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VOGELLE ACHANCHO

Summary

Highly skilled, experienced, and customer-obsessed Cloud/DevOps professional with over 8 years of expertise in designing, implementing, and optimizing cutting-edge cloud solutions. My strong suit lies in harnessing the full potential of AWS technologies to drive innovation, enhance scalability, and achieve operational excellence. Proficient in architecting intricate cloud architectures, I excel in automating deployment pipelines and implementing rigorous security protocols. With an advanced grasp of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS offerings on AWS, including their associated components, I am on a quest for a challenging role that allows me to leverage my extensive AWS cloud skills to foster business growth. Very committed to delivering high-impact solutions that align seamlessly with clients' strategic objectives. Known for thriving in high-pressure environments, consistently meeting and exceeding project deadlines/expectations, and relish the opportunity to tackle new challenges head-on.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Cloud Engineer

Infosys Ltd
01.2019 - Current
  • Performed security Assessment and remediations on Cloud environments to reduce threads and attack surface while Identifying vulnerabilities and implementing remediations by patching with AWS Inspector.
  • Managed and optimized SQL and No-SQL databases to support high-throughput applications
  • 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
  • Set up landing zone to automate the deployment of AWS accounts and custom applications using Terraform and GitLab pipeline
  • Created and deployed custom auto-remediation solutions using CloudTrail, config, lambda and Systems Manager for Cloud security compliance
  • 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%
  • Ensured that instances were scaled with autoscaling groups and are properly secured using private subnets and security groups firewalls
  • 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
  • Architected solutions and implemented the use of Kubernetes in customer environments. Designed control planes on Kubernetes and provided guidelines over logging, troubleshooting, maintaining and patching clusters.
  • Partook in enriching the standards of cloud evangelism to different AWS customers and held office hours for learning container workloads as well as cloud security. Held live sessions for re-invent meetings and provided value to customers as regards the new Aws offerings and features.
  • Provided design guidelines for migration best practices and helped customers understand the needs of using AWS to run their workloads.
  • Migrated container workloads running on Kubernetes on-prem into AWS EKS. Provided guidelines and set standards for better management of workloads on EKS.
  • Crafted landing zones for customers with the Organization Unit and AWS control tower from which AWS resources were deployed
  • Formulated service control policies and activated AWS SSO for user Authentication
  • 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

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Ambry Genetics
08.2016 - 12.2018
  • Administered AWS Cloud Security – Allowing access to service and users with IAM, Security Group, Network Access Control List (NACL), MFA, KMS
  • Built and configured a virtual data center in the AWS Cloud to support Enterprise Data Warehouse hosting including Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Public and Private Subnets, Security Groups (SG), Route Tables, Elastic Load Balancers ELB), Route 53.
  • Automated Compliance Governance by provision and leveraging AWS Landing Zone as well as AWS Control Tower for centralized enterprise architecture
  • Migrated Applications servers (JAVA) and Windows Web Servers running on Hyper-V (on prem) to a Highly available Instances running on AWS using Server Migration Service (SMS)
  • Used Terraform (IaC) solutions to provision resources (EC2, VPC, ELB, S3, ASG etc.) on AWS cloud network, adhering to DevOps best practices utilizing tools such as Git, and Terraform
  • Employed Maven as a build tool to deploy Java web applications into Tomcat (for Monolithic applications) and GitHub actions for microservice applications
  • Built, Designed & architected self-healing, secured, highly available & fault-tolerant infrastructure in AWS, providing scalable/resilient
  • solutions and ensured proper instrumentation is in place for overall observability of platforms and services
  • 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
  • Automate Compliance Governance by provision and leveraging AWS Landing Zone as well as AWS Control Tower for centralized enterprise architecture.
  • Recommended AWS SSO on Control Tower for managing user access on multiple platforms.
  • Installed and setup Apache Web servers and DB Servers on Linux Based EC2 instances, created the DB Server environments (MYSQL)
  • 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
  • Working with configuration management tools like Ansible, Source Code Management tool GitHub and Jenkins for Continuous Build Management.

DevOps Automation Engineer

EBay Inc
07.2015 - 07.2016
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Migrated and implemented multiple applications from on-premise to cloud using AWS services: SMS, DBMS, Cloud Formation, S3, Route 53, Glacier, EC2, RDS, SNS, Lambda, VPC, Cloud Trail, API gateway.
  • Built a Docker containerized environment, hosting web servers on containers, building docker images using Docker files.
  • Implemented maintenance and configuration of user account for Dev, QA and production servers and created roles for EC2, RDS, S3, Cloud Watch resources to communicate with each other using IAM.
  • Worked with configuration management tools like Ansible, Source Code Management tool GitHub and Jenkins for Continuous Build Management.
  • Configured Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) using Code Pipeline and Code Deployment for automation
  • Created and maintained highly scalable and fault multi-tier AWS infrastructure spanning across multiple availability zones using Terraform.
  • 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
  • Created and optimized Virtualized machines (using Hyper-V, VMware) by daily tracking workloads for best performance.
  • Migrated Applications servers (JAVA) and Windows Web Servers running on Hyper-V (on prem) to a Highly available Instances running on AWS using Server Migration Service (SMS)
  • Responsible for taking the source code and compiling using maven and packaging it in its distributable format such as a WAR file
  • Provided AWS operations and deployment guidance and best practices throughout the lifecycle of a project using VPC, Elastic Compute Cloud, EBS, Autoscaling, ELB, etc.
  • Contributed in the DevOps team to maintain and build out our infrastructure and servers currently operating on AWS platforms.
  • Utilized Git, a version control system, to effectively manage code repositories and facilitate seamless collaboration among team members

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Mathematics/Statistics

University of Connecticut
Hartford, CT

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering

Presbyterian University of Cameroon
Bamenda, Camerron
05.2015

Skills

  • Projects: Cloud Migration, Serverless architecture set-up, CI/CD pipeline configuration, Cost-Optimization in AWS
  • AWS Services: Ec2, Elastic Beanstalk, EFS, VPC, ASG, S3, IAM, CloudFront, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, CloudFormation, Lambda, AWS Backup, Route53, SNS, SQS, API Gateway, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, ALB, ECS, EKS, EBS volumes, Code Pipeline, AWS CLI, Kinesis, Certificate Manager, Code Build, Elastic cache, Code Deploy etc
  • Programming Languages & Platforms: Python, Linux, JSON, YAML, Powershell3, Windows, Unix, Ubuntu, Shell Scripting
  • DevOps Tools & CI/CD pipeline: Github actions, Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CodePipeline, Git, GitLab, Docker Products, Sonarqube, Maven, GitHub packages, ECR, EKS, Kubernetes, Jenkins
  • Databases: AWS RDS, DynamoDB, MySQL, AWS Aurora, Redshift, DocumentsDB, Postgres, AWS Transfer Family,
  • Account Governance: AWS managed Active Directory, AWS SSO, Control tower, AWS Organizations, STS, IAM roles, Secrets Manager, Cognito
  • Migration Tools: DataSync, DMS, SMS, Migration Hub, AWS Discovery Service
  • Security Tools: AWS Security Hub, Guard Duty, AWS Macie, AWS Inspector, AWS WAF, Datadog
  • Version Ticketing tools: Jira (Agile/Scrum Methodology)
  • Configuration and Source Code Management: Ansible, Code Commit, Github

Certification

AWS Solutions Architect Associate

Timeline

Senior Cloud Engineer

Infosys Ltd
01.2019 - Current

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Ambry Genetics
08.2016 - 12.2018

DevOps Automation 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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