Annie kwengoua nkuinguen
Austin Texas
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SUMMARY.
Dedicated and experienced DevOps Engineer with over 8 years of hands-on experience in
designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable and efficient CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure
as code, and automation solutions. Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams to
streamline development and operations processes. Expert at leveraging technologies,
containerization, and automation to contribute to a dynamic and innovative organization.
dynamic individual who works well under pressure and actively pursues trends in the industry
and professional development activities.
SKILLS.
• Experience building Kubernetes Operators to automate and manage complex
applications.
• Experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters.
• Experience with Kubernetes functionality extension through custom plugins, controllers,
or extensions to cover specific requirements.
• Deep experience with Kubernetes architecture, components, and how they interact.
• Experience with AWS cloud platform and all its major services: (VPC, EC2, IAM, RDS, S3)
• Infrastructure automation using Terraform, CloudFormation and Ansible
• Great experience writing scripts with Bash Shell, PowerShell, and Python
• Experience configuring and maintaining Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Version Control and Collaboration using Git and GitHub
• Network fundamentals (TCP, UDP, HTTP, DNS...)
• Experience with Administration and troubleshooting of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk.
• Excellent Leadership skills: Training, coaching of junior level engineers.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Great attention to details.
• Fast learner and ability to pitch in and help solve issues as they arise.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE.
Data Services Group Bear DE. USA
Sr DevOps Engineer. Feb 2019 – Present
• Set up Kubernetes clusters in different environments (QA, UAT, Production).
• Perform the deployment management and maintenance of K8S clusters.
• Build Kubernetes operators to automate and manage stateful applications.
• Create, manage, and tune database high-availability cluster infrastructure.
• Lead the implementation and Maintenance of system infrastructure high availability.
• Lead the Design and Building of CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins.
• Integrate automated code testing with SonarCloud into the pipeline, resulting in faster
feedback loops and higher code quality.
• Modularize and maintain a reusable and testable architecture code with terraform.
• Lead the maintenance and upgrades on development platforms and tools.
• Advise on best practices for scaling, alerting, and security.
• Automate routine processes using Python and bash shell scripting.
• Manage data storage using RDS: MySQL and PostgreSQL
• Implement tools to monitor critical infrastructure.
• Manage production reliability to keep systems operating at high availability level.
• Ensure security compliance is maintained.
DR Financial Services. Houston, TX. USA
Cloud Engineer. Apr-2017 to Feb-2019.
• Design and implement scalable, reliable, and secure cloud architectures on AWS.
• Define cloud-based solutions that meet business and application requirements.
• Generate code to create IAM resources using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Configure and manage resources such as (EC2, EBS, S3, Route 53, RDS, IAM, EFS, ELB,
VPC, SNS, Auto-scaling, CloudWatch etc )
• Set up AWS CloudFront for content delivery network (CDN)
• Set up and manage Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) and networking components.
• Collaborate with development teams to understand application requirements and
provide cloud-related guidance.
• Communicate effectively with cross-functional teams, including DevOps, security, and
operations teams.
• Set up IAM users, groups, login ID's, password,
• resolving permissions issues, user, and group quota.
DR Financial Services. Houston, TX. USA
Linux system administrator. Apr-2016 to Feb-2017.
• Installation, Administration and troubleshooting of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• RPM and YUM package installations, patch, and other server management.
• Set up user and group login ID's, printing parameters, network configuration, password,
• resolving permissions issues, user, and group quota.
• Monitoring system resources, logs, disk usage, scheduling backups and restore.
• Install, configure, and manage LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) stacks.
EDUCATION.
University of Dshang Cameroon
September 2015: Bachelor of Management in Quality Assurance.
Trainings and certifications
- CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator,
- CKS: certified kubernetes security specialist.