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DevOps Engineer

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Brandywine, MD
Posted:
May 21, 2021

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PRINCE O. IGBINEWEKA

admlov@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: 703-***-****

Active Public Trust SC/TS Clearable

An AWS Solutions Architect and DevOps Engineer, with a focus in designing, configuring and managing cloud services in a continuous Integration and continuous deployment environment. Seeking to utilize my skills and experiences in implementing cloud- base solutions using Amazon Web Services; and providing solutions of DevOps and Agile Methodologies in the software development life cycle environment.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

12 years of experience in design, development, and deployment of IT systems for an enterprise organization in an On-Premise or virtual cloud environments (IaaS).

Detailed and goal-oriented Certified Oracle Database Administrator and Application Server administrator with 9yrs of experience in designing, implementing and maintaining Oracle 11g and 12c RDBMS.

Experience in delivering solutions and administering systems in a cloud environment utilizing Iaas, Paas, and Saas offerings.

Experience with standing up Ubuntu, centos, Redhat Linux instances and Windows operating systems in AWS EC2 and Google cloud environments.

Experience working in an Agile environment proven experience preparing and presenting technical documentation to various audiences.

Comfortable moving from one area of software construction to another, be it integration, testing, releasing or deployment.

Infrastructure architectural background and experience with enterprise containers and virtualization technologies Kuburnetes and docker images.

Excellent in Oracle databases and application 11g and 12c installation, security patching and upgrades (ADOP, CPU, and Weblogic).

Ability to work regularly with Developers on new codes being deployed.

Familiarity with Continuous integration/continuous deployment tools such as Jenkins.

Ability to use Infrastructure Automation tools like Ansible.

Knowledge in working with Aws cloud services and infrastructure.

Ability to continuously develop and integrate new systems and operations into the code Adept in using the Amazon Web Services i.e. S3, EC2, VPC, IAM, Route53, RDS (Oracle, MySql, SQL Server, Red Shift), Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, API and CLI.

Strong background with infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting including shell, Python and JSON.

Proficient knowledge of integration of cloud services with on premise and virtual technologies from Microsoft, RHEL, and Oracle etc.

Hand-on experience with RHEL and Windows operating systems in a virtualized environment.

Understanding of the systems architecture, application architecture, high availability, scalable installations and layered security.

Worked across a multitude of platforms, including AIX UNIX, WINDOWS NT/2000, Red Hat Linux, HP-UX & SUN SOLARIS, Weblogic and PeopleSoft in a production and development environment with responsibilities of Troubleshooting, Performance Monitoring & Tuning, Data Load & Migration, RMAN Backup and disaster recovery, logical and physical design.

Managed Oracle databases in large environments (+850TB) and application environment to support over 10,000 concurrent users.

Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of Oracle Database administration tasks including installation, configuration, backup, and recovery processes.

Demonstrate experience installing/administering 12cR1/12cR2 ASM environments. Experience deploying & building applications using AWS native services.

Hands-on experience in designing, configuring and managing cloud services in AWS. Working knowledge of Cloud automation and provisioning tools.

Capability to provide best practices for building secure and reliable applications on the AWS platform.

Skilled in designing and implementing Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) to simplify file management with the ability to self-tune automatically.

Provide an efficient disaster recovery solution through the use of Oracle Data Guard configuration.

Superior communication, presentation, analytical, problem solving and customer service skills. Experienced in working effectively and efficiently across all levels of business.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

DevOps Tools: Git Hub, Jenkins, Maven, Selenium, TestNG, Puppet, Kuburnetes, Dockers, Splunk, Nagios and Ansible.

AWS Service: S3, EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS (Oracle, MySql, SQL Server, Red Shift), AWS Cloud Watch, AWS Cloud Trail, API and CLI.

Databases: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle 12c, 11g, and RDBMS, MS SQL Server.

Operating Systems: RHEL Linux/Unix (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX).

Oracle Tools: Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c, 13c Grid Control(OEM) with Diagnostics, OUI, Oracle Data Guard, DBCA, Database Upgrade Assistant, Oracle Net Manager, SQL*Plus Data Pump, SQL*Loader, Oracle VM Manager, WebLogic, Oracle Enterprise manager grid Control, Oracle Golden Gate, OBIEE, Oracle Data Integrator 11g, Oracle WebLogic, Oracle E-Business Suite, CLI, command-line tools.

Client Tools: Putty, Winscp, VNC, Xwin32, Windows Terminal Service, 4nt, Bastion Host, TOAD, SQL Developer.

Languages: SQL, JSON, Java, HTML, PL/SQL, UNIX shell scripting.

Backup Tools: Recovery Manager (RMAN), Oracle Secure Backup, Net backup & UltracBac.

CERTIFICATIONS

AWS Solutions Architect Associate

May 2019 – Present

Oracle Database 11g Certified Administrator (OCA)

December 2011 – Present

Oracle Database 11g Certified Professional (OCP)

June 2012 – Present

Oracle Database 11g SQL Fundamentals I

December 2011 – Present

Oracle Database 11g Certified Implementation Specialist

September 2013 – Present

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Deloitte Consulting, LLC

United States Secret Service – Contractor

Amazon Solutions Architect/DevOps Engineer

November 2018 – present

Design and implement VPC’s VPC routing and VPC security.

Use GIT for cloning, pushing, and creating repositories.

Migration of on premise data to Amazon RDS using the Amazon Data Migration Service.

Strong Infrastructure Architecture background and experience with virtualization technologies.

Secure and ensure the integrity of servers and systems, by creating and managing security groups and network ACL’s to ensure controlled access to instances and subnets.

Create builds on the bamboo agent for Continuous integration and deployment of the environment.

Create AMIs and volume snapshots as backup for instances.

Use AWS cloud services to enable high-performance computing (i.e. AWS EMR) and creating standard virtual machines (i.e., EC2, AMI) instances.

Utilize Bamboo for deploying and building of applications on windows .net and java applications.

Automate and configure software using configuration management tools, such as Ansible, Terraform or Puppet.

Utilize Bitbucket for source control and for versioning changes on the environment.

Utilize Ansible for deployment of Linux and Windows OS Virtual Machines.

Create notifications for completed and failed builds as well as adding email list for alerts.

Utilize Ansible and Terraform for creating and deploying Instances on AWS.

Utilize Ansible and Terraform for creating subnets, security groups, route tables and ACL’s for VPC creation.

Experience designing available, cost efficient, fault tolerant, and scalable distributed systems on AWS.

Create S3 buckets and setting permissions for buckets using Ansible and playboks.

Deploy hybrid systems with on-premises and AWS components.

Design and migrate applications on AWS using PaaS services.

Deploy applications on Containers & Kubernetes.

Design and deploy scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS.

Utilize Jenkins to compile code obtained from GIT for CI/CD pipeline implementation.

Identify the appropriate use of AWS architectural best practices.

Responsible for the availability, security/compliance, backup, and performance of the cloud infrastructure.

Perform system monitoring, diagnose and correct system problems.

Work with Development teams to, identify issues, troubleshoot and make recommendations to resolve application integration issues.

Develop automation routines to effectively automate the deployment of Cloud Services.

Leverage DevOps practices to develop innovative automation solutions for manual operational processes utilizing Ansible Automation.

General Dynamics Information Technology

Department of Homeland Security (US Visits) - Contractor

Sr. Database Consultant

November 2016 – March 2019

At the Department of Homeland Security, USVISITS Agency, I served as the senior Oracle DBA for the development, test and production platforms. Some of my major roles and responsibilities as a technical resource were on the physical database design, system architecture, implementation, database tuning, capacity planning, system database backup/recovery strategy, data architecture, high availability design, reporting database design, troubleshooting performance problems via identifying the root cause, creating solution action plans and providing production support. Additional responsibilities include developing, implementing and administering multiple DHS biometric Oracle Databases at sizes of 823+Tib and 850+Tib (backup) running 24/7 nationwide mission critical applications on IBM AIX servers with Hitachi storage arrays using Oracle12c release 2 RAC with physical standby databases.

Created and managed oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) databases 12c.

Managed a host of databases for the OBIM Department of Homeland security transactional databases with sizes of up to 823 Terabytes of data in OLTP environment.

Patched, upgraded, and troubleshoot production and non-production databases.

Installed and configured 2-node Oracle 12c RAC and Data Guard on OS platforms (AIX, LINUX, and WINDOWS). Upgraded our databases from 11g to 11gR2 to 12c.

Configured and monitored Oracle ASM, Data Guard, Oracle cloud control/ Grid Control (OEM) and RMAN on our databases.

Executed RMAN backup scripts and restart failed RMAN backups and/or reschedule backups as necessary to tune backup times

Performed conversion of physical standby to snapshot standby to support scheduled release dry run testing.

Performed post release testing rollback of changes and re-enabling physical standby functionality.

Executed and analyzed performance tuning using EXPLAIN PLAN, SQL TUNING, HASH PLAN, ADDM and AWR reports. Monitor system and instance resources to ensure continuous database operations (i.e., database storage, memory, CPU, network usage and I/O contention).

Optimized and monitored performance of databases using Oracle Enterprises Manager cloud control 13c and scripts to ensure high availability in our environments.

Installed and maintained Oracle databases in AIX, Linux, and Windows operating systems.

Troubleshoot and resolved database in-doubt transactions as they are experienced.

Configured database networks while utilizing server tnsnames and listeners services.

Implemented and managed large database backup such as RMAN hot and cold backups.

Performed Oracle Golden Gate implementation to migrate data from soured database to target database, including multiple exports and imports functions.

Resolved oracle problems such as connection, performance and backup problems.

Performed bulk load to target databases using sql*loader

Added/modified/removed datafiles and outdated partitions as needed to increase to increase available storage space as usage grows.

Modification Requests (DMR), Data Extracts for data refreshes (DR), or perform application data configuration changes (DML) via formal approved release process in support of Agile development.

Implemented of database security.

Managed database objects, such as procedure and functions.

Administered database user accounts – Assign/Revoke privileges.

Deloitte Consulting, LLC

Department of Treasury (BEP) - Contractor

Sr. Applications Database Administer

December 2014 – November 2018

Maintain multiple databases with different Oracle versions on Enterprise Unix environment.

Responsible for the day-to-day support of TOPS which includes ensuring the accurate transmission of data to/from TOPS and other systems, resolving discrepancies and recommending enhancements.

Perform Oracle Database administration tasks including installation, configuration, backup, and recovery.

Provide overall PIV/Single Sign-On/OIAM installation, implementation, and integration support for TOPS.

Integrated TOPS applications with Enterprise Data Warehousing into an IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (BI) extract, transform, load (ETL).

Technical expertise in the operations and maintenance of Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite Plus (OIAM) software/licenses and its integration with TOPS.

Provide daily operational support of OIAM components, upgrade and patching support of existing components (including migration from OID to OVD), and Tier 3 technical support for user connectivity between OIAM and client applications.

Responsible for our TOPS enterprise system, database and E-business suite application auditing is enabled and integrated with the agency auditing logging repository (SPLUNK)

Maintain regular and close support of the testing and development teams upon request.

Design, implement and maintain backup and recovery strategies on Database Management Systems.

Support multiple services and multiple databases of medium complexity with multiple concurrent users, ensuring control, integrity and accessibility of data.

Design, install, configure and maintain High Availability (RAC, Single NodeRAC, Data Guard etc.) database solutions.

Troubleshoot database alerts (alert log, Jobs, Disk Group, Tablespace etc.) and performance issues.

Design, implement, maintain Disaster Recovery (DR) methodologies and creates documentation.

Support the development and maintenance of system document along with creating standard operational procedures and templates.

Implement Expert Analysis & Advice on Data Warehousing Loads.

Provide analytical expertise on ADDM & AWR reports for troubleshooting RAC & perform related SQL query issues.

Design, plan, install, and patch Oracle 12c RAC in Primary and DR-Coop Datacenter

Perform Datacenter Switchover bi-annually.

Perform tuning of processes at the kernel level.

Participate as part of the 24/7 support team (pager On-Call rotation)

Experience with OEM/GRID installation/configuration/management.

In-depth experience with RAC with use of Dataguard.

Experience with design and implementation of Oracle databases in a large environment.

Experience managing multiple databases with different Oracle versions on Unix operation systems.

Deloitte Consulting, LLC

Department of Treasury (BEP) - Contractor

Sr. Oracle Database Administrator

October 2012 – November 2014

My overall responsibility included database system operations and maintenance. In addition, I provided technical support for the database environment, including leading development, organization of databases, assessment and implementation of new technologies to provide information for systems, such as Oracle financials, Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle manufacturing, Data Warehousing, Maximo, hardware and network infrastructure efforts. Day-to-day responsibilities included the following:

Installed database server software.

Designed and built databases, schemas, stored procedures and other database objects.

Troubleshoot and configured Real Application Cluster Databases (RAC).

Set up routine database backup procedures and disaster recovery procedures.

Tuned database for performance and monitor performance trends.

Assisted developers and end-users with database usage, query development, and tuning.

Worked with architecture, application development and operations to help achieve a high quality environment that meets current and future business objectives.

Provided and designed tools to assist in the management of the database and transaction processing environment.

Designed and implemented database security schemas. Install routine security related patches.

Provided a working model of the transaction processing environment for capacity assessment and planning.

Used grid control and database control to manage your databases.

Applied CPU critical patches to production, test, and developmental databases.

Applied patches to E-Business Suite Mid-Tier application databases.

Configured database network connectivity using tnsname and listener services.

Performed various type of exports and import.

Resolved various oracle problems such as connection, performance and backup problems.

Tuned database memory parameter allocations based on dynamic performance analysis of instance loading characteristics.

Implemented and develop operating system scripts to automate backups, data transfers, monitoring, etc.

Department of Defense (DOD)/Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)

Sr. Oracle Database Administrator/ Consultant

July 2012 – September 2012

Installed and upgraded Oracle DBMS instances including all associated products, application specific utilities and add-on tools.

Allocated system storage and planning for future storage requirements for the database and related functions.

Created of primary database storage structures (tablespaces) and primary objects (tables, views, indexes) once application developers have designed an application.

Adjust database listener and service process configuration files, with relocation, reloading, or restarting; to facilitate load balancing.

Modified the database structure, as necessary, per direction given by the application developers.

Advised development staff on implications of any proposed changes.

Designed, implemented and maintained database security procedures. Ensured compliance with Oracle License agreement.

Controlled and monitored user access to the database.

Monitored and optimized the performance of the database, including advising development staff of opportunities to improve.

Planned and executed backup and recovery activities (Control Files, Redo Logs, Rollback Segments, System Data Files, etc.) to ensure timely and complete recoverability. Maintain archived data on tape or other media as defined. Backup and restore the database (On line and Complete) to assure restoral capability.

Planned and performed set up, maintain, and troubleshoot replication tools. Advise development staff of “best practices” in this area.

Completed Software Readiness Review Checklists and take action as required.

Remained current with Oracle’s emerging product line and with new additions that may complement existing applications.

SAIC

DoD/Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Org (JIEDDO) - contractor

Oracle Database/System Administrator

August 2010 –July 2012

Ensured Database technology with minimal Impact to Operations through Oracle Real application clusters and cluster ware. (Maximum High Availability & Maximum High Performance).

Provided customer assistance includes general user assist, problem diagnosing/troubleshooting, user account management, and incident monitoring and response; system monitoring and basic maintenance support includes daily system health checks, database monitoring, FTP data management, Oracle Internet Directory, Windows and Linux operating systems, LDAP applications and network and security administration support.

Installed, configured and tuned various Oracle products for both client side deployments and in-house testing, including, but not limited to: Oracle Databases, Oracle Application Suite, Oracle Content Server, Oracle Directory Service Manager, Oracle WebLogic Server, and Oracle EM Fusion Middleware Control etc.

Archived Database files/logs using automated scripts.

Scheduled scripts to monitor database growth and gather statistics database deployments.

Provided performance tuning, maintenance and troubleshot database problems.

Performed daily backup and recovery for numerous Oracle 10g/11g databases using RMAN, export and import and Data pump.

Supported and assisted database development efforts in the areas creating and maintaining database instances, and assisting development teams with stored procedures, triggers, tables and table structures, and creating views.

Utilized SQL for different implementation such as generating data, queue data, modified, alter, update the database and schedule daily performance techniques.

Utilized LDAP and other account provisioning tools for database and server account management.

Implemented and installed web logic and Oracle Enterprise management Grid control.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 2004

RELEVANT TRAINING

AWS Certified Practitioner Oracle11g: Oracle Real Application Clusters

AWS Developer Engineer Professional Oracle12c: New Features for Administrators

AWS Solution Architect Associate Oracle11g: SQL and PL/SQL

Oracle11g: Network Administration Oracle11g: Architecture and Administration

Oracle11g: Oracle Data Guard

Oracle11g: Performance Tuning

References furnished upon request



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