Administrator Associate Devops Engineer
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SIMON AYIGEH
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Professional Summary
A solution architect having experience in managing many AWS Resources in Fault tolerant, Highly available and secured Environments and who has an experience on Unix, Windows and Linux platform . With my 7+ years as a AWS solution Architecture I having a driving information management strategy which included strategizing, Designing and Deploying innovative and complete security architecture for cloud data protection for fortune 500.
CORE COMPETENCIES
GRAFANA, PROMETHEUS, SQL SEVER DATABASE SSMS, AZURE /AWS PAAS.
BASH and SHELL SCRIPTING,LINUX, UNIX and WINDOWS, AZURE AUTOMATION.
YAML, JASON,GOLANG, DOCKER, KUBERNETICS, JENKINS, ANSIBLE, CHEF AND PUPPET, ARM
POWER SHELL, AWS CLOUD SHELL, AWS CLI, VMWARE, AWS KENISIS, Bicep
GITBASH, GITHUB TERRAFORM(AWS AND Azure),AWS CLOUD ENDURE,SAML.
WORK EXPERIENCE
INSIGHT ENTERPRISE march 2022- present
AWS SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT /AZURE ARCHITECT /CLOUD ARCHITECT
Responsibilities
Build, communicate, and implement reference architectures for advanced PaaS solutions
Collaborate and lead teams to build CI/CD pipelines and create a culture of Continuous Improvement
Continuously learn and be at the leading edge of cloud technologies
Customer interactions via travelling to their various locations or virtual meetings.
Manage cloud architecture projects for large enterprise and Created reports for the Cost of the Inventories.
I also Designed, built and migrated applications, software and services on the AWS platform.
Designed scalable, elastic and redundant architecture that allows the organization’s Data Lake to automatically grow as the demand for their services increases.
Leading a team using the agile methodology, providing coaching to new members of the team, and setting the development standards.
Perform a database backup with options; perform a database restore to a point in time Configure long-term backup retention Configure HA/DR, Create an Always-on Availability Group Configure auto-failover groups in Azure.
Integrate a database into an Always-on Availability Group Configure quorum options for a Windows Server Failover Cluster Configure an Always-on Availability Group listener, Configure failover cluster instances on Azure VMs
Manage on-premises connectivity with Azure Secure identities, Implement Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Enable MFA for an Azure AD tenant, Configure user accounts for MFA
Manage role-based access control (RBAC) Implement RBAC policies, Assign RBAC Roles, create a custom role Configure access to Azure resources by assigning roles to Azure Manage role-based access control (RBAC)
Modify Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template Save a deployment as an ARM template, deploy Windows and Linux VMs, Manage Azure VM, add data discs, and Add network interfaces
Move VMs from one resource group to another, Redeploy VMs, Manage VM backups, Configure VM backups, define backup policies, and Implement backup policies Perform VM restore Configure and manage virtual networks Create connectivity between virtual networks
Expert on automation back-end service development such as Python, JavaScript, Ruby, or Perl
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Grand Forks, ND 58201
AWS compute, network,
storage, databases, migration,
application delivery, cloud
orchestration tools (terraform,
CloudFormation & system
manager),
Data analytics (Athena, glue, redshift, EMR, Amazon kinesis),
Governance, compliance and disaster
recovery skills, Azure data Factory, Azure storage, Azure key Vault.
Infrastructure and configuration
Management, Azure Monitor, Advisor, Azure Log Analytics.
AWS technologies (IaaS, PaaS,
SaaS, Hybrid)
AWS security and identity
services.
Excellent knowledge on disaster recovery scenarios for pilot light, warm standby, and backup and restore.
Basic Programming language
(JSON, YAML & Python).
Data Migration Services
Technical Designing
Conflict Management
Vendor Relationships
Problem Solving
Attention To Detail
Strong Work Ethic
Decision Making
Strategic Analysis
Strategic Planning
Project Planning
Excellent Communication Skills
Configuration
EDUCATION
Manage and maintain day-to-day activities of Azure environments, respond to and address system alerts and notifications, and Coordinate with networking, firewall, security, and applications teams while implementing cloud solutions
Design access solution (Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (PIM), Azure AD Conditional Access, MFA, Implement Service Principals Managed Identity Integrate multiple tools like GitHub, Azure Pipeline, and Jenkins, Create and configure a local network gateway Create and configure a virtual network gateway
Plan and configure Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication diagnose and resolve client-side and authentication issues, manage Azure Express Route, and implement Azure cross-region connectivity between multiple ExpressRoute
Implement Azure Load Balancer Create a back-end pool, configure health probes and listeners; Configure back-end targets and routing rules, including redirection rules Implement Azure Traffic Manager Configure Endpoints and manage network security groups (NSGs)Create NSG Associate NSG to resource and configure NSG rules
LM WIND POWER A GE RENEAWABLE ENERGY Apr 2016 – march 2022
AWS SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT /AZURE ARCHITECT – ND
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication recommends Azure Application Gateway deployment options Integrate GitHub with DevOps pipelines, create dashboards combining boards and pipelines (custom dashboards on Azure DevOps)
Provision and manage VMs, Patch Management, AKS, Load Balancers, Automation Accounts, Backup and Site Recovery, VPN, VNets, Storage Accounts, Security Center, Disk, Snapshots
Evaluate and perform server migration to Azure, evaluate migration scenarios using Azure Migrate Discover and assess the environment Identify workloads that can be deployed, identify if the target environment is supported, Setup domain accounts and credentials Migrate servers to Azure Migrate by using Azure Site Recovery (ASR)
Configure storage Create a recovery services vault Prepare source and target environments Backup and restore data Deploy Azure Site Recovery (ASR) agent
Manage Azure Active Directory (AD) Add custom domains, Configure Azure AD Identity Protection, and configure self-service password reset Perform an access review, create users, and manage user and group properties
implement and manage hybrid identities Install and configure Azure AD Connect Configure federation and single sign-on Manage Azure AD Connect Manage password sync and writeback.
ensures that solutions exhibit high levels of performance, security scalability, maintainability, appropriate reusability, and reliability upon deployment Evaluate and automate the scaling and capacity requirements within Azure environments
Research adoption and related new technologies to solve issues while adhering to company security and standards.
Leading a transformation or current on-premise services to cloud including the infrastructure and networking design, selection of platforms as –a service offerings, providing integration to software – as – a services offerings, Created and worked with services like VPC, EC2, S3, EFS, ELB, Auto Scaling Groups (ASG), EBS, RDS, IAM, users and IAM ROLES multi-factor Authentication, security protocols,NACL and ACL.
Experience in Cloud Formation using chef and puppet including AWS services such as Route 53, Cloud Watch, Cloud Front, Cloud Trail, AWS Lambda, templates, stacksets,build APIs, NAT gateways,cloud logs,Nat gateways,DNS names,AWS Aurora, AWS CONFIG, CLOUD TRAIL, Farget, EKS, ECS.
I also configure subnets, stateful and stateless firewalls, SNS, SQS, SES cloud-based messaging services.
Starting the DevOps culture including continuous integration and delivery, bringing the automation infrastructure tools to existing teams and setting guidelines and standards to promote the new software conventions.
Delivering architecture guidelines for web and digital deliveries, designing new and innovative solutions to challenges in company and provide support and results.
Configured automated Backup configurations.
Implementing Performance and tuning of the queries proactively.
Migration of MySQL server databases, oracle database to AWS.
Migration of VM to AWS and migration of databases within AWS.
Experience working with Kubernetes and docker.
Basic understanding of networking technologies such as HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, NFS, RDP, TCP/IP, firewalls, and encryption.
AWS SOLUTION Architect Feb 2015 - April 2016
STATE BANK - TEXAS
Responsibilities
Implementing Performance and tuning of the queries proactively.
Upgraded databases to 11.2.0.4 configured backups and Upgraded databases to 12c.
Workload distribution and on-call rotation and attending all Sev 1 calls and guiding team.
Responsible for architecting, designing, implementing and supporting of cloud-based infrastructure and its solutions.
Managing Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure with automation and orchestration tools such as Chef (IaaC).
I also implemented prove of concepts to validate cloud concepts, architecture, and requirements.
Performed cost-benefit and return on investment analyses for proposed systems to aid management in making implementation decisions.
I also worked with networking, work with DNS names, APIs, Set up permissions and roles for most services we used in AWS.
Created and used services like VPC, EC2, S3, EFS, ELB, Auto Scaling Groups (ASG), EBS, RDS, IAM, Cloud Formation, Route 53, Cloud Watch, Cloud Front, Cloud Trail, AWS Lambda, templates, stacks, build APIs, public and private subnets,cloud logs, DynamoDB Database best practice.
Created multiple VPC’s, public and private subnets as per requirement and distributed them as groups into various availability zones of the VPC and attaching additional EBS volumes.
Created NAT gateways and instances to allow communication from the private instances to the internet through bastion hosts.
Migration of SQL Server Database and Oracle Databases to AWS.
Refreshed the QA systems from production, recovered critical systems to point in time, Refreshing database from production to QA.
Implemented pro-active monitoring scripts for all Databases.
Implemented Operational Excellence plan.
Rebuilding / monitoring the indexes at regular intervals for better performance.
Implementing Point-In-Time Recovery solutions.
Involved in trouble shooting and fine-tuning of databases for its performance and concurrency, setting up High Availability/Disaster Recovery server Configuration.
Available upon request
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS
REFERENCES
Bachelor’s in Computer Science.
AWS Certified Solution Professional.
Azure Certified Fundamental
Azure Certified Administrator Associate
Azure DevOps Engineer Expert.
Available upon request
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