Mercy jepkosgei
@mercyjepkosgei
DevOps Engineer at Upwork, provisioning AWS environments and automating event-driven workflows with Lambda, SQS, and SNS.
KenyaWhat I'm looking for
At Upwork, I architect and provision AWS environments using VPC, Security Groups, ALB, and Elastic Beanstalk. I also streamline workflows with Lambda, SQS, and SNS, and manage access and secrets with IAM and Secrets Manager.
Previously, I worked as a Junior DevOps Engineer at IronMain and a Cloud Engineer at Global Careers Africa, supporting CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and cloud monitoring. In my projects, I deployed an LMS to Elastic Beanstalk, migrated MySQL RDS databases, and deployed a containerized application on AWS using ECS and Docker.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Architecting and provisioning scalable AWS environments using VPC, Security Groups, ALB, and Elastic Beanstalk. Streamlining workflows with Lambda, SQS, and SNS for event-driven architectures.
Junior DevOps Engineer
IronMain
Mar 2025 - Oct 2025 (7 months)
Designed and maintained automated CI/CD pipelines for testing, building, and multi-environment deployments. Provisioned and managed cloud resources using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
Cloud Engineer
Global Careers Africa
Dec 2024 - Jan 2025 (1 month)
Designed, implemented, and maintained CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, building, and deployment in AWS or Azure. Wrote and managed infrastructure code using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or Ansible.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
AWS
AWS Certified DevOps Professional, DevOps
Ongoing pursuit of the AWS Certified DevOps Professional certification.
Cisco
Cisco Networking Essentials, Networking
Earned the Cisco Networking Essentials certification.
Diploma in DevOps Engineering, DevOps Engineering
Earned a Diploma in DevOps Engineering covering Kubernetes, Docker, and Google Cloud.
Uniathena
Diploma in Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity
Earned a Diploma in Cybersecurity.
AWS
AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Cloud Architecture
Earned the AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification.
Kubernetes
Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate, Kubernetes
Earned the Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate certification.
Google IT Automation with Python, IT Automation
Earned the Google IT Automation with Python certification.
Huawei
HCIA-Cloud Service, Cloud Service
Earned the HCIA-Cloud Service certification.
Microsoft
Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Administration
Earned the Azure Administrator Associate certification.
Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology
Bachelor of Science, Information Technology
2017 - 2022
Grade: Second Class Honors (Upper Division)
Pursued a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, graduating with Second Class Honors (Upper Division).
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