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Senior Devops Engineer

A result-oriented professional, with broad
experience in technical services and a reliable team
worker with excellent communications,
interpersonal relations and leadership skills.
Possess adequate project management skills, client
orientation intuition, analytical thinking, flexibility,
adaptability, and motivated work spirit under
pressure.

Work experience

Senior DevOps Engineer

Experian plc
  • Design and implement strategies for disaster recovery and business continuity
  • Research and evaluate new technologies to improve system performance and reliability
  • Post-acquisition, reduced disaster recovery process duration from 6-8 hours to 30 minutes by automating 80% of the previously manual processes using a suite of automation tools, significantly enhancing operational efficiency.
  • Developed and implemented an automation script to dynamically scale Azure SQL Database service tiers based on office and non-office hours, overcoming Azure's lack of built-in scaling schedules.
  • Created and centralized reusable Azure Terraform modules for multiple resources, streamlining infrastructure deployment across global teams and fostering collaboration through inner sourcing.
  • Implemented Terraform linting across all terraform modules to ensure adherence to security best practices and maintain infrastructure consistency.
  • Built and implemented a Separation of Duties (SoD) system by creating Active Directory groups and integrating them into the organization's Identity Access Management solution and database as contained users.
  • Integrated Veracode scanning into the code pipeline, improving the security and vulnerability management of application code.
  • Created and deployed a security.txt file within the product website’s .well-known directory to meet security best practices.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Wolters Kluwer
  • Implemented and deployed architected infrastructure in Azure leveraging IaC tool like terraform and ARM template.
  • Implemented infrastructure in Azure using terraform using structure configuration data (config.json) over the commonly used unstructured configuration data (tfvars)
  • Deployed and designed Azure DevOps pipeline to managed resources across multiple subscriptions in Azure
  • Development of automation of Kubernetes clusters via playbooks in Ansible.
  • Designed and implemented automated process to deployed infrastructures for different environments (stage, test, prod, etc)
  • Designed and implemented several stages of infrastructure using Terragrunt, leading to a [40%] reduction in provisioning time and increased consistency across environments keeping the terraform code DRY and maintainable
  • Migrated production Azure application gateway from v1 to v2 using a blue green deployment strategy.
  • Configured and implemented entire communication and traffic flow between Imperva Incapsula  WAF to azure traffic manager down to the Azure APIM backends services
  • Conducted numerous knowledge transfer sessions with several teams on every infrastructure build including CICD pipelines and IaC scripts
  • Developed and implemented robust automation frameworks and infrastructure as code (IAC) solutions across multiple platforms
  • Set up and optimized continuous integration and deployment pipelines for critical applications including Lippincott Solutions, NurseTim, NurseThink, CJSim, and eJP POC
  • Played a key role in developing and maintaining the Health ATP Automation Center
  • Utilized tools such as Azure DevOps (ADO), Ansible, Rundeck, and Grafana to enhance monitoring and operational capabilities
  • Led the conversion of the IHS SSO Tomcat application to a containerized environment, significantly improving scalability and deployment efficiency
  • Authored and successfully tested twelve pipelines dedicated to tech-debt remediation, enhancing system reliability and performance
  • Consistently increased team productivity through technical acumen and proactive approach to automation and operational challenges
  • Demonstrated expertise in automating and optimizing critical processes, resulting in significant time savings for the team
  • Leveraged Azure DevOps, Ansible, Rundeck, and Grafana to optimize monitoring and operational capabilities across multiple platforms
  • Orchestrated the migration of all Microsoft self-hosted agents to Kubernetes pods, enhancing scalability and resource efficiency
  • Engineered an automation framework to synchronize Azure DevOps repositories with S3 buckets, facilitating seamless data mounting in Kubernetes pods using Groovy.
  • Developed an automated process to request and generate SSL certificate CSR and private key via a ServiceNow ticket.
  • Implemented integration between ServiceNow Change Management and Azure DevOps pipelines, enabling automated creation of Normal and Standard Change request tickets
2022-012022-06

DevOps Consultant

Kristom Technologies
  • Set up Kubernetes (k8s) Clusters for running microservices and Pushed microservices into production with Kubernetes backed
    Infrastructure.
  • Development of automation of Kubernetes clusters via
    playbooks in Ansible.
  • Design and implemented Hub-n-Spoke type microservice
    infrastructure using terraform
  • Create ADO pipeline to deploy the terraform designed
    infrastructure to prod (production and pre-production) and nonprod(QA, Dev, Test, etc)
  • Developed dockerfile and docker-compose files for image builds
  • Designed dockerfile to build application image, pushed to docker registry, azure container registry and elastic container
    registry for easy deployment on ECS, EKS and AKS
  • Deploy, maintain and improve performance over containerised
    applications on AKS and EKS
  • Elastic search configuration using fluentD app in EKS cluster for logs and index creation in Kibana
  • Packaging application and its components using Helm chart and then deploying to Kubernetes cluster.
    Developed docker images for Microservices applications and deployed them into docker containers.
  • Worked collaboratively with the development team to migrate
    infrastructure from monolithic to Microservices.
  • Upgraded Kubernetes cluster with several deployments with minimum of 10 replicas. Upgrade was done using blue-green
    deployment strategy to ensure zero downtime of service.
2021-072021-12

DevOps and Cloud Engineer

Redtech Limited
  • Configure Jenkins jobs and pipelines using Git, SonarQube, etc.
  • Developing CI/CD and IAC roadmap and implementation to the project (Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Played a significant role in establishing operational processes for a fast-growing distributed cloud platform ensuring PCI DSS
    compliant systems.
  • Implemented observability and alerting by deploying and integrating Prometheus/Grafana in the container infrastructure
  • Built terraform modules for all the Azure resources existing in the infrastructure for reusability
  • Imported all existing infrastructure into Terraform to properly be managed within the state file.
  • Integrated security in the Pipelines with DevSecOps practices.
  • Analyzed container security using ANCHORE utility
  • Used Jenkins pipelines to drive all microservices builds out to the Docker registry and then deployed to Kubernetes
  • Involved in the development of test environment on Docker
    containers and deployed the containers into
    Kubernetes.
  • Configured the Kubernetes cluster hardening to conform to and meet the security best practices and CIS Benchmarks.
2021-012021-07

DevOps Engineer

Jive Software
  • Improve automated test and simulation frameworks.
  • Develop and automate standard operating procedures around common failure scenarios.
  • Monitor, analyze, and report performance statistics for cloud-hosted environments.
  • Scripting Dockerfile to build images and push to the registry.
  • Scripting docker-compose to package images and applications, then push to the registry.
  • Consult and contribute to system architecture.
  • Implementing smoke test on the entire instance to ensure a successful migration.
  • Respond to PageDuty alert to fix cluster downtime incidence.
  • Prepare a well-documented RCA for customers after every incidence resolution.
  • Scale and monitor customer Kubernetes cluster to ensure zero downtime, especially during high traffic events.
  • Automate the release and upgrade process for applications in Dev, UAT, and Production environments.
  • Build, deploy, monitor, manage and maintain Cloud applications and the underlying Cloud (e.g. AWS, Azure, Vagrant, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.) technologies.
  • Developing CI/CD and IAC roadmap and implementation to the project (Packer, Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Deploy an instance of the company app on AWS ECS Fargate before getting migrated to EKS for production.
2019-062021-01

Technical Solutions Engineer

Crossover for Work
  • Generate and configure DKIM, SPF, and DMARC authentication protocols to protect customer emailing.
  • Fostered a culture of robust documentation as it pertained to release processes and CI/CD.
  • Collaborate with the SaaS Ops team to ensure all back-end issues are solved in a timely manner.
  • Working with the SaaS Ops team to troubleshoot customer Jive Software instance hosted on AWS Cloud and Legacy Cloud. Migrating all Jive customers from Legacy infrastructure to AWS Cloud.
  • Used ElasticSearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK) for maintaining system logs and Bugzilla for tracking code bugs.
  • Troubleshooting Kubernetes nodes and scheduling node restart/rolling restart based on the severity of the issue.
  • Support above 20 products with a wide range of required technical skills from Linux, Windows, and SQL Server administration to Web development and Amazon Web Service.
  • Implemented and maintained Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery systems, leading to an improvement in the time to ship new feature releases by 26%.
  • Developing CI/CD roadmap and implementing it to the project.
  • Monitor, analyze, and report performance statistics for cloud-hosted environments.
  • Performed Kubernetes deployment using Istioctl command.
  • Set up and resolve ADFS, Azure, Okta, etc., IdP-Specific SAML SSO issues within customers' instances.

Cloud Technical Lead (Level 3)

Microsoft (Tek Experts)
  • Act as the primary technical contact with clients, delivering advanced technical troubleshooting for corporate customers including issues escalated to the highest level of management.
  • Key technical contact for high level troubleshooting and debugging complex escalated issues – working with the customer, internal third-level escalation, Technical Advisor and product development teams for the resolution of high impact or pervasive issues.
  • Collaborated with Microsoft Engineering team and Technical advisors to resolve issues which were considered bugs or required enhancements to the existing product.
2018-102019-06

Cloud Support Engineer (Level 2) Identity team

Microsoft (Tek Experts)
  • Collaborated on cross-team and cross product technical issues by working with colleagues from other teams as needed to resolve customer problems. 
  • Trained incoming L1 engineers  ensuring that they meet up with the technical requirements.
  • Created a perfect environment for sound service delivery whilst ensuring positive client experience which resulted to an impressive customer satisfaction grade of 4.6 in a scale of 5.
  • Supported Customers for Microsoft products like Microsoft Azure, ADFS, Active Directory, ADDS, ADCS, O365,  SharePoint.
  • Prepared documentations and videos for new solutions and training content for new recruits.
2018-062018-09

Cloud Solution Architect (Freelance)

Cloud Colony Inc
  • Migration of users and identity to Microsoft Office 365
  • Migration of mail boxes to Office 365 Identify major milestones project risk
  • Lead of team of engineers to carry out migration from Cpanel to Microsoft Office 365
  • Implementing Azure back up solutions Deployment of Device registration and Hybrid Devices join to Azure AD for management
    Mobile device management using Microsoft Intune
  • Deployment of authentication mechanism and conditional
    access policy.
  • Deployment of Identity Protection for Cloud security
  • Deployment and support for both Exchange On-Premises and online
  • In-class/online Microsoft Azure Cloud training
2017-032017-12

Information Security Analyst (SOC)

First Bank Nigeria Limited
  • Monitoring all online and mobile transactions
  • Investigated forgery and theft within customers' accounts and transactions on behalf of the bank
  • Kept all flagged accounts suspended and frozen until it can be checked and verified.
  • Securing customers funds and accounts against fraudulence on the online and mobile platform
  • Protect systems by defining access privileges, control structures and resource
  • Recognizes fraudulent transaction by identifying abnormally reporting violations
2017-122018-04

IT Support

First Bank Nigeria Limited
  • Logging and processing support calls
  • Office 365 user administration (Exchange online, OneDrive, Skype for business, SharePoint, Azure active directory)
  • Monitor and maintain computer systems and network
  • Talk staff or clients through a series of actions either face to face or over the phone to help resolve issues
  • Trouble shoot systems and network problems, diagnosing and resolving hardware and software faults
  • Replace parts as required
  • Responds within agreed time limits to call-outs
  • Planning and undertaking scheduled maintenance and upgrades
  • Work continually on a task until completion (or referral to third parties of appropriate)
2016-052017-04

Remote Monitoring Systems Analyst

Amaduke Geo-Resources
  • Implemented and installed remote monitoring systems(RMS) on Telecoms sites
  • Installed CCTV cameras on Telecoms sites
  • Observing various customers' transactions to flag or identify suspicious activities
  • Installed probes in DC generators to help monitor fuel level at every point in time
  • Managed and maintained all work sites equipment throughout the course of the day
  • Completed installations on Discovery boxes

Computer Eng/IT Support (Internship)

Lagos State Ministry Of Science And Technology
  • Performed installations and configurations of routers and switches
  • Conceptualized easier ways of troubleshooting CPUs, especially in the replacement of the power packs of computers
  • Collaborated with a team to install inverter/charger systems in ministries
  • Constructed and crimped different types of Ethernet cables
  • Coordinated the team that was troubleshooting the network to detect breakdowns with the use of a LAN tester device and an Ethernet cable
  • Installing and configuring computer systems

Qualifications

Proficiency in Windows Server,
ADFS, Active Directory, ADCS,
Authentication, Outlook, Office 365,
SharePoint, VMware, MSSQL
management, Azure, AWS, SQL
server, Information Security,
Unix/Linux, Networking, Windows
Server administration, Kubernetes,
Marathon, Terraform, Yaml, CI/CD,
Azure DevOps, ARM Templates,
Istio, Rancher, Elastic Search, New
Relic, etc.

Education

2018-012018-03

CCNA Cyber Ops

Cisco Networking Academy
2016-012016-06

Advanced Diploma

TTC-Mobile (IT and Telecommunications Training)

B.Sc Physics With Electronics (Second Class Upper)

Redeemers University, Mowe, Ogun State

Hobbies

  • Technology
  • Chess
  • Scrabble
  • Music
  • Video Games (FIFA)

Technical Skills

Proficiency in Windows Server, ADFS, Active Directory, ADCS, Authentication, Outlook, Office 365, SharePoint, VMware, MSSQL management, Azure, AWS, SQL server, Information Security, Unix/Linux, Networking, Windows Server administration, Python, Javascript, Docker, Dockerfile, Docker-compose, Kubernetes, Marathon, Terraform, Yaml, CI/CD, Azure DevOps, ARM Templates, Istio, Rancher, Elastic Search, New Relic, etc.

Core Competences

  • Strong Analytical/ Problem
  • solving skill
  • Ability to learn new skills.
  • Strong communication skills
  • Collaboration/Team work
  • Ability to follow best practices.
  • Open to learning multiple
  • products across multiple
  • technologies at the same time
  • Strong oral and written
  • communication skills in English
  • Well versed in current software support practices and tools
  • Excellent knowledge/experience in writing knowledge base articles and step by step guides

Certifications

  • Cisco Certified Network Associates(CCNA) Routing and Switching
  • CCNA Cyber Ops
  • Diploma in Information Security and Cyber Law (SIIT)
  • Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) windows server 2012
  • Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
  • Microsoft Certified Trainer
  • Linux Foundation Certified Systems Administrator (LFCS)
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
  • Certified Kubernetes Security (CKS - In-Progress )
  • Terraform Associate
  • GitHub Foundation
  • GitHub Administrator
  • GitHub Action
  • Microsoft Azure Administrator
  • Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer Expert 

key Achievements

  • During my stay working with First Bank of Nigeria, we won two out of the three Nigerian Electronic Fraud Forum (Neff) awards in 2017.
  • From the time I joined the team, there was a 75% increase in the detection of all forms of phishing, whaling and social engineering types of attacks leveraging SOC facilities with advanced Security technology
  • During the time there was at least 25% reduction of customer fraudulence on customer account as we went the extra mile schooling customers and giving social engineering awareness to customers.
  • Post-acquisition, reduced disaster recovery process duration from 6-8 hours to 30 minutes by automating 80% of the previously manual processes using a suite of automation tools, significantly enhancing operational efficiency.

Skills

Bash
70%
Version Control
90%
Container
80%
CICD
80%
Terraform
80%
Powershell
70%
Ansible
80%
AWS
70%
GCP
60%
Azure
80%