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NDE GERMAIN

Douala

Summary

Skilled and dedicated DevOps Engineer with a strong background in cloud infrastructure, automation, and software development. Expertise in designing and implementing scalable DevOps solutions that enhance continuous integration, delivery, and deployment practices. Thrives in fast-paced environments while fostering collaboration with professionals to drive organizational success. Passionate about sharing knowledge and exploring innovative opportunities within the DevOps community.

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

DevOps Engineer

Dominion Systems
04.2023 - Current
  • In Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design and implement CI /CD pipelines, resulting in a significant reduction in deployment time and increased overall efficiency.
  • Implemented monitoring and alerting systems, enabling proactive identification and resolution of issues, resulting in improved system reliability.
  • Streamlining application deployment by containerising applications using Docker and managing container orchestration with Kubernetes.
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management tools such as Anisible, reducing errors and enhancing scalability.
  • Led effort to migrate on –premises infrastructure to AWS /AZURE /GCP Cloud, resulting in improved scalability, availability, and cost optimization.
  • Conducted regular security audits and implemented security best practices to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of sensitive data.
  • Wrote Terraform manifest Yaml files to provision our infrastructure with EKS clusters, ec2 instances, IAM roles, VPC’s, S3 bucket, and other resources on AWS.
  • Coordinate/assist developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, labelling/naming conventions using GIT source control. Analyse and resolve conflicts related to merging of source code for GIT
  • We recently started deploying our applications into an EKS cluster rather than self-managed k8s clusters using Kubernetes or KOPS
  • Experience with container-based deployments using Docker, working with Docker images, Docker hub, and Docker registries, and configuring EKS clusters using Terraform.
  • Used Helm to simplify code writing to handle complex application deployment integrated with Jenkins
  • Architected and implemented continuous integration and deployment pipelines using Jenkins Performed package management, upgrades/patches, troubleshooting, maintenance, and monitoring of applications using Prometheus and Grafana.

System Administrator

Ministry of AGRICULTURE CAMEROON
09.2022 - 03.2023
  • Implemented and managed virtualization technologies, such as VMware, to consolidate server infrastructure and improve resource utilization.
  • Managed and maintained Linux/Windows server environments, ensuring high availability and optimal performance.
  • Monitored system performance and conducted performance tuning to optimize resource usage and ensure efficient operation.
  • Developed and executed backup and disaster recovery strategies, minimizing the risk of data loss and ensuring business continuity.
  • Provided technical support to end-users and resolved system-related issues in a timely manner.
  • Assisted in the evaluation and implementation of new technologies to improve system efficiency and productivity.
  • Created and maintained user/service accounts, passwords and profiles, home directories, initialization of files, group creation management.

Education

Computer Engineering

Landmark University
Buea

Skills

  • 3 years of experience in IT industry with experience in Systems Administrator, Software Configuration Management (SCM) and DevOps Engineer, Storage and Backup, Application production support engineer
  • Experienced and Innovative DevOps Engineer with expertise in Software Configuration, Building, Release Management, and Deploying Software Automation, Control & Environment Management activities in Web & Enterprise Application
  • Experience in Shell Scripting & Linux Administration
  • Well versed in maintaining the code base for each project using SCM tools like GitHub and GitLab
  • Worked with Java based build tools Maven and having extensive knowledge in writing pomxml respectively
  • Established Code Standards and Configuring Java based Quality Profile & Quality Gates in SonarQube Code Quality Analysis Tools as per client requirement
  • Experience in working with Nexus Artifactory Repository Managers for Maven builds
  • Experience in Configuring and Deploying applications in Tomcat & Jboss/WildFly application servers
  • Experience in using Apache web servers for deployments and hosting
  • Administration/Maintenance experiences in CI/CD tool like Jenkins
  • Hands on experience in Configuration Management tool Ansible, writing custom Ansible Playbooks in yml/yaml script to configure servers & deploying applications
  • Working experience in Docker Containerization tool and deployed applications using containers in various environments
  • Experience in working with Kubernetes Container Orchestration tool to deploy & maintain containers
  • Experience in Amazon AWS Cloud Administration which includes services like EC2, S3, EBS, EFS, VPC, ELB, AMI, IAM, Auto Scaling and Security Groups
  • Proficiency with Configuration Management tools & Build management tools such as Git, Jenkins, and Terraform
  • Operating Systems: REDHAT, CENTOS, Ubuntu, Windows
  • Version Control Tools: GIT
  • Build Management Tools: Maven
  • Scripting and programing Languages: Shell scripting, python, Bash
  • Application Servers: Apache Tomcat, JBoss /WildFly
  • Continuous Integration Tools: Jenkins
  • Configuration Management Tool: Ansible
  • Containerization tool: Docker
  • Cloud Services: AWS (Cloud Formation EC2, S3, EBS, EFS, ELB, IAM, VPC)
  • Iaac Tool: Terraform
  • System administration
  • Continuous integration systems
  • Teamwork and collaboration
  • Monitoring Tool: Prometheus and Grafana, New Relic
  • Static Code Analysis Tool: SonarQube
  • Artifactory Storage: Nexus, JFrog
  • Container Orchestration tools: Kubernetes/Docker Swarm
  • TICKETING Tool/documentation: JIRA/Confluence
  • Web Server: Nginx, HAProxy, Apache
  • Scripting languages

Certification

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer (Udemy)

LANGUAGE

Native proficiency in ENGLISH
Native proficiency in FRENCH

Personal Information

Title: DevOps Engr.|| Platform Engr.|| Cloud Engr.|| Infrastructure Engr.|| Build and Release Engr.

Work Preference

Work Type

Full Time

Location Preference

Remote

Timeline

DevOps Engineer

Dominion Systems
04.2023 - Current

System Administrator

Ministry of AGRICULTURE CAMEROON
09.2022 - 03.2023

Computer Engineering

Landmark University
NDE GERMAIN