KINGSLY SHIYNYUY KIVEN
Houston, Texas
Tel: 281-***-**** email: ************@*****.***
Professional summary
Detail oriented and self-motivated DevOps engineer with 8 years of expertly navigating emerging technologies and industry related software/tools to enable projects from ideation to completion. I have built over the years an indebt experience in application configurations, package building, automating, designing, and implementing CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, Maven, Docker, ansible and Kubernetes. Sound knowledge of provisioning and managing highly available, fault tolerant and scalable infrastructures on AWS using terraform as IAC. I have a high learning capacity and possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills, can work either independently with little or no supervision or as a team member. Good written and verbal communication skills, strong organizational skills and a hard-working IT professional with strong desire to learn new DevOps tools and cloud technologies to perform company growth.
Areas of Proficiency
DevOps
CI/CD development and tools
Scripting for Automation
Cloud Service: AWS
Project Management
Agile methodology CI/CD development and tools
Scripting for Automation
Cloud Service: AWS
Project Management
Agile methodology
Large scale SaaS/PaaS/IaaS based cloud native enterprise application devOps experience
Broad technical experience in Cloud Infrastructure, VM, load balancing, databases and networking
Very Good experience in building microservices container images using Python and deploying through container services like Docker and Kubernetes,
Very good experience in Terraform, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible and scripting in shell, python.
Very good experience in CICD processes and tools like Jenkins and Git
Experience with Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud services.
Experience in infrastructure as code using Terraform
Experience with configuring, deploying, and operating public cloud services using AWS, and experience DevOps
Designing, configuring, deploying and managing both SQL (Postgres) and No-SQL (Mongo DB) database solutions. Experience building CI/CD pipelines and deploying containerized services with Docker and Kubernetes
Experience with network features, e.g., cloud network topology,
High availability engineering experience (region, availability zone, data replication clustering)
Product development in a scaled agile environment with an awareness of DevOps methodologies and ability/mindset to drive rapid prototyping and piloting of cloud solutions
Experience in agile development
Proficient in analyzing the various logs, heaps, thread dumps for Root cause Analysis
Work in an Agile devops continuous delivery development environment with geographically distributed teams is highly desired.
Automation & tool development for monitoring & managing large-scale and highly available systems.
Strong problem solving and communication skills
Technical skills
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Operating System: Windows, Linux (Redhat, Centos6/7&8, Ubuntu,)
CI/CD: Jenkins, Ansible, Kubernetes
Versioning Tools: Git
Build Tools: Maven
Containerization Tool: Docker
Monitoring Tool: Prometheus and Grafana
AWS: VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, EBS, IAM, Route 53, EFS, Auto scaling, CloudWatch, Lambda, SNS, CloudFront
Languages: Bash shell scripting, YML
Web server: Apache, Tomcat
Database: MySQL, RDS (AWS)
Ticketing Traffic Tools: ServiceNow
GCP:
Azure:
Personal Skills
Team player that works well with management and respects hierarchy
Excellent organizational, analytical, and communicational skills
Adaptability and easy to learn new skills/ideas
Punctual and work comfortably in fast-paced environment and meeting deadlines.
Easily mingle with people from different backgrounds and cultures
Powerful time management skills and strong work ethical knowledge
Very good at multi-tasking
Career Experience
Tankteck Solution, TX. April 2022-Present
DevOps Engineer
Product development in a scaled agile environment with an awareness of DevOps methodologies and ability/mindset to drive rapid prototyping and piloting of cloud solutions
Analyzing the various logs, heaps, thread dumps for Root cause Analysis
Work in an Agile devops continuous delivery development environment with geographically distributed teams is highly desired.
Design, implement, and maintain scalable and high-performance computing environments on AWS.
Develop and manage infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
Automate deployment pipelines and improve CI/CD processes using GitLab CI/CD.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand the computational needs of scientists and translate them into effective platform solutions.
Monitor and optimize platform performance, ensuring reliability and scalability.
Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to infrastructure, deployment, and application performance.
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members.
Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes. Knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments and experience implementing them. AWS: Deep understanding of AWS services and best practices for building scalable, secure, cost-effective cloud environments.
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Bannav S Bannav LLC, TX September 2017 – April 2022 DevOps Engineer
Designing and implementing automation infrastructure for configuration management and orchestration deployment using Automation tools such as Ansible
Automated build and deployment process with the use of DevOps tools like Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, and Kubernetes reducing about 75% of manual work, human error and speeding up production
Collaborated with development and production teams to ensure smooth running of the pipeline
Implemented a production ready, load balanced, highly available, secure and fault tolerant environment for software development process.
Used Kubernetes to orchestrate the deployment, scaling and management of containers.
Responsible for taking the source code and compiling using maven and package it in its distributable format such as a WAR file
Experience in managing Ansible Playbooks for automating the continuous deployment process.
Experienced in integrating Maven, git, ansible, docker and Kubernetes with Jenkins to ensure a smooth and automated pipeline.
Work to improve the development build process by capitalizing on Jenkins and had successfully delivered significant improvements in the communication speed across different teams both onshore and offshore
Secured time savings and workflow efficiency of around 70% and implementing CI/CD and migrating them to AWS Cloud after identifying potential bottlenecks
Help to enhance our monitoring of the production environment to ensure a speedy resolution of issues
Designed and implemented highly available, scalable and fault tolerant multi-tier AWS infrastructure spanning across multiple availability zones using Terraform as IAC
Deployed the applications to Tomcat application server and static content to Apache web servers.
Utilized code repositories (GitHub), CI/CD tool (Jenkins) and configuration management (Ansible) to automate build and deployment.
Architected and configured secured environments in AWS cloud by setting up VPC, subnets, EC2, security groups, NACL, ephemeral ports, bastion hosts, Internet and NAT gateways and making sure they communicate with each other.
Automate pipeline using scripts.
Compiled and tested shell scripts on the day today activities to automate tasks Environment: GitHub, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes, Linux, Tomcat, Shell scripts, EC2, S3, RDS PITCH TECHNOLOGIES LLC
Linux System Administrator May 2014 – August 2017
Managed users and groups by creating accounts, resetting passwords, and configuring access to servers and file management software for users
Mentoring and training of personnel on how to do common windows tasks with Linux
Installed and tested latest software on a server for end users including security patches system
Compiled and tested shell scripts on the day to day activities to automate tasks
Updates and troubleshooting servers.
Monitored and managed network services, Apache webserver, and LAMP stack servers on Linux and performed troubleshooting steps to mitigate potential issues or concerns
Installed, configured the hardening of Linux servers using CIS-benchmark guidelines
Responsible for the organization and prioritization of data processing Environment:Windows, Linux (Centos6/7&8, Ubuntu,) Bash Shell scripts, 4
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in computer Science