System Administrator Azure Cloud

Stine Atuokwu

Atlanta, Georgia ***** 678-***-**** ad5uqt@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

IT professional with 12+ years' experience in IT infrastructure including network, hardware and software maintenance, Skilled troubleshooter and problem solver proficient in managing systems and networks in a range of IT environments, with high aptitude for learning new technologies and how they help us perform job duties. Extensive experience as a system administrator and IT experience in multiplatform VMware, AWS, AZURE Cloud,Linux and Windows server virtualization with hands-on expertise in networking, storage and system integration.

SKILLS

Cloud-AWS

Azure

SAAS

IAAS

PAAS

LINUX

VMWARE

DNS

Active Directory

Citrix XenApp

Microsoft RDP

CI/CD Pipeline

Gitlab/Github

GitBash

Ansible

SPLUNK

JIRA

YAML

SCM

Build/Release Management

DEVOPS

DevSecOps

Office 365

CICD

KUBERNETES

DOCKER CONTAINER

TERRAFORM

CLOUD SECURITY

CLOUD ORCHESTRATION AND CHANGE MANAGEMENT

Monitoring Tools: Experience with system monitoring tools (SAP systems TREXADMIN), SPLUNK, Remedy, Vmware Cloudhealth

Scripting Tools: Windows Powershell, some Python, Gitbash

CLOUD CERTIFICATIONS: Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

OTHER CERTIFICATIONS: Vmware VCP, MCSE, CCNA, CUE (Certified Unicenter Engineer), VMWARE Certified Professional (VCP550-DCV) March 2015

WORK HISTORY

CLOUD & INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER 03/2022 to 02/2024

TEKSYSTEMS INC.(Contractor@ABBOTT Laboratories) Atlanta, GA

Support of our client's Infrastructure Engineering team, primarily responsible for performing the daily duties of Azure cloud design, new product & system engineering, configuration, tuning, troubleshooting and ensuring the health our all cloud environments

Contributing to development of platform services including architecture, provisioning, configuration, deployment, and support Perform code reviews, evaluate implementations, and provide feedback for tool improvements

Working with the team in administering a hybrid cloud datacenter environment including on-premise Vmware V-center, storage and other compute resources

Working with Windows Azure IaaS - Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services, Resource Groups, Express Route, VPN, Load Balancing, Application Gateways, Auto-Scaling, and other Azure tools

Designs Azure Resource Manager templates to create custom sized VNets, subnets, Vnet peerings, Routing tables etc to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates

Responsible for the availability, performance, monitoring and Infra Provisioning for the Platform which comprises of Cloud infrastructure and On Prem technologies.

Experience configuring, administering, Implementing and companywide rollout of Office 365 services such as OneDrive, Office ProPlus and SharePoint Online for Confidential

Responsible for end-user and helpdesk, user Onboarding and post migration day-2 support for all Office 365 services.

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CLOUD SYSTEMS DEVELOPER 04/2020 to 04/2022

CLOUDREACH Atlanta, GA

Creating and maintaining Infrastructure for Applications in AWS/Azure using Terraform

Building & Automating CICD pipelines for different applications

Contribute to development of platform services including architecture, provisioning, configuration, deployment, and support Perform code reviews, evaluate implementations, and provide feedback for tool improvements

Experience in dealing with Windows Azure IaaS - Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services, Resource Groups, Express Route, VPN, Load Balancing, Application Gateways, Auto-Scaling, and Traffic Manager

Experience in assigning the azure services on locations specific to integrate with web-apps and key-vaults Designs Azure Resource Manager templates to create custom sized VNets, subnets, Vnet peerings, Routing tables etc to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates

Developing templates or Powershell scripts to automate everyday developer or operations functions Experience in setting up CICD pipeline integrating various tools with Jenkins to build and run Terraform jobs to create infrastructure in AWS/Azure Major focus on Configuration, SCM, Build/Release Management, Infrastructure as a code (IAC) and as Azure DevOps operations Production and cross platform environments

Experienced in working on DevOps/Agile operations process and tools area (Code review, unit test automation, Build & Release automation Environment, Incident and Change Management) including various tools

Creates DevOps Workflow representing all stages starting from SCM(Source Code Management) Commit Build, Integration Build Which Compiles Code, unit Test cases and Code Coverage, Build and Bundle, Publish with Lead Approvals and Deployment of Artifacts.

AWS CLOUD ENGINEER 09/2018 to 02/2020

WIPRO Technologies@T-Mobile Atlanta, GA

Worked under the agile operation process in DevOps team (Build& Release automation, unit test automation, and Code review, Service, Incident and Change Management Environment,) to deliver an end to end continuous integration/continuous delivery product in an open source environment using various tools

Automated Deployment of multiple services using CloudFormation Templates (CFT) in JSON/YAML format

Expertise in troubleshooting the problems generated while building, deploying in production support

Designed roles and group and users creation using AWS Identity Access Management (IAM) and managed security using Security Groups and IAM policies

Strong knowledge and real time experience in Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, Lambda, Auto Scaling, ELB/ALB, Security Groups, ECS, RDS, VPC, RedShift, Route 53, etc.) Experience with DevOps and agile projects delivery - SCRUM, JIRA, Confluence Automate the cluster provisioning and deployment using Infrastructure as a code Terraform and building cluster with Ansible

Worked on source code management tools like GIT, Bitbucket and used Source code management client tools GitLab and GitGUI and other command line applications for code merges and update Experience with AWS EC2, S3 Bucket, RouteS3 DNS, ELB, EBS, AMI, VPC, CloudFormation Templates, Cloud Watch Monitoring and used Chef to leverage and manage AWS Instances

Working Knowledge on Cloud automation using AWS Cloud Formation templates.

SR. WINDOWS SYSTEMS /AZURE CLOUD ENGINEER 09/2015 to 09/2018

LENOVO Managed Services Atlanta, GA

Created Linux Virtual Machines using VMware Virtual Center, creating VM Templates, and troubleshooting all Virtualization related issues

Configured continuous integration from source control, setting up build definition within Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and configure continuous delivery to automate the deployment of ASP.NET MVC applications to Azure web apps Captured an image of a Virtual Machine

Attaching a Disk to a Virtual Machine

Manage and create Virtual Network and End Points in Azure Portal

Worked on CI/CD pipeline for Azure cloud services

Migrated Services from On-premise to Azure Cloud Environments

Collaborate with development and QA teams to maintain high-quality deployment Analyzed and resolve conflicts related to merging of source code for Git

Implemented, improved, and supported Citrix virtual XenDesktop and XenApp environments while providing in-depth senior-level troubleshooting and analysis of various issues and requests

Handled Citrix ticket support queue while improving response, resolution time, and quality of customer service

Experience in administering VMware Infrastructure Client 5.5, 6 and VSphere 5.5 and 6.0

Patching the ESX/ESXi hosts by using VMware Update Manager

Diagnosed problems through research, isolation and resolution steps using automated systems via Remedy Monitored production systems and investigate anomalous activity Hands-on experience deploying and administering systems in Azure environments

Configured Azure traffic manager to manage live traffic.

Collaborated with development teams to design, implement, and maintain continuous integration and deployment pipelines

Collaborated with development teams to design, implement, and maintain continuous integration and deployment pipelines.

SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR 05/2015 to 09/2015

AT&T- Lindbergh Station Atlanta, CA

Created, deployed, and maintained client computers and images Experienced in VBlock,VMware vSphere Vcenter server and ESXi VMware Update Manager (VUM)

Performed the VMWARE hosts migration while upgrading the VMWARE from 5.5 to 6.0

Maintained VMware tools like vSphere to manage VM's running on ESX cluster nodes for On-Premises infrastructure

Managed and configured our own private Cloud Server (ESXi) Upgraded, updated, and patched server and client software and firmware Configured, supported, and deployed mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets

Monitored and managed network capacity and performance Managed and coordinated services provided by external partners including cloud backup, network monitoring, and spam filtering Administered enterprise server applications and systems including, but not limited to, VMWare, Microsoft Exchange, anti-virus, backup, association management, and accounting systems in conjunction with 3''party partners Created and debugged bash scripts for automating day to day tasks Provisioned Suse and CentOS servers using PXE boot/kickstart profile Worked on-call rotations for escalation/resolution of critical production issues Performed routine checks on nodes by monitoring syslogs and errorlogs for system and hardware errors

NETWORK SYSTEMS ENGINEER 04/2010 to 01/2015

MicroQuest Computers Inc. Atlanta, GA

Designed, installed, configured, troubleshot and administered Windows services on 2003/2008/2008 R2 servers

Services implemented include File/Print Server (2003, 2008, 2008R2), IIS (6, 7, 7.5), Terminal Services (2003, 2008, 2008R2), VMware ESXi 5.5, Hyper-V, Cisco Works Installed and configured NetApp hardware and software products Monitored and maintained daily backups—Disk and Tape based backups Performed NetApp storage management, using SAN, NAS, iSCSI Experience in technically overseeing and executing a large-scale data center-size migration of servers from physical hardware to virtual (including dealing with technology owners / application owners, setting up physical hardware) Working with VMware technical support as-needed, and reading documentation and processes provided by other groups Configured active directory DNS servers Windows servers and desktop migration Windows tcp/ip configurations Configured exchange servers Familiar with SharePoint and sccm installs Provided documentation for standard procedures for Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7 networking utilization and security Provided budgeting information on a divisional level for software and hardware maintenance, contracts for service, and new project plans Assisted in the system administration of LINUX machines across a multi-vendor, multi-platform LINUX environment

EDUCATION

BA in Business Management

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina

Computer Sciences Minor

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina

North Metro Technical Institute, Acworth, Georgia

REFERENCES

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