Claudele GHOTSA MEKONTCHOU

ady13i@r.postjobfree.com 646-***-**** 33 North 3rd Avenue, Mount Vernon, NY 10550

PROFILE

Results-driven DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of hands-on experience in architecting, automating, implementing, and optimizing mission-critical app deployments over large infrastructures. Proficient in configuration management, developing CI/CD pipelines with integrated security scans, and leveraging a strong Linux background. Skilled in collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive project success. Committed to delivering high-quality solutions and enhancing customer satisfaction. Seeking a challenging DevOps Engineer role to leverage proven expertise in continuous integration and deployment, optimizing processes, and driving business growth.

EXPERIENCE

January 2023 – Present

DevOps Engineer, Turbulent Media Inc. Montreal, Canada (Full-time-Remote)

• Collaborate closely with development, QA, UAT, and Prod teams, to troubleshoot and identify root cause analysis on system incidents for Pleasefix, Star Citizen Game and Ricardo Cuisine.

• Maintain and optimize automated Gitlab CI/CD pipelines, resulting in a 50% reduction in deployment time, significantly enhancing deployment efficiency.

• Collaborated with Dev team in migrating a legacy monolithic application of Star Citizen Game to a microservices architecture to the AWS cloud, resulting in 30% cost savings, improved scalability, system performance and increased development agility.

• Streamline infrastructure provisioning by creating Terraform configuration files, resulting in a 60% reduction in manual effort and faster deployment of resources.

• Orchestrate the deployment and maintenance of containerized applications using Kubernetes, ensuring 99.99% uptime and high availability.

• Implemented monitoring solutions with Prometheus, and Grafana to enhance system visibility and decrease response time to critical issues by 50%.

• Utilize AWS resources to architect and deploy fault-tolerant, highly available, and cost- effective solutions, ensuring the security and scalability of applications.

• Create and maintain Ansible playbooks and roles to automate configuration and updates of on-prem and cloud resources.

• Maintain technical documentation and collaborate to define best practices and standards around DevOps.

March 2018 – December 2022

DevOps Engineer, Data Service Group (DSG) Bear, Delaware (Full-time-Remote)

• Collaborated with Dev teams to improve code quality and maintainability, leading to a 20% reduction in bug occurrences and faster issue resolution.

• Supported different teams by reporting performance tuning and monitoring alerts to Jira, contributing to issue resolution and debugging.

• Successfully designed and implemented an AWS Lambda-based serverless architecture, reducing infrastructure costs by 40% and improving scalability.

• Implemented, managed, and maintained fully automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Git, and Docker, resulting in a 70% reduction in manual intervention and increased development productivity.

• Developed and implemented a security scanning process using SonarQube and Snyk, reducing security vulnerabilities by 40% in the application codebase.

• Led the configuration and administration of monitoring tools such as CloudWatch, Splunk, and Prometheus/Grafana, ensuring efficient system monitoring.

• Built and deployed Docker containers to break up monolithic applications into microservices, enhancing flexibility and scalability.

• Architected and deployed fault-tolerant, highly available, cost-effective, and secure servers in AWS, leveraging services like Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, and CloudFront.

February 2016 – January 2018

System Administrator, Iwuri Corp. Douala, Cameroon (Part-time-Remote)

• Managed and maintained employee workstations, ensuring seamless access, software installations, and permissions.

• Provided technical support and performed root cause analysis for server errors, swiftly resolving issues to minimize downtime.

• Developed automation scripts to streamline server configurations and testing infrastructure, optimizing efficiency.

• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver software solutions that improved overall functionality and performance.

• Conducted regular system maintenance and performed software upgrades to ensure optimal performance.

EDUCATION

December 2020

Ph.D. Environmental Sciences University of Quebec in Abitibi-Temiscamingue Rouyn-Noranda, Canada

March – November 2017

AWS/DevOps Engineer utrains.org Online training

June 2015

M.Sc. Ecology and Biodiversity University of Montpellier II Montpellier, France

June – December 2015

Linux System Admin utrains.org Online training

KEY SKILLS AND CHARACTERISTICS

• Methodologies: Agile, DevOps

• Security Automation Tools: SonarQube,

Snyk

• Scripting: Bash/Shell, Python

• Version Control tools: Git, GitHub, GitLab

• CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, Gitlab Ops

• Automation Tools: Ansible, Salt Stack

• Containerization : Docker

• Orchestration : Kubernetes

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Tools: Terraform

• Cloud Computing Services: Amazon Web

Services (AWS)

• Monitoring: Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana

• Project Management Tools: JIRA, Confluence

• Language Proficiency: English (written and

spoken), French (written and spoken)

• Communication: Experience writing and

presenting findings to technical and non-

technical audiences

• Database: Familiar with MySQL and

DynamoDB

ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS

Environment conservation, Travel and tourism, Sport, Music and Cinema. Self-driven desire to continuously learn new technologies and skills.

REFERENCES

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