Azure Cloud Engineer

Clifford Fondem

****************@*****.*** 380-***-**** Mesa, Arizona, 85212

Summary

I am a skilled Azure Cloud Engineer with 4 years of experience working with Azure to automate, configure and optimize the Azure environment to achieve performance efficiency and support continuous innovation and cost effectiveness.

Skills

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux

Virtualization: Oracle VirtualBox, VMware.

Scripting: Bash Shell, PowerShell

Cloud Platforms: Azure

DEVOPS: Ansible, Docker, Git, GitHub, Terraform, ARM, Bicep

Azure: Microsoft Entra ID, Virtual Network, Virtual machine, Storage Account, VMSS, Azure load balancer, Azure Firewall, Azure Policy, Application Gateway, Azure Key Vault, Azure Virtual Desktop, Application Insight, Traffic Manager, Azure App Service, Azure Container Registry, MySQL, Azure Container Instance.

Monitoring: Azure Monitor, Application Insight, Prometheus

Experience

Company: Virtix/Corro Health

Role: Azure Cloud Administrator December 2023 - Present

Optimize existing Azure cloud environments by implementing automated scaling and load balancing techniques, resulting in a 40% cost reduction maintaining 99.99% uptime during peak traffic periods.

Worked on Microsoft Entra ID for secure identity and access management across Azure resources, enhancing security for user authentication

Creating and managing Network Security Groups for Virtual Machines and virtual Networks for security purposes.

Integration of Web application with Virtual networks to ensure communication with Vnets and on-Premises side

Proficient in monitoring and troubleshooting cloud infrastructure and applications, using Azure monitor and Application Insight.

Configure and manage Azure-based network and security components, including virtual networks, firewalls, and access controls, RBAC, NSGs.

Developed and maintained the automation of Azure resources using Terraform, ARM and Ansible

Effectively managed GitHub repositories and permissions, overseeing tasks such as branching and tagging

Providing infrastructure support & integrating multiple tools with continuous integration tools like Ansible and Azure pipeline respectively. Writing (playbooks and roles) to automate infrastructure using ansible.

Collaborated with senior developers to design, develop and maintain cloud-native applications using Azure services such as Azure App services, Azure Functions, and Azure SQL database.

Azure load balancing solutions included layer 7 application gateway and layer 4 load balancer.

Configured Microsoft Entra Connect to synchronize on-premises Active Directory with Microsoft Entra ID, to ensure user identity management across environments.

Company: NextGen Global Resources LLC

Role: Cloud Engineer/ Admin November 2021 - September 2023

Configuring Azure Virtual Networks, subnet, DNS, Network Security Groups, Load Balancers, Application Gateway and Traffic manager

Managed network security groups, backup, and resource group, with expertise in Azure Vnet-to-Vnet peering

Managed Azure Container Registry and integrated with CI/CD pipelines for seamless application deployment

Create and manage Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, and Storage Accounts.

Configured and managed user roles and permissions using Entra ID, ensuring compliance with organizational policies and least privilege principles

Implemented Azure Policy definitions to enforce compliance and governance across multiple Azure subscriptions.

Using Docker for successful setup of Dev & Test environment for Developers and testers by using Docker Build and compose.

Deployed Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) to support high-availability applications.

Experience in setting up Azure Operations architecture and implementation using Azure Monitor, App Insights.

Developed Ansible playbooks for infrastructure automation and deployment, including configuration

management, application deployment, and system maintenance.

Design and implement CI/CD pipelines that automate all aspects of building, testing, deploying, and monitoring applications in Azure.

Configured and managed CI/CD pipelines in GitLab, ensuring seamless application deployment and testing.

Created Docker files and automated generation of Docker images, subsequently pushing them into Docker registry.

Developed PowerShell scripts and Azure Resource Manager templates for infrastructure automation and deployment.

Education and Training

Yandtech Consulting

Azure Cloud, Security and DevOps training

Cameroon College Of Arts and Science, Kumba, Cameroon

HSD: Information Technology and Geographic Information System GIS.

Grand Canyon University current

B.S Cloud Computing and Health Informatics.

Certification

Azure Fundamental (AZ 900)

Azure Administrator (AZ 104)

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