Devops Engineer Solutions Architect

Rhodric Gana

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhod-g-3681aa241/

AWS SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT /DEVOPS ENGINEER

CLOUD APPLICATIONS & INFRASTRUCTURE • PROCESS AUTOMATION Expertise in leading the implementation of operational effectiveness and accomplishing technical solutions Multifaceted visionary lead and change catalyst dedicated to leverage AWS management tools to programmatically provision, monitor, and automate all the components of our cloud environments. Excel in building high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for customer applications, and performed reviews for architecture and infra builds. Developed CI / CD to standardize the infrastructure and automate the DevOps processes, allowing customers to rapidly build, test, and release code while minimizing errors. Implemented different design principles for security in the cloud and implemented various AWS services to improve our security posture for Authentication, Authorization, Monitoring, Auditing, Encryption, and Data path security. Dynamic and result- oriented team player with excellent analytical, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills to efficiently function within a team or independently.

o Ability to build and manage a Jenkins open-source automation server to deploy Code, Build artifacts with Code, Deploy and constructed a functioning CI / CD pipeline with various tools o Completed designed 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 models based on customer’s functional and non-functional requirements.

Signature Strengths:

Enterprise Architecture •Solution Architecture • Devops Engineer •Application Migration & Delivery • Cloud Computing •Budget Management • Software Design Patterns •IT Service Delivery •Infrastructure Technologies •Patch Management •Technical Support Information •Strategic Planning & Execution •Team Leadership PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Bank of America. - Charlotte NC

July 2016 – Jan 2019 DevOps Engineer

Overview: Designed secure, cost-optimized, highly available, and fault-tolerant infrastructure in AWS.

· Architected and configured Dev / Stage / QA environments in AWS (VPC, subnets, security groups, EC2 instances, load balancer, RDS, Redis, route53, etc.).

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

· Configured CloudWatch alarm rules for operational and performance metrics for AWS resources and applications.

· Configured S3 events to set up automated communication between S3 and other AWS services.

· Monitored end-to-end view of runtime systems CPU, bandwidth, disk space, and log files using NewRelic.

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

- Experience planning and road mapping with VP/ Director/ CIO for cloud solution strategy

- Architecting Solutions utilizing EKS services in Terraform

- Infra provisioning with CFT and Terraform experience

- General Docker/ Kubernetes experience

Dominion Info-Tech Toronto, ON

Feb 2019- Present AWS Cloud Engineer/DevOps Engineer Overview: • Leading on designs/development aspects of migration journey – assess, mobilize and migrate phase including leveraging CART, ADS, Migration Evaluator, DMS, Cloud Endure etc

• Automatically remediated Trusted Advisor findings using Amazon CloudWatch events and AWS Lambda

• Designed 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.

• Implemented AWS Systems Manager management service capabilities to automatically collect software inventory, apply OS patches, and automate administration tasks and complex workflows across our environments.

• Leveraged different design principles for security in the cloud and implemented various AWS services to improve our security posture for Authentication, Authorization, Monitoring, Auditing, Encryption and Data path security.

• Implemented docker containers on AWS using ECS and complementary services, including Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR).

• Implemented and managed Ansible Tower to scale automation and handle complex deployments

•Infra provisioning with CFT and Terraform experience

• General Docker/ Kubernetes experience

• Architected and configured Dev / Stage / QA environments in AWS (VPC, subnets, security groups, EC2 instances, load balancer, RDS, Redis, route53, etc.).

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

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

• Configured S3 events to set up automated communication between S3 and other AWS services.

• Monitored end-to-end view of runtime systems CPU, bandwidth, disk space, and log files using NewRelic.

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

• Architecting Solutions utilizing EKS services in Terraform

• Infra provisioning with CFT and Terraform experience

• General Docker/ Kubernetes experience

• Experienced in GitHub

EDUCATION

University Of Buea South West, Cameroon, May 2009 B.N.S.

Mount Royal University Calgary, AB, June 2015

BCN Certificate

University of Calgary Calgary, AB, January, 2022 Msc

CERTIFICATION

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate

TECHNICAL ACUMEN

o Cloud Orchestration / Automation: AWS CloudFormation, AWS Lambda, AWS Systems Manager, AWS SSM Parameter Store, Ansible, Docker, Jenkins, ECS, EKS, Terraform o AWS Security: AWS Security Hub, AWS Guard Duty, AWS Shield, AWS Firewall Manager, AWS Inspector o Monitoring and Event Management: AWS CloudWatch (Events and Logs), AWS SNS, AWS S3 o Governance and Compliance: AWS Config Rules, AWS Organization, AWS Control Tower, AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Well-Architected Tool, AWS Budgets, AWS License Manager o Network: VPC, VGW, TGW, CGW, IGW, NGW

o Data Protection: AWS Certificate Manager, AWS KMS, Snapshot Lifecycle Manager, AWS Cloud HSM o Image and Patch: AWS SSM Patch Manager, AWS Golden AMI Pipeline o AWS Platform: AWS CloudFormation, AWS Lambda, AWS Systems Manager, S3, VPC, EC2, ELB, RDS, SNS, SQS, SES, Route53, CloudFront, Service Catalog, AWS Auto Scaling, Trusted Advisor, CloudWatch o Programming Languages: Bash, JSON, YML, Python, terraform

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