Emmanuel Elong

About Emmanuel Elong

An experienced, dedicated, results-oriented, dynamic, and certified AWS Solutions Architect with a strong background in assisting client-architect and deploy secure, scalable, and resilient cloud-based solutions on AWS. Collaborative team player, problem solver with extensive project management skills, customer-oriented, and experience in transitioning multiple Cloud Computing, Software Engineering, and Solutions Architecture projects to ensure seamless delivery of services. My strength lies in my ability to truly understand the requirements of clients and leveraged cost-optimized and secure solutions to meet these requirements.Hobby: Reading, Soccer, Research, Traveling, Music, Basketball

Experience

1. Aws Solutions Architect

   IBM

   Mar 2019 — Present · Reading, PA, US

   Developed and leveraged baseline and custom guardrails, policies, centralized policy enforcement, tagging policies and a well-architected multi-account environment.•Security lead and the main point of contact for advising, designing and implementing all solutions.•Conducted security assessment of AWS Environment, made recommendations and led the implementation of security solutions like AWS Firewall manager in Control Tower to centrally manage VPC, SG’s, AWS WAF rules and Shield for Application load balancers.•Implemented Machine Image Pipeline and integrated Patch Management•Migrated legacy applications to AWS cloud environment.•Design and implement principle of least privilege across 700+ AWS accounts by leveraging AWS access analyzer, permission boundaries, and lambda functions to audit roles and users. •Used Terraform (Modules) and Cloud Formation templates to provision resources like VPC,EC2,S3•Setup Single Sign On (SSO) with AWS for federated access to our AWS resources.•Write custom Config rules for S3 Security such as config rules for versioning, encryption, access logging with auto-remediation using SSM where non-compliant buckets are flagged and SSM can auto-remediate their non-compliance •Deploy Config rules as stack sets into OU’s from Control Tower.•Built server-less architecture with Lambda integrated with SNS, CloudWatch logs and other AWS services.•Configured CI/CD Pipelines using Jenkins connected to Github and build environments (Dev, stage & Prod)•Implemented IAM best practices and role-based access control (Cross-Account Access)•Implemented AWS Control Tower to centrally manage multiple AWS accounts including consolidated billing and policy-based restrictions.Setup Ansible control and slave nodes and developed playbooks to automate the configuration of servers across environments•Leveraged identity-based and resourced-based custom IAM policies such as granting applications running in a EC2 access to an S3 bucket in another account

Education

• University of Geneva

  Master of Laws - LLM

  2018 — 2019

• University of Buea

  Bachelor of Science - BSc.

  2009 — 2012