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ERIC NGU TANDIA

ASONGWE

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Efficient AWS Solutions Architect with 10+ years of IT experience and 5 years in supporting and optimizing mission critical deployments in AWS, provisioning and managing highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable infrastructures on AWS utilizing CloudFormation and terraform as IAC. Proficient in Cloud compute, security and identity management, networking, storage, monitoring and event management, governance and compliance, application delivery, databases and data protection, image and patch management, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS tools. Solid background in creating and handling containers with Kubernetes and Dockers. An effective communicator at all levels within an organization. Excellent problem solving, analytical skills, team player, detail oriented, innovative flexible, passionate, resourceful, and finding creative solutions.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Cloud compute: EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, Autoscaling, ELB, Lambda GCP etc.

AWS Security: AWS GuardDuty, Shield, WAF, KMS, Cloud HSM etc.

Network: VPC, TGW, Route 53, Direct Connect, PrivateLink, API Gateway, etc.

Storage and CDN: S3, EBS, EFS, Storage gateway, CloudFront etc.

Databases/ Data query tools: RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift, Athena, Glue, Elasticache, Quick sight, Aurora etc.

Monitoring & Event Management: CloudWatch, Cloud Trail, SNS etc.

Governance & Compliance: AWS Config Rules, AWS Organization, AWS Control Tower, AWS Trusted Advisor etc.

Soft Skills: Team player, critical thinking, problem solving, time management, effective communication, flexible, passionate, and dependable.

WORK EXPERIENCE

AWS Solution Architect

April 2021 – current

Trustech Corp. North Saint Paul, MN 55109

Configure and automate 60% of task using AWS CloudFormation, Terraform as IAC.

Led the migration of multiple on-premises servers to AWS, including server configuration, databases, and application deployment.

Implement a production ready, load balanced, highly available, and secured

Fault tolerant Kubernetes cluster on AWS EC2 instances.

Use System Manager to automate operational tasks across AWS infrastructure.

Design multiple resilient and fault tolerant architectures for high availability and business continuity using self-healing-based architectures, fail-over routing policies, multi-AZ deployment of EC2 instances, ELB health checks, Auto Scaling, and other disaster recovery models.

Develop VPC and Network design, leveraging VPN connectivity and Direct Connect from on-premises to the cloud.

Develop and automate monitoring and auditing system using CloudWatch, CloudTrail and inspector that increased uptime from 99% to 100%. Configure logs files for detail monitoring and alerts notification when changes are made.

Implemented security best practices in AWS including multi factor authentication, access key rotation, encryption using KMS, WAF, Shield, security groups and NACLs, S3 bucket policies and ACLs, mitigating DDOS attacks etc. which improved security by 40%.

Designed and implemented for elasticity and scalability using ElastiCache, CloudFront – Edge locations, RDS (read replicas, instance sizes) etc.

Optimized cost through reserved instance selection and changing of EC2 instance types based on resource need, S3 storage classes and S3 lifecycle policies, leveraging Auto Scaling etc. Reduced monthly hosting cost by 40%.

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Fayetteville, NC

Junior Solution Architect JUNE 2019 – March 2021

MTN CAMEROON COMPANY LLC

Responsible for launching and configuring of Amazon EC2 instances using AWS CLI launched with respect to specific applications

Installed applications on AWS EC2 instances and configured the storage on S3 buckets. Responsible for

S3 buckets, bucket policies and IAM role-based policies creation.

Responsible for creating EBS volumes and building servers using importing volumes.

Responsible for creating Security Groups as well as Network access control lists, load balancers in the

Defined virtual private network. Responsible for creating CloudWatch alarms, event and notifications using SNS.

Involved in migrating and implementing multiple applications from on premise to the cloud using services

Such as DBMS, CloudFormation, S3, Route 53, EC2, RDS, Lambda, VPC and SMS.

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

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

Project Management -AWS Infra design & application migration.

Designed and deployed scalable, available, fault-tolerant, and reliable applications on the Cloud which increased production by 40%.

Reduced monthly hosting costs by 40% through automation and improved resource utilization.

Designed and deployed 20 plus AWS resources which includes, EC2, ECS, VPC, CloudFront, Cloud Watch, S3, Storage gateway, Autoscaling, Athena, Glue, databases for productivity enhancement and analyses of data stored in S3.

Architected high availability environment with auto scaling & Elastic Load Balancer to manage incoming request by optimally routing traffic so that no instance is overwhelmed.

Securely deploy MySQL Primary DB and its read replica in private subnet with multi-AZ for disaster recovery and best practice.

Migrated 2 complex, multi-tier applications of high availability web servers and databases to AWS EC2 and RDS with minimum or no downtime.

Build VPC’s in the Private and Public Subnet couple with VPNs setup back to on premise datacenter and corporate offices to ease communication between the on-premises resources and the cloud.

Heavy Duty Construction Equipment Engineer MAY 2017 – APRIL 2021

Department of Defense USA.

Read schematic diagrams for fault tracing on and troubleshoot issues on military tactical equipment.

Responsible for construction and maintenance of heavy construction equipment’s and also ensured accountability of serviceability of other equipment’s including14 RG-31A1, 6 M916A3, 4 MTV, 7 M984A4, Wreckers, 5 MATVs, 6 Trailer, 5 IVMMDs, 4 Buffalos valued at $9 million dollars.

Responsible for combat readiness, training, health, welfare, discipline and accountability of 14 soldiers and their combat equipment.

Supervised lower grade soldiers and provided technical guidance to the soldiers in the accomplishment of their duties.

Intermediate distribution frame work.

Atrox InfoTech, Consulting Services San Antonio, TX.

AWS SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT Jen /2012 – MAY 2017.

Build entire backend systems including web servers, databases, and monitoring systems for 15 +

Medium and small businesses and maintained/improved software systems for 30+ clients.

Build secured backend systems for over 20+ clients by leveraging stringent security best practices like

IAM, MFA, key rotation, encryption, KMS, WAF, Shield, security groups, S3 bucket policies, Macie’s,

AWS inspector, resulting in systems being compliant with frameworks like HIPAA and PCI.

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION

EDUCATION

Bachelor Degree in Anthropology and Sociology.

Army Anti-Terrorism Level 3

Army Combat Training and Advance Individual Training

CERTIFICATIONS

AWS Solution Architect Associate.

AWS Cloud Practitioner

Professional Scrum Master (PSM I)

SPOKEN LANGUAGES

English

French

Korean Language

REFERENCES

Available upon request.

REFERENCES

EDUCATION

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