Sam Nkata

About Sam Nkata

SkillsAWS Services: EC2, S3, KMS, RDS, DynamoDBAuthentication: SSO, FIM, Cognito IAM, Cloud IdentityCloud: PaaS, IaaS, SaaS, IDaaSAutomation/ Deployment: AWS CLI, CloudFormation, Terraform, AnsibleOperating system: Linux, WindowsMonitoring: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Dynatrace, Nagios, SplunkContainers: Docker, KubernetesScripting: Bash, Shell, Python and PowerShellNetworking: TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, VPN, Firewalls, Routing, LBsMaintenance: Patch/ Software Management, AWS SSMTicketing: Jira, ServiceNowVersion Control: Git, Github, GitLabVirtualization: VMware, VirtualBox, AWS WorkSpaces

Experience

1. Cloud Devops Engineer

   UnitedHealth Group

   Jan 2022 — Present

   Perform system administration/ SRE tasks such as installing, configuration and maintenance of different linux environments• Deploy application stacks from both cloud and infrastructure perspective using Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform and CloudFormation• Hands-on experience with Azure and AWS offerings and integration, and migration of on-prem to cloud environment• Experienced on SLDC methodologies like Agile and use various DevOps tools like Git (for version control), Jenkins (for continuous integration), Ansible (for continuous deployment & configuration management), Docker and Kubernetes (for containerization)• Help in “war-room”/ troubleshooting sessions to get to the bottom of security incidents to resolve them quickly• Monitor enterprise level toolsets and critical business applications using Splunk Enterprise, providing full end-to-end operations support monitoring metrics for better system performance, optimization & cost• Communicate effectively with various levels of stakeholders (Internal/External/Leadership) in a customer facing role• Involved in supporting new clients on-boarding process, ensuring proper access and authorization is in place

Education

• Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology

  Aviation Engineering/ Maintenance

  2003 — 2004

• Saint Martin's University

  Bachelor of Arts - BA, Business Administration and Management, General

  2015 — 2017

• University of Washington

  Master of Science - MS, Information Management

  2017 — 2019

Skills

• Supervisory Skills
• Military Training
• Military Experience
• Operational Planning
• Supply Chain
• Leadership Development
• Strategic Planning
• Management
• Team Building
• Training
• Force Protection
• Operations Management
• Military
• Microsoft Outlook
• Leadership
• Logistics Management
• Lean Six Sigma
• People Skills
• Counterinsurgency
• Physical Security
• Inventory Management
• Customer Service
• Microsoft Excel
• First Aid
• Military Operations
• Army
• Combat
• Program Management
• Project Management
• Military Logistics
• Security Clearance
• Combat Lifesaver
• Microsoft Word
• Team Leadership
• Microsoft Office
• Command
• Readiness
• Process Improvement
• Personnel Supervision
• Microsoft Powerpoint