Senior DevOps Engineer - Cloud, CI/CD & Kubernetes Expert
Resume:
Idriss Touko Tchientcheu
**** ****** **, ****** ******, MD
************@*****.***
SUMMARY
Motivated and experienced DevOps Engineer with over 8 years of experience in CI/CD pipelines management, building & release management, AWS/Azure Cloud infrastructure, Docker Containers, Linux System Administration, Application Deployment in Kubernetes, Clusters and Infrastructure Automation and a proven track record of helping companies to improve sustainability, reduce overall costs, and configure the best approaches for the most seamless and effective production.
Strength with Infrastructure as Code concepts, with a preference for Azure Resource Manager (ARM) for defining and managing infrastructure. Deep knowledge of Microsoft Azure Service Offerings including Azure Virtual Machines (VMs), infrastructure, databases, serverless functions, web apps, Azure Monitor, Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS), and ACR (Azure Container Registry) which is a highly scalable and secure docker registry service.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Operating Systems: Windows servers (2012 -2019), Linux/Unix & RHEL administration, Red Hat Satellite, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian
Cloud Platforms:
-Azure: AkS, ARM, ACR, VM, VDI, Azure pipeline, SQL azure, AD azure, Azure devops …
- AWS: EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, ELB, S3, EBS, Code deploy
Infrastructure as Code : Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible
CI/CD : Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps
Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, AKS, EKS
Scripting/Services: Python, Bash, PowerShell, YAML, Argocd, Json, helm, maven, nodejs, Npm, homebrew
Monitoring/Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Nagios
Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
Version Control Systems: Git, Bitbucket, Azure Repos
Networking/Protocols: VPC, VPN, Load Balancers, Security Groups, DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, REST/SOAP, FTPS/SFTP
Security: IAM, Security Groups, Encryption, Security Compliance (HIPAA, GDPR)
Virtualization: VMware esxi, Virtual box
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
NetImpact strategies / USDA, Herdon,VA April 2025 — Present
Devops Engineer/ SRE Engineer
-Designed and implemented automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, and CircleCI, enabling rapid deployment and continuous delivery for microservices-based applications.
-Automated cloud infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and AWS CloudFormation, reducing manual setup time by 60% and ensuring consistent, repeatable deployments.
-Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design and implement a robust logging and monitoring solution using the ELK stack, Prometheus, and Grafana, improving system visibility and reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR)
-Deployed and maintained containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes, significantly reducing deployment time and ensuring a seamless rollback in case of failure.
-Integrated automated security checks into the CI/CD pipeline, using tools like SonarQube and OWASP ZAP, to ensure that code meets security standards before deployment.
-Implemented performance tuning for applications and infrastructure, using tools such as New Relic and Datadog to monitor system metrics and identify bottlenecks.
-Streamlined the deployment of serverless applications using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB, enabling cost-efficient scalability and reducing operational overhead.
-Created and managed hybrid cloud environments combining on-premises and cloud resources to ensure optimal resource utilization and minimize latency for critical applications.
-Worked with teams to implement a canary release strategy and blue-green deployment processes, reducing downtime and improving the reliability of production releases.
Compass Health Center, Silver Spring, MD March 2023 — march 2025
Cloud DevOps Engineer / Admin
Linux System maintenance and administration of RHEL 7 & 8, CentOS, and Ubuntu distributions
Automate tasks and processes with Bash Shell Scripting
Automated CI/CD pipeline build Integrating Jenkins, Maven, Jfrog Artifactory and SonarQube and deploying to the test environment
Used core Kubernetes concepts for Deployments, ReplicaSets, DaemonSet, Persistence Volume, Service, Ingress Controllers, Scaling, Rollout and Rollback of Applications
Continuous Integration & Delivery with Jenkins pipeline and deploying artifacts
Implemented infrastructure automation in AWS using Terraform modules
Used Docker to build, deploy, run, and containerize applications
Used Docker Compose and Docker Swarm to containerize Enterprise Applications
Used Grafana dashboard and Prometheus Alert Manager for monitoring Kubernetes Applications
Troubleshooting and Debugging Kubernetes environments
Used YAML file to manage and orchestrate Docker applications in the Kubernetes cluster
Created Kubernetes Deployments in YAML manifest, Services & Pods Using Kubectl
Deployed scalable Applications to the Kubernetes Cluster
Set up EKS Cluster in AWS and Deploy Applications on the EKS Cluster using AWS CLI
Set up the Docker environment, wrote Dockerfiles and created docker images.
Added Jenkins Webhook to Gitlab to ensure zero-click deployment for every push/commit
Used ARM template (Json) to create Azure services, while ensuring no changes were made to the existing infrastructure.
Implemented Azure services such as Azure AD services, IIS, Azure resources Manager, Azure Blob storage, Azure VM
Worked in deploying CI/CD system using Azure Devops on Kubernetes container environment, and for the runtime environment of CI/CD system to build test and deployment
Used Azure Devops services such as Azure Repos, Azure Boards, and Azure Test Plans to plan work and collaborate on code development, built and deployed application
Used shared Image Gallery to store the created images and built Azure pipelines in Azure Devops to implement all these services in Azure
Experience using Ansible Modules to execute Ad-Hoc commands, deploy applications, Ansible roles, Ansible Inventory hosts and writing Ansible playbooks
Experience with Linux package management of software releases, OS upgrades and installation using yum, apt.
Veracity Engineering, Washington DC January 2020 — February 2023
DevOps Engineer
Used Helm and Helm Charts to install Applications on the Kubernetes cluster.
Worked in highly collaborative operations team to streamline the process of implementing security confidential azure cloud environment and introduce best practices for remediation.
Understand the last features like (Azure DeVops OMS, NSG RULES,etc…) introduced by Microsoft Azure and utilized it for existing business applications.
Creating validating and reviewing solutions and effort estimates of converting existing workloads from classic to ARM based Azure Cloud environments.
Developed automation system using power shell scripts and Json templates to remediate the azure services.
Worked on git to maintain source code in Git and Github repo.
Created builds and releases pipelines in VSTS and done deployments using SPN (secure endpoint connection) for implementing CI/CD
Managing dependencies and artifacts with Azure Artifacts including NuGet, npm, and maven packages
Acted as build and release engineer, deployed the services by VSTS (Azure devops) pipeline. Created and maintain pipelines for all the applications.
Worked and implemented backup methodologies by Power shell scripts for Azure SQL Database, key vault, storage blobs, app services …
In-depth understanding of various Azure services, including Azure Virtual Machines (VMs), infrastructure
Set up AKS (azure Kubernetes service) Cluster in Azure and Deploy Applications on the AKS Cluster using Azure CLI
Used tools like Visual Studio community edition, visual studio code, power shell ISE and SQL server management studio.
Experience with GitOps (argocd) to automate the continuous deployment of microservices within our Kubernetes clusters.
Worked with 3 scrum teams.
Wrote shell script to handle server processing migrating applications from .Net to python monitoring applications and server performance with jenkins
Performed end point management and security management with Intune.
Used Perl & Shell scripts to automate build & release process, managed Maven project dependencies.
Provisioned IAM, RDS, EC2 instances, RDS, VPC, Subnets, Route Tables, S3 buckets, Security Group, Loadbalancers, Autoscaling resources in AWS
Installed and configured Kubernetes cluster with kubeadm and Kubectl on master and worker nodes
Provisioned a Web Application infrastructure in the AWS Cloud
Used Git and GitHub Actions in merging, branching, commits, pushing and stashing
Set up equipment and domain accounts for employee use, ensuring installation of appropriate software
CSAAC, Gaithersburg, MD January 2017 — November 2019
Linux System Admin
●Ensured the daily optimal performance of all computer systems.
●Set up equipment and domain accounts for employee use, ensuring installation of appropriate software.
●Instructed and provided training to employees in the proper use of IT related software and hardware.
●Create baseline images using intune for Windows/Linux OS workstations.
●Kickstart/Provisioning Linux workstations and installing security patches for security compliance.
●Linux Volume Management (LVM): Add new physical disks, create, and expand Logical volumes on Linux workstations.
●Used a ticket tracking system such as Service-now to access assigned tickets and close them.
●Perform system builds and integration of Windows/Linux workstation machines with identity management system (i.e. Active Directory)
●Active Directory account management implementation and administration.
●Provide LAN/WAN support by utilizing Microsoft remote software (Windows Remote Assistance WRA, RDP & Microsoft Team) for on premise and remote customers as required.
●Installation and configuration of customized, open source and vendor-based software on Linux and Windows operating systems.
●Utilized available tools, such as remote Assistance, email, public technical documentation, and guidance to resolve technical problems.
● SELinux/firewalld experience, configuration, and policy.
●Developing and overseeing the backup, replication and fail over strategies using infrastructure backup tools i.e., Veeam.
●Write and maintain custom ansible & bash shell scripts to increase systems efficiency and lower the human time on any tasks.
●Responsible for managing Linux native volume management (LVM) and disk management using SAN. NAS, iSCSI and other related Protocols.
●Strong Knowledge of Design, implementation, and support of networked systems and technologies such as NFS, SAMBA, DNS, DHCP.
●Apply patches, SCAP scan & STIGs to Linux/Windows server VMs in vSphere/AWS/Azure environment.
●Develop standards operation procedures for carrying out system and network operations.
●Deploy/provision new guest VMs in a vSphere/AWS/Azure environment.
CLEARANCE / EDUCATION / CERTIFICATIONS
- Active Public Trust clearance
-Bachelor’s degree in computer science: Institute University of Technology, Cameroon, 2013
-Azure Administrator associate (AZ-104), August 2023
-Aws Devops Professional, July 2023
-Comptia Security +, March 2023
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