Nguaks Nkemz

Experienced DevOps Engineer with 9+ years’ experience in IT, with 5+ years as Devops engineer and cloud computing. a customer-oriented and results-driven professional, with goals to design and deploy infrastructures that offer great returns for businesses. In-depth knowledge of managing cloud based technologies & effectively handling configuration & deployment of infrastructure & services. Gained experience in implementing core DevOps concepts such as containerization, virtualization, version control, cloud computing, load balancing, Automation, Configuration, CI/CD, Monitoring etc.

Dominion Info-Tech Consulting:      (March 2021 till date)

DevOps Engineer:

Responsibilities:

• Set up CI/CD pipelines so that each commit a developer makes goes through the standard SDLC and gets tested well enough before it can make it to production. 
• IaC, provision  of AWS services for  Dev, QA and production environments
• Branch, tag and maintain the version across the environment using SCM tools like git.
• Create Ansible playbooks to automatically install packages from a repository to change the configuration of remotely configured machines and to deploy new builds.
• Create Docker images using a Dockerfile and works on Docker container snapshots, remove images, manage Docker volumes as well as setup Docker Host.
• Create and manage Dev and Prod Kubernetes clusters for the deployment of applications. Creating the various Kubernetes objects like deployments, pods, secrets, configmaps, ingress etc. 
• Manage the deployment in Kubernetes Clusters using helm and helm charts.
• Working knowledge of Python.

Qcell Ltd (Oct 2017 – Dec 2020)

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Established monitoring for micro-service base applications using Grafana and Prometheus
• Writing Manifest files with Terraform to fully Automate the creation of Production and Test environments in GCP/AWS cloud with high reliability, security, scalability, and monitoring from scratch-VPC, Subnets, Load Balancers, Auto-Scaling, IAM, EC2 Instances, RDS etc.
• Automate the configuration management, Disaster Recovery failover and routine operation tasks like patching, and upgrade.
• APM using tools like ELK, with shows real-time Logs and metrics of the applications.
• Have basic understanding of migrating large On-Premise database to AWS Cloud.

• Cisco Network Academy (2012 till date)
• Baccalaureate Technique in Electrical Technology. (Bacc F3)  Government Technical High School Kumba. Cameroon (1996 - 2003)

Certification

• Certified DevOps Professional
• CCNA R&S Certified  
• CCNA Security Certified 
• CCIE Security Written: 
• Mobile Elevating Platform Certificate