Mohamed Kamara
Development
VA, United States
Skills
DevOps
About
MOHAMED I. KAMARA's skills align with Consultants and Specialists (Information and Communication Technology). MOHAMED also has skills associated with Programmers (Information and Communication Technology). MOHAMED I. KAMARA has 10 years of work experience.
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Work Experience
DevOps Engineer
Mkit
May 2017 - Present
- Led the migration of microservices to a Kubernetes environment within AWS, achieving a more scalable and resilient architecture that resulted in a 20% reduction in downtime. Collaborate with team members to design and implement CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins. Configure multi-stage Jenkins pipelines with webhooks to GitHub for automated code deployment and SonarQube for code security scans. Managed infrastructure as code using Terraform and Ansible, automating over 200 cloud resources. Build and configure Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPCs) and its components including a bastion server, private and public subnets, security groups, NAT Gateway, NACL, Internet Gateway, route tables, etc. Work on critical projects that span across multiple AWS services such as EC2, RDS, Route 53, ELB, DynamoDB, Lambda, and EKS. Migrated MYSQL to AWS RDS, implementing IaaS to PaaS transition. Manage cloud infrastructure security by providing authenticated access using IAM roles for AWS, least privilege security practices, password policies, groups and configuring multi-factor authentication (MFA) for privileged users. Deploy website through EC2 bootstrapping in a launch template configuration utilizing autoscaling group. Monitor using AWS CloudWatch to ensure scalability, reliability, and accessibility. Develop and maintain a number of Python-based tools and scripts to automate various tasks, including log analysis, system and account maintenance. Utilize AWS Secrets Manager to ensure secrets were not hardcoded in deployment code. Collaborate with cross-functional teams (software engineers, database administrators, project managers) to ensure seamless integration of cloud-based systems into overall architecture. Technical Environment: Linux, Visual Studio Code, AWS Console/CLI, Github, Jenkins, Jira
Business Analyst
Stack IT Solutions
April 2015 - May 2017
- Discovered loophole in Promotions Validation feature of Retail reporting application, potentially saving client hundreds of thousands of dollars. Designed and delivered functional documentation, including a variety of requirement documents and diagrams. Collaborated with end-users and SMEs to translate business needs into technical requirements Work closely with technical team and Subject Matter Experts to develop optimal navigational plan for project flow ensuring favorable user interactivity for applications Managed UAT testing cycles for retail software, contributing to enhanced user experience. Analyze and prioritize user and business requirements as system requirements that must be included while developing software. Planned and defined system requirements to Use Case, Use Case Scenario and Use Case Narrative using UML methodologies Worked extensively on JAVA (J2EE) based retail reporting application running on Oracle database back end Successfully delivered .NET based Opportunity Tracker running on Microsoft SQL Server backend application for client Technical Environment: SQL Server, AWS Console/CLI, SharePoint, Confluence, Jira
Business Process Analyst
Mkit
December 2013 - April 2015
- Facilitated requirement gathering and documentation for SDLC projects. Managed project lifecycle using Agile and Waterfall, optimizing team workflows. Analyzed metrics to enhance team efficiency and managed change requests.
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