SIMON KHUMBA

Peabody, MA 01960 | 2406404047 | simong4047@yahoo.com

Summary
Goal-driven and tech savvy professional with extensive experience in Linux and AWS DevOps engineering.
Well-versed in developing continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, complemented with
understanding of configuration management and deployment tools. Adept at motivating, guiding, and leading
teams in fulfilling a wide array of tasks within deadline in fast-paced environments. Equipped with strong
communication and interpersonal skills in building positive work relationships with professionals of all levels.
Proficient in writing code and scripts, building independent web-based tools, microservices and solutions, and
resolving product implementation errors.

Skills
Areas of Expertise Include: Nagios
Systems and Network Administration Docker. Kubernetes
UNIX/Linux Systems Administration Protocols/Networking: TCP/IP
Linux Fundamentals and Scripting Software SMTP
Development Life Cycle (SLDC) SNMP
Cloud Services and Solutions Pipeline/Process FTP
Improvement SSH
Systems Configuration and Installation LDAP
Continuous Process Improvement DNS
Troubleshooting and Issue Resolution NFS
Infrastructure as Code (IAC) LAN
TECHNICAL SKILLS DHCP
Platforms: Storage: NAS
Linux (Red Hat 8, and CentOS) SAN. Amazon S3 Bucket. Amazon Elastic
Microsoft Windows 2008 Block Store
IIS
DevOps/Cloud Tools: Machine Learning
Ansible
Jenkins
Amazon Web Services

Experience
DevOps Cloud Engineer 01/2019 to Current
Partners Healthcare Newark, DE
Installed leadership in development of innovative cloud solutions in production environments, include
creating scripts and code to integrate multiple software components, operating Ansible to automate
provisioning of environments, and implementing those environments using containers.
Maintain Git repository for developers and promote workflow
Contribute to end-to-end cloud automation of application delivery, including infrastructure provisioning
and integration with continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platforms
Build applications in scripting languages in Python
Work on the development of a new marketing plans, sales technique, and business strategies to
maximize profit and minimize expenses.
Control projects tracking system (Jira) to monitor work in progress
Deploy Kubernetes Cluster on Cloud/on-premises environment and wrote many YAML files to create
many services like pods, auto scaling, and load balancer.
 Mentored work in a team with strong analytical, problem solving and communication skills
Demonstrated ability to established and maintain working relationship across disciplines and
Organization
Practical knowledge of back-end technologies (Python, HTML, CSS)
Provisioning servers/Instances using Infrastructure as code such as Terraform and Cloud Formation.
Create, maintain, and update various web applications created in Python
Initiated with Container Orchestration system such as AWS, ECS or Kubernetes
Build a marketing web site that have direct target, re-targeting, and track the audience
Keep software up to date to fix security vulnerabilities, monitor the systems utilizing CloudWatch,
Elastic Beanstalk Kibana, Grafana and AWS X-Ray
Build and deploy Docker Containers for implementing Microservice from monolithic Architecture
Troubleshooting problems, involving resources, and drawing resolutions of issues with a focus on
minimizing impact to customers.

Education and Training

Micro-Masters: Cloud Computing 01/2021
University of Maryland
B. Sc: Computer Engineering 01/1999
University of Buea

SKILL SETS
DevOps Engineer 10/2016 to 11/2018
Bank of America, Boston, MA
Facilitate CloudFormation template to devise on ALB and connect it to auto scaling group.
Expand and monitor Amazon web services resources (EC2, VPC, ELB,S3).
Leverage application code from development to production environment.
Set up an automation build on Docker Hub for CI/CD.
Spearheaded continuous improvement through team empowerment and servant leadership
Fosters Collaboration with vendors, technical teams and business customers by listening to concern
and needs.
Experience with IAC tools in AWS such as Terraform, Ansible, and Cloud Formation.
A positive attitude, and willingness to drive projects to completion in a fast-moving environment.
Experience in developing Machine Learning
Infrastructure and MLOps in the Cloud using AWS SageMaker
Extensive experience working with Machine Learning models with respect to deploying inference
tuning, and measurement required.
Operationalized ML models at Scale predictions on tens of hundreds of customers.
Monitoring the uncertainty of models outputs automating predictions, explanations for model
diagnostics
Comcast Nottingham, MD
UNIX/Linux Systems Administrator Sep 2012-Oct 2016
Maintained 45+ Amazon Linux Instances for Cloud-based web applications with 100% uptime.
Troubleshoot system sluggishness due to CPU, and network issues, improving performance by 35%.
Managed server firewall and partnered with relevant teams to ensure accessibility of collocated
services for users
Exemplified hands-on experience in configuring, supervising, and troubleshooting DNS, DHCP, and
TCP/IP
Responsible for up 1,000 servers, and 9000+ users provided Linux OS support for web severs.
Created a process of system updates, minimizing application failure by 30%.
Installed, and configure Disk and file system management using logical volume manager (LVM) for
Linux severs.
 Certifications
AWS Certified DevOps Engineering Professional | AWS Certified Developer Associate | CompTIA Cloud
Essential Certified | CompTIA Certified Linux+| Certified SAFe DevOps Practitioner| Certified Amazon
SageMaker Simplifying Machine Learning Application Development