COMLAN GEOFFROY SOSSA
Sterling, VA *****, ***********@*******.***
OBJECTIVE, CORE STRENGTHS AND COMPETENCIES
• To be in a position where my technical skills problem solving can be effectively utilized to improve and support company operations.
• Cloud DevOps Engineer with 5 years of experience with a strong Linux background. Extensive understanding of automation and deployment, configuring, and administering CI/CD pipeline. Effective at problem solving and decision making. SKILLS
• IaC: Terraform, Ansible
• Container Technologies: Docker, Kubernetes
• Networking: VPC, Nat Gateways, Haproxy, DNS, Route 53
• Version Control system: (Git / GitHub)
• CI/CD tools: Jenkins, Maven, Nexus, Helm, SonarQube.
• Cloud services: AWS [EBS, EC2, EKS, ECR, s3, API Gateway, LAMBDA, RDS, etc
• Monitoring tools: AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus Grafana, lens, Splunk
• Scripting and programming: Bash, PowerShell, Python, Groovy.
• Linux: Centos, Ubuntu
EXPERIENCE
DATA SERVICE GROUP - Bear, Delaware OCT 2019-Present Cloud/DevOps Engineer
• Architecting cost-effective infrastructure by utilizing various AWS services and options
• Leverage Terraform to create both environments and services in AWS to easily maintain them at scale.
• Building and configuring of ec2 instance, elastic load balancer (ELB) on the AWS cloud platform
• Experience in AWS, experience in implementing new AWS instances and working with EBS and s3 storage, IAM.
• Launching and configuring amazon ec2 cloud servers using AMIs, designing and implementing scalable, secure cloud architecture based on amazon web services.
• Hands-on experience building deployment pipelines and automated testing environments.
• Experience with CI/CD development approach and containers such as Docker.
• Worked with orchestration and configuration management tools such as Ansible.
• Worked with node.js, python and Java based applications in various projects.
• Worked in multi team’s environment for simultaneous software releases.
• Used tools such as Jenkins, maven, and nexus with experience in Jenkins orchestration and configuration management.
• Used Kubernetes-based infrastructure to improve efficiency, scalability, and reliability of software applications.
• Utilized Helm Charts, and Lens to modify, provision, & deploy objects in Kubernetes.
• DEV, QA, and PROD support
Linux Administrator Bear, Delaware June 2018-SEP 2019
• Performed software packages and patches administration.
• Set up environment variables/security to ensure smooth operation.
• Files’ management
• Optimized systems and application performance
• Set up cron jobs on the servers.
• Maintained proper documentation of all the activities carried out during the project.
• Handled problems or requirements as per the ticket (Request Tracker) created.
• Administered RHEL versions including troubleshooting virtual server issues.
• Experience installing, monitoring, and configuration of Linux machine on VMWare as needed.
• Managed and installed software packages on various Linux distributions and windows.
• Utilized BASH Scripting to automate package installations and commands.
• Users’ management
EDUCATION
University of Abomey-calavi, Cotonou, BENIN
Bachelor of sciences, arts, and letters, 2014
CERTIFCATION
Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner
Certified AWS Solution Architect Associate
Certified Kubernetes Administrator