HARDICSON AJONE

Minneapolis • Minnessota • United States • 346-***-**** • adrq13@r.postjobfree.com • https://www.linkedin.com/in/hardicson-ajone-b20844150

SUMMARY

Experienced and driven Certified Solutions Architect, with 8 years in IT, designing and building secured and well architected AWS Cloud infrastructures for about 6 of those years. I have the skills to design and build Fault Tolerant, Cost Effective and Highly Available Infrastructures from scratch, thanks to my broad knowledge of AWS services, including VPC, IAM, EC2, Lambda, CloudFront, Elastic Beanstalk, Docker, CloudFormation, s3, R53, ASG, ELB, Databases, Redshift, CI/CD, ETL, CloudWatch etc. I also have a great ability to lead projects, produce statements and plans of work, inspire and drive innovations, motivate teams, design for failure, and optimize cost. I am a very fast learner, great collaborator, hard working, reliable, enthusiastic and trustworthy. You can always count on me.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VPC

s3

SQS

CloudWatch

CloudTrail

ELB

Migration

ASG

Docker

CI/CD

RedShift

Glue

Athena,

SNS

RDS MSQL

DynamoDB

Aurora

Terraform

CloudFormationn

Elastic Beanstalk

Data Lake

EBS

EFS

Tableau

Quick Sight

Organisation

Inspector

Trusted Advisor

ElastiCache

VPN

Direct Connect

STS

MFA

EMR

Python

Java

Lambda

Data Analysis

Linux

Windows

DevOps

Docker

Route53/DNS

API

WAF/Shield

Jenkins

ETL

Amazon EC2

POC

NAT Gateway

LightSail

Elastic Container Service

Endpoints

VPC Pairing

EIP

CAREER PROGRESSION

TrusTech Corporation

Solutions Architect/ Cloud Engineer/Cloud Consultant

MN

06/2018 - Present

Migrated TM1 Application to the cloud from client data center on-premise using Server Migration Service (SMS).

Configured CloudFront Distribution with R53 and DNS for global content delivery with s3 origin, plus SQS and SNS as part of the solution.

Data Analytics with Glue and RedShift. Configured Redshift, Glue Catalogue, Athena, glue job, s3 bucket for a data analytics project for Redlinks and Warranty.

Built infrastructure (VPC, IAM-Users) using AWS CloudFront and Terraform.

Conceived and presented a solution for employee access Identity with AWS Rekognition.

Designed a 3 tier web application ( web server, application server, database server ) in development, pre-production and production environments, provisioning VPC, Subnets, required RT, IGW, NAT Gateway, Transit Gateway, Network ACLs, Security Groups etc.

Erected and deployed redundant VPCs with Subnets, custom route tables, as well as Internet and Virtual Private Gateways attached.

Built Security Groups and NACLs to provide security for resources in the VPC environment.

Migrated a Self Microsoft SQL Server database from on-premise to AWS RDS using Database Migration Service (DMS).

Configured SQS with SNS to decouple front and backend services, using FIFO and Standard Queues as the job required.

Configured and deployed 3 tier web applications for enterprise needs.

Collaborated with peers in project establishing Direct Connect and VPN Connectivity linking corporate data center to AWS Cloud. Configured VPC peering within a client’s network, Private link and Transit Gateway connections to avoid public internet.

Stood up Relational and Non-Relational Databases in Single and Multi-AZ deployments, with Regional and Cross Regional Replications and fail-over.

Provided fail-over options and connectivity solutions through Global Accelerator technology to resources, and clients when internet connectivity posed problems.

Interact with vendors to gather information about products, alert them to future needs, resolve problems, or address system maintenance issues

Configured Elastic Load Balancers, Auto-Scaling-Group and Cloud Watch for fault tolerant purposes.

Used Route 53 with Cloudfront to cache content at Edge Locations, to serve customers around the world, using the required routing policy.

Visited vendors, attended conferences and training sessions, studied technical journals, podcasts and newsletters to keep up with changing trends and innovations in the IT industry.

Configured and secured s3 buckets with bucket policies and granting access according to AWS best practices.

Configured s3 Cross Account access, as well as ensured restricted access to s3 buckets using generated preassigned URLs.

Configured and deployed applications and infrastructures, using CloudFormation Templates as well as Elastic Beanstalk platforms.

Deployed tasks with Docker Containers, using EC2 and Fargate Launch Types, with Elastic Container Services as orchestrating tool.

Migrated an RDS Database on EC2 Instance and connected to it using SQL tools from a Bastion Host and through RDP protocol.

Confidence IT

Junior Solutions Architect/Consultan

MD

03/2016 - 06/2018

Configured and monitored Network, Compute, disk, and connectivity with CloudWatch and setups to trigger alarms and SNS.

Performed estimates on AWS costs and identifying operational cost control mechanisms

Coordinated project activities with other personnel or departments.

Developed computer or information security policies or procedures.

Designed architecture to avoid single point of failure by provisioning instances across multiple AZs, with regards to the customer’s availability, latency, tolerance and reliance desires.

Performed data recovery through the implementation of Snapshots, RDS replica, AMIs, and application backups to s3 bucket.

Recommended changes to improve computer or information systems.

Designed and implement for high availability, Elasticity, and scalability using ElastiCache, CloudFront, Edge Location, Route 53, Global Accelerator, and Static Website.

Configured fault Tolerant, Cost Effective and Highly Available infrastructures.

Provided customer support services. Attend to the emails of customers subscribed to Amazon's Basic and Business support plans.

Set and review SQS and SNS topics, reviewed generated message and took proper actions

Assisted in the initiation and accomplishment of some migration projects including Softwares, Database, Data Files, Applications etc.

Designed and built resilient, cost optimized and fault tolerant architects.

Established connection between Terraform and aWs Provider platform for Terraform use.

Build data pipeline between S3, Glue, RedShift, and performed an ETL job.

Configured and scheduled automatic data migration using AWS Data Sync for on-premise to Cloud migration.

Engaged with vendors to gather information about products, alert them to future needs, resolve problems, or address system maintenance issues.

Successfully served content from a Static Website hosted on Amazon simple storage service ( s3 )

Ensure complete implementation of CROPS in every architectural designs and execution.

Consulted and did Presentations regarding advantages of AWS Cloud Technology to clients switching to AWS Cloud.

NellyMacc Centerprise Ltd

Network Engineer/Cloud Practitioner

04/2014 - 01/2016

Events management and system monitoring using AWS CloudWatch and AWS CloudTrail.

Configuration and management of AWS Accounts through AWS Organization.

Estimating AWS cost and identifying operational cost control mechanisms.

Work alongside system and development teams to support transition and operation of client websites / applications in and out of AWS.

Attend to calls for customer support on registered plan.

Identifying appropriate use of AWS operational best practices.

Installed and Updated Softwares

Perform System security checks

Liaison between clients and Web Access

Perform System updates.

Prepared documentations for cloud training purposes.

Manage and control IT laboratory.

Monitored and supervised network performance.

Worked with Solutions Architect in Migration Plannings, Assessments and Migrations proper.

Maintained and upgraded compute networks, including hardwares like VPC and Routers.

Ensure implementation of IAM best practices.

EDUCATION / TRAINING

University of Yaoundé I

International Relations

Yaoundé

09/2013 - 03/2016

Obtained a Masters Degree IR

University of Yaoundé I

Certificate in

Yaoundé

Obtained a Bachelor's Degree IR

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect

AWS Cloud Practitioner

TEFL Certification

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