Elmoge Abukar | Cloud Infrastructure / DevOps Engineer

Summary

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with 8+ years of experience building and operating secure, scalable platforms across AWS and GCP. Strong background in Terraform, Kubernetes (EKS/GKE), CI/CD automation, observability, and production operations, including on-call support, incident response, root cause analysis, and runbook development. Proven ability to improve reliability, standardize infrastructure, and support secure, repeatable delivery in regulated and high-availability environments.

Technical Skills

Cloud Platforms: AWS (EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, Route 53, ACM, ALB/NLB, RDS, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager, SSM, SNS, KMS), GCP (GKE, VPC, IAM, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Build, Secret Manager, KMS)

Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (modules, workspaces, remote state, state locking, reusable patterns, drift remediation, environment isolation), CloudFormation (familiar)

CI/CD & Version Control: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Cloud Build, pipeline automation, Git workflows, branch-based delivery

Containers & Kubernetes: Kubernetes (EKS/GKE), Helm, Docker, Ingress, load balancing, cluster upgrades, node pools, workload deployments

Networking & Security: VPCs, subnets, route tables, security groups, NACLs, DNS, Route 53, TLS/SSL, IAM, RBAC, Secrets Manager, SSM Parameter Store, KMS, network segmentation

Observability & Operations: CloudWatch, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Prometheus, Grafana, alerting, dashboards, health checks, incident response, root cause analysis, runbooks, production support

Systems & Scripting: Linux, Windows, Bash, PowerShell, basic Python

Professional Experience

Independent Cloud & Web Infrastructure Consultant

Jan 2025 – Present

Part-time / Project-Based

Partner with consultants and small business owners to design and launch web platforms aligned to their service model, customer workflow, and business goals.
Build static websites for service-based businesses to improve branding, credibility, and lead generation.
Develop portal-style solutions for staffing and operations-focused businesses to support intake, scheduling, document collection, and communication workflows.
Tailor web solutions across industries including staffing, retail, and professional services based on client-specific operational needs.
Manage hosting, DNS, SSL, domain configuration, and deployment setup to deliver secure, reliable, and production-ready web environments.
Translate business requirements into practical technical solutions, balancing usability, maintainability, cost, and speed of delivery.

Cloud Infrastructure / CloudOps Engineer | Solio | Clean Energy / ClimateTech

Sep 2025 – Apr 2026

Remote

Built and maintained multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP using Terraform, improving deployment consistency and reducing manual provisioning for engineering and application workloads.
Designed reusable Terraform modules, remote state configurations, and environment-isolated infrastructure patterns to improve consistency and reduce deployment risk.
Provisioned and managed core cloud services including networking, IAM, compute, storage, managed databases, DNS, secrets management, and monitoring.
Configured cloud networking components such as VPCs, subnets, route tables, security groups, firewall rules, and service connectivity to support secure internal communication and application access.
Implemented least-privilege IAM controls, role-based access patterns, and secure secrets handling practices to strengthen overall cloud security.
Automated infrastructure delivery through GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and cloud-native CI/CD tooling, reducing manual deployment steps and improving release consistency across environments.
Supported containerized and Kubernetes-based workloads, including infrastructure and operational patterns related to EKS and GKE.
Improved monitoring, alerting, logging, and health-check workflows, increasing operational visibility and reducing time spent troubleshooting infrastructure and deployment issues.
Investigated and resolved infrastructure, deployment, and platform issues, improving reliability and reducing operational friction.

Cloud Engineer (AWS / IaC / Security) | Access2Care — NEMT

Mar 2022 – Jan 2025

Co-owned Terraform infrastructure for production AWS environments, maintaining remote state, state locking, drift prevention, and controlled production changes.
Secured RDS by deploying databases in private subnets with tightly scoped security groups, eliminating public exposure.
Enforced least-privilege IAM access for workloads, restricting runtime permissions to required Secrets Manager retrieval and specific SSM Parameter Store paths.
Implemented automated RDS credential rotation using AWS Secrets Manager and a rotation Lambda, reducing reliance on long-lived static credentials.
Updated application configuration to retrieve credentials dynamically and validated service stability through CloudWatch logs, alarms, and health checks.
Built reliability guardrails by alarming on ALB 5xx spikes with CloudWatch and SNS and linking alerts to runbooks for faster incident response.
Standardized reusable Terraform patterns for core AWS resources to improve consistency, repeatability, and change safety across environments.
Monitored infrastructure and application health using CloudWatch metrics, logs, and alarms to improve visibility and accelerate troubleshooting.

Cloud Engineer (Contract, Part-Time) / AWS Consultant — Managed Web Operations

2018 – 2021

Managed AWS-hosted static/lightweight websites for multiple SMB clients on monthly retainers (S3, CloudFront, Route 53, ACM), delivering secure, fast, reliable public-facing sites.
Owned DNS + HTTPS end-to-end (registrar/Route 53 cutovers, ACM lifecycle, redirects, cache behaviors), minimizing downtime and preventing certificate-expiry incidents.
Hardened environments with secure-by-default controls (S3 Block Public Access, OAC/bucket policies, least-privilege IAM) and standardized release playbooks (deploy steps, invalidations, rollback).
Delivered ongoing ops as the accountable owner: monitoring/alerts, incident response, maintenance, and cost guardrails (S3 lifecycle/retention, budget alerts).

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (In Progress)