Cloud Engineer

Martin Aminde

AWS Cloud Engineer

Bachelors of Science

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SUMMARY

A well proficient and resulted oriented Cloud

Engineer/DevOps Engineer with over 6 years plus experience in integrating, monitoring, testing, and deployment of applications to end- users as well as architecting and building, robust architectures, ensuring an outstanding performant in recommending and implementing high- quality solutions, of AWS Well-Architected Framework, examining best practices and design principles to leverage the cloud in a more efficient, secure, and cost-effective manner.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Successfully worked as part of a distributed engineering team, contributing to architecture, requirements, feasibility, and cost analysis

• Proficiently used AWS system manager to automate operational tasks across AWS resources

• Demonstrable expertise in specifying, designing, and/or implementing system health, performance monitoring tools, and software management tools for 24x7 environments

SCORE CARD

Skills Years of

Experience

AWS Cloud 6+

IAM

Continuous integration

Continuous deployment

infrastructure as a code using Terraform and

cloud formation

5+

Configuration Management

Continuous monitoring

5+

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

AWS Cloud Engineer FEB 2022 – Present

DELOITTE, ARLINGTON, VA

• Created patch management using systems manager automation for multi-region and multi-account execution

• Designed/implemented for elasticity & scalability using Elastic cache, CloudFront – Edge locations, and RDS (read replicas, instance sizes)

• Implemented security best practices in AWS including multi-factor authentication, accessed key rotation, encrypted using KMS, firewalls- security groups / NACLs, S3 bucket policies, and ACLs, mitigating DDOS attacks

Technical Expertise:

• AWS IAM

• EC2

• ELB

• RDS

• SNS

• SQS

• SES

• Route53

• CloudFront

• Service Catalog

• AWS Auto Scaling

• Trusted Advisor

• CloudWatch

• AWS KMS

• Snapshot Lifecycle Manager

• AWS Cloud HSM

• Service Catalog

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• AWS Lambda

• AWS Systems Manager

• AWS SSM Parameter Store

• Ansible

• AWS CloudWatch (Events & Logs) AWS SNS,

AWS S3, AWS Organization, Active Directory,

AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Config Rules, AWS

Organization, AWS Control Tower, AWS Trusted

Advisor, AWS Well-Architected Tool, AWS

Budgets, AWS Security Hub, AWS Guard Duty,

AWS Shield, AWS Firewall Manager, AWS

Inspector, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Lambda,

AWS Systems Manager

• S3

• VPC

• Transit Gateway

• Docker

• Kubernetes

• Jira

• Confluence

• Jenkins

• AWS Code Pipeline, AWS Code Commit, AWS

Code Build, AWS Code Deploy

• Bash

• JSON

• YML

• Python Design

• ELB health checks

• Auto Scaling

Educational Background:

• Bachelor’s in Science in Economics, University

of Buea,, Southwest Region– 08

Professional Certifications:

• AWS Solution Architect – Associate

• AS Scrum Master Scrum Master

Martin Aminde

AWS Cloud Engineer

Bachelors of Science

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• Provide assistance to the cloud servers, including security configurations, patching, and troubleshooting.

• Experience helping developers operationalize production applications.

• Proficiently done system and network management with automated tools

• Implemented Jenkins, GitHub / Git for version control, code build, testing & release, and CI/CD

• Monitored end-to-end infrastructure using CloudWatch and SNS for notification

• Used AWS system manager to automate operational tasks across AWS resources

• Involved in project management -AWS Infra design and application migration

• Managed provisioning of AWS infrastructures using both terraform and CloudFormation

• Developed and documented security guardrails for AWS cloud environments

• Built custom images through docker server, docker-compose with multiple local containers / created production-grade workflows and a continuous application workflow for multiple images

• Build, maintain and deploy highly available and scalable Kubernetes cluster

• Implemented multiple container deployments to AWS and maintained sets of containers with deployments

• Designed/architected self-healing, secured, highly available, and fault-tolerant infrastructure in AWS

• Solutioned VPCs for various environments including NAT gateways, VPC peering, and transit gateways

• Optimized cost through reserved instances, S3 storage classes / S3 lifecycle policies, leveraging Autoscaling policies and lifecycle hooks, etc

• Possess Strong Communication and Collaboration skills. AWS Cloud Engineer / DevOps Jan 2019 - Feb 2022

Marriot International, Houston, TX

• Translated business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives

• Lead a team of 5, in designing and decoupling a monolithic application into a microservice application, this was a Java base.

• Efficiently worked in 7 and 3 layers of the application load balancer Experience defining, implementing, and monitoring IT services and end-to-end cloud environments using CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana.

• Experience with computer technology, networks, and IT architecture and design

• Collaborate with enterprise architecture, information security, and applications/infrastructure teams to support & contribute to the evaluation, design, and analysis of enterprise-wide solutions

• Developed/leveraged baseline & custom guardrails, policies, centralized policy enforcement, tagging policies, and a well-architected multi-account environment Martin Aminde

AWS Cloud Engineer

Bachelors of Science

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• Developed required / optional tagging reference document for automation, compliance, and consolidated billing

• Used system manager to automate operational tasks across Well AWS infrastructure

• Developed baseline VPC and Network design including leveraging VPN connectivity

• Developed baseline AWS account security, implemented/integrated endpoint protection, vulnerability scanning, and intelligent threat detection

• Built serverless architecture with Lambda integrated with SNS, CloudWatch logs, and other AWS services

• Migrated legacy applications to the AWS cloud environment

• Implemented IAM best practices and role-based access control

• Implemented AWS organization to centrally manage multiple AWS accounts including consolidated billing and policy-based restrictions

• Used Kubernetes for container deployment, scaling and descaling of containers and container load balancing

• Implemented control tower preventive/detective guardrails & leveraged account factory, integrated with Lambda for new AWS account creation and setup

• Set up Ansible control/slave nodes and developed playbooks to automate the configuration of servers across environments

Cloud Engineer Jan 16 – Nov

18

JPMorgan Chase

• Migrated high-availability web servers/databases to AWS EC2 and RDS with minimum or no downtime

• Involved in VPC build with private/public subnet coupled with VPNs set up back to the on-premises data center and cooperate offices

• in SSL setup for Apache and Nginx applications coupled with AWS ELB SSL for all HTTP to HTTPS thereby maximizing security

• Involved in network, CPU, disk/connectivity monitoring with CloudWatch and set up to trigger the alarm and notified system administrators

• Aided setup for / configured for logs files detail monitoring and alert notification when changes are made

• Performed root-cause analysis of recurring issues, system backup, and security setup

• Involved in security groups configured/locked down to the various authorized subnet and IP addresses in AWS

• Architected/implemented continuous integration & deployment pipelines using Jenkins and other CI

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