DevOps & Cloud Engineering Leader with Automation Excellence

Steve Ntsafack

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DevOps & Cloud Engineering Leader

Transforming Infrastructure with Automation, Scalability, and Security

Professional Summary

Innovative DevOps and Cloud Engineer with 5+ years of expertise in designing, automating, and optimizing cloud-native infrastructures. Proven track record of driving 40%+ efficiency gains in CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) deployments. Adept at bridging development and operations to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions on AWS, Azure, and hybrid environments.

Core Competencies:

•CI/CD Pipeline Automation (Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)

•Cloud Architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP) Kubernetes & OpenShift Management

•Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation)

•Observability & Monitoring (Grafana, Dynatrace, Prometheus, ELK Stack, CloudWatch, DataDog, New Relic)

•Microservices, Containerization (Docker, Docker Compose, Helm, ArgoCD)

•Security & Compliance (IAM, SIEM, DevSecOps)

•Networking (VPNs, DNS, SSL certificates, Firewalls, TCP etc)

•Scripting & APIs (Python, Golang, Bash, PowerShell)

•Linux (Ubuntu, CentOs, RHEL, Denbian)

•Salesforce

•AI tools/ML

Key Achievements

40% Faster Deployments: Redesigned CI/CD pipelines, slashing release cycles from 2 weeks to 1 week.

70% Infrastructure Automation: Eliminated manual errors via Terraform/Ansible, ensuring consistency across 5+ environments.

99.9% Uptime: Scaled Kubernetes clusters to handle 200% load spikes while maintaining reliability.

Cost & Resource Optimization: Reduced cloud spend by 25% through right-sizing and auto-scaling strategies.

Professional Experience

HCA Healthcare Software Engineer DevOps Sep 2023 – Present

•Azure Cloud & CI/CD: Spearheaded Jenkins-based pipelines, cutting deployment time by 40% and enabling weekly releases.

•Kubernetes Optimization: Managed OpenShift clusters and ArgoCD, boosting uptime by 25% and resource efficiency.

•Observability: Built Dynatrace dashboards for real-time monitoring of microservices and hybrid cloud environments. Design and implement a comprehensive monitoring solution using Prometheus and Grafana Cloud, enabling real-time visibility into applications and infrastructure performance.

•MS SQL: Perform databases defragmentation while optimizing the entire SQL, queries, improving database performance and loading speed by 70%.

•DevSecOps: Partnered with security teams to enforce compliance (SOC2, HIPAA) in CI/CD workflows.

•Deploy and manage Python, Golang applications on cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)

EK Tech Software Solutions DevOps Cloud Engineer Nov 2020 – Sep 2023

•Infrastructure as Code: Automated 50+ servers via Terraform/Ansible, reducing manual errors by 30%.

•AWS/Azure Scalability: Deployed EC2, S3, RDS, and Lambda architectures, supporting 200% traffic growth.

•CI/CD with Harness: Design, build, and maintain Harness pipelines for Salesforce services

•Containerization: Streamlined Docker/Helm deployments, achieving 3x/week release frequency.

•Collaborate with architects, developers, QA, and release managers to unblock teams and ship faster.

Site Reliability Engineer Feb 2019 – Nov 2020

•Monitoring: Designed CloudWatch alerts and SNS workflows, reducing incident response time by 50%. Developed custom Grafana dashboard and alerts to monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and proactively identify issues, leading to reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR).

•Disaster Recovery: Automated AWS backups and snapshots, ensuring 100% data integrity.

•Integrate Databricks with keys AWS services including S3, Redshift, and Lake Formation for comprehensive data lake solutions and use AWS CloudFormation for infrastructure as code to deploy and manage Databricks and AWS resources.

Certifications

•AWS Certified Solutions Architect Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

•Red Hat Certified Engineer (Ansible) CompTIA Security+

•Google Data Analytics Microsoft Azure Kubernetes (AKS)

Technical Skills

Cloud: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, Security Groups, IAM), Azure (AKS, DevOps), GCP

DevOps: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes

Monitoring: Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, ELK, Splunk, New Relic

Languages: Python, Golang, Bash, PowerShell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js

Education

MS in Business Analytics Texas A&M University-Commerce (2022)

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