elvis Tata
@elvistata
DevOps/SRE engineer with 10 years building resilient, automation-first cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, and GCP.
What I'm looking for
Cloud Architect and DevOps Engineer with 9+ years of experience designing scalable cloud infrastructure, automating CI/CD pipelines, and improving system reliability and security. Currently pursuing an MBA, combining deep technical expertise with business strategy to build efficient, high-impact solutions.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
DevOps Engineer
TELCO
Mar 2025 - Present (1 year 3 months)
Designed and implemented secure, scalable AWS infrastructure with Terraform, improving deployment efficiency by 65% while meeting high-availability and scalability requirements. Automated CI/CD across environments with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Terraform, and Ansible and orchestrated disaster recovery failover/backup workflows to support 99.99% uptime SLA.
DevOps Engineer / SRE
Frontline Education
Feb 2021 - Feb 2025 (4 years)
Built and executed disaster recovery strategies for K–12 SaaS platforms (SIS and LMS), reducing potential downtime by 85% and safeguarding continuous access during critical periods. Developed automated backup/restore pipelines and monitoring/alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch, maintaining 99.99% uptime through incident war-room leadership.
Cloud Engineer
Gladly
Sep 2018 - Dec 2020 (2 years 3 months)
Automated deployment and scaling of Kubernetes-based infrastructure for a real-time, multi-tenant customer service platform, improving performance and operational efficiency by 60%. Implemented CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub Actions and rolled out AWS Systems Manager automation across 15+ accounts to reduce patch time by 85% and achieve 100% compliance for PCI-DSS and SOC 2 audits.
MSSQL DBA
Kiawitech It Consulting
Jul 2016 - Aug 2018 (2 years 1 month)
Provided 24/7 SQL Server production support and led migrations from on-premises SQL Server to Azure SQL across development, QA, and production. Designed high availability and disaster recovery solutions (Always On Availability Groups, failover clustering, log shipping) and performed performance tuning using SQL Profiler and execution plan analysis to improve transaction processing and application
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of Yaounde I
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
2004 - 2007
Grade: GPA: 3.0/4.0
Earned a B.S. in Computer Science at the University of Yaoundé I, graduating in 2007 with a GPA of 3.0/4.0.
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