architect Associate
Cisco Certified Network Associate
Timeline
DevOps Engineer /AWS Cloud Engineer
Volvo Group Truck
10.2018 - 05.2023
Junior Systems Engineer
Parkland Hospital
03.2017 - 10.2018
Infrastructure Engineer
Parkland Hospital
12.2013 - 03.2017
Bachelor of Science - Mathematics and computer science
University of Yaoundé 1
AWS Solutions Architect Associate
Cisco Certified Network Associate
Soccer, hiking and adventures
I love playing football (soccer), going hiking and discovering new places and cultures.
Soccer, hiking and adventures
I love playing football (soccer), going hiking and discovering new places and cultures.
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