Gerome Tsapla

rromanus84@[Link]
202-300-9735
Status: U.S Citizen
Clearance: Secret
Career Summary:
12 years + of experience in IT industry comprising Linux System Administration, DevOps, Automation
Engineering, Deployment & Integration.
7 years of experience in Version Control, Jenkins CI/CD-Toolchain, Plugins, Ansible &
Terraform/Cloudformation etc..
9+ years of experience in AWS-Services (Athena, Redshift) IAM, EC2, S3, VPC, Elastic Load Balancers,
AMIs etc…
5+ years of experience in K8s & Containerization

Professional Experience:
CMS via C-HIT AWS-DevOps Engineer 7/2018 – Present, Columbia Maryland
Provide System Build & Support for Developments & Production Environments.
 Design diagram and wrote Templates for AWS Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CFT
to build Development, Staging and Production Environments.
 Automated delivery pipeline using integration and infrastructure tools GIT, Jenkins , Maven,
Nexus, Selenium, Ansible and Rundeck Server to cron all jobs Dynamically.
 Experience in JIRA to capture, organize and prioritize issues.
 Build servers on AWS-LINUX-Platforms: Importing volumes, launching EC2, creating security
groups, auto-scaling, load balancers, Creating AMIs, Route 53, SES and SNS in the defined
virtual private connection.
 Designed and implemented an end-to-end cloud base architecture in AWS by utilizing services in
Kinesis Firehose, S3, RDS, Glue, Athena, Redshift and QuickSight.
 Created AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and launched instances for highly available
environments, to provide high security and accessibility to applications and databases, so that
inbound and outbound network traffic is accessed restricted.
 Implemented GitHub/Gilab for version control
 Provide 24/7 on-call support on a monthly rotational basis.
 Documented problem engagement through to remediation and (RCA) Root Cause
Analysis.
 Experience automating tasks using BASH scripting language & Ansible Config Mgmt.
 Create alarms in Cloud Watch service for monitoring the servers’ performance, CPU Utilization,
disk usage etc..
 Provided security and managed user access and quota using AWS Identity and Access
Management (IAM), including creating new Policies for user management in JSON.
 Write code to Auto-Clean Route53
 Experienced in designing AWS models for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS),
 Migrate into amazon cloud for flexible, cost-effective, reliable, scalable, high-performance
and security.
 Code the creation and configuration of DevOps Pipelines, Security, Infrastructure, and
integration between services.
 Automate Operational and Management Processes.
 Maintained the user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route 53 and SNS services in AWS cloud.
 Involved in maintaining Billing and Cost Management for multiple AWS accounts.
Implemented a 'serverless' architecture using API Gateway, Lambda, and Dynamo DB and
deployed AWS Lambda code from Amazon S3 buckets. Created a Lambda Deployment
function, and configured it to receive events from your S3 bucket
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 Used Scripts to stop and start Instances in downtime for cost reduction.
 Automated backups via Snapshots,
 Write Ansible Playbooks to deploy automated tasks to many servers at once.
 Set up and configured Nagios, WordPress, Tomcat.
 Wrote Python script to backup EC2 instances.
 Develop scripts in Bash and Python to package log files and send them to a remote server.
 Work with developers to ensure new environments meet their requirements and conform to
industry-standard best practices.
 Experience with Serverless Architecture such as EKS Fargate and Microservices.
 Migrate Application running on ECS to EKS Fargate profile using Terraform (IaC)
 Used Kubernetes & Terraform to orchestrate the deployment, scaling and managing Docker
 Managed Kubernetes charts using Helm.
 Created reproducible builds of the Kubernetes applications, templatize Kubernetes manifests,
 Provide a set of configuration parameters to customize the deployment and Managed releases of
Helm packages.
 Implemented a production ready, load balanced, highly available, fault tolerant, and auto scaling
Kubernetes cloud infrastructure and microservice container orchestration.
 Created Clusters using Kubernetes and worked on creating many pods, replication controllers,
replica sets, services, deployments, labels, health checks and ingress by writing Yaml files.
 Involved in creation of Architecture and built Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for
containerization platform using Docker and Kubernetes.
 Involved in development of test environment on Docker containers and configuring the Docker
containers using Kubernetes.
 Scheduled, deployed and managed container replicas onto a node cluster using Kubernetes.
 Building/Maintaining Docker container clusters managed by Kubernetes Linux, Bash, GIT ,
Terraform, Docker, on AWS
 Utilized Kubernetes for the runtime environment of the CI/CD system to build, test deploy.
 Managed Kubernetes charts using Helm
 Used ElasticSearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK) adding Grafana dashboard for maintaining
system Logs.
 Installed and configured Nexus repository manager for sharing artifacts between internal teams
and created proxy Nexus repositories to speed up the build process.
 Migrating on-prem VMWare ESX hosts and applications to AWS
 Setting up Jenkins and Docker based builds in AWS.
 Worked on the databases of the Amazon RDS and carried out functionalities for creating
instances as per the requirements.
 Work across functional Teams Dev/QA/Prod for Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
 Built a full Pipeline to Group servers by AZs and Naming Convention for Critical Security and
Vulnerabilities Maintenance. Performed server’s updates &upgrade and package installations
using AWS-SSM.
 Knowledge in change management
 Identify What Will Be Improved
 Present a Solid Business Case to Stakeholders
 Plan for the Change
 Evaluation
 Communication
 Monitor and Manage Resistance, Dependencies, and Budgeting Risks
 Review, Revise and Continuously Improve
 Approve or Deny
 Implement
NIH & USCIS via 9-Solutions, Upper Marlboro, MD October 2010 – Jun 2018
Linux/AWS-DevOps Systems Engineer.
 Worked for strong administration and troubleshooting skills in Linux environment. Very
confident with Ansible, NewRelic, Apache, Tomcat, NFS, FTP, SMTP and DHCP in Linux
environment.
 Migrated AWS for Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) 2014-2016.
 Installed (Lampstack) Linux-Apache-MySQL-Php and WordPress.
 Ability to understand client requirement and provide the best solution.
 Committed team player with strong analytical and problem solving skills.
 Built a Jenkins (CI/CD) Pipeline for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery through
Deployment into several environments of Test, UAT and Production using Terraform to bring
up the infrastructure and writing Ansible Playbooks to provision/configure servers.
 Hands-on experience on working with AWS services like Lambda function, Athena, ynamoDB,
Step functions, SNS, SQS, S3, IAM etc.
 Repurposed Terraform Templates to stand up new highly available environments in the cloud.
 Involved in troubleshooting, deployment and documentation of proposed updates to Technology.
 Used Commands Line Tools to check the health of the system.
 Latest software engineering experience (design, analysis, and verification).
 Installed, configuration and maintenance of Red Hat Linux servers.
 Performance tuning functions on RHEL servers.
 Created, managed and troubleshot LVM.
 Presented and guided changes through Remedy change management process.
 Installed, administered and optimized company servers. Red Hat KVM-based virtualization.
 Used Ansible to provision servers and Nagios to monitor the infrastructure and resources,
Configure , patch and manage the O/S, application components and reporting.
 Developed and maintained re-use materials and server documentation for use by internal
team.
Training & Certification:
 Security+CE: Certified.
 Cloud Computing: (AWS) Certified-DevOps-Professional
 Cloud Computing: (AWS) Certified-Security-Specialty
 Cloud Computing: (AWS) Certified –SysOps
 Containerization: (CKA) Certified Kubermetes Administrator
 OS: Operating Systems (Red Hat Linux 6/7/8, CentOs and Ubuntu)
 Agile: Certified SAFe 5 Agilist
 Language: AWSCLI, Boto3, and JSon.
  Terraform: HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL)
 Ansible: Configuration, Orchestration & Provisioning
 (YAML): Yet Another Markup Language.
 CFT: CloudFormation template (Orchestration)
References: Available upon request
Education:
Advanced Technical University/College in Douala-Cameroon. 2002-2006
Study: (IIT) Industrial Information Technology.
Degree: (Brevet De Technicien Superieur.) BTS

TOOLS-CHAIN PIPELINE
Project Gathering & Management tool: Jira & Confluence
Source Version Control System: Gitlab
Continuous Integration Jenkins
Build: Maven
Test Automation Selenium
Code Quality: SonarQube
Repository/Artifacts/: Nexus/Artifactory
Continuous Deployment Ansible/Rundeck
Containerization/Orchestration Docker/K8-Kubernetes
Scripting Bash Python Boto3
Cloud Computing AWS
Logging/Performance and Apps Monitoring NewRelic/Splunk/Grafana/Prometheus
Operating System: Linux( Red Hat Enterprise 7/8) Ubuntu & Cent0S
All the above can be Automated via Terraform and Ansible
 A keen desire to learn and update knowledge base and skill sets to keep abreast of latest
technologies and trends.
 A passion for innovation, and teamwork; eager to quickly learn and adapt to a dynamic deadline
driven environment.