Microsoft Azure Resource Manager

Ikeoluwa Kolawole

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Technical Skills

Cloud Skills

Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP

Infrastructure as Code (IAC): Terraform, Ansible

Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes

CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, GitHub Actions

Automation: AWS CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates Protocols/API: VLAN, VTP, STP, HTTP/HTTPs, REST API, TCP/IP, UDP/IP, SSL, IPSec VPN, CDN, TLS, LDAP. Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack DevOps Practices: Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Infrastructure Automation Operating Systems: Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, Red hat), Windows Server (v. 2012 & 2016), Windows OS. Networking: VPC, Subnets, Load Balancing, Security Groups, IAM, NAT/PAT, Firewall, VPN Configuration, ACL, AAA, Route-maps. Security Tools: Prisma Cloud Compute, Wiz.io, Lacework, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, AppOmni, Axonius SaaS, Zscaler Programming: JSON, HTML, Python, PowerShell.

Data Analytics Skills

Data Analysis Tools: SPSS, PowerBI, R Studio, Microsoft Excel, Tableau, GitHub Programming Languages: Python (Scikit-learn, Matplotlib, Pandas, NumPy, TensorFlow), R, SQL, Java, MATLAB, HTML, CSS Analytics Techniques: Statistical Analysis, Machine Learning, ETL, Data Wrangling, Time Series Forecasting, AI Certifications

Cisco Certified Network Associate

AWS Cloud Practitioner

AWS Solutions Architect Associate

AZ-303 Microsoft Azure Architect Associate

AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design

AZ-500 Microsoft Azure Security Technologies

AZ-700 Designing and Implementing Microsoft Azure Networking Solution Professional Experience

Cloud Engineer January 2024 to current

Affinity (Chicago, IL)

• Deploying and maintaining web applications and backend services during the application lifecycle.

• Built security model, VPC, and Elastic IP for databases and applications on the AWS platform for the development team.

• Configuring network security practices using Security groups, Network ACLs, etc. to restrict unauthorized access to the company’s services.

• Developing backup and recovery strategies using read replicas and failover routing for critical infrastructure components to prevent outrages in services during production.

• Investigating and Troubleshooting AWS Network Connectivity associated with Security Groups, NACL, route tables, and ELB.

• Working on a pilot-based project focused on database and Virtual Machine migration from on-premises to the AWS cloud to create a strategy for large-scale migration.

• Creating and executing strategy in deploying, managing, and operating scalable, highly available, secure, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS.

• Configuring various network infrastructures such as firewalls, VPN, DNS, CDN, SSL, and Load Balancers.

• Deployed microservice application with API Gateway.

• Executed containerization of microservices applications using docker.

• Developed Terraform templates and modules to provision cloud resources in both staging and production environments.

• Design, develop, and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, automating application build, testing, and deployment processes for various development teams. Ensure the efficient delivery of software with high quality and consistency

• Created and managed Kubernetes Pods.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and analyze software requirements. Translate business needs into functional and technical specifications that guide the development process.

• Design, develop, and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, automating application build, testing, and deployment processes for various development teams. Ensure the efficient delivery of software with high quality and consistency.

• Implement infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using tools like Azure Resource Manager templates, Terraform, or PowerShell. Automate infrastructure setup and maintenance to enable scalability and resource reproducibility.

• Created a custom script that was added to the build pipeline to automate the embedding of Defender into their Dockerfile before being deployed in Azure DevOps build.

• Integrated Microsoft Defender for Cloud into workloads (Kubernetes, Containers, Virtual Machines) and serverless deployment to provide visibility and runtime protection in production.

• Integrated Microsoft Defender for Cloud with Azure DevOps in other to provide security across the software development lifecycle.

• Innovated migration strategies for seamless transition of on-premises and inter-cloud environments to Azure, crafting and executing best practices. Contributed to the establishment of backup and recovery strategies for application and database safeguarding.

• Enforced governance policies and practices to ensure that Azure resources are utilized efficiently, and compliance is upheld. This involves defining resource naming conventions, access controls, and budget management.

• Collaborate with software developers, infrastructure specialists, network architects, and database administrators to tackle productivity issues, improve operational efficiency, and streamline the automation of Azure environment provisioning and application deployments.

• Help with Migration of On-Prem infrastructure into Microsoft O365.

• Architected backup strategy for the VMware vCenter environment using Altaro cloud backup.

• Used Azure Automation Account and Log analytic workspace to support Update management to enforce a patching schedule of our On-Prem and Azure Virtual Machine.

• Created various runbooks to automate repetitive and time-consuming tasks across different aspects of Azure such as VM provisioning, configuration management, patch update, auto start and stopping of VMS, etc.

• Remote login to Virtual Machines to manage, troubleshoot, monitor, and deploy applications.

• Integrated Azure Log Analytics with Azure VMs for monitoring the log files, storing them, and tracking metrics.

• Managing VMware infrastructure through the vSphere client.

• Performed system admin duties on Linux and Windows systems while maintaining various installed applications.

• Lead remediation efforts to address Microsoft Defender findings and resolve critical security system issues while implementing automation to prevent reoccurrence.

• Designed and configured Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, azure network settings, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, security policies, and routing.

• Working with a team to build a solution to ingest, analyze, and visualize Syslog log messages and metadata in real-time using Kinesis agent, Kinesis Analytics/Firehose, and Elasticsearch on AWS.

• Designing and implementing Amazon AWS infrastructures and services (EC2, ELB VPC, S3, CloudFront, IAM, API gateway, SNS, RDS, KMS, Data Pipeline, and CloudWatch).

• Setting up VPCs/Accounts per business applications while ensuring adequate Network segmentation, adequate logical separation, and secure internet access for servers in the private subnets using NAT gateways, proxies, and VPC endpoints.

• Analyzing logs and responding appropriately to service alerts using CloudTrail and CloudWatch. Cloud Solutions Engineer January 2019 – September 2022 Thanos Consulting LLC (Dallas TX)

• Led and assisted with the discovery and migration of On-Premises infrastructure to the cloud (Servers, systems, and data)

• Worked collaboratively and cross-functionality to develop & onboard complex customer environments.

• Worked with a team of network engineers to redesign network infrastructure to assure performance, scalability, and reliability.

• Documented migration plans and procedures in formal Methods of Procedures and Change Plans.

• Used the hybrid migration plans and procedures in formal Methods of Procedures and Changes Plans.

• Used the hybrid migration strategy which entailed the use of a storage gateway and Amazon Kinesis firehose to collect and ingest streams of data.

• Utilized Direct Connect, and VPN tools in connecting the data center to the AWS VPC.

• Configured network security practices using Network ACLs, Server-Side encryptions, Security groups on Load balancers, and EC2 instances to restrict unauthorized access to the company’s services.

• Designed and implemented AWS infrastructures and services (EC”, ELB, VPC, S3, and IAM).

• Used the AWS IAM resource to create and define user identity, role, permissions, and group provisioning.

• Provide troubleshooting assistance to support teams during and after migrations.

• Assist in discussions with customers regarding architectural solutions and technical capabilities.

• Troubleshoot difficult problems, recommend and implement appropriate actions.

• Estimated and compared on-premises and cloud expenses using the TCO calculator. Network Engineer December 2017 – January 2019

Thanos Consulting LLC (Dallas TX)

• Installed and configured Cisco routers and switches as well as appropriate cabling types based on implementation requirements.

• Used SolarWinds to monitor network performance and analyze network irregularities using SNMP and NetFlow protocols.

• Helped in troubleshooting various LAN/WAN technologies.

• Configured security policies using ACL, NAT, Firewall, AAA, VPN.

• Configured and troubleshooted OSPF routing.

• TACACS+ and RADIUS server configuration for AAA of network users and Administrators

• TCP/IP troubleshooting, subnetting and routing.

• Built a fault tolerance and highly available network infrastructure by applying various network strategies like HSRP and STP for redundancy.

• Troubleshooting UDP and TCP/TLS-related connectivity issues regarding access-list rules on Firewalls.

• Architecting, deploying, configuring, and supporting detection technologies such as ACL, SolarWinds

• Planned, installed, and documented the Cisco ASA firewall in the network environment to provide security.

• Reviewed and modified ACLs on network switching and routing equipment to maintain security standards.

• Post-design validation and testing of individual components installed. Education

Master of Science in Business Analytics Current GPA: 4.0 December 2024 University of Louisville Louisville, KY

Master of Science in Cloud and Enterprise Computing Distinction Nottingham Trent University Nottingham, United Kingdom December 2023 Other Degrees: Wood Products Engineering (2015) University of Ibadan, Certificate in IT (2021) London

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