About

Dominic Motuka is a skilled Cloud Operations Engineer with over 2 years of relevant experience in the field. Currently working at Vulcan Inc. as a DevOps Engineer, he is responsible for managing cloud migration from AWS Ec2 instances to GCP Kubernetes Engine, performing releases in conjunction with teams to deliver software on time and with quality, implementing infrastructure as code using Terraform, HELM, and Makefiles, troubleshooting and resolving production problems, maintaining and extending existing configuration management deployments, collaborating with the engineering team on shared objectives, participating in 24x7 On-call support, testing and examining code written by others, analyzing results and providing feedback, and working with developers and engineers to ensure that builds and deployment follow established processes and works as intended. Prior to his current role, Dominic worked at Andela as a DevOps Engineer where he managed cloud infrastructure, executed production releases of applications, built and maintained CI/CD pipelines with a focus on cost-effectiveness and timely delivery, safely and predictably created, changed, and improved infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Amazon Web Services( AWS ) using Terraform, Chef, Ansible, and Puppet, implemented infrastructure as code including automated creation, settings, and spin down of their custom software, set up observability of the cloud platform using Prometheus and Grafana, ensured standard DevOps processes are in place to support development build across code deployment workstreams in multiple teams, supported the creation of architectural diagrams and design specifications to aid automation, and monitored the security aspect of infrastructures such as external and internal interfaces, networking issues, and common vector of attacks. Dominic also worked at Andela as a Junior DevOps Engineer where he closely worked with engineers, test engineers, product owners, and managers to understand requirements, defined and implemented best practices and standards around DevOps and Site Resilience, set up a monitoring and logging solution using Prometheus, Grafana, Google Stackdriver, Elasticsearch, and Kibana, packaged microservices using containers (Docker) and deployed using orchestration tool (Kubernetes), automated infrastructure delivery with infrastructure-as-code software such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, and Terraform, participated in the improvement, documentation, communication, and enforcement of configuration engineering processes for software applications, investigated the use of cloud-based infrastructure components such as networking, load balancers, servers, access lists, databases, storage, etc with AWS, GCP, and Azure, configured CI/CD using CircleCI, Jenkins, and