Idris A.

About Idris A.

I’m a passionate AWS Cloud Engineer with over 7 years of hands-on experience in…

Experience

1. Aws Cloud Engineer

   American Psychological Association

   Aug 2019 — Present · Washington, DC, US

   Designed and deployed scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant AWS architectures using services such as EC2, S3, ELB, VPC, Auto Scaling, and CloudFront.• Reduced monthly AWS costs by 30% through strategic use of Reserved Instances, optimized EC2 types, and S3 lifecycle policies.• Developed Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using AWS CloudFormation templates to automate environment provisioning.• Architected and managed containerized applications on AWS ECS with Fargate, integrated with CodeDeploy and ECR for seamless deployment.• Built secure cloud environments by implementing IAM roles and policies, MFA, security groups, NACLs, and S3 bucket policies.• Automated patch management and software inventory tracking using AWS Systems Manager.• Established robust CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins (CloudBees) integrated with Bitbucket/GitHub, Docker, and SNS for automated feedback and deployments.• Collaborated with development and security teams to select appropriate AWS services and enforce cloud security best practices.• Monitored system health and performance using CloudWatch, setting up alarms and logs for proactive issue detection and response.• Managed Jira and Confluence platforms, executing updates, upgrades, and maintaining security compliance.• Maintained detailed internal documentation for cloud infrastructure, deployment processes, and operational workflows.• Addressed AWS Trusted Advisor security recommendations to improve resource optimization and reduce vulnerabilities.• Configured and troubleshot AWS services including WAF, Secrets Manager, and ACM for enhanced security posture.

Education

• Lagos State Polytechnic

  National Diploma, Accounting

• University of Lagos

  Bachelors of Education, Educational Administration