Ernest NforDEVOPS/CLOUD ENGINEER

Architected highly available AWS and Azure environments for 35+ enterprise workloads, sustaining 99.95% production availability. Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible, cutting deployment lead time by 62%. Built CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, and Argo CD, increasing release frequency by 40%. Orchestrated containerized services using Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, and Azure Kubernetes Service, expanding workload capacity by 45%. Embedded IAM, RBAC, encryption, secrets management, and vulnerability scanning into DevSecOps workflows, lowering critical findings by 37%. Established end-to-end observability using CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk, reducing incident resolution time by 34%. Optimized costs using FinOps governance, decreasing annual infrastructure costs by 22%. Modernized 18 legacy applications through microservices, serverless, and API integration, improving response times by 31%.

Engineered Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD pipelines for 30+ banking applications, shortening release cycles by 42%. Provisioned AWS infrastructure with Terraform and Packer, reducing environment setup time from 3 days to 4 hours. Migrated 20 legacy services to Docker and OpenShift, lowering hosting expenses by 24%. Implemented Ansible configuration management across 600+ Linux servers, eliminating 38% of deployment-related errors. Integrated SonarQube, Checkmarx, and Artifactory into secure delivery workflows, decreasing code vulnerabilities by 31%. Built centralized logging with Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Fluentd, accelerating root-cause identification by 35%. Enforced automated policy controls aligned with PCI DSS, SOX, and NIST requirements, improving audit compliance to 98%. Streamlined database schema releases with Liquibase and Flyway, cutting production change failures by 27%. Coordinated incident response and problem management via ServiceNow, lowering recurring priority-on