OLAOLU SONOWO

Location: Texas Mobile: +1-346-***-**** Email: adzmwr@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Experienced Information Technology Administrator with over 7 years of proven expertise in architecting, system administration, network management, and optimizing robust ICT solutions. An analytical and technically minded leader with deep knowledge of information systems and advanced technologies for large and complex organizational environments to effectively implement ICT solutions for improving operations, empowering transformation, and resources management. outcomes

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Cloud Services:

AWS, Azure, O365, Microsoft One Cloud. Azure AD (Microsoft Entra ID) SSO services. SharePoint Online, Communicator, Microsoft Teams, Skype for Business etc

CI/CD:

Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform

Ticketing Traffic Tools:

Jira, ServiceNow, Azure DevOps

OS:

Windows OS ( XP to Windows 10) Windows Server, Cisco, IOS, Linux (Red hat, Ubuntu, Debian)

AWS:

VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, EBS, Glue Jobs, Airflow DAG

Source/Version Control

Git, GitHub, GitLabs, BitBuckets

Containerization Tool:

JIRA/Confluence, Version One, IntelliJ, PyCharm

Build Tools:

Maven, SonarQube, Jenkins

WORK EXPERIENCE

Lead Infrastructure Management

Company: Egbin Power PLC, Lagos, Nigeria

Aug 2020 – June 2023

●Responsible for all technical aspects and implementation of an IT office infrastructure

●DHCP, WSUS and DNS administration and troubleshooting of related issues.

●Perform Server management services

●Migrated all Application/Databases to Microsoft Azure.

●SQL Database Management

●Active directory support and Administration (Group policy, permissions, account provisioning)

●Group policy implementation, roll out and troubleshooting

●Exchange/Office 365 support, maintenance and administration (Account provisioning, migration from Exchange to office 365, distribution group creation)

●Responsible for IT Asset Management.

●Responsible for resolving day to day hardware and software issues including software, desktop and network issues.

●Led scrum meetings and performed other Agile ceremonies like effort estimation and user stories management using JIRA.

●Collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve dependencies and meet sprint deadlines

Head, System Administration.

Company: Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System plc, Lagos, Nigeria

Sep 2016 – Jul 2020

•Build, Install, configure, analyze, tune, and troubleshot Windows/Linux Servers both on-premise and on Cloud.

•Configured, implemented, and maintained system security strategies, policies and procedures.

•Performed automated backups using scripts, planned, executed, and reviewed the disaster recovery and business continuity process to increase system availability to 99.97%

•Designed solutions that supported and enabled Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan objectives

•Implemented on-prem, cloud, and hybrid project management solutions

•Responsible for the migration of on-premise workload to the Cloud (Microsoft Azure)

•Maintained operational, configuration, and other procedure documents

•Managed Active Directory and Azure AD

•Managed vendors, outsourcers, OEMs, and contractors to procure IT infrastructure and services within the agreed SLA

•Interfaced with several departments to resolve technical issues

•Led other Systems Administrators and Maintained staff schedule to meet appropriate shift coverage

•Took proactive measures to ensure maximum uptime of 99.97% in the Data Center and on Azure.

EDUCATION

MSc in Communication Systems, University of Wales, Swansea Dec 2007

BSc in Electrical & Electronics Engineering, University of Lagos, Nigeria Jan 2004

CERTIFICATIONS

AZ-900 - Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

AZ-104 - Microsoft Azure Administrator

CCNP, Cisco Certified Network Professional

ITIL, IT Service Management (Foundation),

PMP, Project Management Professional

PSM I, Professional Scrum Master

CISM, Certified Information Security Manager

TOGAF, The Open Group Architecture Framework 9.2 Certification,

PECB, ISO 27001 Certified Lead Implementer

STRENGTHS

●Ability to do self learning and upskilling

●Can work as an individual contributor as well as a team player

●Results, output and detail oriented individual and a quick learner.

●Have the ability to analyze complex issues and arrive at solutions.

●Good at leading and working in a team.

●Committed, result oriented and interested to learn new technologies

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