Results-Driven DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Julius Tawe Massa

Gaffney, SC 864-***-**** *************@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

DevOps Engineer with over four years of experience building and maintaining AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployments using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Terraform, and Ansible. Skilled in Linux administration, Docker and Kubernetes, scripting, security scanning, and monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and Splunk. Brings 25 years of IT experience focused on reliable, secure, and operationally efficient platforms. SKILLS

• Operating Systems: Linux, the Debian and the Red Hat families, Windows

• Cloud Platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Compute Cloud (GCP), Microsoft Azure

• Version Control: Git, GitHub, workflows, GitOps

• CI/CD Tools: GitHub Actions

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Configuration Management

• Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Database support in Kubernetes

• Scripting & Programming: Bash, Python, PowerShell

• Monitoring, Logging and Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch

• Linux Administration: RedHat, Ubuntu, Alpine, Kernel Tuning, (error handling, complex logic, OS troubleshooting)

• Networking and Systems: Fundamentals of Networking (TCP/IP, DNS, VPNs, firewalls), Load balancing & reverse proxies (NGINX, HAProxy), Cloud networking

• Security & Compliance: Identity and Access Management (IAM), Secrets management like Vault and AWS Secrets Manager, Vulnerability scanning such as Aqua and Trivy

• SOFT SKILLS:: Communication, Teamwork, Critical thinking, Time management, Leadership, Adaptability, Project Management PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Cherokee County School District, SC 2020 - Present Cloud Engineer/ DevOps Engineer SC

• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management with Terraform and Ansible, ensuring secure, consistent, and repeatable deployments.

• Implement and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub Actions, integrating SonarQube for automated code quality checks and vulnerability assessments.

• Designed and implemented a unified monitoring solution by integrating CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana and Splunk for real-time monitoring, log analytics, and automatic alerting reducing MTTR by 35%.

• Created Ansible playbooks to automate EC2 configurations and tool installations, cutting manual configuration effort by 60%.

• Developed serverless user registration APIs with Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB, along with CloudFront-hosted S3 frontends.

• Implemented secure, scalable web hosting by configuring S3 buckets with IAM policies, delivering content via CloudFront, and managing custom domains using Route 53 and AWS Certificate Manager.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect, implement, and maintain automated builds, testing, production deployments, and infrastructure supporting the CI/CD strategy.

• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation, respond rapidly to critical production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement solutions to prevent recurrence.

• Employ GitOps practices with ArgoCD and Helm charts to manage Kubernetes applications, enabling declarative and automated application delivery workflows.

Millinaire Cyber Cafe Oct 2017 - Aug 2019

Linux System Admin / Cloud Engineer Douala-Cameroon

• Assisted with client onboarding and offboarding process as well as systems and users, created and maintained documentation for internal auditing.

• Designed and deployed secure, highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS to support scalable web applications across multiple environments (dev, test, prod).

• Automated cloud networking infrastructure, including VPCs, subnets, route tables, NAT gateways, and EC2 instances, with Terraform, reducing manual configuration effort by 70%.

• Deployed highly available and fault-tolerant web applications on AWS using EC2, RDS, and Auto Scaling, achieving 99.99% uptime.

• Handled various cases, escalations to other departments, and provided top-notch technical assistance to clients, such as answering inquiries and helping them utilize our products effectively.

• Secured cloud infrastructure by creating custom IAM roles and policies, enforcing least-privilege access, configuring VPC security groups and NACLs, and enabling AWS CloudTrail for audit logging and compliance tracking.

• Provided day-to-day operational support and performed systems administration tasks. Bamenda, Cameroon

• Wrote Bash shell scripts to automate monitoring, deployment, and backup tasks; used rsync and tar for disaster recovery and managed remote sessions, key-based authentication, and tunneling.

• Implemented monitoring and alerting solutions using Amazon CloudWatch and SNS notifications, improving system visibility and reducing incident response time.

• Collaborated with developers and QA engineers to troubleshoot cloud deployment issues, perform smoke testing, and document infrastructure setup and usage.

• Participated in on-call rotation and provided timely resolution to production incidents and service disruptions. CamWater Aug 2013 - Sep 2017

Data Analyst Douala-Cameroon

• Created and maintained Power BI dashboards and provided clients with actionable insight into their performance. Collaborated with business stakeholders to develop effective data solutions and additionally de-compiled and re-ran various ADF pipelines.

• Used Triggers in Azure Data Factory (ADF) to schedule the data pipelines. Designed and optimized complex SQL queries involving multiple joins (INNER, LEFT, RIGHT, FULL) to extract and consolidate data from various relational tables.

• Created and maintained reusable and stored procedures and functions that encapsulated business logic and utilized correlated subqueries to improve query processing's readability and modularity.

• Extracted, transformed, and analyzed data from relational databases using SQL, delivering insights that supported marketing strategies and presented findings to stakeholders through clear and concise reports, aiding strategic planning initiatives. Presbyterian Printing Pres (PLC) Cameroon May 2004 - Jul 2013 IT Technician/Support Staff Cameroon

• Regularly maintained and updated computer systems to ensure that all components were working properly. This involved performing patch and update procedures, as well as configuring new hardware.

• Identified and resolved various technical issues such as network connectivity problems and software and hardware malfunctions using a variety of tools and techniques while explaining complex technical data in a comprehensible manner.

• Implemented software and hardware installation processes, created and configured new components to improve the performance and usability of the system and data integrity, and ensured regular backups and restoration operations. EDUCATION

Irish University Business School

Bachelor’s degree, information technology

Paul’s Computer Institute

Diploma, Computer Hardware and Software

CERTIFICATIONS

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

• AZ-900: Azure Fundamentals

• DP-900: Azure Data Fundamentals

• AWS Solution Architect Associate (Certificate of Achievement – Simplilearn)

• Kubernetes for Absolute Beginners (Certificate of Completion – KodeKloud)

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (in progress)

• AWS Solution Architect Professional (in progress) REFERENCES

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