Supply Chain Cloud Security

ROLAND K NDAH

Harrisburg NC 910-***-**** ad1y3t@r.postjobfree.com

CORE COMPETENCIES

AWS Services Expertise Architecture Design

Solution Architecture Cloud Security

Cloud Security Automation and Infrastructure

Automation and Scripting Troubleshooting

Scalability and Performance Optimization Communication and Collaboration WORK EXPERIENCE

AWS Solutions Architect 12/2019 to Current

Partnership for Supply Chain Management (PFSCM) Arlington, VA Design and implement scalable AWS architectures leading to increase in system performance and availability by 50% after architecture implementation.

Analyze the scalability of the infrastructure by examining its capacity to handle increased workloads, aiming for a minimum of 30% scalability enhancement.

Identify existing processes to determine areas that can be mechanized effectively, aiming to achieve at least a 30% improvement in efficiency.

Collaborating with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and define cloud solutions with the average time taken to gather requirements reduced by 45% through streamlined communication and collaboration processes. Configure backups at regular intervals to capture critical data and application configurations, with a frequency of at least once every 24 hours.

AWS Cloud Engineer 12/2018 to 11/2019

Optimo Information Technology Manassas, VA

Deployed over 50 highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant AWS infrastructures using CloudFormation and Terraform.

Offered over 3 years of extensive, superior AWS solutions delivery experience, including creating EC2 instances and configuring all web services (e.g., EC2, S3 buckets, RDS, EBS, ELB, Auto-Scaling, AMI, and IAM) through the AWS Console, AWS Command Line Interface, and through Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.

Modified over 100 Linux/Unix systems routine tasks using Bash, Python, and Perl. Monitored and troubleshooted various AWS services, overseeing the availability and performance of over 50 instances.

Developed disaster recovery plans and performed regular backups to ensure data protection for 50 systems and databases.

AWS Engineer 02/2017 to 12/2018

Apple Sunnyvale California, United States

Handled the company's AWS cloud infrastructure by creating, deploying, and maintaining over 50 cloud-based applications, servers, and databases.

Designed AWS networking solutions, including security groups, VPCs, VPNs, and Direct Connect for over 20 projects.

Integrated infrastructure deployments using CloudFormation and Terraform. Containerized applications using Docker and managed Kubernetes clusters in AWS for 20 projects. Optimized and supervised monitoring and logging tools such as CloudWatch and ELK stack for monitoring and logging of over 50 systems.

Implemented and operated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and CodePipeline for over 20 projects. AWS Engineer 03/2014 to 01/2017

Bank of America Charlotte, NC

Prepared and preserved AWS resources such as 100 EC2 instances, 50 S3 buckets, and 20 RDS instances. Implemented security groups, VPCs, VPNs, and Direct Connect for AWS infrastructure across 30 projects. Containerized applications using Docker and regulated Kubernetes clusters in AWS for more than 50 projects. Installed, organized, and conserved Linux servers for over 50 clients. Executed and protected over 100 web servers, databases, DNS, and email servers. Linux System Administrator 05/2010 to 07/2012

Orange Bamenda, Cameroon

Provided technical support to clients for computer glitches, assisting with over 500 cases. Performed routine server upkeep tasks such as backups, updates, and security patches for over 100 servers. Assisted in performing system maintenance routine tasks such as backups, updates, and security patches for 50 servers.

Worked closely with developers to optimize server performance for web applications, collaborating on more than 50 projects.

Delivered technical support to clients with system malfunctions, helping with 100 cases. EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science: Computer Information Technology. Columbia Southern University Orange Beach, AL

Associate degree: Computer Information Technology. Fayetteville Technical Community College Fayetteville, NC CERTIFICATIONS

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

AWS Certified Security Specialty

AWS Certified Advance Network specialty.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

Microsoft Technology Associate. (MTA)

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional

TOOLS

AWS Security: AWS Security Hub, AWS Guard Duty, AWS Shield, WAF, AWS Inspector, AWS Macie, Security Groups, NACLs, SCP and AWS Config

Monitoring & Event Management: AWS CloudWatch (Events & Logs) and AWS SNS Identity & Access Management: AWS Organization, AWS IAM, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS AD Connector, Azure Entra ID, Active Directory, CyberArk, AWS Workspaces, SSO, Certificate Manager Governance & Compliance: AWS Config Rules, AWS Organization, AWS Control Tower, AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Well Architected Tool, AWS Budgets, etc.

Application Delivery: Jenkins, Maven, Nexus, Junit AWS Code Pipeline, AWS Code Commit and code deploy. Data Protection: AWS KMS, Snapshot Lifecyle Manager, AWS Cloud HSM, Self Service: Service Catalog

Network: VPC, VGW, TGW, CGW, IGW, NGW VPN and Direct connect Image & Patch: AWS SSM Patch Manager, AWS Golden AMI Pipeline AWS Platform: AWS CloudFormation, AWS Lambda, AWS Systems Manager, S3, VPC, EC2, ELB, RDS, SNS, SQS, SES, Route53, CloudFront, Service Catalog, AWS Auto Scaling, Trusted Advisor, CloudWatch etc. Cloud Orchestration/Automation: AWS CloudFormation, AWS Lambda, AWS Systems Manager, AWS SSM Parameter Store, Ansible, Docker, EKS and Kubernetes. Programming Languages: Bash, JSON, YML and Python, Java

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