Chima Okalanwa, M.Sc.

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AWS Cloud & DevOps Engineer

I have 6 plus years’ experience supporting, automating, designing, and optimizing mission critical deployments in AWS, leveraging automation, CI/CD and DevOps processes. Also, I have comprehensive experience with AWS, Jenkins, Terraform, Linux, Docker, and Kubernetes. Designed the micro service & Server-less based architecture of application infrastructure and deployed applications across hybrid cloud platforms.

Work History2

American Water Dec 2017 - current

DevOps Engineer

•Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles, leveraging tools like Terraform and CloudFormation to provision and configure resources consistently and repeatably to avoid chances of environment - related issues.

•Develop and maintain scripts using Python, PowerShell, or Bash to automate and optimize cloud operations.

•Implemented CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins to automatically build, Test, and integrate code changes into shared repository, and automate the deployment of code changes into production environment.

•Utilize version control and collaboration tools, such as Git and Jira, to tack ticket and workflow to enable efficient team collaboration.

•Experience in managing and maintaining IAM policies for organizations in AWS to define groups, create users, assign roles, and define rules for role-based access to AWS resources.

•Experienced in designing the overall virtual VPC environment including server instances, storage instances, subnets network access controls, security groups, peers, availability zones etc.

•Completed routine Cloud Solution Architecting task related to EC2, ELB, VPC, S3, IAM, RDS, Route 53, VPC, CloudWatch, ECS, and SNS).

•Knowledge of alerts and monitoring, and system management tools for environment and configuration management, and cloud orchestration tools, including AWS, Ansible, CloudFormation and Terraform.

•Optimized costs through reserved instances, selection and hanging of EC2 instance types based on resources needs, S3 storage classes and S3 Lifecycle policies.

•Monitored end to end infrastructure using CloudWatch and SNS for notification to track the health and performance of applications and infrastructure in real-time, as well working knowledge of Splunk for monitoring and observability.

•Created shell scripts in Linux to automate the build process on development environment.

•Use docker to deploy microservices based applications.

•Utilized Ansible playbooks for updates and patching multiple systems to ensure updates are done in fashionable manner and integrate version control system such as Git for automation solution.

Solvay Fluorides, LLC, Illinois Dec 2016 – Dec 2017

Solutions Architect/Cloud Engineer (contract)

•Experienced in designing the overall virtual VPC environment including server instances, storage instances, subnets network access controls, security groups, peers, availability zones etc.

•Provisioning and setting up integrated AWS solutions such as EC2, S3, RDS, EMR etc.

•Built and deployed Docker Containers to break up monolithic applications into microservices, improved developer workflow, increased scalability, and optimized speed.

•Created and maintained fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using Jenkins for CI and Ansible for Deployment.

•Used IaC tools like CloudFormation and terraform for provisioning and managing highly scalable and secure infra and automation.

•Track logs using CloudWatch and created Metrics to display real time infrastructure statistics.

•Ability to work within an Agile project management methodology.

•Supported and advised in projects that involved planning analysis, design, development, testing, quality assurance, configuration installation, implementation, integration, maintenance, and management of cloud IT assets and infrastructure.

•Plan, build and configure network infrastructure within VPC with public and private subnets, configure routing tables, security group and internet gateway.

Solaj Oil and Gas Service Ltd, Lagos, Nigeria Jan 2011 – May 2015

Information Technologist/System Administrator

Responsible for installation, upgrade, maintenance and troubleshooting of new and old systems issues.

Responsible for monitoring server health status.

Performs system software upgrades including planning, scheduling, testing, and coordination under direct supervision.

Give permission and change ownership.

Shell scripting in Linux

Certifications

AWS certified Practitioner (4E0TB8QD211416CL)

AWS Certified Solution Architect – Associate (PXGP0ZJCS21116WC)

HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate (003)

Professional Scrum Master 1 (PSM I)

Education

Master of Science Environmental Sciences and Information Technology

Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville, IL

Bachelor of Technology: Microbiology

Federal University of Technology Owerri, -Imo, Nigeria

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