Senior DevOps & Cloud Engineer with 7+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD, automation, and production operations across AWS and Azure. Skilled in building scalable, secure infrastructure and improving reliability through GitOps, observability, and Infrastructure as Code. Proven results include 70% reduction in infrastructure drift, 65% faster environment provisioning, 50% reduction in deployment effort, and 25% cloud cost savings.

TAGUEMKAM TAGOUONKAM RAPHAEL

Senior DevOps & Cloud Engineer with 7+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD, automation, and production operations across AWS and Azure. Skilled in building scalable, secure infrastructure and improving reliability through GitOps, observability, and Infrastructure as Code. Proven results include 70% reduction in infrastructure drift, 65% faster environment provisioning, 50% reduction in deployment effort, and 25% cloud cost savings.

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Senior DevOps & Cloud Engineer with 7+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD, automation, and production operations across AWS and Azure. Skilled in building scalable, secure infrastructure and improving reliability through GitOps, observability, and Infrastructure as Code. Proven results include 70% reduction in infrastructure drift, 65% faster environment provisioning, 50% reduction in deployment effort, and 25% cloud cost savings.

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Experience Level

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Intermediate

Language

English
Fluent
French
Fluent

Work Experience

Platform Developer at Plusgrade, Canada
June 1, 2025 - Present
Migrated infrastructure from Pulumi to Terraform, reducing onboarding time and infrastructure drift. Designed reusable multi-repository Terraform architecture to reduce code duplication. Built GitLab CI/CD infrastructure promotion workflows to reduce manual deployment effort. Automated Kubernetes/EKS provisioning and GitOps deployments to speed up environment setup. Implemented Kubernetes RBAC, network policies, and image scanning to reduce security risk. Standardized observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch to improve incident response.
DevOps Engineer / SRE at Advantage Solution, Canada
January 1, 2025 - May 1, 2025
Built centralized observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and CloudWatch to reduce time to identify incidents. Developed reusable Terraform modules to accelerate infrastructure delivery. Automated Kubernetes deployments using GitLab CI/CD and ArgoCD for repeatable production releases. Migrated legacy workloads to AWS EKS for improved scalability and availability. Implemented OpenTelemetry tracing across microservices to improve diagnostics.
Senior DevOps Engineer at Ericsson, Canada
July 1, 2024 - December 1, 2024
Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and Ansible to reduce manual operational tasks. Implemented GitOps deployment workflows using GitLab, FluxCD, and Kubernetes. Integrated vulnerability scanning into CI/CD pipelines to strengthen cloud security controls. Implemented Prometheus and Grafana monitoring to improve platform visibility and uptime.
DevOps Engineer at JJTech, Canada
January 1, 2019 - June 1, 2024
Designed and operated highly available AWS infrastructure supporting 50+ microservices. Automated infrastructure and deployments using Terraform, Jenkins, and GitLab CI/CD to reduce failures. Optimized cloud resources and utilization to reduce AWS costs. Managed Kubernetes/EKS environments and production networking for scalable workloads.
DevOps Engineer at JJTech, Canada
January 1, 2016 - November 1, 2018
Built Jenkins CI/CD pipelines to increase deployment frequency through automated software delivery. Applied cloud security practices to reduce infrastructure incident rates. Optimized RDS and DynamoDB configurations to improve database performance and reliability.

Education

Post-Graduate Certificate in DevOps at Purdue University
January 1, 2023 - January 1, 2024
Bachelor’s in Software Engineering at University of Douala
January 1, 2011 - January 1, 2014

Qualifications

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
January 11, 2030 - August 20, 2026
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
January 11, 2030 - August 20, 2026
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
January 11, 2030 - August 20, 2026
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
January 11, 2030 - August 20, 2026
Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
January 11, 2030 - August 20, 2026
Terraform Associate
January 11, 2030 - August 20, 2026
Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA)
January 11, 2030 - August 20, 2026
Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS)
January 11, 2030 - August 20, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Computers & Electronics, Professional Services