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Zara Nkeng Mayimfor

Chestermere

Summary

Critical thinking DevOps Engineer with extensive understanding of CI/CD concepts and high availability architecture. 4+ years of hands-on experience supporting, automating and optimizing mission critical deployments in AWS, leveraging configuration management, CI/CD, and DevOps processes.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

DevOps Engineer

Good Chemistry
09.2022 - 01.2024
  • Work with software team and scientist to create software solutions
    to enable clients simulate and predict chemical properties of compounds.
  • Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins to integrate Git, Terraform, Slack, Docker and deploy to EKS(AWS)
  • Configure and administer EKS clusters to
    deploy highly available and scalable software service - provisioning
    cluster, maintaining manifest scripts, monitoring with AWS Cloudwatch Container Insights and Fluentbit, resource quota allocation using HPA
  • Implement and maintain Terraform scripts to automate cloud infrastructure
    provisioning at scale - EKS, VPC, Route53, EC2, ELB, S3 and JCasC(Jenkins configuration as code)
  • Implemented security best practices in AWS using IAM, firewalls-security groups, RBAC and NACLs, S3 bucket policies and Cloud Trail.

DevOps Engineer

Dominion Systems Inc
01.2020 - 08.2022
  • Worked with cross-functional design teams to create software solutions that improved overall functionality, deployment to production and performance.
  • Design CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins to integrate Git, Maven, Sonarqube, Nexus, Terraform, Ansible, Docker and deploy to EKS.
  • Configure and administer Kubernetes cluster (EKS) to deploy highly available and scalable federated microservices - provisioning clusters, maintaining manifest scripts, monitoring with Prometheus & Grafana, resource quota allocation using HPA
  • Monitoring automated build and continuous software integration process to drive build/release failure resolution.
  • Implement and maintain Terraform scripts to automate cloud infrastructure provisioning at scale - EKS, VPC, Route53, EC2, ELB, Private and Public subnets, and S3.
  • Implemented security best practices in AWS-VPC including firewalls- security groups, RBAC and NACLs, S3 bucket policies and mitigating DDoS attacks.
  • Write Ansible playbooks to configure and commission cloud infrastructure .

Build and Release Engineer

Zinger Systems
05.2017 - 11.2018
  • Monitored automated build and continuous software integration process to drive build/release failure resolution.
  • Containerized microservices using Docker and deploy to production.
  • Setup Jenkins pipelines to automate integration and delivery services to staged and production servers
  • Managing and backing up artifacts on Nexus and Dockerhub
  • Managing Git repositories on GitHub

Education

Bachelor of Science -

University of Buea
Buea, Cameroon
07.2017

Skills

  • Expertise in supporting multiple projects during builds and release process
  • Experience troubleshooting build failures, application failures and performance issues in prod and sandbox environments
  • Hands-on experience with build tools such as Maven
  • Adept in software containerization and container orchestration using Docker, Kubernetes and EKS
  • Adept in automating build processes using Jenkins
  • Experienced in running code static analysis using SonarQube
  • Working knowledge of AWS Cloud DevOps(EC2, VPC, Route53, S3, ELB, EKS, IAM, ASGs)
  • Working Knowledge in provisioning and configuring cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible
  • Good knowledge setting up and using artifact repositories like Nexus
  • Hand-ons experience with version control tools like Git, GitHub
  • Basic knowledge of scripting in Bash
  • Good working experience on Linux and Mac operating systems
  • Experienced working in a fast-paced agile team using Agile Scrum methodologies

Timeline

DevOps Engineer

Good Chemistry
09.2022 - 01.2024

DevOps Engineer

Dominion Systems Inc
01.2020 - 08.2022

Build and Release Engineer

Zinger Systems
05.2017 - 11.2018

Bachelor of Science -

University of Buea
Zara Nkeng Mayimfor