Devops Engineer Cloud

GIDEON ESOMONU

Topeka, Kansas. USA 405-***-**** ********@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/gideon-esomonu CLOUD ARCHITECT CLOUD ENGINEER DEVOPS ENGINEER AWS AND AZURE CERTIFED. Platform Engineering Cloud Security Database Cloud Migration. A Multi-Cloud Architect, Cloud Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, and Cloud Security Engineer with several years of experience architecting, implementing, managing securing, and observing cloud-native solutions on AWS and Azure Platforms. Skilled in infrastructure as code automation (Terraform, CloudFormation and Azure Resource Manager), CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions), and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes). Known for optimizing system performance, scalability, and reliability while reducing costs by over 30%. PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

• Cloud-Native Models, AWS, AWS Code Pipeline, Azure Pipeline, AWS CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager, Microservices (Docker and Kubernetes), EKS, AKS, ECR, ACR, ECS, Linux and Windows OS, RHEL/Ubuntu, ElasticSearch, DMS, VMware, CloudFront.

• CICD Tooling, Github Actions, Jira, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Version Control (Git), GitHub/Gitlab, Maven, Gradle, Nexus, SonarQube, Trivy, Splunk, Prometheus and Grafana, ELK, Spring Boot, Nginx SDLC, Datadog, GitOps, ArgoCD, Nagios, MS 365.

• Automation, Python/Shell-scripting, JSON/YAML, Terraform, Ansible, AWS CDK, Lambda, Java, AWS Fargate, Serverless, API, RDS, AWS Kinesis, S3, VPC, VPN, Vnet, EC2/VMs, SNS/SQS, SES, IAM, Entra-ID, OKTA, AWS Security Hub, Encryption, Amazon CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Hashicorp Vault, Secrets Manager, AWS CloudTrail, Eventbridge, AWS GuardDuty, AWS Config, Route53, ELB, NIST, AWS Service Catalog.

• Alerting, Analytical Thinking, Troubleshooting, Communication and Collaboration, Leadership, Cost Optimization,. Observability, Root Cause Analysis, BCDR, Incident Management. WORK EXPERIENCE

ChamcoDigital- End-Client: AXIANTA Financial Partners May 2019 – present Cloud Engineer/DevSecOps Engineer

Championed end-to-end DevSecOps transformations, leveraging automation, security best practices, and cloud-native architectures to drive secure, scalable, and efficient software delivery across AWS and Azure environments.

• Utilize Terraform to provision and manage cloud infrastructures, reducing infrastructure provisioning time by 50%. This resulted in faster deployment times and reduced the risk of human error.

• Implemented DevSecOps best practices, integrating security approval gates, automated vulnerability assessments, and compliance validation into CI/CD pipelines to enhance application security and ensure regulatory adherence.

• Spearheaded a DevOps initiative post-migration, incorporating CI/CD pipelines that accelerated product release cycles and improved cross-team collaboration.

• Developed and deployed cloud-native applications on AWS and Azure, ensuring high availability, scalability, and adherence to enterprise security standards..

ChamcoDigital. End-Client: Bidolis Global LLC

Cloud Platform/DevOps Engineer, Security Engineer

Established and maintained robust data backup and disaster recovery protocols, resulting in zero data loss incidents over a 12-month period.

• Created and refined feedback mechanisms to provide real-time security insights to development teams, resulting in a 20% faster turnaround for threat resolution and enhanced application security integrity.

• Enhanced security settings across multi-cloud environments, achieving reduction in security incidents through the introduction of advanced threat protection and access controls.

• Set and maintained consistent DevSecOps practices, ensuring smooth and secure deployments of software and applications into cloud environments, resulting in a 90% reduction in security incidents and improved compliance by 28%.

• Formulated and executed strategic risk mitigation plans involving sophisticated encryption and access control systems, reducing the incidence of security breaches in cloud environments by over 30%. ChamcoDigital. End-Client: KC Gaming Limited

Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Implemented CI/CD pipelines for cloud infrastructure, automating infrastructure changes and deployments and reducing manual errors significantly.

• Optimized AWS infrastructure, reducing costs by 25% with automated scaling and spot instances, maintaining

• 99.99% availability.

• Leveraged Terraform to automate cloud infrastructure provisioning and management, achieving a 50% reduction in infrastructure provisioning time.

• Engineered a disaster recovery strategy on Azure, reducing downtime and ensuring data integrity with automated backups, supporting global business continuity. Hanger Clinic

Technical Consultant, AWS Cloud Engineer July 2010 – April 2019 Implemented AWS Cloud backup for disaster recovery planning, achieving a 99.95% data recovery success rate, measured through recovery point objectives and data integrity assessments.

• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define and implement IaC strategies, ensuring consistency and compliance across cloud environments.

• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to implement proactive monitoring and alerting systems, reducing downtime by 15% and improving incident response time by 30%.

• Implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC), resulting in a 40% reduction in provisioning time and a 50% decrease in human error incidents.

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION

Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology. Associate of Science.

Delta State University

Bachelor of Science.

DevOps Engineer - Professional Certification. (2026) Amazon web Services.

Azure Administrator Associate Certification. (2025) Microsoft. Microsoft DevOps Engineer. – Expert. (2025) Microsoft. Certified Terraform Associate 003. (2025) Hashicorp. HIPAA Compliance Certification. (2025) DHHS.

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