Gloria Effah
Development
texas, United States
Skills
DevOps
About
GLORIA ASANTEWAA EFFAH's skills align with Consultants and Specialists (Information and Communication Technology). GLORIA also has skills associated with Programmers (Information and Communication Technology). GLORIA ASANTEWAA EFFAH has 8 years of work experience.
Work Experience
DevOps Engineer / Cloud security Engineer
Security Groups
September 2020 - Present
- * Provisioned Complex Automated CI/CD pipelines using multiple interconnected tools. * Collaborates closely with development teams and ensures alignment with overall business goals. * building and maintaining AWS infrastructure (VPC, EC2, Security Groups, NACLS, DNS, IAM, ECS, CodeDeploy, CloudFront, S3, Virtual Machines (VM's), SQL, Amazon Relational Database Service AWS RDS, Subnets. * Proficient in configuring and managing Ingress Controllers to handle inbound network traffic, route requests, and provide load balancing for services within Kubernetes clusters. * Maintaining and improving the team's workflow and working with senior developers to propose ideas and establish priorities. * Implementing security as code principles to ensure security measures are integrated into the CI/CD pipeline. * Develop and maintain security policies and procedures in accordance with ISO 27002, ensuring a consistent and robust security framework. * Conduct regular reviews to assess compliance with SOX requirements, implementing controls to mitigate risks associated with financial data. * Embraces emerging technology opportunities and contributes to the best practices in support of the bank's technology transformation. * Using of Kafka for as an event sourcing platform, as a messaging system, to aggregate logs from multiple sources and store them, to collect metrics from various sources and stream processing. * Configured and managed Ingress Controllers to handle inbound network traffic, route requests, and provide load balancing for services within Kubernetes clusters. * Skilled in extending the Kubernetes API using Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) to define and manage custom resources and controllers, enabling seamless integration of custom functionality into Kubernetes clusters. * Maintaining comprehensive documentation of cloud infrastructure, configurations, and processes. * Responsible for ensuring all aspects of product development follow compliance and security best practices. * Working closely with DevOps, Development, and IT teams to streamline processes and improve overall efficiency. * Experienced in cloud infrastructure management and focusing on production service operations. * designing, implementing, and maintaining microservices architecture. * Designed and implemented AWS CloudFormation templates for provisioning and managing infrastructure resources. * experience with ticketing systems such as Jira and Trello. * Using Docker for containerization with Docker Swarm and Kubernetes for container orchestration. * Configured Kubernetes Clusters ensuring auto scaling and load balancing of nodes/pods. * Architecting and implementing tools that enable developers to self-serve for operational tasks, enterprise platform tools. * Automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform and Ansible with Dynamic Inventory. * Overseeing the day today remediation of critical issues and determine and implement permanent corrective actions. * Collaborating with cross-functional teams in troubleshooting and debugging performance-related issues. * Refactor and migrate enterprise and business applications running on-premises to the public cloud. * Build Release Engineering and configuration management which includes environment setup, build automation, continuous integration, Scripting, and deployments. * Defining processes used to perform development work supporting the Agile framework. * Maintaining, improving, and adding to Kubernetes architecture. * Participate in code reviews to ensure quality and adherence to best practices. * Contributes to a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement. * Staying up to date with emerging technologies and recommend upgrades and improvements to the IT infrastructure.
Cloud security Engineer/ Devops Engineer
USAA
July 2018 - August 2020
- * Designing, provisioning, and automating of the desired infrastructure state in AWS using Terraform involving the Compute, Storage/Backup, Security, Network - Databases, Middle Tier, Application, Monitoring and DR layers. * Managing AWS IAM users and IAM permissions through terraform. * Collaborated with development teams to integrate ElastiCache into applications seamlessly. * Collaborated with DevOps teams to integrate CLI tools into continuous integration pipelines. * Automating the build, deployment, and management of applications and infrastructure. * Look for improvements to lower or minimize the team's cloud footprint to save or limit spending. * Staying up to date with new technologies and trends in the industry. * Collaborating with cross-functional teams to design and implement Datadog monitoring solutions for cloud-based infrastructure. * Ensuring code pipelines were efficient and bug free. Reviewed release artifacts and checklists before implementation. * Working with development teams to improve efficiency in the software deployment process. * Designing, implementing, and managing Kubernetes-based solutions to support microservices architecture on AWS. * Troubleshooting and resolving issues related to infrastructure, deployments, and performance bottlenecks. * Designed a CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Helm charts, and Kubernetes. * Improving deployment frequency while minimizing business impact. * Orchestrated deployment pipelines for Ruby on Rails applications, integrating CI/CD practices. * Provided DevOps of highly agile environment (Flex, NodeJS, Spring) with a focus on collaborative development using Git Enterprise version control, Jira. * Reviewing tasks critically and ensuring they are appropriately prioritized and sized for incremental delivery; anticipates and communicates blockers and delays before they require escalation. * Designing, building, and testing scripts in native and tool-dependent languages for continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline to limit manual testing and troubleshooting. * Collaborated with development teams to define user stories, acceptance criteria, and sprint goals. * Implementing and maintaining robust security measures to safeguard the PLM SaaS platform and customer data. * Apply security to cloud technologies (Managing secrets, Securing CD pipeline, Secure Infrastructure as Code, Container Security etc.). * Responsible for updating, maintaining, and selecting development tools used for tracking, building, and deploying software. * implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines using GitLab and CircleCI * Ensuring scalability, security, and reliability of infrastructure and applications in our remote environment * Ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements, proactively addressing security vulnerabilities. * Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure or GCP platform capabilities and architectural best practices as well as experience implementing security mechanisms and controls in a cloud environment. * Developing and implementing automation scripts and tools for provisioning, configuration, and orchestration of cloud resources. * Designing, deploying, and maintaining scalable, secure, and high-performance cloud infrastructure on platforms such as AWS and Azure * Refactoring and migrating enterprise and business applications running on-premises to the public cloud. * Building and extending Full Stack infrastructure automations for enterprise and business applications in the enterprise cloud environment by leveraging Python, NodeJs, Rest API, CI/CD and GitOps Methodologies etc. * improving processes to lower failure rates of new releases and improve tools and processes to create a continuous Integration environment. * Implemented Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions, reducing login friction and enhancing user experience.
Cloud Engineer
Barclays Bank Ghana
August 2015 - February 2018
- * Provide project coordination and assist project managers from development, planning, execution as well as post implementation for projects. * Assisting in troubleshooting and solutioning of issues in my AWS environment * Assisting the Cloud Engineering team in designing and deploying cloud architectures on AWS and Azure. * Collaborating with the team to implement containerization strategies using Docker and Kubernetes for microservices-based applications. * Monitoring cloud resources, set up alarms, and create dashboards for real-time visibility into system performance and health. * Participating in on-call rotation and incident response, ensuring prompt resolution of critical issues, and minimizing downtime. * Implementing and configuring security measures, such as IAM roles, security groups, and SSL certificates, to safeguard cloud environments. * Identifying and documenting risks/issues, which may create future problems or crisis for operations and make appropriate recommendations. * Liaise with internal operational departments e.g., Sales, Marketing, Product, Customer Service, and Logistics, as well as external stakeholders e.g., MasterCard, Visa, Amex, Financial Institutions * Analyzing and creating workflow processes within Canadian line of business for each assigned project. * Evaluating, selecting, and implementing security tools and technologies to enhance the overall security posture of the organization. * Managing patching of all internal equipment following corporate IT strategy and policy * Gather lessons learnt and handle project documentation, liaising with relevant stakeholders and internal departments, using data gathering tools such as anonymous surveys. * Facilitate cross functional meetings and provide periodic project status updates. * Creates, maintains, and interprets operational documentation and reports to support monthly trend analysis as well as project components. * Exhibits relentless focus in software reliability engineering standards embedded into development standards.
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