Bawu Alice

Dynamic Platform & DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of experience designing, automating, and managing cloud-native and hybrid infrastructures across AWS, Kubernetes, and VMware. Proven success in delivering and supporting secure, scalable, and highly available platforms that support enterprise and highly regulated environments. Good knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipeline automation, and container orchestration.

Skilled in collaborating with cross-functional teams to modernize legacy systems, enhance reliability, and enable continuous delivery. Passionate about open-source technology, cloud transformation, and building resilient DevOps environments.

Infrastructure Engineer (Cloud) - Dominion Systems

(2024-11)

• Seamlessly embedded core infrastructure components into digital-spine non-prod and prod without downtime.
• Optimized spine platform cost by right sizing over-provisioned non-prod DB-instances and telemetry components via Datadog
• Engineered Datadog cost-optimization strategies by filtering metric and log ingestion for AWS serverless components, reducing Datadog spine platform spend by 20%
• Led non-production components upgrade activities and participated in production upgrades.
• Established foundations for Disaster Recovery processes with FIS and internal team.
• Documented processes by synthesizing spike outcomes into actionable technical documents for cross-functional teams.
• Support platform reliability, operational maturity and automation initiatives.
• Used AI engineering tools (Claude Code, Amazon Q Developer, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate automation development, saving an estimated 8 hours/week.

DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer - Landmark Technology

(2023-08 - 2024-10)

• Designed and implemented automated CI/CD pipelines using Bitbucket and Jenkins, reducing manual deployment time by 70%.
• Managed and optimized AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible, enabling infrastructure reproducibility and compliance.
• Built multi-stage deployment environments (dev/staging/prod) with resource segregation, automated teardown of unused resources, achieving cost optimisation targets.
• Containerized core applications with Docker and deployed to Kubernetes (EKS) clusters, improving scalability and uptime.
• Implemented proactive monitoring and logging using Prometheus, ELK, and Grafana, resulting in faster incident detection.
• Contributed to security compliance initiatives leading to company Cyber Essential Plus Certified.
• Collaborated with development and data teams to deploy cloud-native AI-enabled analytics workloads.

AWS Cloud Junior Security Engineer - Orange Cameroon

(2022-06 - 2023-07)

• Supported the migration of legacy Linux and Windows environments to AWS and VMware.
• Supported Kubernetes-based microservices architecture, automating deployment, scaling, and monitoring using Helm, Terraform, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Developed Terraform infrastructure templates and automation scripts.
• Maintained Git repository strategy, implemented access controls, and enforced branching standards to support agile development workflows.
• Recommended and evaluated emerging DevOps tools and practices to improve team velocity and system reliability.
• Implemented routing strategies with Route53 and managed multi-tier architectures via ELB, Nginx ingress controllers, and auto-scaling groups.
• Collaborated with developers and QA teams to troubleshoot production issues and ensure service reliability.

Postgraduate Training - DevOps Engineering

AWS Solutions Architect

Kubernetes Administrator

Linux System Administrator

Bachelor of Science - University of Buea