Cloud Infrastructure Architect

NEBA A WANKI

202-***-**** *********@*****.***

Cloud Solution Architect

Exceptional proven experience in public and private cloud in general and broad knowledge on next gen Cloud services like PaaS, Automation, Containers, application portability. Impactful professional with the ability to work in a team environment, emphasizing team goals over personal goals. Known for designing, implementing and maintaining all AWS and Gov Cloud infrastructure and services within a managed service environment. Ability to design high availability applications on cloud adhering to DR and availability best practices. Core competencies include:

Docker Containers Kubernetes Cluster Docker Containers Application Architecture Security Automation Data Ingestions Stream Processing Data Modeling ETL Development Data Warehousing Programming Language CXO Level Management Presentations Enterprise Class Security Strategy Road Map

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Enterprise Cloud Strategy and Architecture: Expertise in designing and implementing multi-account AWS architectures using AWS Organizations, AWS Control Tower, and AWS Landing Zone.

Hybrid Cloud and Multi-Cloud Solutions: Seamless integration of AWS with on-prem and third-party cloud providers like Azure and OCI.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible - enabling fully automated infrastructure provisioning and management.

Well-Architected Framework: Deep understanding of AWS best practices, including security, cost optimization, reliability, performance efficiency, and operational excellence.

Compute and Serverless: AWS EC2, AWS Lambda, AWS Auto Scaling, AWS Fargate, AWS Outposts for extending cloud capabilities on-prem.

Security and Compliance: Advanced security architecture including AWS Security Hub, AWS GuardDuty, AWS Shield, AWS Firewall Manager, AWS Config Rules, AWS IAM, AWS Secrets Manager, Security Groups, NACLs, Zero Trust security models, and CASB (Cloud Access Security Broker)

Governance and Compliance: Expertise in governance frameworks using AWS Control Tower, AWS Organizations, AWS Audit Manager, AWS Budgets, and AWS License Manager.

Monitoring and Event Management: AWS CloudWatch (Events and Logs), AWS SNS, AWS CloudTrail, AWS X-Ray, Nagios, AppDynamics, Splunk, SolarWinds, New Relic - enabling proactive performance and security monitoring.

Networking and Global Connectivity: Architecting secure and high-availability networks with AWS VPC, AWS Direct Connect, AWS Transit Gateway, AWS Global Accelerator, Route 53, PrivateLink, and VPN solutions.

Storage and Data Lifecycle Management: AWS S3 (Intelligent Tiering, Glacier, Storage Lens), AWS EBS, AWS EFS - optimizing cost and performance for scalable storage solutions.

Database and Data Lakes: Expertise in AWS RDS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle), AWS DynamoDB, AWS Redshift, AWS ElastiCache, AWS Lake Formation for building scalable data lakes.

Migration and Modernization: Leading cloud transformation with AWS Migration Hub, AWS Application Migration Service, AWS DMS, rehosting, replatforming, and refactoring legacy applications using Kubernetes and serverless solutions.

DevOps and CI/CD: Advanced implementation using AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodeCommit, Jenkins, SonarQube, JFrog, Bamboo, and automated security scanning.

Containerization and Microservices: AWS ECS, AWS EKS, AWS Fargate, Openshift, Docker, Kubernetes - enabling scalable and fault-tolerant containerized applications.

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Application and Middleware: High-performance architectures using JBoss, WebLogic, Apache Tomcat, Kafka, AWS Kinesis, and RabbitMQ.

Big Data and AI/ML Analytics: AWS Glue, AWS Athena, AWS EMR, AWS Redshift, AWS Step Functions, Amazon SageMaker, Apache Spark, Tableau, Amazon QuickSight for real-time analytics and machine learning pipelines.

Windows: Windows Server (2016, 2019, 2022)

Hybrid Infrastructure: Expertise in integrating on-prem and cloud workloads using VMware Cloud on AWS, AWS Outposts, and Direct Connect.

Cloud Platforms: AWS, AWS GovCloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Azure.

Virtualization and Edge Computing: KVM, Vagrant, VMware ESXi, Hyper-V, AWS Wavelength, AWS Local Zones.

Search and Analytics: Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, AWS OpenSearch Service.

Cloud Security and DevSecOps: Implementing security automation with Checkov, AWS Inspector, AWS WAF, AWS Shield, SonarQube, HashiCorp Vault, and Zero Trust models.

IaC and Automation Tools: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Systems Manager, AWS Lambda, Ansible, Chef, Puppet – ensuring fully automated infrastructure and application management.

Configuration Management: Ansible, AWS Systems Manager, Puppet, AWS Parameter Store.

Linux: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS.

EXPERIENCE

Accenture Federal January 2020 - Present

AWS Cloud Solution Architect

Managed and provisioned AWS infrastructures using CloudFormation, Ansible, and Terraform. Wrote Terraform modules for easy and quick provisioning of infrastructures.

Leveraged AWS Config to ensure compliance and remediations across multiple accounts within an AWS organization, including enforcing MFA across accounts, resources, and emails.

Introduced common branching strategies, automated build/integration checks, and simplified deployment patterns, boosting team velocity by 30%.

Maintained a highly secure environment using IAM, CloudTrail, and Access Server login.

Used Python to write Lambda functions to automate security, compliance, and remediation across the enterprise environment.

Implemented security best practices in AWS, including encryption, multi-factor authentication, access key rotation, KMS encryption, security groups, NACLs, S3 bucket policies, and ACLs.

Set up CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and manage GitHub and Bitbucket.

Used KMS to ensure security within S3 buckets and databases.

Implemented detective guardrails using Cloud Custodian policies and AWS Config.

Designed and implemented elasticity and scalability using Elasticache, CloudFront edge locations, and RDS (read replicas, instance sizes).

Utilized AWS Backup snapshots of applications within the environment to ensure disaster recovery and high availability.

Developed and documented security guardrails for AWS Cloud environments.

Built custom images through Docker with multiple local containers, creating production-grade workflows and continuous application workflows.

Optimized cost through EC2 instance selection, changing instance types based on resource needs, S3 storage classes, and S3 lifecycle policies.

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

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Deloitte Baltimore, MD December 2018 - January 2020

AWS Cloud Solution Architect

Hands on experience working with Openshift 4.X – RBAC, AD/LDAP Integration, Devops, CI/CD, Secret Management, Image Scanning, Certificates, SSL/TSL, non-air-gapped installs, persistent storage solutions, SELinux.

Ensured that the technologies are updated with current, stable, and compliant architecture and applications that meet enterprise standards.

Designed, deployed and maintained enterprise class security, network and systems management applications within an AWS and Gov Cloud environment.

Designed and implemented Landing Zones on AWS, ensuring scalable, secure, and compliant cloud environments.

Knowledge of HIPPAA,GDPR, PCI, FedRAMP and other government security assessment.

Operated as a DevOps Engineer in automating, building, deploying, managing and releasing code from one environment to other environments tightly maintaining Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery.

Installed, configured and managed GitHub repo as needed.

Configured and deployed Docker containers to break up monolithic app into microservices, improving developer workflow, increasing scalability, and optimizing speedtion management by using chef cookbooks.

Booz Allen Hamilton (FDA) McLean, VA December 2016 - December 2018

AWS Cloud Solution Architect

Led development team in designing/migrating AWS and Gov Cloud cloud-based solutions. Worked with distributed teams to design and develop frameworks, solution accelerators, proofs of concept, and external customer facing products.

Improved agile software development practices and release management by creating Docker Containers from scratch.

Educated customers on Containerization solutions as part of the AWS Containers Area of Depth.

Deployed Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) and Cloud services into secure VNets and subnets.

Designed Network Security Groups (NSGs) to control inbound and outbound access to network interfaces (NICs), VMs and subnets.

Integrated on-premises Windows AD with Azure AD and configure multi-factor authentication.

Configured Availability Set for Azure VM’s (Fault and Update Domains)

Migrated SQL server databases and Websites from on-premises to Azure cloud.

J2EE frameworks (Spring etc.) with focus on Data Mutation/ Transformations.

Designed, both technically compliant and secure Cloud solutions, as well as value-based, on-demand services to facilitate the effective transition and migration of projects and programs into unique and adaptive cloud environment.

Maryland Healthcare Benefit January 2014 - December 2016

Cloud Engineer/DevOp

Evaluated, designed, developed and deployed additional technologies and automation for managed services on AWS. Worked with onboarding internal clients.

Investigated and debugged issues in the Database and Services you create and work with QA and Data Analysts to ensure highest quality within the system.

Created and executed a strategy to build mindshare and broad use of AWS within a wide range of customers and partners.

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Oversaw with Docker Containers and Kubernetes Cluster Technology.

Created Docker Containers leveraging existing Linux Containers and AMI's in addition to creating Docker Containers from scratch.

Educated customers on Containerization solutions as part of the AWS Containers Area of Depth.

Solution design for client opportunities in one or more AWS Competencies or general cloud managed services.

ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Njorku

Linux Engineer

Trustech

Linux Engineer

CERTIFICATIONS

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional Validation: https://www.credly.com/badges/d4bbf212-951b-4b81-811c-cc43bcee0daf/public_url.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Validation Number T9RMNJZ2CEQ1Q5CZ.

AWS Certified Developer- Associate Validation Number 6PLSBP221JEE1BWC.

Red Hat Certified System Administration Certificate No# 160-042-685.

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s In Computer Science, From University of Yaoundé (Cameroon)

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