Solange Ngum Che

Minneapolis, MN 763-***-**** ady3mu@r.postjobfree.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/solange-che-460590265

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Experienced IT Professional providing over 5+ years of experience in AWS Cloud Engineering. Proficient in offering solutions and expertise, consistent with enterprise applications and security. Also, Experienced, in the provisioning of resources and automating and optimizing deployments in the cloud, including but not limited to the leveraging of configuration management tools and other DevOps tools and processes respectively. In addition to those, I have also been Involved in client relations by understanding client requirements and presenting effective, sustainable, and secured solutions to various clients.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

- Security: Encryption, IAM, NACLS, AWS Guard Duty, AWS Security Hub, AWS WAF, Security Groups, AWS Shield, AWS Secret Manager,

- Cloud Orchestration and Automation: Terraform, Ansible, AWS Systems Manager, Jenkins, Docker.

- Networking: VPC, Subnets, Load Balancers, Route Tables, Internet gateways, Transit Gateways, AWS Route 53, VPC Endpoints, VPC Peering, VPC Lattice.

- Monitoring and Event Management: AWS CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, AWS Config, AWS Trusted Advisor, SNS, AWS Access Analyzer, Amazon Event Bridge, CloudWatch Logs

- Storage: S3, Databases, EBS, EFS, NFS, ElastiCache

- Application Delivery: Jenkins, CICD Pipelines, Bitbucket, GitHub, Git.

- Cost Management: AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, Instance Scheduler, Auto Scaling Groups, Instance Types.

- Programming Languages: Bash, Python, JSON, PowerShell, CLI. EDUCATION

• BSC in Human Resources & Management Oct 2014 University of Bamenda

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate In progress

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Associate In progress RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Lenovo Minneapolis MN Feb 2022 – Present

AWS Cloud Engineer

• Designed Secured, cost-optimized, highly available and fault-tolerant infrastructures on the AWS platform.

• Helped Optimized cost using AWS resources such as, reserved Instances, s3 storage, lifecycle policies, Autoscaling groups and more.

• Exceeded goals through effective task prioritization and a great work ethic.

• Leveraged different design principles of security in the cloud and assisted with the implementation of various AWS services to improve company security posture for authentication.

• Developed Terraform modules and CloudFormation templates to provision infrastructure as code in the cloud.

• Architected AWS Cloud cost-effective solutions for non-production environments such as Dev & Test environments respectively.

• Designed the overall Virtual Private Cloud including but not limited to VPC environments, Instances, Storage, Gateways, Security Firewalls etc.

• Monitored Infrastructure and applications using Cloud Watch & Cloud Trail, and automated to saving of logs into s3 buckets designed for the purpose.

• Implemented AWS Systems Manager and its capabilities to automatically run administrative tasks, start sessions, Manage rotation of keys and Secrets in our environment.

• Maintained already existing Jenkins CICD pipelines, assisting with configurations, integration of tools and troubleshooting when needed. Victoria’s Secret Minneapolis, MN December 2020 – December 2021 AWS Cloud Architect

• Assisted in Recommendation and Implementation of different Disaster Recovery strategies for Business continuity.

• Leveraged different design principles for security in the cloud whilst implementing various AWS services to improve our security posture for Authentication and Monitoring not forgetting auditing and encryption.

• Implemented security best practices in AWS including but not limited to multi-factor authentication, access key rotation and the enforcement of role-based permissions.

• Created runbooks to document the company’s standard processes for peers to follow.

• Leveraged Systems Manager in an aim to manage and maintain and automate operational tasks.

• Leveraged the services of AWS Control Tower, AWS Organizations to set up, govern and secure multi-account AWS environments based on company requirements.

• Configured and Managed CloudWatch alarm rules for operational and performance metrics for AWS resources and applications respectively.

• Provided Solution Definition Documents (SDD) and Low-Level Design Documents for our various cloud projects, giving insights on different projects ran in the company.

• Assisted in the supporting of Employee IT needs, helping in the completion of Daily tasks.

• Leveraged EC2 Lifecycle Manager to create snapshots of EBS Volumes on scheduled intervals for backup defined a retention period as a cost saving measure JPMORGAN CHASE&CO. Dallas, Texas Jan, 2019 – October, 2020. AWS Associate Cloud Engineer

• Assisted in the designing and developing aspects of migration journeys - assess, mobilize, and migrate phase including leveraging CART, ADS, DMS, Cloud Endure etc.

• Worked closely with senior engineers, customers, and other stakeholders to determine planning, implementation, and integration of system-oriented projects.

• Assisted in configuring the automation of snapshots of EBS Volumes at scheduled intervals for backup and defining a retention period as a cost-saving measure.

• Assisted in the Architecting and implementation of AWS Cloud’s cost-effective solution for non-Production environments. Also, with the configuration of CloudWatch alarm rules for operational and performance metrics for our AWS resources and applications.

• Assisted with the Configuration and use of AWS CLI to make API calls to AWS console.

• Worked hand in hand with developers to build, deploy and orchestrate containers using Docker and Kubernetes

• Assisted with the configuration and management of various AWS Services including EC2, RDS, VPC, S3, Databases, Cloud Watch, Cloud Front, and Route 53.

• Assisted with team meetings and supervising various projects assigned to the teams.

• Assisted in providing updates to businesses through established communication channels.

• Assisted in Designing for high availability & business continuity using self-healing-based architectures, ELB- health checks, Auto Scaling, and some disaster recovery models. Uber Dallas, Texas April, 2017 – December, 2018 AWS Tech Support

• Provided solutions for network and system related issues.

• Performed software installation and updates when needed.

• Evaluated firewalls and monitored threats to establish a secured various environment.

• Assisted in the Troubleshooting and recovering of backups.

• Coordinated with team members to ensure the smooth running of applications.

• Advised on various projects, cost, concepts, and design changes.

• Took cost saving moves to clean up scripts to retire resources no longer needed to maximize cost.

• Assisted teams with technical with user difficulties and training.

• Assisted in the Management and Configuration of Firewalls

• Assisted in the identification, investigation, and resolving of user’s problems with computer software’s and hardware’s.

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