KINGSLEY ETAKONG
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Experience
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Wimora Technology
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United States
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Computer and Network Security
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1 - 100 Employee
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DevOps Engineer
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Aug 2020 - Present
Maryland, United States • Designed, deployed, and managed Kubernetes clusters for mission-critical applications, ensuring high availability and scalability. • Orchestrated containerized workloads using Kubernetes, enabling seamless deployment and scaling of microservices. • Implemented best practices for Kubernetes cluster security, including RBAC, network policies, and secure pod configuration. • Automated cluster provisioning and scaling using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform… Show more • Designed, deployed, and managed Kubernetes clusters for mission-critical applications, ensuring high availability and scalability. • Orchestrated containerized workloads using Kubernetes, enabling seamless deployment and scaling of microservices. • Implemented best practices for Kubernetes cluster security, including RBAC, network policies, and secure pod configuration. • Automated cluster provisioning and scaling using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and Ansible. • Led the migration of legacy monolithic applications to a containerized microservices architecture on Kubernetes, resulting in improved performance and resource utilization. • Collaborated with development and operations teams to create and optimize CI/CD pipelines, enabling automated testing and deployment of applications within Kubernetes clusters. • Established monitoring and alerting systems using tools like Prometheus and Grafana, ensuring real-time visibility into cluster performance.
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AWS Engineer
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Apr 2018 - Jul 2020
Maryland, United States • Managed provisioning of AWS infrastructure using Terraform. • Designed for high availability and business continuity using self-healing-based architectures, fail-over routing, multi-AZ deployment other disaster recovery models. • Built and maintained automated CI/CD processes for applications with Jenkins, eliminating up to 70% of manual work which reduced human error and speed up production. • Architected and configured Dev / Stage environments in AWS and Azure both •… Show more • Managed provisioning of AWS infrastructure using Terraform. • Designed for high availability and business continuity using self-healing-based architectures, fail-over routing, multi-AZ deployment other disaster recovery models. • Built and maintained automated CI/CD processes for applications with Jenkins, eliminating up to 70% of manual work which reduced human error and speed up production. • Architected and configured Dev / Stage environments in AWS and Azure both • Carried out multi-AZ deployment, created Read Replicas, Elastic Cache of database to Achieve High Availability, High Performance, Self-healing. • Implemented security best practices in AWS including multi-factor authentication, access key rotation, role-based permissions, enforced strong password policy. configured security groups and NACLs, S3 bucket policies, and ACLs. • Creating Docker environment via Docker hub and managing different Docker images and deployment of applications inside container.
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JJ Tech Inc
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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AWS Infrastructure Support Engineer
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Feb 2016 - Mar 2018
Georgia, United States Automated infrastructure provisioning with CloudFormation Templates, improving deployment consistency. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of applications in AWS • Implemented AWS Lambda functions for serverless computing, reducing operational overhead and improving efficiency. • Automated routine tasks and system maintenance using Bash scripts, resulting in increased system reliability.
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Infrastructure Support Analyst (Intern)
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Jun 2014 - Jan 2016
Cameroon Handled projects in monitoring, and deploying an application on LINUX/UNIX servers. ● Installed Debian/red hat/Ubuntu Operating Systems Distributions ● Installation, configuration, and administration of Enterprise Linux and Unix Systems ● Configure LVM-based partitions and manage mount points usage as needed Creating, cloning Linux Virtual machines.
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Education
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Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
Master of Computer Applications - MCA -
University of Buea
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science