Harris Yango

About Harris Yango

Experienced in designing scalable cloud solutions on AWS and Azure, optimizing CI/CD…

Experience

1. Cloud Devops Engineer

   Ford Motor Company

   Nov 2022 — Present · Dearborn, MI, US

   Designed a hybrid cloud architecture with AWS and Azure, using Direct Connect and ExpressRoute to ensure seamless communication with zero downtime.• Implemented AWS Organizations with SCPs and Config to centrally manage accounts, enforcing policy-based restrictions and preventive/detective guardrails.• Implemented microservices deployment on EKS, ensuring zero downtime and improved performance using Kubernetes auto-scaling and rolling updates.• Ensured zero-downtime communication by configuring AWS Direct Connect, Route 53, and VPC Peering for secure hybrid cloud integration.• Effectively utilized Systems Manager to automate OS patching and administration tasks, improving efficiency and reducing patching time by 40%.• Automated multi-region deployments with Terraform and CloudFormation, streamlining development cycles and reducing provisioning errors.• Implemented multi-cloud data replication with AWS DataSync between Azure Blob Storage and AWS S3, ensuring real-time backups with minimal latency.• Migrated a legacy application to ECS, using Docker and EKS for orchestration, improving uptime and reducing operational costs.• Enhanced threat detection in a multi-tenant environment through the implementation of Azure Conditional Access and Microsoft Defender.• Monitor system performance and application metrics using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Splunk, and Nagios, ensuring high availability and performance of applications and infrastructure.• Optimized database architectures with RDS, DynamoDB, and Redshift, improving query performance and enhancing reporting capabilities• Orchestrate application deployments using Kubernetes Deployments (Blue Green), enabling rolling updates and rollbacks.• Implemented AWS IAM, KMS, and Control Tower, automating governance and reducing administrative overhead while ensuring compliance with security standards.• Work with Agile methodologies and participate in On-call rotation.