Devops Engineer Cloud Infrastructure

IFIDON ASIKOKO Mobile: +1-240-***-****

Email: ****.*******@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Well experienced Cloud Infrastructure/DevOps Engineer with a background in web application development. I have extensive hands-on experience in managing AWS cloud infrastructure including resources such as IAM, EKS, ECS, EC2, EBS, S3, SNS, SQS, RDS, Route53, Autoscaling, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Kinesis, Athena and CloudFormation. Also have a very good working knowledge of Azure cloud infrastructure, AAD, Azure VNET and Subnets, NSG, VPN Gateway, Azure Web App Services.

Highly proficient in:

• IaC tools such as Terraform and Ansible.

• Container management and orchestrations tools such as Docker and Kubernetes;

• Git/CICD tools - GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins, Azure Pipeline, FluxCD, ArgoCD;

• Observability tools - Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk

• Operating Systems: RedHat Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, Centos, Windows client, Windows Server, VM ware.

• Programming/Scripting: Python, Groovy, PowerShell /Bash Scripting. EXPERIENCE

DevOps Engineer: Sedetos Global Solutions Inc. October 2018 – Present Responsibilities / Accomplishments:

• Designed configured, and managed microservices deployments with Docker, Terraform, EKS, and AKS.

• Migration of legacy applications to Microsoft Azure Cloud PaaS with CI/CD Pipeline on Azure DevOps

• Set up of AKS Clusters in Azure with Azure CLI

• Created nightly builds with integration to code quality tools such as SonarQube and Veracode

• Involved in converting the existing monolithic application into microservices using Docker containers, Azure Container Registry and Kubernetes which led to 30% increase in performance.

• Design and implementation of Release Management workflow for integration and production environments.

• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins

DevOps Engineer: Altruist Consult LLC, Washington DC October 2017 – September 2018 Responsibilities / Accomplishments:

• Deployed fast and efficient AWS and Azure Infrastructure using IaC tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible

• Build cloud foundational components encompassing network, security, identity, operations, and governance on both AWS and Azure

• Versioned, branched, tagged, and maintained source code management process with tools such as Git on Linux environment

• Containerized existing monolithic applications with Docker, Kubernetes

• Installed and configured Jenkins master and slave for implementation of continuous builds and delivery

• Designed and installed monitoring/visualizations system with Prometheus and Grafana Lab

• Queried raw data with AWS Kinesis and Athena

• Provisioned S3 buckets in AWS to ensure persistence of routine storage to serve static websites Network Engineer: STREAM Insight Limited, Lagos, Nigeria Jun 2012 – July 2017 Responsibilities / Accomplishments:

• Maintaining computer networks including VPNs, routers, and other physical hardware

• Installing and configuring network equipment

• Created firewalls and updated virus protection software and data security systems that reduced security threat by 30%.

• Monitored computer systems that improve network performance for all systems by 25%

• Troubleshooting, resolving, and communicating networking issues to other employees and management.

• Implementing disaster recovery procedures

• Improved on existing security and networking best practices to offer the best solutions and protection to company systems

CERTIFICATIONS

• Microsoft Certified DevOps Solutions

• Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate

EDUCATION

• M.Sc. Geoinformatics Technology – University of Lagos, Nigeria: 2015

• B.Sc. Geography – Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria: 2007

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