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AWS Cloud Engineer | AWS Solutions Architect | DevOps Engineer
Professional Summary
A highly motivated, dedicated and results-driven certified Solutions Architect and DevOps Engineer Professional
with over 7 years of IT experience in the cloud space. Proficiency in Linux distributions (RedHat, CentOs, Ubuntu)
and AWS (S3, IAM, RDS, EC2, VPC, ELB, CDN, MGN, Route 53, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, GuardDuty, Shield,
Direct Connect, Systems Manager).
Expertise in supporting, automating and optimizing critical application deployments in the cloud leveraging
configuration management, CI/CD and DevOps processes through the SDLC. Long track record of assessing
business requirements at the enterprise level, architecting and managing cloud driven solutions that are highly
available, fault tolerant, scalable while effectively building rapport with clients to optimize cost, enhance security
and drive efficiency. Successfully directed and executed projects in cloud migration, scalability, cloud security,
disaster recovery and a multiservice application deployment.
Solid foundation of academic trainings and certifications, excellent time management, effective communication
skills, strong analytical/troubleshooting/problem-solving skills and excellent leadership skills. Current interest is in
cloud platforms, cloud security, containerization, application deployment and cost optimization.
Education
AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA) Course | 2016
AWS Developer Associate (DVA) Course | 2017
Post Graduate Diploma in Resource Management | University of Heidelberg | March 2014
Master of Biostatistics | University of Yaounde 1, | Sept 2009 - June 2012
Bachelor of Computer Science | University of Buea, Cameroon | Oct 2004 June 2008
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA)
Technical Writing
Proof of Concept document
High level design documentation
Low level design documentation
Solution definition document
Technical skills and Technology stack
Cloud Orchestration/ Automation: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Lambda, Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS,
AWS Systems Manager, AWS SSM parameter Store, Event bridge, GitHub, Jenkins to cut application deployment time
by 50%.
Application Delivery: Jenkins, Bitbucket, AWS Code Pipeline, AWS Code Commit, AWS Code Build, AWS Code
Deploy to improve application delivery time by 40%
DevOps Tools: Ansible, Maven, Nexus, JFog, SonarQube, Splunk, Jira, Confluence
AWS Migration and Transfer: Phases (Access, Mobilize, Migrate, Modernize). Leveraged AWS Application Migration
Service, Tools (Application Discovery Service, Cloud Adoption Readiness Tool, Migration Hub, Database Migration
Services) for seamless migration and non-disruption of services.
Monitoring and Event Management: AWS CloudWatch, AWS SNS, AWS S3, Prometheus, Grafana
Identity and Access Management: Applied AWS Organization, AWS IAM, AWS Cognito, AWS Secrets Manager,
AWS Single Sign-On (SSO), Active Directory to restrict and protect access to on premise and cloud infrastructure based
on the principle of least privilege.
AWS Security: AWS Security Hub, AWS Inspector, AWS Firewall Manager, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Shield, AWS Guard
Duty, AWS WAF, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Key Management Service (KMS), VPC Flow Logs, Security Groups,
NACLs. Cut security breaches by 80%
Governance and Compliance: Used AWS Config Rules, AWS Organization, AWS Control Tower, AWS Trusted
Advisor, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Systems Manager, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Well Architected Tool, AWS Budgets,
AWS License Manager.
Programming Languages: JSON, Java, Python and YAML
Scripting Language: Shell Scripting
Networking: Deployed VPC, IGW, TGW, CGW, VGW, NGW
Image and Patch: AWS SSM Patch Manager, AWS Golden AMI Pipeline
Storage: Appropriately used Elastic Block Storage (EBS), Elastic File System (EFS), S3 (Simple Storage Service),
Amazon FSx for Windows file server to cut storage cost by 50% by storing data in their appropriate storage classes.
Database: DynamoDB, AWS Aurora, AWS Redshift, RDS, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server
Data Protection: AWS Certificate Manager, AWS KMS, Snapshot Lifecycle Manager, AWS Cloud HSM
AWS Platform: ELB, SNS, SQS, SES, Route 53, CloudFront, Service Catalog, Autoscaling, AWS Trusted Advisor,
AWS CloudWatch, Event Bridge.
Professional Experience
AWS Solutions Architect | GoodRx | October 2021 - Present
Collaborated with development teams to design highly available and scalable architectures for web
applications leveraging AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, and CloudFront, meeting 99.99% uptime SLA.
Provided technical guidance and training to cross-functional teams on AWS cloud technologies, empowering
them to make informed decisions and optimize resource utilization.
Collaborated with clients to understand their business requirements and design scalable, cost-effective AWS
cloud architectures.
Conducted architecture reviews and provided recommendations to optimize performance, security, and cost-
efficiency.
Designed/developed aspects of migration journey - assess, mobilize, and migrate phase including leveraging
CART, ADS, Migration Evaluator, DMS, Application Discovery Service and Application Migration Service.
Implemented security best practices in AWS including access key rotation, multi-factor authentication, firewalls,
role-based permissions, enforced strong password policy, configure security groups and NACLs, S3 bucket
policies.
Managed and monitored all installed systems for highest level of availability.
Built high-performing, available, resilient, and efficient 3-4 tier architecture for customer applications, and
performed reviews for architecture and infrastructure builds following AWS best practices using IaC tools like
terraform, Cloud Formation
AWS Network: Provisioned and used VPC (subnets, IGW, NACLs, Security Groups), VCP Peering, VPC
Endpoints, NAT-GW, Transit-GW, VPN, Direct Connect
Managed user authentication and authorization access in a large enterprise
environment using AWS Organization, and Control Tower. Enforced Multifactor authentication (MFA)
Created and added users, groups, roles within the environment and assigned the appropriate IAM policies,
In-line policies, Service Role policies, Resource-based and identity-based policies, Cross-account roles,
Assumed roles, User access management.
Architected preventive guardrails using Service Control Policies, and detective guardrails using AWS
Config.
Managed GitHub repositories/permissions including branching and tagging.
Created CI/CD pipelines for Microservices and integrated them with open-source tools like Jenkins,
Bitbucket, GitHub Actions.
Developed comprehensive documentation for technical specifications, project plans, and user guides,
streamlining communication across teams.
Broke down technical ideas and issues into non-technical terms for business executives.
Promoted collaboration between cross-functional teams by serving as liaison between developers,
product managers, and stakeholders during all phases of projects.
Enhanced application performance by integrating cloud technologies and microservices architecture.
Increased security measures by implementing robust authentication and encryption protocols, protecting
sensitive data from potential breaches.
Reduced time-to-market by automating deployment processes using CI/CD pipelines.
Championed a culture of continuous improvement by conducting code reviews and providing constructive
feedback to peers.
Organized and led tech talks within the organization, sharing knowledge and sparking discussions around
new technologies and best practices.
AWS Cloud Engineer | Costco | June 2019 September 2021
Developed Terraform modules to automate the provisioning of AWS infrastructure, reducing deployment time
by 50%.
Achieved infrastructure consistency and repeatability by migrating manual provisioning processes to
Terraform.
Reduced build and deployment times by 40% by optimizing Jenkins pipeline configurations and parallelizing
build stages.
Implemented automated testing suites, resulting in a 30% reduction in post-deployment issues and improved
software quality.
Enhanced system visibility by deploying Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring, leading to proactive issue
detection and resolution.
Implemented alerting thresholds in AWS CloudWatch, reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR) for critical
incidents by 20%.
Implemented AWS Security Hub to centralize security findings and automate compliance checks, achieving
compliance with industry standards.
Led the implementation of multi-factor authentication (MFA) for AWS IAM users, enhancing access control
and data security.
Designed and implemented multi-region failover architecture in AWS, increasing system resilience and
minimizing downtime during outages.
Conducted regular disaster recovery drills and documented runbooks, ensuring readiness for potential
disasters and reducing recovery time objectives (RTOs).
Reduced time-to-market, automating build, test, and deployment pipelines using CI/CD tools.
Maintained up-to-date documentation on system configurations, processes, policies, and procedures to
ensure knowledge transfer within the team.
AWS Cloud Engineer | United Healthcare | March 2017 May 2019
Designed and implemented fully automated continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD)
pipelines using AWS Code Pipeline and Jenkins, resulting in an 85% reduction in manual intervention and
faster time-to-market for applications.
Used CI/CD pipeline tools like Git/GitHub, Apache Maven, SonarQube, Nexus, AWS CLI, Ansible, Grafana,
GitHub webhooks and Slack/Jira for project management and continuous feedback.
Lead the migration of legacy on-premises infrastructure to AWS cloud, resulting in a 40% reduction in
operational costs and a 60% increase in scalability.
Implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using AWS CloudFormation and Terraform to provision and
configure infrastructure in AWS Cloud including; VPC, Route53, Private and Public subnets, route tables, IGW,
EC2 Instances, IAM, ELB, Autoscaling, CloudWatch, EFS, NFS, EBS, S3, Databases, Lambda security
groups, NACLS.
Orchestrated containerized applications to break up monolithic app into microservices, improving developer
workflow, increasing scalability, and optimizing speed using Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service) and
Kubernetes, leading to a 30% improvement in application availability and reliability.
Worked with developers, architects, system administrators and other stakeholders to architect and configure
Dev, Stage and Prod environments with AWS resources like VPC, subnets, Security groups, EC2 instances,
load balancer, Database, Route53.
Setup Ansible control and slave nodes and developed playbooks and automation scripts to automate the
configuration of servers across environments.
Performed applications installation, upgrades/patches, troubleshooting, maintenance, and monitoring servers.
Implemented monitoring and logging solutions using AWS CloudWatch and Elasticsearch, reducing incident
response time by 40%.
Configured Kubernetes Clusters ensuring auto scaling and load balancing of nodes/pods. Also configured
namespaces for different environments.
Made use of cloud security tools like CloudWatch, CloudTrail, WAF, IAM, Inspector, VPC Flow logs, Cloud
shield for infrastructure security and KMS Encryption for data security
Automated daily backups of critical data using AWS S3, reducing risk of data loss by 80% in case of system
failures.
Participated in architectural discussions to build confidence and promote customer success when developing
new and migrating existing applications, software and services on AWS platform.
Implemented security best practices in AWS including multi-factor authentication, access key rotation,
encryption using KMS, firewalls, security groups, Role based access control (RBAC) and NACLs, S3 bucket
policies and mitigating DDOS attacks using AWS Shield.
Configured bastion hosts to securely connect to instances running in our private subnet on AWS.
Designed/developed aspects of migration journey - assess, mobilize, and migrate phase including leveraging
CART, ADS, Migration Evaluator, DMS.
Actively managed, improved, and monitored cloud infrastructure on AWS Cloud including backups, patches,
and scaling.
Participated in recruitment, onboarding and training of new recruits.
Recommend or introduce new technology, attend compliance training or job-related seminars.
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