Senior DevOps & AWS Cloud Engineer

ATSU EMMANUEL AKLIGO

Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer

Atlanta, GA 678-***-**** ************@*****.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/aakligo https://github.com/aakligo PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Senior DevOps and Cloud Engineer with 5+ years of experience automating, securing, and optimizing AWS infrastructure across enterprise environments at Delta Air Lines and Coca-Cola. Reduced deployment time by 40% through CI/CD pipeline improvements and cut manual operational overhead by 50%. Experienced in disaster recovery, observability, infrastructure troubleshooting, and multi- environment platform support. Documents operational processes and mentors junior engineers while consistently improving reliability, automation, and operational efficiency. CORE COMPETENCIES:

Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, Route 53, CloudFront, CloudWatch, ALB).

CI/CD & Deployment: GitHub Actions, CI/CD Pipelines, Azure DevOps (Pipelines, Artifacts, Boards), Bitbucket Pipelines, Maven, SonarQube.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, AWS CDK.

Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Amazon ECR, Azure Container Registry, Google Artifact Registry.

Configuration Management: Ansible, AWS Systems Manager (SSM).

Scripting & Automation: Bash/Shell Scripting, Python, PowerShell, AWS CLI.

Monitoring & Observability: AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, Datadog.

Version Control: Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure Repos.

Networking & Security: AWS VPC, DNS, TCP/IP, NAT Gateway, Route 53, Security Groups, AWS IAM, AWS Secrets Manager, Application Load Balancer (ALB), Network ACLs, AWS WAF, AWS Shield, SSL/TLS.

Operating Systems: Linux (Amazon Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL), Windows Server. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer

Delta Air Lines Atlanta, GA Sept 2024 – Present

Design, deploy, and support AWS infrastructure across Development, QA, and Production environments, maintaining high availability for critical workloads.

Collaborate with engineering teams to improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes, reducing deployment time by approximately 40% and improving release consistency.

Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, automating the provisioning of 20+ AWS resources across multiple environments.

Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure, application, deployment, and system issues across Development, QA, and Production environments, reducing issue resolution time by approximately 30%.

Support disaster recovery and business continuity initiatives, helping improve recovery readiness and reduce potential downtime by approximately 25%.

Automate 15+ routine operational tasks using Bash, Python, AWS CLI, Terraform, and Ansible, reducing manual intervention by approximately 50%.

Monitor and optimize DevOps tools and cloud infrastructure using AWS CloudWatch and other observability tools, reducing recurring infrastructure issues by approximately 25%. Cloud Administrator / Cloud Engineer

Coca-Cola Atlanta, GA Oct 2022 – Aug 2024

Administered AWS cloud infrastructure across Development, QA, and Production environments, supporting consistent uptime and operational stability for business-critical workloads.

Automated cloud infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform, reducing deployment time by approximately 40% while improving environment consistency and repeatability.

Implemented proactive infrastructure monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting using CloudWatch and centralized observability tools, reducing issue resolution time by approximately 30% and improving system visibility.

Managed AWS networking, security, backup, disaster recovery, and access controls, including VPCs, subnets, security groups, NACLs, NAT gateways, and IAM roles, while supporting incident response and root cause analysis.

Linux Administrator

Home Depot Atlanta, GA June 2021 – Sept 2022

Administered Amazon Linux, Ubuntu, and RHEL across Development, QA, and Production environments, helping maintain 99% system availability.

Installed, configured, patched, and troubleshot Linux systems, Nginx/Apache web servers, services, and software packages using YUM, APT, and DNF.

Automated routine Linux administration and configuration tasks using Bash/Shell scripting, Python, and Ansible, reducing repetitive manual work by approximately 30%.

Managed Linux users, groups, SSH access, file permissions, processes, systemd services, logs, CPU, memory, and disk utilization while following security and least-privilege practices. EDUCATION:

Georgia Piedmont Technical College Clarkston, GA A.A.S., Database Specialist 2025 University of Lomé Togo B.S. in Mathematics 2008 CERTIFICATIONS:

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate 2023 AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional 2024

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