# anissa tawiah

anissa tawiah is a remote worker on Himalayas, DevOps Engineer at The Athletic (A New York Times Company), based in United States.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@anissatawiah

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DevOps Engineer at The Athletic building AWS tooling used by 12 teams and ~100 developers to provision environments in hours, not days.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | United States |
| Authorized to work in | United States |
| Salary expectations | 115k+ USD |
| Job categories | DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, CloudOps Engineer |
| Skills | AWS, Terraform, CI CD, Infrastructure as Code, Cloud Infrastructure Management, AWS Migration, AWS Networking, VPC VNet Design, IAM, Incident Management, On Call Operations, Datadog, PagerDuty, Ansible, Kubernetes |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/anissatawiah |
| GitHub | https://github.com/anissataw |

## About

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At The Athletic, I manage the AWS environment for the NYT sports section and helped migrate a legacy web app to a modern architecture. I built reusable Terraform modules and GitHub Actions workflows now used by 12 teams and about 100 developers, cutting provisioning from days to a few hours.

I also led an AWS network migration of four VPCs into the NYT parent account and defined Datadog alerts that page on-call through PagerDuty, reducing false alerts by a quarter. I cut cloud spend by 15% and worked on moving the production MySQL database from RDS to Aurora.

Previously, I moved 50+ teams from on-prem to AWS at Anthem and built Terraform, Ansible, and Python automation across my DevOps and SRE roles. At Logikcull, I patched hundreds of instances with zero downtime; at Attentive Mobile, I automated new-team access setup so it took an hour instead of days.
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## Experience

### DevOps Engineer (current)

[The Athletic (A New York Times Company)](https://himalayas.app/companies/the-athletic). Oct 2023 - Present

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Managed the AWS cloud environment for the NYT sports section, migrating a legacy web app to a modern architecture one component at a time. Administered the AWS environment end to end, cutting cloud spend 15%, and built reusable Terraform modules and GitHub Actions workflows used by 12 teams.
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Skills: AWS, AWS-ECS, Fargate, RDS, IAM, Terraform, GitHub-Actions, MySQL, Aurora, Datadog, PagerDuty, Route-53, TLS-SSL, VPN

### Site Reliability Engineer

[Logikcull](https://himalayas.app/companies/logikcull). Feb 2022 - Aug 2023

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SRE for a customers-first B2B legal tech SaaS, managing infrastructure, uptime and security in an AWS environment. Wrote Ansible playbooks that patched hundreds of instances across 3 high-volume fleets with zero downtime, and built hardened images and runbooks.
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Skills: Ansible, AWS, Linux, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Artifactory, Snyk, Nessus, SOC2, Intercom, Run-Books

### DevOps Engineer

Attentive Mobile. Dec 2020 - Jan 2022

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Database and infrastructure admin, building and managing services with Terraform, at a fast-growing B2B SaaS company. Kept the team library of reusable Terraform modules and Helm charts, owned the onboarding process, and ran self-hosted Kubernetes on AWS.
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Skills: Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, AWS, Python, IAM, Prometheus, Grafana, Linux

### CloudOps Engineer

Anthem. Nov 2019 - Nov 2020

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Migrated teams from on-prem to AWS for a large, HIPAA-regulated health insurer. Trained, migrated and provisioned 50+ internal teams on AWS with Terraform, and wrote Bash scripts and Python Lambdas for account setup and cleanup.
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Skills: AWS, Terraform, BASH, Python, Lambda, HIPAA, Networking, CIDRs

## Education

### Georgia State University

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

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Studied Computer Science for four years at Georgia State University.
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### Atlanta Technical College

Certificate, Java Programming. 2018 - 2018

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Completed a Java Programming Certificate at Atlanta Technical College in 2018.
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### AWS

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, Cloud Architecture

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Earned the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification.
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## Tech stack

- Kubernetes
- Helm
- AWS Fargate
- Jenkins
- GitHub Actions
- Concourse
- strongDM
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Terraform
- Python
- PHP
- PowerShell
- PagerDuty
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- Datadog
- Ansible
- JumpCloud
- Git
- Docker
- SQL
- Snyk
- Bash
- Claude Code
- AWS
- Claude
- Azure

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