NELSON A NKONGHO

Bowie, MD | Tell: +1 (301) -310-6687| Email: nelsonabungwi93@gmail.com

US Citizen
Secret Clearance

8 years IT experience with skills including a set of AWS services data, compute, storage, management, network,
microservices and security. Creating solution proposals in line with an organization’s goals around performance,
scalability, elasticity, security, monitoring.. strong troubleshooting skills having extensive knowledge and proficiency
in system and database administration. Worked extensively across windows/Unix and Linux platforms. Have excellent
communication skills, great team player with a fast-learning curve. Works perfectly and effectively under stressful
conditions where speed and accuracy are necessary for mission critical databases and systems.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Splunk implementation and management

• System Monitoring and Performance tuning CloudWatch (Events and Logs), AWS SNS.
• Database/system Upgrade and Migration Golden gate
• Data integrity and security: IAM, MFA, Amazon EBS, S3 buckets, KMS
• Oracle High Availability Architecture (HA) involving Oracle Data Guard and Oracle Golden gate
 Applications: Ansible, Docker, Jenkins, Containers CI/CD, GitHub, Code commit
 Hardware and software support and troubleshooting: windows /Unix and Linux
 Switch
 Routers
 TCP/IP
 Programming Languages: Bash Shell, Java Script,
 Firewalls
 Active directory
 Governance and Compliance: AWS Config Rules, AWS Organization, AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS License Manager

CERTIFICATIONS

SECURITY+ CERTIFIED
SPLUNK ADMIN CERTIFIED
ORACLE CERTIFIED ASSOCIATE (OCA)
AWS CERTIFIED PRACTIONAL
BSC in COMPUTER SECIENCE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CLOUD SECURITY/SPLUNK ENGINEER January 2020 – Present

Universal Tech Consulting (Walmart ) Addison, TX

Responsibility

• Provide security consulting to project and development team around information security.
• Manage Splunk cluster environment.
• Create apps to manage deployment clients on the deployment server .
• Cloud administrator with AWS administration, create EC2 Instances, IAM, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation
• Confluence and Jira administration.
· Leveraged different design principles for security in the cloud and implemented various AWS services to improve
our security posture for Authentication, Authorization, Monitoring, Auditing, Encryption and Data path security.
• Splunk administer with knowledge of Splunk frontend and backend.
• Create transition plans, identify documentation required, schedule tasks and execute the approved plan.
· Built high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for customer applications, and performed reviews for
architecture and infra builds
• Scripting using Shell and Bash
· Built custom images though docker server, docker compose with multiple local containers, and created production
grade workflows and a continuous application workflow for multiple images.
· Implemented multiple container deployments to AWS and maintained sets of containers with deploy
• Support testing of new integrations for infrastructure and production performance
• Support developers from source control, through build automation, merge resolution, CI/CD pipeline, test
automation, deployment based on tools usage and policies, standards.
• Develop dashboards with visual metrics for stakeholders
· Set-up pipelines for nightly builds enabling, Build, Sonar, Security Scans, deploy, Smoke test and Performance test
weekly regression suites for early detection of issues
• Standardize and implement Splunk Universal Forwarder deployment, configuration and maintenance in Linux and
Windows platforms
• Performance tuning and monitoring
• Windows Active Directory administration and management.
• Dev support for Mac OS (operating system)
• Work in DevOps environment with agile concepts.)

CLOUD SECURITY/SPLUNK ENGENEER November 2017 – December 2020

Universal Tech Consulting (DGIT Technology ) Virginia, VA

Responsibility

• Provide security consulting to project and development teams in area of information security
• Create apps to manage deployment clients on the deployment server
• Cloud administrator with AWS administration, create EC2 Instances, IAM, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation
• Confluence and Jira administration
• Splunk administer with knowledge of Splunk frontend and backend
· Designed, implemented, and managed all elements of the control plane and the worker nodes in a Kubernetes
deployment, in addition to containerizing the applications that will run in the pods.
• Create transition plans, identify documentation required, schedule tasks and execute the approved plan.
• Scripting using Shell and Bash
· Architected serverless solutions using AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway in event-driven patterns to power
scalable and secure serverless applications.
· Created an event-driven proof of concept serverless architecture that uses managed services that are appropriate for
our expected data flow and scaling requirements.
· Defined methods for failure management, performance testing, and application auditing within our serverless
architecture and deployed updates to the serverless application without downtime.
· Leveraged AWS management tools to programmatically provision, monitor, and automate all the components of
our cloud environments.
· Implemented AWS Systems Manager management service capabilities to automatically collect software inventory,
apply OS patches, and automate administration tasks and complex workflows across our environments.
· Leveraged different design principles for security in the cloud and implemented various AWS services to improve
our security posture for Authentication, Authorization, Monitoring, Auditing, Encryption and Data path security.
• Support testing of new integrations for infrastructure and production performance
• Develop dashboards with visual metrics for stakeholders
• Standardize and implement Splunk Universal Forwarder deployment, configuration and maintenance in Linux and
Windows platforms
• Performance tuning and monitoring
· Design release and change management automation through pipeline (including the approval process
• Windows Active Directory administration and management.
• Dev support for Mac OS (operating system)
Cloud Security Engineer July 2016 – November 2017
Universal Tech Consulting Washington, DC

Responsibility

• Installation of Splunk and components such as forwarder, search head, and indexer
• Splunk cluster installation and maintenance
• Management of the Splunk Deployment server in a cluster environment.
• Linux system administration experience with CentOS and red hat
• Government consulting of technical issues
• Utilize AWS Cloud, create EC2 Instances, IAM, Cloud Watch, and Cloud Formation
• Create data retention policies and perform index administration, maintenance, and optimization
• Work with third party application, hosting and CDN providers to integrate data feeds to a centralized Splunk
platform
• Jira and Confluence administration
• Provide overall management of the SPLUNK platform
• Assist with design of core scripts to automate SPLUNK maintenance and alerting tasks. Support SPLUNK on
UNIX, Linux, and Windows-based platforms. Assist with automation of processes and procedures
• Developer support
• Ability to effectively communicate technical issues and resolve problems
• Manage existing application and create new applications (visual and non-visual)
• Manage SPLUNK user accounts (create, delete, modify, etc.)
• Installed Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Mail Exchange Server 2007, configured DHCP, DNS, Active
Directory and User account management.
• Configure Routers and Switches with trunks, multiple VLAN configuration with sub-interfaces SSH and TELNET
configuration for remote user access configured NAT setup and configured ACLs in firewalls for routers
• Backup and restore of router/switch and IOS image configuration to TFTP
• Working knowledge of routing protocols such as RIP, OSPF and EIGRP
• Serve as information system security administrator by advising and developing strategies for software
standardization, compatibility and implementation while maintaining system integrity.
• Conduct open security testing standards and projects according to NIST
• Maintain and mange Splunk, frontend and backend