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Vogelle Achancho

Summary

Highly skilled AWS Cloud Engineer with a track record of automating deployment processes, resulting in a 40% reduction in deployment time. Achieved 99.9% service availability and reduced system downtime by 25% through effective monitoring and incident response strategies. Ensured compliance with security policies, reducing security incidents by 30% and maintaining a 99% compliance rating. Optimized cloud infrastructure, achieving 30% cost savings through resource optimization and reserved instance management. Led successful cloud migration projects, migrating 50+ applications to AWS cloud for improved scalability, cost efficiency, and performance.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Cloud Operations Engineer

Infosys Ltd
01.2019 - Current
  • Reviewed existing systems and made recommendations for improvements.
  • Executed root cause analysis for production incidents, pinpointing and resolving critical problems within an average of 2 hours, thereby reducing their impact on business operations
  • Engaged closely with development groups, providing infrastructure insights and confirming production readiness, which led to a 15% rise in overall application efficiency
  • Utilized code and modern cloud-native deployment techniques to design, plan and integrate cloud computing and virtualization systems.
  • Oversaw cost optimization projects in our cloud environment for compute resources on EC2 and RDS using trusted advisor findings, reserved instance plans, instance scheduler and cost intelligence dashboards
  • Ensured all applications and solutions deployed have a low RPO and RTO.
  • Set up landing zone to automate the deployment of AWS accounts and custom applications using terraform and GitLab pipeline Creating and deploying custom auto-remediation solutions using CloudTrail, config, lambda and Systems Manager for Cloud security compliance
  • Partook in enhancing the practice of agile across our environment
  • Ensured CICD pipelines have code analysis integrated for artifact scanning; sonarqube for code analysis, code smells, code coverage etc
  • Used systems manager components like session manager for securely connecting to instances, managed instance inventory through the use of systems manager inventory and made use of run command and systems manager automation for managing AWS resources
  • Adhered to security policies and top practices, implementing strong networking, encryption, surveillance, and encryption systems, curtailing security risks by 25%
  • Employed AWS CloudWatch for resource observation and control, effectively setting up cloud watch agents on servers and creating comprehensive dashboards for application logs, resulting in quicker troubleshooting and debugging
  • Created Alarms for notifying the team via SNS anytime the instance metric threshold is met
  • Ensured that instances were scaled with autoscaling groups and are properly secured using private subnets and security groups firewalls
  • Oversaw the designation, implementation, and administering of AWS infrastructure using IaC tools like Terraform
  • Managed terraform state files with the use of S3 and state file locking through the use of DynamoDB locking
  • Cooperated with other teams to construct and maintain infrastructure, including Kubernetes clusters running on EKS, databases on RDS, and cloud-based compute on lambda, ECS etc Configured CI/CD pipelines with the employment of GitHub Actions, Ansible, Maven, and other plugins
  • Utilized Docker to build images and used ECR for image storage and performing scans with AWS Inspector
  • Build docker application images with the use of Docker file and tagged images to push them to the ECR image repository
  • Crafted landing zones for customers with the Organization Unit and AWS control tower from which AWS resources were deployed
  • Managed centralized logging through the use of log archive accounts etc
  • Formulated service control policies and activated AWS SSO for user Authentication
  • Coordinating with the client to ascertain their data needs, including the types of data to be migrated and the utilization of data
  • Established testing procedures to ensure that the migrated data is accurate and consistent with client specifications
  • Supported our CI/CD pipeline using GitHub-actions workflow and code pipeline workflows for building containerized applications running on ECS
  • Managed ECS resources like clusters running on Fargate, ECS services, and Task Definition files.

Lead Cloud Administrator

Travelers
08.2016 - 12.2018
  • Successfully migrated 80% of on-premises workloads to the cloud, resulting in a 30% cut in infrastructure costs and improved scalability
  • Choose suitable AWS services based on compute, data, or security requirements, leading to a cut in infrastructure expenses and a 15% improvement in overall system performance
  • Achieved an average page load time of under 2 seconds, ensured compatibility with major browsers, and reduced memory usage by 30%
  • Increased development speed by 35% through the creation of reusable code templates and optimized development workflows
  • Installed CloudWatch metrics on servers for gathering system level and application metrics and set up custom dashboards for these metrics
  • Created log groups on CloudWatch for storing applications and other AWS resource logs
  • Achieved 99.99% uptime for critical services, curtailing downtime to less than 5 minutes per month
  • Implemented auto-scaling of instances, resulting in a 25% decrease in resource wastage
  • Reduced deployment duration by 40% and eradicated 90% of manual errors by adhering to best practices to create systems with quick load times, multiple browser support, and minimal memory consumption
  • Maintained high service availability by closely monitoring AWS resources
  • Utilized AWS Trusted Advisor for conducting regular audits, improving the security and compliance posture, and ensuring the efficient utilization of AWS resources
  • Managed and deployed AWS CloudFront distributions to optimize and secure the delivery of web content, leading to reduced latency and increased site performance
  • Implemented AWS Lambda for building serverless applications, thus reducing infrastructure costs and enhancing scalability by executing code in response to events
  • Utilized AWS Trusted Advisor for conducting regular audits, improving the security and compliance posture, and ensuring the efficient utilization of AWS resources
  • Managed and deployed AWS CloudFront distributions to optimize and secure the delivery of web content, leading to reduced latency and increased site performance
  • Implemented AWS Lambda for building serverless applications, thus reducing infrastructure costs and enhancing scalability by executing code in response to events
  • Developed scripts using AWS CloudFormation, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs to automate the deployment and maintenance of public cloud resources
  • Reduced deployment duration by 40% and eradicated 90% of manual errors by adhering to best practices to create systems with quick load times, multiple browser support, and minimal memory consumption
  • Enhanced cloud development by creating functions, applications, and databases for users
  • Evaluated the organization's technology infrastructure and managed the cloud migration process
  • Designed Disaster recovery solutions on AWS based on RTO and RPO
  • Automated Compliance Governance by provision and leveraging AWS Landing Zone as well as AWS Control Tower for centralized enterprise architecture
  • Used Terraform (IaC) to provision resources (EC2, VPC, ELB, S3, ASG etc.) on AWS cloud network
  • Employed Maven as a build tool to deploy Java web applications into Tomcat (for Monolithic applications) and GitHub actions for micro-service applications
  • Built scalable/resilient solutions and ensured proper instrumentation is in place for overall observability of platforms and services
  • Constructed IAC solutions adhering to DevOps best practices utilizing tools such as Git, and Terraform
  • Designed & architected self-healing, secured, highly available & fault-tolerant infrastructure in AWS
  • Used Jira to plan, track, support and resolve requests, tickets, and incidents.

DevOps/Cloud Engineer

EBay Inc
07.2015 - 07.2016
  • Secured time savings and workflow efficiency of around 70% and implementing CI/CD and migrating them to AWS Cloud after identifying potential bottlenecks
  • Implemented infrastructure-as-code (IaC) methodologies using tools like Terraform, enabling the provisioning and management of cloud resources, thereby achieving reduced setup times and consistent environments
  • Conducted thorough monitoring and optimization of application performance, thereby enhancing system response time and ensuring the high availability of critical services
  • Automated, built and deployed process with the use of DevOps tools like Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, and Kubernetes to reduce by 80% the manual work
  • Participated in architectural discussions to build confidence and promote customer success when developing new and migrating existing applications, software and services on AWS platform.
  • Assisted with the migration of the on-premises physical server to AWS cloud to fix major bottleneck faced by a website
  • Created and maintained highly scalable and fault multi-tier AWS infrastructure spanning across multiple availability zones using Terraform
  • Performed first-level incident response and service resolution for cloud systems.
  • Automated continuous integration and deployment using Jenkins, Docker and orchestrated containers using Kubernetes and ECS
  • Provisioned servers and deployed features using Ansible and deployed the applications to Tomcat application server and static content to Apache web servers
  • Responsible for taking the source code and compiling using maven and packaging it in its distributable format such as a WAR file
  • Implemented process for release management, automated code deployment, configuration, management, and monitoring
  • Enhanced monitoring of the production environment to ensure a speedy resolution of issues
  • Utilized Git, a version control system, to effectively manage code repositories and facilitate seamless collaboration among team members
  • Developed and maintained automation scripts and tools to automate repetitive tasks and optimize operational efficiency
  • Contributed to the implementation of best practices and DevOps methodologies within the organization.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Mathematics/Statistics

University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering

Presbyterian University of Cameroon

Skills

  • Projects: Cloud Migration, Serverless architecture set-up, CI/CD pipeline configuration, Cost-Optimization in
  • AWS Services:Ec2, Elastic Beanstalk, EFS, VPC, RDS, ASG, S3, IAM, CloudFront
  • CloudWatch, CloudTrail, CloudFormation, DynamoDB, Lambda, AWS Backup, Route53, SNS
  • SQS, API Gateway, Transit Gateway, ALB, ECS, EKS, EBS volumes, Code Pipeline, AWS CLI
  • AWS Inspector, WAF, Macie, Certificate Manager, Code Build, Elastic cache, Code Deploy etc
  • Programming: Python, Terraform, Linux
  • DevOps Tools: Github actions, AWS code, CI/CD pipeline, Git, GitLab, GitHub, Docker Products
  • Sonarqube, Maven, GitHub packages, ECR, EKS, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Ansible
  • Account Governance: Active directory, AWS SSO, Control tower, AWS Organizations
  • Network Intelligence
  • Version Control Systems

Certification

AWS Solutions Architect Associate

Timeline

Senior Cloud Operations Engineer

Infosys Ltd
01.2019 - Current

Lead Cloud Administrator

Travelers
08.2016 - 12.2018

DevOps/Cloud Engineer

EBay Inc
07.2015 - 07.2016

Bachelor of Arts - Mathematics/Statistics

University of Connecticut

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering

Presbyterian University of Cameroon

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