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BORIS NANA FINJAP

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SUMMARY

Driven Systems Engineer with over 10 years’ experience in Information Technology, poised to offer design, development and system fulfillment services. Expert in cloud systems with extensive background in Linux systems administration. Strong analytical skills in assessing business requirements at the enterprise level and designing efficient and effective technology solutions for clients.

SKILLS

·AWS: VPC Designing including VPN, EC2/Auto Scaling,S3 Life Cycle, RDS with Multi AZ, DynamoDB, Aurora, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, Elastic Cache, (Redis & Memcached) Route 53 DNS Designing, IAM policies, JSON, AWS

Migration, SNS with CloudWatch alarms, Kinesis, Direct Connect, AWS Code Commit, AWS Systems Manager, EC2 Lifecycle Manager, Python, AWS Organization, AWS Config, Service, CloudFormation and Terraform

Cloud/Virtualization Technologies:Amazon Web Services

(AWS), Nutanix, VMWare, vSphere, ESX/ESXi,

Version Control Tools:GIT

Build Tools:ANT, MAVEN

Databases:MySQL, MongoDB, Postgres SQL, SQL Server. CI Tools:Jenkins

Config Management Tools:Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Docker, Terraform

Bug/Issue Tracking:JIRA, Remedy, ServiceNow

Web/ Application Servers:Apache Tomcat, Web logic

Operating Systems:Windows Family, RHEL, Ubuntu,

CentOS

Scripting/Programing Languages:Perl, shell, Ruby,

Python, C, SQL, Java Script, PHP, HTML, Spring, .Net, Web Services:SOAP, REST

Other Tools:Putty, Nagios, Splunk

EXPERIENCE

AWS Dev Operations Engineer/ DV Consult, Bowie, MD 02/2020 - Current Perform the technical research necessary to acquire skills needed to implement solutions that help maintain system availability and readiness while significantly reducing the labor needed to accomplish these tasks.

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● Designed secured, cost optimized, highly available and fault tolerant architecture designs and infrastructure in AWS.

● Involved in source control management with GitHub and GitLab Enterprise level repositories. Regular activities include configure user's access levels, monitor logs, identifying merge conflicts and managing master repository.

● Deploy and monitor scalable infrastructure on Amazon web services (AWS) & configuration management.

● Developed build & deployment scripts. Automated the process using plugins available Jenkins and moved from one environment to another throughout the build pipeline.

● Deploy and monitor scalable infrastructure on Amazon web services (AWS) & configuration management.

● Providing continuous integration and continuous delivery using Jenkins and Ansible for docker image building and deployment.

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● Implemented a Continuous Delivery pipeline with Docker, Jenkins and GitHub and AWS AMI's

● Deploy and monitor scalable infrastructure on Amazon web services (AWS) & configuration management.

● Configured & deployed Java applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for a multitude of applications utilizing the AWS stack, cloud formation.

● Built & Deployed to web application server in agile continuous integration environment and automated Labelling activities in TFS once deployment is done.

● Performed and helped document a very vigorous testing regime tied to more complex Ansible YAML based playbooks but also developed customized Ansible modules using the Python development language. Several playbook modules significantly enhanced the ability to manage security and cybersecurity related issues in a rapid and highly repeatable manner

● Configure and maintain Jenkins to implement the CI process and integrate the tool with Ant and Maven to schedule the builds.

● Designing & deploying data center architecture on Linux Platform. Building, patching and managing existing data center rack servers on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

● Create, manage, and delete users and groups as per the request using Amazon Identity and Access Management.

● Developing scripts for build, deployment, maintenance and related tasks using Jenkins, Docker, Maven, Python and Bash

● Build and manage a large deployment of Linux instances with Chef Automation. Writing recipes, tools, shell scripts and monitoring checks.

● Create Docker containers and Docker consoles for managing the application life cycle. AWS Solutions Architect/ Giga Cloud Solutions - Columbia,MD 01/2014 - 02/2020

● Provisioning of AWS resources likeEC2, VPC, EBS,AMI, S3 buckets,Elastic Load balancer (ELB), autoscaling groupservices. Creation of subnets and all otheroperational tasks using ansible and terraform.

● Designed, deployed, managed and operating scalable, highly available, and fault tolerance system onAWS.

● Responsible for CreatingAWS IAM Users, Policies,Groups.Creating and managing roles

● Leveraged on demand, spot, reserved instances based on scenarios and tasks.

● Designed, deployed, managed and operating scalable, highly available, and fault tolerance system onAWS.

● Responsible for configuring and securing the infrastructure onAWS Cloud

● Selecting the appropriate AWS service based ondata,compute, database, or security requirements.

● Implemented security best practices in AWS including multi factor authentication, access key rotation, role-based permissions, enforced strong password policy, configured security groups and NACLs, S3 bucket policies and ACLs.

● Optimized cost through reserved instances, selection and changing of EC2 instance types based on resource need, S3 storage classes and S3 lifecycle policies, leveraging Autoscaling.

● Managed tools like Git, Jenkins and their usage / process ensuring traceability, repeatability, and quality for Pipeline build.

● Understand security best practices, policies, and standards to design highly secure cloud architectures for internal and external cloud solutions.

● Architect a secure infrastructure with a NAT Gateway to allow instances in a private subnet to access the internet for updates.

● Leveraged data migration services (Snowball, Direct Connect etc.) for data migration

● Implemented a'serverless'architecture usingAPI Gateway, Lambda, and DynamoDBand deployedAWS Lambda and Kinesiscode from Amazon S3 buckets. Created aLambda Deployment function and configured it to receive events from S3 bucket.

● Designed templates for AWSInfrastructure as a Codeusing Cloud Formation to build staging and production environments.

● Setup and configured logs files for detail monitoring and alerts notification.

● Configured S3 events to set up automated communication between S3 and other AWS services. AWS/Linux System Administrator/ Lolubyte IT Consultants- Hyattsville, MD 09/2009 - 01/2014

● Maintained minimum organizational performance threshold for Linux server-based operations.

● Generated OS-specific custom coding to automate deployment processes.

● Configured and updated Linux servers with latest releases and patches.

● Oversaw Linux system administration and configuration maintenance governing user access, privacy and data integrity.

● Performed patch, update, security scanning and configuration to meet OS performance mandates.

● Configured, and administered multiple production Red hat 5,6,7 servers across multiple platforms.

● Responsible for Installation, maintenance and regular upgrades of Red hat Linux Servers using kickstart based network installation.

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● Architect a secure infrastructure with a NAT Gateway to allow instances in a private subnet to access the internet for updates.

● Used AWS Code Deploy for migrating and automating application deployments to Amazon EC2 instances, on-premises instances, serverless Lambda functions, or Amazon ECS services.

● Managed Disk using LVM, resized disk space when required.

● Setup NTP server and synchronized clients with NTP server. EDUCATION AND TRAINING

University of Buae 12/2007

Bachelor of Science: Computer and Information Sciences CERTIFICATIONS

● Certified AWS Solutions Architect - Associate

● Certified AWS DevOps professional

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