Frank Ebong

SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

advbm8@r.postjobfree.com

571-***-****

Herndon, VA

Professional Summary

Seasoned Solutions Architect with over 5 years of solid experience in designing and deploying cloud environments. My experience in architecture has allowed me to provide cost effective solutions that are secure and automated for several fortune 500 companies using three main clouds providers (GCP, AWS, Azure). I am goal-oriented and detailed, with excellent communication and presentation skills that have allowed me to excel in technical and business environments. Highlighted Skills

• SIEM

• IDS/IPS

• Security Visibility tools (Nessus, Rapid 7,

etc)

• IaC (Cloud Formation, ARM, GCP

RM,Terraform)

• Project Management

• Security Hardening

• Continuous Monitoring

• API Configuration and Management

• Landing Zones

• SSL/TLS

• Network Security (NACLs, Sec Groups,

WAFs)

• Designing Blueprints for Cloud

Infrastructure

• Team Leadership

• Communication & Presentation Skills

EXPERIENCE

AWS Solutions Architect

PADDLER CONSULTING LLC September

2020 to present

• Design and implement security best practices for Kubernetes clusters and Docker containers by enforcing roles and access, frequent configurations updates and ensuring usage of certified repos.

• Use Kubernetes to create containers to run our software.

• Manage clusters of Amazon EC2 instances and run containers on these instances with processes for deployment, maintenance and scaling.

• Implement infrastructure as a code for the Kubernetes clusters using AWS CDK.

• Operate the clusters with basic commands using Kubectl.

• Work with customers in the health industry to implement secure and compliant solutions in the cloud.

• Develop multi-cloud solutions for customers handling ePHI.

• Act as a consultant for customer with little to no experience in the cloud for projects like ETL pipelines, Data Lakes, ML and AI ventures etc.

• Consult with business and technical stakeholders to understand business plans and goals to ensure the architecting and delivery of their environment matches business and technical goals.

• Help prepare road maps and business plans for customers to secure millions in funding from investors.

• Design end to end and multi-tiered solutions across three major clouds (AWS, Azure & GCP) for customers globally.

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• Implement safeguards for customers subject to standards like HIPAA, GDPR, SOC2, NIST, etc. Junior Solutions ARCHITECT CLEARDATA June 2019– September 2020

• Architected and engineered secure multi-account Cloud infrastructure for client using landing zones and control tower.

• Configured secure API management via AWS API Gateway, as well as configuring SOAP and REST APIS for client’s applications.

• Defined SCPs and switch-role policies for secure and effective usage and access to resources on client’s multiple AWS accounts.

• Secured application development and deployment by securing CI/CD pipelines through restrictive access and continuous monitoring both on AWS native CI/CD tools and on 3rd party platforms like Jenkins or CircleCI.

• Ensured secure communication between accounts and services through IAM policies, VPC endpoints and private links.

• Enabled continuous monitoring and alerting in AWS infrastructure by setting up services like AWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Inspector.

Solutions ARCHITECT IRON MOUNTAIN DIGITAL March 2017 June 2019

• Oversaw secure and on time Database & Application Migration from On-Prem datacenter toAWS platform.

• Worked with AWS roadmap to design and architect cloud infrastructure based on client’s needs.

• Used AWS Code Pipeline and third-party tools like CircleCI, Jenkins and GitHub for CI/CD processes based on client requirements.

• Used third part tools like Dome9, Rapid7 and Tenable Nessus for security visibility in cloud hosted infrastructure.

• Architected client’s cloud infrastructure following well architected framework practices.

• Served as subject matter expert in designing and delivering well architected solutions on AWS platform.

• Configured and deployed tools like AWS Elasticsearch, redshift, spark, and Hadoop for different clients to perform real time analytics.

• Use container orchestration tools like AWS EKS to deploy pods, nodes, & manage the allocation of system resources for each micro service.

Education

Bachelors in Chemistry – University of Bamenda

Solutions Architect, AWS, security, architecture, Azure, engineering, cloud engineering, Amazon Web Services, Amazon, cloud architect, security engineer, CloudTrail, monito ring, python, S3, buckets, networking, IP, vpc, automation, automate, te rrafo rm, visual studio code, vscode

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