Ignatius Ngwaabanjong

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EDUCATION

University of Buea, bachelor’s in computer science, 2007- 2010, SW - Cameroon BOOTCAMPS

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Results-driven and highly skilled AWS Platform Engineer with over 8 years of experience in designing, implementing, and managing complex AWS environments. Adept at translating intricate technical requirements into practical architecture solutions and DevOps designs.

Proven expertise in AWS, IAC, Migration, Containerization, Automation, Monitoring, and DevOps services.

Operating: Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL, Docker, Kubernetes, Windows. Language: YAML, JSON, Bash, HCL, Python, Javascript, HTML, SQL. Storage: S3, EBS, EFS, FXs, NAS, RAID.

Networking: VPC, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, SSH, HTTP, FTP, LAN/WAN. Security: IAM, KMS, SSL/TLS, VPN, Firewall, NACL, WAF. Databases: RDS, DynamoDB, SlashDB, ElastiCache, MongoDB. Monitoring: CloudWatch, Dynatrace, AWS Config, Security Hub. Virtualization: AWS EC2, VMware EXSi, VMware Workstation pro, Fusion. Web Application: Nginx, Node.js, Apache Tomcat.

DevOps: GitHub, CodeCommit, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, Service Catalog. Service Delivery: Cloud Migration planning, CICD configurations, Analytics, and reporting. Cloud provider: AWS and Azure.

PerScholas: - AWS/reInvent - 192 hours

Edureka: - DevOps Master Program - 160 hours

DVA-C02 – AWS Certified Developer - Associate

SAA-C03 – AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate. CLF-C01 – AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.

Azure – Fundamentals AZ-900

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EXPERIENCE

AWS CLOUD ENGINEER

FULL STACK CODER: end Client at BOYDGAMING. July 2022 – Present Las Vegas, NV

Technology: AWS, AWS Control Tower, VPC, EC2, Lambda, CodeCommit, API, Cognito, SNS, SQS, ELB, RDS, S3, ECS, EKS, Fargate, Route 53, CloudWatch, EventBridge, GitHub, Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Jenkins, Service Catalog, Cloud Watch, Dynatrace. AWS Platform: Cloud Automation and Orchestration, AWS Auto scaling, S3, AWS System Manager, CloudWatch, AWS Trusted Advisor, VPC, SNS, ELB, EC2, ECS, EKS, ECR, RDS, Route53, SES, SQS, Secret Manager, AWS Lambda, CloudFront, API, Cognito, AWS Shield, WAF, CloudFormation, Service Catalog, AWS Development Tools, AWS Control Tower, etc. Identity and Access Management: AWS IAM, AWS Control Tower, AWS Active Directory, and AWS Secret Manager etc.

Application Delivery: AWS Code Deploy, AWS Code Pipeline, AWS Code build, AWS Code Commit, SharePoint, ServiceNow, AWS Code Deploy, Jenkins, Confluence: Jira. Data Migration & Data platform integration: Using DMS to migrate databases from on-prem to cloud. Configure S3 data lake for Snowflake integration and more. AWS Data Protection: AWS CloudHSM, S3 Life cycle Manager, EBS snapshot life cycle rule and KMS.

Use AWS well Architected Framework Tool to implement Best Practices to improve and save on cost.

DNS & CDN: Experience with Route 53, API, Cognito, CloudFront configuration, SSL and WAF.

(IAC) Infrastructure Provisioning and Configuration Management: AWS CLI, Ansible, System Manager, CloudFormation, and Terraform.

Network: VPC, Security Groups, Internet Gateway, Route Table, NAT Gateway, Nat Instance, Transit Gateway, Bastion host, VPC flow logs, NACL and VPC Peering. Automation: Developed Python script to automate error monitoring and send alerts, and also shutdown servers during non operational hours which helps lower cost by 60%. Monitoring with CloudWatch, creating Dashboards on Dynatrace and API keys to integrate with Splunk.

DevOps and Infrastructure as Code: AWS environment and application automation utilizing CloudFormation and third-party tools (Chef, Puppet, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, etc.), CI/CD pipeline setup utilizing AWS services such as CodeCommit/Build/Deploy. Manage Infrastructure with Terraform template through GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline. Participated in design and implementation of 16 account AWS landing zones using automated infrastructure deployment tools. Implement transit gateway and Cloud Security tools. Manage end-to-end complex data migration, conversion and data modeling. Spearheaded the implementation of ECS, EKS, developed and executed manifest files for 12+ projects, and ensured 99.9% uptime; reduced deployment time by 50% and increased availability by 45%.

Work with Front-end developers and vendors. Giving them IAM user access to limited resources. AWS API Gateway and Cognito authorizer integration and using Postman for queries and troubleshooting.

Developed a Lambda function using Python to monitor error logs and send SNS notifications for critical system errors; reduced downtime by 25% and saved 20+ hours per week on manual CLOUD Support Engineer

Mega International Feb 2022 – Jul 2022

Boston, MA

Technology: Azure - VM, Vnet, NSG, Load Balancer, Storage, HOPEX, MSSQL, etc. AWS CLOUD Engineer

M&N BANK Oct 2019 – Feb 2022

Newark, NJ

Technology: AWS, EC2, VPC, Auto Scaling, ELB, Security, RDS, EBS, S3, Route 53, ECS, EKS, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, Terraform, SNS, CloudTrail, AWS Config, IAM, AWS Control Tower, etc.

AWS Cloud ENGINEER

Preston IT Consultant: end Client at Affinity Plus Credit Union June 2015 – May 2019 checks.

Optimized the Kubernetes infrastructure on AWS by implementing EKS, optimized resource allocation, and developed CI/CD pipelines; reduced infrastructure costs by 25% and improved deployment speed by 30%.

Configure Prometheus, Grafana and Dynatrace in Prod and UAT environments and create monitoring Dashboards for every Application deployed in Production and UAT. Configure CloudWatch alarms with SNS topics.

Writing Ansible playbooks to automate workloads on Linux instances in our environment. Resolve client incidents and requests in a timely and professional manner via effective investigation, triage, and resolution of support requests. Strong security assessment, configurations, and monitoring with Security Hub. In charge of Post deployment of Hopex Application on Azure and setting up Web Application Firewalls and connecting to MSSQL Database.

Post Migration and Upgrades of customers Hopex Application Create MSSQL Cleanup jobs and Backups using SSIS Studios In charge of customer tickets to the cloud support team. Implemented AWS core services like VPC, Landing zone using automation with infrastructure as code (IAC), using deployment tools; CloudFormation and Terraform. Responsible for managing infrastructure provisioning (S3, ELB, EC2, RDS, Route 53, IAM, security groups - CIDR's, VCP, NAT) and EC2 Installs with CentOS, Ubuntu, RHEL 6, and Scientific Linux.

Created a script to automate the extraction of SQS data and store it in a database using Python's Boto3 library; reduced data processing time by 50% and saved 10+ hours per week. Configure IAM policies, SQS queue, Snowpipe for S3 data integration with Snowflake. Applying core AWS services in compute, storage, networking, Serverless, DNS, CDN, and WAF. Configure, monitor, and support the suite of core AWS services with CloudWatch and Dynatrace. Deploy and operate a highly available, scalable, fault-tolerant system using Amazon web services.

Deployed application which is containerized using Docker onto a Kubernetes Cluster which is managed by Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS). Evaluate and build different compute frameworks for all tiers. Saint Paul, MN

Responsibilities:

Managing, securing, and scaling compute instances, and database configurations on AWS. Monitored Production Server Health of different parameters (System Load, Physical Memory, Swap Memory, Hard disk, and Apache requests).

Champion database migration from 10g to 11g and database upgrade from 11g to 12c,19c. Create Read Replicas and perform major updates.

Capacity planning to meet the demands of the dynamic aspects of database storage and memory.

Strong knowledge of data transformations and data migration design and implementation principles.

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