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Roland Ejong

@rolandejong

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Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer with expertise in AWS and Azure.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I am looking for a role that challenges my skills in cloud architecture and DevOps, fosters innovation, and offers opportunities for mentorship and professional growth.

I am a Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer with over 12 years of hands-on experience in IT, specializing in designing, deploying, and optimizing secure and scalable infrastructure across AWS and Azure platforms. My expertise lies in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, configuration management with Ansible, and modern CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions and Jenkins. I have a proven track record in Kubernetes deployment, cloud security, and cost optimization, which has significantly improved operational efficiency in my previous roles.

At Truist Financial, I architected and deployed hybrid cloud infrastructure, integrating SSO with IAM and Azure AD for unified identity access. I developed robust GitHub Actions pipelines that reduced release cycles by 60% and deployment failures by 70%. My leadership in cloud cost optimization strategies resulted in annual savings exceeding $180K. I am passionate about mentoring junior engineers and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Cloud/DevOps Engineer

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Truist Financial

Mar 2021 - Present (4 years 4 months)

Architected and deployed hybrid cloud infrastructure leveraging AWS EKS and Azure AKS for hosting containerized microservices with high availability, load balancing, and autoscaling across multi-AZ and multi-region architectures. Developed robust GitHub Actions pipelines for infrastructure and app deployment, integrating Terraform and Helm with automated testing, security scans, linting, environme

GitHub Actions)Terraform Helm Kubernetes Azure Key Vault Cloudwatch Prometheus ELK Stack Grafana Lambda EventBridge Step Functions Azure DevOps GuardDuty AWS Config CloudTrail WAF IAM

Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Blue Cross Blue Shield

Mar 2017 - Present (8 years 4 months)

Developed and maintained Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for ECS and Lambda deployments, reducing manual deployment time by 50%. Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and managed Ansible playbooks for consistent and compliant server builds. Led Kubernetes implementation using AWS EKS; created Helm charts for 20+ microservices to support zero-downtime deployment and rollback.

Jenkins CI CD ECS Lambda Terraform Ansible Kubernetes Helm ELK Stack Cloudwatch Docker AWS Cost Explorer

IT Support Engineer / Linux System Administrator

BlueScope Technologies

Jan 2014 - Present (11 years 6 months)

Provided L2/L3 support for 100+ Linux and Windows systems, resolving technical tickets via Jira. Installed and maintained Ubuntu/CentOS servers; leveraged Bash scripting for task automation. Configured DNS, DHCP, and integrated Linux clients with Active Directory environments.