Devops Engineer Aws Cloud

HANSEN NKEFOR, MSC.

CLOUD/DEVOPS ENGINEER

Greater Atlanta Area, GA 30044 Mobile Phone: +1-404-***-**** E-mail: ******.******@*****.*** PROFFESIONAL SUMMARY

Highly skilled and certified AWS Cloud/DevOps Engineer with over 7+ years of experience and expertise in designing and optimizing CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure. Proficient in AWS services, Kubernetes, Terraform, and automation tools, with a track record of achieving cost savings and enhancing system reliability. Skilled in collaboration and driving continuous improvement. As a DevOps engineer, I engineered cost- optimized CI/CD pipelines on AWS, achieving a 30% cost reduction. Utilizing Jenkins distributed architecture, I reduced the test and build times by 35%. Designed and automated application and infrastructure monitoring/logging using Prometheus to facilitate dynamic service discovery. Developed reusable infrastructure components using Terraform and Cloud formation. Experience specializing in cloud administration, user management, and open-source software installation. Looking to leverage my knowledge and experience to take on new challenges and contribute to cloud solutions in a dynamic team environment. I have In-debt knowledge in planning, building, implementing, and maintaining systems applications on AWS Cloud platforms, incorporating a Well Architected Framework such as Security, Cost Optimization, Reliability, Performance Efficiency and Operational Excellence.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

AceDataOps Inc. Greater Atlanta, GA, USA

Cloud/DevOps Engineer Oct 2020 – Present

Build and configure a virtual data center in the Amazon Web Services cloud to support enterprise Data Warehouse hosting including Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Public and Private Subnets, Security Groups, Route Tables, Elastic Load Balancer.

Created Terraform scripts to totally automate AWS services which includes web servers, ELB, CloudFront distribution, database, EC2 and database security groups, S3 bucket and application configuration, this script creates stacks, single servers, joins web servers to stacks.

Design AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates.

Use many services of AWS for this infrastructure, used EC2 as virtual servers to host Git, Jenkins, and configuration management tool like Ansible. Converted slow and manual procedures to dynamic API generated procedures.

Implement rapid-provisioning and life-cycle management for Ubuntu Linux using Amazon EC2, Route53, Load balancers, Kinesis streams, Target groups, DynamoDB, REDIS.

Use Amazon IAM to administer roles and permissions of users to AWS account through IAM, Configured Amazon CloudWatch logs with Amazon EC2 instances for monitoring the log files, store them and track metrics.

Deploy and manage many servers using both traditional and cloud-oriented providers (for example, Amazon EC2) with the Run deck.

Deploy RabbitMQ message-oriented middleware software to route messages to consumers with guaranteed message delivery and provide high availability at the cluster-node level.

Aided with monitoring AWS services and resources using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS and AWS SNS.

Implemented automation of infrastructure on the AWS Cloud using CloudFormation templates, Config plates, deployed LAMP web apps on Amazon Linux instances, provisioned EC2 instance, created S3 buckets with bucket policy, build RDS database, DynamoDB tables, and assess applications for exposure and vulnerabilities with Amazon Inspector.

Supported developers in breaking up massive applications into micro services, enhancing developer workflow, expanding scalability, and improving speed to meet business requirements.

Dynamic Health Care Service Inc, Atlanta, Georgia, USA AWS Cloud Engineer Nov 2018-Aug 2020

Designed and implemented highly available and scalable applications in the cloud using Terraform, CloudFormation.

Create technical documentation for cloud services as needed.

Planned and executed strategies to deploy applications in the cloud.

Worked with development teams to help engineer scalable, reliable, and resilient application running in the cloud.

Perform full AMI backups for all provisioned instances for critical workloads.

Assisted with monitoring AWS services and resources using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config, and AWS SNS.

Implemented automation of infrastructure on the AWS Cloud using CloudFormation templates, deployed LAMP web apps on Amazon Linux instances, provisioned EC2 instance, created S3 buckets with bucket policy, build RDS database, DynamoDB tables, and assess applications for exposure and vulnerabilities with Amazon Inspector.

IAM administration (created users, groups, roles, policies), build VPC with custom Network Access Control List and Security Groups, site deployment on Elastic Beanstalk, S3 static site hosting, launched EC2 instances using Bootstrap. Deployed scalable and highly available sites using Autoscaling group and Application Load Balancer.

Engineered Continuous Integration (CI), and Continuous Delivery (CD) using CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline.

Developed Infrastructure as code using Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible.

Managed and configure AWS services as per the business needs (AWS Lambda, SQS, Cloud Front, EC2, ELB, RDS, IAM)

Implemented security best practices in AWS including multi factor authentication, access key rotation, encryption using KMS, firewall- security groups and NACLs, S3 bucket policies and ACLs.

Created VPCs and attached all applicable components needed to build a fault tolerance and universally available environment.

I managed and configured LAMP application on EC2 instances and performed various software installations.

I Designed and Apply Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing to create a high availability and fault tolerance application.

Install and configure Apache, Nginx, and WordPress on Ubuntu and Amazon Linux instances.

Launch and configure local and external database servers on EC2 and RDS instances.

Worked with various scripting languages like Python and Bash.

Perform full AMI backups for all provisioned instances for critical workloads.

Used AWS KMS to manage cryptographic keys to control user access in a wide range of AWS services.

Deploy code via GIT and worked with the development team to help push codes to GitHub.

Participate in change management on JIRA to help track daily work activities.

Efficient at using Microsoft Teams or Slack for team communication and collaboration.

• Leverage FISMA, NIST, FedRAMP, and other cybersecurity-related frameworks to develop security guidelines. HealthPlan Services Inc, (Contract) Tampa, Florida, USA AWS Cloud Engineer (Contractor) June 2015 – Sept 2018

Assisted in the development and deployment of AWS cloud solutions under the guidance of senior developers.

Wrote and maintained Python scripts for simple automation and data processing tasks.

Created and managed Docker containers for development and testing environments.

Supported the deployment and maintenance of applications on Kubernetes clusters.

Developed basic serverless applications using AWS Lambda functions.

Assisted in the setup and configuration of NoSQL databases using Amazon DynamoDB.

Created and managed S3 buckets for data storage and retrieval.

Supported the development of workflows using AWS Step Functions.

Integrated XML and XSD schemas for data exchange and validation.

Participated in Agile/Scrum ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.

Assisted in the implementation of security best practices for AWS cloud environments.

Monitored cloud resources and applications for basic performance metrics and issues.

Troubleshot and resolved simple issues related to AWS services and containerized applications.

Contributed to the development and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment.

Followed best practices and guidelines for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using AWS CloudFormation or Terraform.

Maintained technical documentation for cloud architectures, processes, and procedures.

Participated in code reviews and provided feedback to peers.

Conducted basic performance tuning and optimization of cloud-based applications and services.

Stayed updated with the latest AWS services and features to improve knowledge and skills.

Received mentorship and guidance from senior developers on AWS cloud technologies and development practices. EDUCATION

MSc. Health Sciences & Information Technology. Central Michigan University. Atlanta Campus Bachelor’s degree in computer science-System Administration St Leo University Tampa, Florida. Associate Bachelor of Computer Sciences. Georgia Military College, Milledgeville Georgia CERTIFICATION

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

CompTIA Security +

Cyber Security Cert

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY

AWS WEB SERVICES: EC2 LINUX • RDS • S3 • CLOUDFRONT • VPC • SNS • ELASTIC LOAD BALANCER • AWS AUTO SCALING • CLOUDWATCH • CLOUDTRAIL • EBS • LAMBDA • DYNAMODB • ELASTIC FILE SYSTEM (EFS) • SECURITY GROUPS • IAM • ROUTE 53 • CERTIFICATE MANAGER • NAT GATEWAY • SYSTEMS MANAGER • AWS CONFIG. DEVOPS: TERRAFORM • CLOUDFORMATION • DOCKER • GIT • GITHUB • CI/CD PIPELINE • ANSIBLE • AWS CLI • AMAZON ECR • AMAZON ECS • CODEBUILD • CODECOMMIT • CODEDEPLOY • BASH/SHELL SCRIPTING • CODEPIPELINE • PYTHON • VSCODE • SUBLIME TEXT • VISUAL STUDIO • JIRA • CONFLUENCE • SLACK • MICROSOFT TEAMS LANGUAGES

French (Written/Conversational)

U.S. CITIZEN

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