Leila Maptouhe-Messi

CloudOps / DevOps Engineer

📞 +1 (404) 395-5831 | ✉ leilamessi96@gmail.com

Summary

CloudOps / DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of experience supporting production AWS and Kubernetes environments. Strong expertise in Amazon EKS, multi-account AWS, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, and CloudFormation. Experienced in Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch monitoring, incident response, and production troubleshooting.

Certifications

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) – CNCF / Linux Foundation – January 2026

Education

University of Central Arkansas
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science – December 2022

Skills

Cloud

AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, EKS, ECR, ECS, Route 53, CloufFront, Lambda, VPC, ELB, RDS)

IaC

Terraform, CloudFormation

Containers

Docker, Kubernetes (EKS)

CI/CD

Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub, Argo CD, Nexus, JFrog

Monitoring

Datadog, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana

Scripting

Python, Bash, PowerShell

Work Experience

CloudOps Engineer – Symplr

2024 – Present

Managed multiple production Amazon EKS clusters.
Led Kubernetes version upgrades and add-on lifecycle management (CoreDNS, kube-proxy, VPC CNI).
Built GitOps pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub, and Argo CD.
Provisioned AWS infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation.
Implemented monitoring and alerting using Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana and AWS CloudWatch..
Troubleshot complex production issues across Kubernetes, AWS networking, and CI/CD pipelines.
Supported multi-account AWS environments including IAM access governance and resource isolation.
Maintained and improved Jenkins pipelines ensuring reliable automated deployments.
Collaborated with security, DevOps, and application teams to support production releases.

CloudOps / DevOps Engineer – Data Service Group

2020 – 2024

Built CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins.
Provisioned AWS infrastructure using Terraform.
Containerized apps with Docker and supported Kubernetes deployments.
Automated configuration management and deployments using Ansible.
Worked with cross-functional teams to modernize deployment processes and tooling.

Project

GitOps CI/CD Pipeline for Kubernetes on AWS

Implemented GitOps workflow using GitHub, Jenkins, Helm, and Argo CD to deploy applications to Amazon EKS. Improved deployment reliability and reduced configuration drift.