Devops Engineer Systems Manager

Nfogah Threphina

Cloud DevOps Engineer

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CAREER OBJECTIVE

Proactive and innovative Cloud Engineer/DevOps professional with over 8 years of extensive experience in automating, securing, configuring, performance efficiency, and optimizing complex cloud Infrastructures and Pipelines. Proficient in leveraging modern tools for CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and version control. Comprehensive understanding of cloud platforms like AWS combined with extensive experience in DevOps technologies like containerization has led to successful project deliveries across various teams and functions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

●Cloud Services: Ec2, Bastion Host, Load Balancing, EFS, VPC, RDS, S3, Glacier, IAM, Kinesis, CloudFront, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation, DynamoDB, Aurora, Memcached, Lambda, Route53, SNS, SQS, API Gateway, Elastic cache, ASG, WAF, AWS Shield, AWS Config, systems manager.

●Monitoring Tools: Datadog, CloudWatch, Cloudtrail.

●DevOps/CICD Tools: GitHub, Code Commit, Code Pipeline, Code Build, Code Deploy, ECR, EKS, ECS, SSM (systems manager), Terraform, GitHub Actions, Git, SonarQube, Maven, Ansible Docker, Jenkins and Kubernetes.

●Migration Tools: Data sync, Application migration service, DMS, SMS, AWS Discovery services, DR strategies, Migration Hub

●Networking Tools: CIDR Block range, VPC Subnets, switches, Routers, transit gateway, VPC endpoint, VPC peering, Site to Site VPN, direct connect, VPG, NACLS, Bastion Host, Subnetting

●Databases: MYSQL, DynamoDB, Amazon Aurora.

●Scripting Languages: Python, YAML, JSON, BASH Scripting

●AWS Organization user management: AWS SSO with Microsoft active directory, Cognito, AWS Organizations, Control Tower, AWS manage AD, STS.

●Ticketing tools: Jira (agile/scrum methodology)

●Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Ubuntu, Red hat, Centos

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS

Presbyterian University of Cameroon

●Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering (2011 - 2014)

●AWS Solutions Architect Associate

EXPERIENCE

Cloud DevOps Engineer

Company: TextNow

San Diego Carliofonia

06/2018 – Present

●Developed Cloud Infrastructure Architectures through the use of Lucid chart and have been able to backup these designs in architecture review board and security review board meetings.

●Demonstrated proficiency in designing, implementing, and managing CI/CD pipelines to streamline and automate workflows through the use of GitHub actions, reduced errors, and increased deployment speed.

●Deployed landing zones with the use of control tower for cloud governance with the use of preventive and detective guardrails through service control policies and AWS config. Ensured proper account authentication and authorization through the use of AWS SSO.

●Expertise in using Terraform as an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool for building, changing, and managing infrastructure in a safe, efficient manner. Excellent understanding of Terraform syntax, modules, and state management.

●Created an automated pipeline on GitHub actions to manage to build terraform code for creating cloud infrastructures.

●Created elastic beanstalk applications and hosted different environments for hosting our internal applications.

●Performed cloud operations work by automating cloud backups through the use of AWS backups, setup monitoring dashboards for servers and other cloud resources. Performed error troubleshooting that occurred when pipelines run etc.

●Developed custom terraform modules for cloud services and stored them on code repository. Used this as a standard around infrastructure management. Managed statefiles with the use of dynamo db. and s3 for storing and securing statefiles.

●Managed SonarQube servers which are used for code scanning, code coverage etc. Worked with the application security team for creating quality profiles and Quality gates for code security best practices.

●Setup CloudWatch alarms with the use of CloudWatch metric, alarms and SNS for email notifications.

●Installed CloudWatch agents on servers for proper monitoring of memory and all. Enabled the use of cloud trail logs for logging API calls into s3 buckets and ensured the use AWS config for logging all configuration changes and inventory of AWS resources.

●Partook in agile team engagements and was part of sprint planning, retrospectives, reviews and grooming sessions

●Ensured security in our cloud environments is being managed by the use of combined security tools like for AWS config for monitoring configuration changes, setting up guardrails with the use of SCP, using AWS inspector for vulnerability identification and GuardDuty for thread anomaly detection.

●Build Cloud Kubernetes Clusters on EKS using terraform. Setup monitoring with enhanced CloudWatch monitoring and deployed datadog for monitoring the cluster. Used Managed node groups on EKS clusters and also set up secret management through the use of secrets manager.

●Ensured high availability for EKS clusters by ensuring they are created across different availability zones and enabled cluster autoscaling through the use of AWS autoscaling groups.

●Performed Cost optimization in the cloud environments for compute and database resources by utilizing the findings on AWS trusted advisor. Helped the company achieve over 30% on cost reduction around EC2 and RDS.

●Used systems manager run command to run ansible playbooks for configuring our cloud servers. Used systems manager automation for remediating config rules.

●Performed cloud automation task around the use of lambda boto3 with python. Used it for cost optimizations, cloud maintenance tasks and for hosting backend applications.

●Configured, deployed, and maintained highly scalable, available, reliable, resilient, secure, and cost-effective solutions in AWS Cloud.

●Continuously identified areas of improvement within existing solutions for better cloud performance, security, reliability and operational excellence.

●Led the implementation of new projects, provided technical guidance and followed AWS best practices and well-Architected framework when building and scaling cloud native and customer facing applications.

●Partook in the migration of on prem servers from on prem into AWS cloud through the use application migration service.

●Ensured maximum security by using least privileges, provisioned for backup systems, encrypted data both in transit at and rest, and ensured continuous monitoring with CloudWatch and CloudTrail.

●Developed proof of concepts and high-level documentation for cloud infrastructure. Created SOP documents used by team members for documenting solution errors and implementing changes.

Cloud Engineer

Company: Delta Air Lines

Texas

Sep 2016 – May 2018

●Build and configure 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 with the use of terraform.

●Build and deploy cloud infrastructure for hosting one of the company’s infrastructures with the use of terraform. Created ECS clusters, setup services for managing tasks. Developed load balancers for distributing traffic to these service tasks.

●Created and configured autoscaling groups for providing performance efficiency for frontend and backend workloads.

●Setup SQS queue for queuing data that has to be consumed by our application hosted on lambda

●Developed image builder pipelines used to automate AMI builds and updates.

●Automated Instance and Database backups using AWS Backups.

●Advised and implemented the hosting of company applications within the Private Subnet and access to those applications were done with the help of bastion host.

●Partook in disaster recovery scenarios for backing up data and utilizing AWS backup and restore tools like AWS storage gateway and developed solutions around pilot light and warm standby.

●Build servers using AWS, importing volumes, launching EC2, RDS, creating SG, auto-scaling, ELBs in the defined VPC.

●Established VPC connectivity by making use of Transit Gateway for connecting VPCs and VPN connection to a datacenter.

●Using CloudWatch, and VPC Flow Logs to monitor and retain account activity related to actions across AWS infrastructure.

●Secured subnets with the use of NACL and EC2 instances with the use of security groups.

●Partook in scrum ceremonies and worked hand in hand with the scrum team to drive success to the cloud team.

●Managed an entire application on elastic beanstalk for hosting our application. This helped with scalability of the instances.

●Created CloudFront distributions using different origins, load balancers and s3 etc. Ensured distributions are fully secured with the use of WAF and certificates from certificate managers.

System Administrator

Company: Apex Systems

Columbia, Maryland

04/2015 – 12/2017

●Pulled from deep IT knowledge to coordinate physical and software process improvement, pilots, and proofs-of-concept.

●Created user accounts and roles on active directory.

●Performed user management on Linux servers, file permissions and system maintenance.

●Configured and maintained Linux instances with the use of ansible

●Prioritized and fielded IT ticket requests, providing technical support, troubleshooting and issue resolution to maintain system performance levels.

●Communicated with desktop support regarding IT strategy, support, and execution to establish continuous operations blueprint.

●Furnished troubleshooting guidance for remote Desktop support, researching unrecognized faults for possible solutions or root causes.

●Oversaw and support DMAC environments for on-site and virtual locations.

●Supported customers having data connectivity issues, assisting with troubleshooting steps and rebooting of hardware.

●Performed daily maintenance of computer systems to keep network processes fluid.

●Installed and configured printers and scanners, resetting default device passwords to prevent cyber-attacks.

●Consulted via telephone to understand user problems, run through testing scripts, and ask probing questions to locate root causes

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