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JANE TAKERE

adxv73@r.postjobfree.com 1-682-***-**** Arlington TX

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

A committed, automation and security-driven, result-oriented Cloud and DevOps Engineer, with over 6 years of working in an agile environment, with experience in AWS Cloud, Software Configuration Management, Infrastructure as Code, Cloud Integration using various Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment and Source Code Management tools for end-to-end automation and deployment of software to different environments using efficient and cost-effective techniques and technologies.

Long track record of successfully directing and executing tactical operations plans, including but not limited to supporting and collaborating with clients, technical teams and managers, migrating to the cloud, designing and building reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective cloud infrastructures.

Strong in automating and optimizing mission critical deployments in cloud, leveraging configuration management, CI/CD and DevOps processes, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

Terraform skills, modules, infrastructure deployed, Ansible, groovy, roles and playbooks for management of applications/services.Experience with containerization and orchestration of microservice applications into various environments, leveraging various DevOps automation tools.

Familiar with Agile and Scrum SDLC methodologies. TECHNICAL AND PERSONAL SKILLS

Platform: Linux (RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu, Amazon-Linux), Windows

Scripting: Bash Shell Scripting, Yaml, Groovy, Python, Powershell, JavaScript

Version Control: Git, GitHub

Automation Tools: Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes

CI/CD Tools: Jenkins

Build Tools: Maven

Code Quality Analysis: Sonarqube

Security tools: Checkmarx, Sonarqube, OWASP, HashiCorp vault

Artifactory Tools: Nexus, DockerHub, AWS S3

Application Server: Apache Tomcat, Nginx,

Containerization Tools: Docker, Kubernetes

Infrastructure as code (IaC): Terraform, Cloud Formation

Configuration Management Tools: Ansible, Terraform

Testing Tool: Selenium, JUnit

Package Management: Helm, Apt, Yum

Log Management / Data Analysis Tools: Amazon CloudTrail, ELK (ElasticSearch, LogStash and Kibana), Splunk

Monitoring / Visualization Tools: Prometheus & Grafana, Amazon CloudWatch, QuickSight, Kibana, New Relic

Databases: RDS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, SQL Server, Teradata

Cloud Platform: AWS, Azure

AWS Cloud Computer: VPC, EBS, EC2, S3, ELB, Auto Scaling, Route 53

Project Management Tool: Jira

Notification Tools: Slack, Email, SNS

Personal Skills: Communication, Organizational, Leadership, Problem-solving, Ability to work collaboratively in a team as well as independently, Attentiveness to details, Willingness to learn new things. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Marriott International, Tampa FL

DevOps / Cloud Engineer (Fully Remote) December 2019 - present

Collaborate across multiple functional and technical teams to design and implement an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, from version control, build and test automation, deployment automation, hosting and monitoring.

Create technology infrastructure, leverage automation tools, and maintain configuration management.

Install and configure Apache, Nginx, Tomcat on Redhat and Ubuntu Amazon Linux instances.

Conduct training sessions for the juniors in the team, and other groups regarding how to build processes.

Manage Terraform statefiles and create Terraform Modules used to provision Infrastructure as well as ec2 instances.

Manage and Deploy Java-Based multi-tier web applications

Responsible for creating software deployment strategies that are essential for the successful deployment of software in the work environment.

Work with clients to meet business needs and solve problems using the cloud.

Monitor Kubernetes clusters using Prometheus & Grafana and resolve issues associated with system performance and running applications.

Use RollingUpdate deployment strategy in my Kubernetes environment to ensure zero cluster down-time

Work with developers, architects, system administrators and other stakeholders to architect and configure Dev / Stage / QA and Prod environments in AWS cloud.

Use Iac (Terraform) to provision cloud resources like VPC, subnets, Security groups, EC2 instances, load balancer, Database, etc.

Use Helm, a package manager for Kubernetes to define, install, and upgrade even the most complex Kubernetes applications.

Automate the provisioning of resources in the cloud using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform ) through pipelines using DevOps principals, allowing for rapid code build, test, and release, while minimizing errors.

I make use of containerization ( a lightweight alternative to a virtual machine) that involves encapsulating an application in a container with its own operating system, to provide portable, lightweight, standardized, and easy to deploy applications

Work with developers to build, deploy and orchestrate containers using Docker and Kubernetes.

I also work in the back end and have extensive knowledge in amazon web services like AWS Cloud Formation, AWS Lambda, AWS Systems Manager, IAM, S3, VPC, EC2, ELB, RDS, SNS, SQS, SES, Route53, Cloud Front, Service Catalog, AWS Auto Scaling, Trusted Advisor, Cloud Watch, direct connect, Transit gateway, DynamoDB etc.

For high availability and business continuity, I design self-healing-based architectures, multi-AZ deployment of EC2 instances, ELB health checks, Auto Scaling, and other disaster recovery models.

For security I leverage AWS IAM, AWS Secrets Manager, and AWS Control Tower, AWS Organization, to set up and govern a secure, multi-account in the AWS environment based on the company's requirements.

Implement and manage Ansible Tower to scale automation and handle complex deployments.

I use Auto Scaling to monitor my applications and and automatically adjust the capacity to maintain a steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost.

Utilize Kubernetes to automate deployment, scaling, and operations of application containers across clusters of hosts.

Design and deploy scalable, highly available, fault tolerant and reliable resources in AWS.

Recommended and implement security best practices in AWS including MFA, access key rotation, encryption using KMS, firewalls- security groups and NACLs, S3 bucket policies and ACLs, mitigating DDoS (Distributed Denial of Sevice) attacks etc.

Experience with RDS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, SQL Server, Teradata

Hands on experience with AMAZON MGN also known as Amazon Application Migration Service

Leverage SonarQube, a Code Quality Analysis tool to collect, scan and analyze code for bugs, code coverage, code smells, security vulnerabilites, complexity, duplicate lines. Sonarqube then provides reports for the code quality of our projects.

Implemented an ansible dynamic environment by using a python code which is available in AWS, to be used to configure the Ansible master server, such that it identifies the target servers based on the tags.

Experience with blue/green deployment strategy in application release. Progressive Insurance, Arlington VA

Cloud / DevOps Engineer (Fully Remote) Sept. 2016 – Nov. 2019

Worked with clients to understand their workflows including strengths and weaknesses, to identify new tech/solutions/improvements to make processes more efficient.

Designed and deployed scalable, highly available, fault tolerant and reliable resources in AWS

Experience with AWS CLI including deploying Cloud Formation Templates (CFT), managing S3, EC2, IAM.

Developed Solution Definition Documents (SDD) and Low Level Deign Documents for public cloud Architected Amazon RDS with Multi-AZ deployment for automatic failover at the database tier.

Worked closely with customers, internal staff, and other stakeholders to determine planning, implementation, and integration of system-oriented projects.

Worked on some projects related to migration, and experienced all the phases of migration from the Assess phase, mobilize phase, and the migration phase. Collaborated with my team to designed/developed aspects of migration journey - assess, mobilize, and migrate phase including leveraging Cloud Adoption Readiness Tool (CART) to determine if a company is ready to migrate to the cloud, ADS, Migration Evaluator, DMS, Cloud Endure etc.

Leveraged AWS Control Tower, AWS Organization, etc., to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment based on the company's requirements.

Leveraged services/ resources like AWS Lambda, AWS Systems Manager, S3, VPC, EC2, ELB, RDS, SNS, SQS, SES, Route53, Cloud Front, Service Catalog, AWS Auto Scaling, Trusted Advisor, Cloud Watch, direct connect, Transit gateway, direct connect, DynamoDB etc.

Implemented security best practices in AWS including access key rotation, multi-factor authentication, role-based permissions, enforced strong password policy, configure security groups and NACLs, S3 bucket policies etc.

Managed deployments in Kubernetes, creating clusters and deploying application containers and accessing the Prometheus dash board.

Worked on creating Docker containers and Docker consoles for managing application lifecycles.

Experience using ElasticSearch, LogStash and Kibana for log analystics.

Created CI/CD pipeline having DevOps tools like GitHub, Jenkins for integration, Maven for code build, Sonarqube for code quality analysis, Nexus (artifactory) for backup of our artifacts, Tomcat/Ansible for deployment of artifacts.

Managed Git repositories for branching and merging the code as per the schedule.

Set up Jenkins Master, adding the necessary plugins and adding more slaves to support scalability and agility.

Automate provisioning of infrastructure on AWS using Terraform.

Created users, repositories, branching, tagging, patch fixes, pull requests, and trained users on the Git Version Control System.

Configured and managed highly available and scalable Kubernetes cluster to manage containerized applications and exposing to end users using various DNS

Managed and oversaw AWS Cloud infrastructure to help provide very high uptime and performance in a 24x7 environment.

Designed and implemented backup and disaster recovery with a 3-2-1 backup strategy using AWS EFS and AWS S3.

I used tools like compute optimizer and implemented instance scheduler and Auto scaling for cost optimization, and helped customers save up to 60% of their cost.

Experience with RDS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, SQL Server, Teradata

Managed and monitored all installed systems for highest level of availability.

Built high-performing, available, resilient, and efficient 3-tier architecture for customer applications, and performed reviews for architecture and infrastructure builds, following AWS best practices.

Provisioned and managed AWS infrastructures using Terraform.

Optimized cost through reserved instances, selection and changing of EC2 instance types based on the resource need, S3 storage class and S3 lifecycle policies, leveraging Autoscaling, etc.

Recommended and implemented security best practices in AWS including MFA, access key rotation, encryption using KMS, firewalls- security groups and NACLs, S3 bucket policies and ACLs, mitigating DDOS attacks etc.

VPC peering with other accounts allowing access and routing to service and users of separate account to communicate.

Used Jira to plan, track, support and close requests, tickets, and incidents.

Network: VPC, VGW, TGW, CGW, IGW, NGW, etc. Monitored end-to-end infrastructure using CloudWatch and SNS for notifications.

Used AWS IAM to provision authentication and authorization into AWS accounts and restrict/assign access to users and other AWS services

A CLASS Pharmacy, Arlington TX

Data Entry Clerk (Fully Onsite)

Nov. 2015 – August 2016

Data entry

Responsible for transferring paper formats into computer files

Prepare monthly account reconciliations

Responsible for accurately accounting for incoming grants.

Review and verify accuracy of reported data

Reach out to partners all over the world through several media GTZ Mount Cameroon Project, Buea – Cameroon, Africa Junior Cloud Engineer (Fully Onsite) April 2014 - June 2015

Monitored services in AWS cloud platform

Shadowed alongside senior engineers for continuous improvement and knowledge transfer

Performed manual production deployments using linux command lines to deploy into virtual machines

Experience in AWS provisioning and good knowledge of AWS services like IAM, EC2, Elastic container service (ECS), Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), S3, Cloud Front, Elastic File System (EFS), VPC, Route 53, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation.

Defined AWS security groups which acted as firewalls that controlled the traffic allowed to reach one or more EC2 instances.

Achieved infrastructure security by hosting resources like production servers in private subnets in a VPC, leveraged NACLs for security at the level of subnets and Security groups at the level of instances, implemented MFA, LDAP, Nat gateways.

Worked on multiple AWS instances, set the security groups, ELB and AMIs, Auto scaling to design cost effective, fault tolerant and highly available systems.

Planned, deployed, monitored and maintained AWS cloud infrastructure consisting of multiple EC2 nodes and VMs as required in the environment

Experience with AWS Network: VPC, VGW, TGW, CGW, IGW, NGW, etc.

Implemented security best practices in AWS including access key rotation, multi-factor authentication, role-based permissions, enforced strong password policy, configure security groups and NACLs, S3 bucket policies etc. Managed and monitored all installed systems for highest level of availability.

Used AWS cloud watch as a monitoring tool to check the health status of our virtual instances.

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

Used AWS IAM to provision authentication and authorization into AWS accounts and restrict/assign access to users and other AWS services

Supported infrastructure and management tools to create and manage virtual server computing environment

Worked closely with development team to integrate infrastructure with application development and provide engineered project plans for operational support.

Used Jira to plan, track, support and close requests, tickets, and incidents.

Hands-on experience with Jenkins CI/CD pipeline which involved Git repository, Maven build and post build steps like notification and continuous delivery in the dev, Test and UAT environments

Resolved issues and escalated problems with knowledgeable support and quality service.

Oversaw planning and direction of projects to improve financial system infrastructure. EDUCATION

Bachelor Degree in Computer Science - University of Buea – Cameroon, Africa (2013)

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

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