Tankoua Tchouetckea

Minneapolis, MN 320-***-**** advhhd@r.postjobfree.com

DevOps PROFESSIONAL

Successfully Bridging the Gap between Business & Technology

Seasoned DevOps Technology professional with a strong, consistent record of delivering results in deadline-oriented environments. Recognized for collaborative leadership style, ability to manage multiple, concurrent cross-functional projects, support high availability (HA) and 24/7 system functionality, quickly resolve technology issues, cultivate relationships across all levels and leverage communication and relationship management skills to successfully bridge the gap between business, process and technology.

Technical Skills: Configuration Management: Ansible. Scripting Language: Linux Shell Scripting. Containerization: Docker, Docker-Compose. Continuous Integration (CI): Jenkins, GitLab, Version Control: Git, Github, Bitbucket. Infrastructure As Code: Terraform. Container Orchestration: Kubernetes. Container Registries: Docker Hub, AWS ECR (Elastic Container Registry). Web Servers: Apache, Nginx, Tomcat. Bug Tracking Tools: Jira, ServiceNow. SDLC: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall. Operating Systems: Unix/Linux, Windows, Windows Server 2012, and 2016, Linux Distributions: Centos 6, 7 & 8, RHEL 6, 7 & 8, Ubuntu, Networking/ Protocols: TCP/IP, FTP, SCP, SSH, SSL, DNS, HTTP, HTTPS, DHCP, VPN, and LDAP, Database: Oracle, MySQL.

Professional Experience

EK TECH SOFTWARE SOLUTION

DevOps Engineer (2019 - Present)

Responsibilities: building, deploying, maintaining, and automating enterprise software development pipeline from source control through production. Works closely with operations as a developer, or with development as an operation professional.

CI/CD pipeline support (troubleshooting, support with setting up in new projects)

Work closely with key stakeholders to capture, analyze, and derive DevOps requirements

Share best practices and guided 15+ engineers while implementing infrastructure as code, using CloudFormation and Terraform.

Work with and guide software development teams on systems and software architecture principles, and implementations for repositories, pipelines, and product system design within Kubernetes design principles

Build and deploy Docker containers to break up monolithic app into microservices, improving developer workflow, increasing scalability, and optimizing speed

Brought in continuous deployment practices to enhance our Agile posture. Wrote Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using industry standard tools and services for software development, infrastructure management and cloud monitoring

Manage the transition between project planning and software deployment for 8 teams of 10 developers Owned and operate 100% of all configuration and release management governance

Collaborate with 20+ architects, senior engineers, and the engineering manager to define release management processes. Spearheaded 100% of code repositories in GitHub and set up automated CI/CD pipeline for all product lines

Define branching strategy, permissions, and access management for 10+ engineering teams. Mentored 30+ junior software engineers in gaining experience and assuming DevOps responsibilities (I don’t understand this: assuming DevOps responsibilities)

Design and implement continuous delivery pipelines that serve the purpose of provisioning and operating client tests as well as production environments. Actively participate in our 24/7 on call rotation schedule and proactively, in place of reactively, address potential database issues through automated, frequent health checks

Use Jenkins to automate build and deployment that reduced human error and speed up production processes

Implement technical solutions for customer engagements as part of a 9-member team

EK Tech SOFTWARE SOLUTION

Sr. Linux System Administrator 04/2019 – 10/2019

Took charge of installing, configuring, patching, hardening, optimizing, backup, monitoring, maintaining the Linux servers and workstations. Made mission-critical administration and initiatives including user management, group administration, files and directories, packages management, disk management, logs monitoring, network configurations as well as Firewall and SSH authentication access management.

Responsible for creating, modifying, and deleting users, groups, resetting account password and assigning permissions to users and groups.

Performing periodic system updates/Patches, Resolve package management dependency issues.

Installation and configuration of web Servers on Linux platforms. Troubleshoot access log files for errors and web access traffic.

Experienced in administering tasks like monitoring and error checking. Auditing servers and checking for server health and security. The audits include common system checks, service checks, log analysis, analysis of resource usage and security checks using various tools.

Previous Experience

Medtronic MN 2017 - 2019

Sr. Database Administrator

Responsibilities: Ensure accuracy and completeness of data in master files and various support tools, such as base dictionaries. Establishes and maintains security and integrity controls. Formulate and monitor policies, procedures, and standards relating to database management. Propose and implement enhancements that will improve the performance and reliability of the system.

Installed, configured, implemented Oracle Databases using DBCA along with strategic enhancements Monitored, traced and resolved performance, capacity, and backup-related issues.

Implemented Oracle’s role-based security and least privilege models to safeguard the integrity and security of the databases in line with SOX audit and legal requirements

SME on Oracle FLASHBACK, Partitioning, Advanced Compression, Logical backups (using Data Pump API) and Physical backups (using Oracle Recovery Manager)

Used Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) extensively for job scheduling, reporting, monitoring, troubleshooting performance- related issues and other routine administrative tasks

Education / Professional Development / Affiliations / Technology

Master of Science (MIS) Information System Feb '21 - Feb '22

University of Phoenix, AZ

Relevant Coursework:

Managing Risk and Security Vs. Opportunity, Security and Ethics, Data Analysis and Business Analysis, Influence and Leadership in Technology, I.T. Architecture in the Age of Cloud, Cis Project Management, Cis Strategic Planning, Systems Analysis and Development, Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation, It Infrastructure

Certifications

Oracle Certified Associate (OCA) Oracle

Oracle Cloud Foundation Associate Oracle

Certified AWS Solutions Architect Associate Amazon In-Progress

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