Noella Formin
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Noella Formin

AWS Cloud and DevOps Engineer at Dell Technologies.
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About

Noella Formin is an experienced Cloud engineer with over seven years of experience designing and delivering security and network solutions in cloud infrastructure based on AWS cloud security standards, governance, and control practices. One of his duties at Dell Technologies was having experience in migrating and implementing multiple applications from on-premises to the cloud using the AWS MGN. Also, he used Content Delivery Service (CloudFront and AWS Global accelerator) to cache company data so that users from different AWS regions can access data at quicker rates due to low latency. During his startup at Bank of America as a jr. system administrator, he performed a root-cause analysis of recurring issues, system backup, and security setup. Noella has expertise in AWS Cloud, Terraform, MongoDB, and Jira.

Employment

3 roles
Oct 2019 - Feb 2023 3 years 4 months
AWS Cloud & DevOps Engineer
Dell Technologies
  • Monitored servers, devices, and applications to identify and rectify potential issues promptly. Made use of CloudWatch, and DataDog for intensive monitoring of instances and resources.
  • Architected Amazon RDS with Multi-AZ for automatic failover servers and created roles for EC2, RDS, S3, and CloudWatch resources to communicate with each other using IAM.
  •  Implemented maintenance and configuration of users account for Dev, QA and production servers and created roles for EC2, RDS, S3, and CloudWatch resources to communicate with each other using IAM.
  • Used Terraform to provision resources on AWS and developed modules for different cloud resources for security best practices and standards across accounts.
Jan 2017 - Sep 2019 2 years 8 months
Cloud Engineer
Bright Horizons
  • Built and configured a virtual data center in the AWS Cloud to support enterprise data warehouse hosting, including Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Public and Private Subnets, Security Groups (SG), Route Tables, Elastic Load Balancers ELB), and Route53. 
  •  Partook in disaster recovery scenarios for backing up data and utilizing AWS backup and restore tools like AWS storage gateway and developed solutions around pilot light and warm standby. 
  • Used CloudWatch and VPC flow logs to monitor and retain account activity related to actions across AWS infrastructure. 
  • Established VPC connectivity by using Transit Gateway for connecting VPCs and VPN connection to a data center.
Apr 2015 - Dec 2016 1 year 8 months
Junior System Administrator
Bank of America
  • Performed applications installation, upgrades, patches, troubleshooting, maintenance, and monitoring of the Linux server
  • Created, managed, and administered user accounts security and SSH password-less login. 
  • Built and configured Linux servers from scratch with type one hypervisors for virtualization and network components.
  • Managed installation, configuration, and administration of Enterprise Linux.

Education

Jun 2010 - Mar 2014 3 years 9 months
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science
University of Bamenda