Devops Engineer Senior

ETIENDEM EBESOH

Bowie, Maryland *****. 240-***-****. ********.**********@*****.***

Websites, Portfolios, Profiles: linkedin.com/in/etiendem-ebesoh-3b4299237

Professional Summary

Over 10 years of IT Industry experience with Configuration Management, Build, Deploy, Release Management and Quality Assurance.

Expertise in DevOps, Release engineering, Configuration, management, Cloud Infrastructure, Automation. Including Amazon Web Services (AWS, Ant, Apache Maven, Jenkins, Git/GitHub, Serena Products, Tomcat, JBoss, Linux, etc.

Implemented Continuous Integration and deployment using various CI Tools like Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, Hudson and Sonatyp Nexus

Expertise in branching, tagging maintaining the versions across the environments using Source Code Management (SCM) tools like Git/GitHub on Red Hart, Linux, Unix, and Windows environments.

Good understanding of the principles and best practices of Software Configuration Management in Agile, Scrum and Waterfall Methodologies.

Excellent understanding of source-code management principles and systems, particularly Git In-depth knowledge of applications and scripting like Shell, Python and Perl.

Expertise in Amazon EC2, IAM, Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing and other Services of the AWS structure.

Experience in using Tomcat Web Servers for deployments and for hosting tools.

Hands-on experience in creating and managing the various development and build platforms, and deployment strategies.

Ability in managing all aspects of the software configuration management processes including code compilation, packaging, deployment, release methodology and application configurations.

Team player with excellent interpersonal skills, self-motivated, dedicated and understanding the demands of 24/7 system maintenance and has very good customer support experience.

Technical Skills

Build Tools Ant, Maven & Gradle

Scripting Languages Shell, Java, python, Perl

Configuration Management Git, GitHub, Subversion

CI/CD Tools Jenkins, Hudson, Team city

Operating Systems Windows, Linux, Unix, RHEL

Change Management Service Now, Jira

Artifactory Repository Nexus, JFrog, S3

Monitoring Tools Prometheus & Grafana, New Relic, Cloud Watch

Deployment/Orchestration Docker Swarm, Kubernetes

Site Reliability Engineer, 03/2025 to Present

Apex Health Care – Lanham, MD

As an SRE currently, I focus more on ensuring the reliability, availability and performance of the company’s systems and services. My goal is to create a system that is reliable, resilient, scale-able, and efficient while balancing innovation and operational stability. Daily responsibilities for me include:

Monitoring and Incident Response: Continuous monitoring of the system health, respond to outages, and troubleshooting issues to minimize downtime.

Automation: Develop tools and scripts to automate repetitive tasks, deployment, and infrastructure management

Reliability and Performance Improvements: Analyze system performance metrics to identify areas for improvement and implement solutions.

Capacity Planning: Forecast future system requirements and ensure infrastructure can handle growth.

SLA and SLO Management: Define, measure, and maintain Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Objectives (SLOs).

Collaboration: Work closely with development teams to build reliable software and integrate reliability practices into the development life-cycle.

Skills and Tools used:

Programming language: Python, Bash

Cloud platforms: AWS

Monitoring tools: Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud watch

CI/CD pipelines: Jenkins

Containerization and Orchestration: Docker and Kubernetes

DevOps Build and Release Engineer, 03/2024 - 02/2025

Apex Health Care – Lanham, MD

Environment: Maven, Jenkins, Nexus, Bitbucket, Linux, Shellscript

My responsibilities includes the following:

Administer Git version control system: Creating users, repositories, branching, tagging, patch fixes, pull requests, and train users on Git version control system.

Assist team members on build deployment – receiving and running builds, troubleshooting issues to improve efficiency.

Leading the efforts to improve the existing Build and release processes with relative ease

Monitor the automated build and continuous integration process to ensure correct build execution, and facilitate resolution of build/ release failures.

Maintaining Jira for bug tracking and consistent monitoring

Perform build and release of all software cycles engineering, test, production, update, patches and maintenance

Write scripts in Ant to automate build process and Shell scripts to automate product deployments and updates.

Establish, document and enforce version control, build process guidelines and procedures. Perform demo’s on product deployments, updates and train new hires

Manage file storage, and transfer and create file archives for reuse by other projects.

Coordinate sometimes when our manager is not present, scrum plan meetings, daily meetings and stand-up meetings with different teams for managing product and process deployments

DevOps Release Engineer, 10/2022 to 11/2023

Assure Care, LLC – Cincinnati, OH

Setup Git, creating branches, tags, creating Users and Groups, assigning permissions.

Setup and configure Jenkins, created jobs for automating the build processes.

Setup and configure Tomcat, creating multiple instances of Tomcat.

Creating War files using builds.

Automate the build processes using Jenkins jobs.

Troubleshooting application related issues by log verification.

Deploying the services on the servers using deployment tools on Production, UAT, DEV, On-boarding, ER and testing servers

Verify deployment logs to check for successful deployments.

Debugging Builds and Release related issues.

Planning and documentation of the requirements.

Sending daily, weekly extracts to customers

Taking weekly back-ups

Client Interaction with high risk and doing smoke testing for same and fixing the related issues immediately.

Site Reliability Engineer, 11/2019 to 01/2020

Dominion Systems – Richards, TX

As an SRE, I performed the above role using the below key points to name a few:

Automating processes by bringing software engineering principles to infrastructure and operations problems focusing on automation.

Defined best practices to ensure software releases are consistent and repeatable.

Performed traditional operations functions such as being on call and jumping in at any time needed to answer and resolve problems faced by employees, etc.

Remained focused on developing software to make underlying systems more resilient, automated, and self-healing over time.

Vulnerability Analyst, 03/2019 to 05/2020

Morfaw Tax Solutions and Financial Services, LLC – Bowie, MD

Performed configuration and deployment of vulnerability scanning in network assessment tools such as Nessus, App-Detective and HP fortify, Wepinspect, Nmap scan.

Evaluate threats and vulnerabilities through Nessus scan results and work with IT team staff for mitigation actions for various cloud systems.

Create and track the corrective actions in the Plan of Action and Milestone (POA&Ms) of all risks identified in the Nessus tool upon completion of Security Control Assessment (SCA) for various cloud systems.

Responsible for making sure that any vulnerability information reported on various systems are tracked and updated using Service Desk application.

Worked to ensure that CIS benchmarks are implemented within the system with respective teams.

BLW Great Soppo Buea, Cameroon. July 2013 – 2018,

Worked as part of Service Planning Department in preparing prayer points, assigning leaders to take opening prayers and Rhapsody Ministration.

Worked at the PCU, managing Cell Activities/Reporting

Worked/Coordinated Church/Cells Follow Up Activities

Worked as one of the Church Data Analysts

Worked with Newly Pioneered Churches/Pastors in disseminating information/updates to and receiving feedback to the Church Head Office under Pastorate

Joined the Choir 2017 as I became part-time staff, trained my replacement while preparing to travel abroad in May 2018.

Worked as Church Staff in charge of all sales/distribution of ministry materials: all audio-visuals, Books, gadgets, Rhapsody of Realities, etc

Education.

Fundamentals of Visualization with Tableau: Database, 04/2022

University of California-Davis-Davis, CA

Introduction To Structured Query Language (SQL): Database, 05/2022

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, MI

CompTIA Security: Information Technology, 02/2019

Crest Consulting Group-Rockville, MD

Bachelor of Science: Computer Science, 11/2019

Landmark Metropolitan University-Buea, Cameroon

Bachelor of Science: Sociology and Anthropology, 11/2013

University of Buea-Buea, Cameroon

CERTIFICATIONS:

Security+

AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Udemy (In Progress)

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional 2025 – DOP-C02 (In Progress)

Azure DevOps Certified Professional (In Progress)

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