Security Engineer Solution Architect

Location:

Dallas, TX

Salary:

120000

Posted:

February 14, 2025

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Goddey Ayegba

Dallas Texas, ***** Cell: 469-***-****

**********@*****.***

PROFILE

Enterprise and IT Architect with over 12 years of leadership experience in designing innovative business solutions for public sector clients. Skilled in cloud computing, information management, application development, and virtualization. Demonstrated mastery in evaluating requirements for business application integration and service activation. Proven mentor and training with expertise in communicating across organizational levels and with cross-functional teams to drive shared vision and foster culture of excellence.

EDUCATION&CERTIFICATION

Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Nigeria Bachelor of Technology in Agricultural Engineering

Azure Administrator Associate

Azure Solution Architect Expert

Azure Security Engineer Associate

CompTIA Network+

CompTIA Security+

SKILLS

Technologies: Network Security, Networking, TCP/IP, Ethernet, VLAN, IPv4, Switching, Routing, Local Area Networks, Azure AD, Windows Hyper V, IPsec VPN, ExpressRoute, Load Balancer, Application Gateway, AIP, Azure Migrate, Hitachi SAN, NetBackup, Office 365, Data storage/data protection, NetApp NAS

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, and Macintosh

Software Applications: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visio, Adobe Captivate, Tableau, Wireshark Putty, SharePoint Online, VMware ESXI, VMware Workstation, Iperf, Net monitor, Azure Security/Firewall

Programming Languages: PowerShell, Windows Command Line Interface

Cloud Technologies: Microsoft Azure, Azure DevOps (Azure IaaS, PaaS, VM Migrations, Azure Cloud Services, SQL Azure, Active Directory)

Microsoft Dynamics: Work with other key architecture roles to ensure the technology is being applied to meet the business objectives (Applications Architect, Data Architect, etc.)

Participate in all work product review sessions described in the Quality Plan to ensure compliance with the technical design

Others: Service-oriented architecture, Business process mapping, Project Management, Team leadership, Debugging, Storage, RAID, NAS, Virtualization, Performance analysis, troubleshooting and remediation techniques

Experienced knowledge in Kubernetes, Jenkins, Dockers, Ansible.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Conoco Phillips Cloud/Devops Engineer August 2022 – Present

I architect solutions that enable seamless integration, orchestration, and communication between disparate systems and applications, both within and across organizational boundaries. I am well-versed in utilizing Azure DevOps for version control, continuous integration, and continuous deployment, ensuring efficient and reliable delivery of software artifacts.

Hands on experience in Azure Cloud Infrastructure, encompassing infrastructure provisioning and management for a wide range of services such as application hosting (azure app services, virtual machines, Kubernetes, Azure API Management), application load balancing (application gateway/front door), databases (Postgres and azure SQL databases), data storage, warehousing and data engineering/ETL solutions (Azure Storage, Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, Synapse and Databricks) and application modernization ( Docker, Azure Container Registry, Azure Kubernetes) as well as Azure Networking (Virtual Networks, VPN connections, Azure DNS, Private Endpoint, Private DNS, etc) and Identity, Access Management and Security solutions (Azure Key Vault, Hash Corp Vault, Azure Active Directory, Azure Defender for Cloud and Containers).

Design, implement, configure, and maintain Application Security products to protect Web applications and API services from security threats, including bot attacks

I possess a deep understanding of cloud-native architecture principles, including event-driven architecture, microservices architecture, serverless computing, and containerization with technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. I excel in designing solutions that are highly available, scalable, and performant, meeting the demands of modern cloud-based applications.

Migrated CI/CD pipelines from Azure Devops to Gitlab, restructured existing Gitlab CICD and wrote CICD pipelines for Terraform, Ansible and Application code deployments.

Ability to build, integrate, and administer systems and tools that allow engineering teams to autonomously monitor production applications (Dashboards, APMs) and collaborate with development teams to establish and track SLOs and SLAs.

Experience on PowerShell scripts to automate the Azure cloud system creation including end-to-end infrastructure, VMs, storage, firewall rules.

Automation of the creation of Azure Object (VM, Storage Accounts, VNETS, Subnets etc) using PowerShell and Json Templates

Provide on-call support for software and cloud infrastructure, troubleshooting and resolving issues identify and remediate technical problems by implementing automation, self-healing, and real-time monitoring in production systems.

Created Azure Data Factory integration runtime, linked services with various Azure Resources such as Key Vault, Postgres DB, Azure Databricks etc., as well as integrated Azure Databricks with other Azure resources such as Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (Delta Lake), Databases, and Power-BI for reporting.

Creating, maintaining VDI and servers and assigning to different groups and end users.

Monitoring the network and servers, paying attention to inefficiencies and areas in need of improvement, applying quick fixes where possible

Implementing & administering Active Directory Infrastructure.

Implementing & administering AD Forests, Domains, Trusts, Group Policy, Organizational Units and Delegation permissions.

Provide day-to-day support for Active Directory infrastructures.

Performed cross platform audits of Active Directory (AD) objects and user permissions.

Experienced in building, maintain, and manage IaaS and PaaS infrastructure in Azure and contribute to platform services development, including architecture design, provisioning, configuration, deployment, and support.

Experience providing technical support for Citrix NetScaler’s and with Citrix Application Delivery management (ADM)

Ability to design and implement Microsoft Intune solutions that meet end user requirements, deploy Windows 10 and 11 provisioning processes using Intune Autopilot and monitor and respond to security incidents related to mobile devices and endpoints.

manage Group Policy Objects (GPOs) in Active Directory to enforce security and configuration policies and Implement security best practices and compliance policies within Intune.

Experience with WAF (web application firewalls) and Experience with DNS.

Support of Microsoft Certificate Authority and DigiCert public certificates.

Support for EIP DNS, DHCP systems along with external public DNS management.

Design, Deploy, and maintain identity controls across multiple cloud platforms.

Configure Federated Services, Single Sign On (SSO), MFA, and cloud application registrations.

Ability to develop network solutions that align with business requirements and industry best practices and implement Azure Virtual Networks (VNet), subnets, network security groups (NSG), and route tables.

Experienced in network security through the implementation of firewalls, VPNs, and other security measures, configure and manage Azure Network Security Groups (NSGs) and Azure Firewalls.

Configure and manage Azure ExpressRoute, VPN gateways, and point-to-site VPN connections, designing and implementing hybrid network solutions integrating on-premises infrastructure with Azure.

Implement network monitoring tools and configure Azure Network Watcher, optimize network performance through effective design and configuration.

Ability to automate network deployment and management tasks using Azure PowerShell, ARM templates, and Azure CLI.

Successfully migrated customer data and sensitive information, including password fro AD to OKTA universal directory, ensuring a smooth transition and zero downtime.

Led a technical team to support and troubleshooting for LDAP-OKTA integrations, resolving issues quickly to minimize downtime.

Managed It system including Azure AD, Exchange Online, SharePoint and Microsoft Teams and configured SSO and Okta authentication.

Proficient in creating, updating, and deleting users, groups and apps using Okta APIs

Optimum Technology Solutions Cloud Engineer/Azure Solution Architect August 2017 – July 2022

Demonstrable communication skills, and experience in using Microsoft Office products.

Solid understanding and experience in cloud computing-based services architecture, technical design and implementations including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS

Experienced in system center, Azure Monitoring, Azure Application Insights, Operation Management Suite

Experienced in Database/Application health and performance monitoring experience using services such as OMS and application insight.

I work as Cloud Administrator on Microsoft Azure, involved in configuring virtual machines, storage accounts, resource groups and also Involved with planning, designing, and transforming environments from on-premises to cloud-based.

Meeting with clients to understand their needs (lead architect assessment meetings), and determining gaps between those and technical functionality, and collaborating with all stakeholders to generate mutually agreeable and advantageous solutions.

Experienced in designing cloud, Web and middleware solutions, supporting them with solution approaches, cloud assessment workshops, POCs and development/migration Plans.

Expert with Azure Automation [PowerShell, Azure Resource Manager Templates, Terraform]

Experience with agile, automation and DevOps principles.

Automation and orchestration experience with Visual Studio, Azure Resource

Container management and orchestration experience with Docker and Kubernetes.

Experience with identity and access management, governance tools, encryption and key management principles, and secure cloud design patterns.

Experience with networking principles and technologies (DNS, Load Balancers, Reverse Proxies).

Hands-on experience writing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.

Hands-on experience in building Azure DevOps CI/CD Pipelines to deploy Infrastructure and Applications

Troubleshooting and resolving issues related to Infrastructure and application.

Work closely with key stakeholders to capture, analyze, and derive DevOps requirements.

Implement Cloud security in systems without unduly hindering users from performing their day-to-day operations.

Experience collaborating with Data Engineers, Data Analyst, Database Administrators by building data engineering infrastructures for seamless data engineering workﬂows as well as administering data engineering platforms such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks. etc.

Monitoring and observability capabilities, with experience in New Relic, Datadog, PagerDuty, Azure Monitor, and Azure Application Insights

Working Knowledge of Scrum and Agile practices with demonstrated experience in project management and communication tools such as: Jira, Azure Boards, SharePoint, Gitlab Issues, Conﬂuence, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Lucid Chart.

Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code and Conﬁguration Management tools and, adept in technologies such as Terraform, Azure ARM templates and Ansible.

Experience with Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Defender and 0365 MDM & MAM solutions, Windows autopilot.

Administration of O365 tools; SharePoint, Exchange Online, Teams and OneDrive.

Design and implementation of ADFS identity solutions for more than Microsoft Office 365. This includes configuring federation trusts with non-Microsoft cloud vendor as well as using ADFS for internal claim aware applications and APIs

Application deployment in Azure App Service and Application Gateways (WAF and Standard tiers)

Ability to use key features and functionalities of Citrix NetScaler to improve the performance, availability, and security of applications, particularly in large-scale deployments.

Experienced in using Citrix NetScaler in SSL Offloading i.e. Handling secure connections (HTTPS/SSL) on behalf of backend servers, offloading the processing overhead from the application servers.

Used NetScaler on several occasions for the distribution of traffic across multiple data centers or geographic locations, ensuring high availability and disaster recovery capabilities... i.e a Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)

Experienced in using Citrix NetScaler as an application Firewall and traffic management by providing a layer of security by inspecting and filtering incoming traffic to protect against various web application attacks.

Recommend the establishment or modification of current policies and standards where applicable and assure a good quality of service by providing insight, capacity planning and suitable design

Cloud Based Migrations: Migrate Exchange to Office Online (O365), Active Directory to Azure Active Directory, workloads, and applications to Microsoft Azure.

Hub and Spoke network topology architecture for workloads deployment in Azure.

Windows Server Configuration and Administration (2012, 2016 2019)

Database/Application health and performance monitoring experience using services such as OMS and application insight.

Demonstrated ability to architect and deliver scalable enterprise solutions combining various Azure services.

Experience on PowerShell scripts to automate the Azure cloud system creation including end-to-end infrastructure, VMs, storage, firewall rules.

Spissys Solutions Inc. Senior System Engineer April 2014 – July 2017

Provided technical support for Azure IaaS environment including assessment and implementation of new capabilities.

Advanced knowledge of Azure AD Identity and Access Management, Azure AD Connect.

Intermediate knowledge of databases (SQL Server and MySQL)

Responsible for end-to-end technical assurance, technical governance, technical best practices, the reuse of technical assets, and the assignment of technical work. Responsible for technical direction of the project

Advanced knowledge of relevant web services, mail, backup, and application monitoring

Troubleshoot and identify performance, connectivity and other issues for the applications hosted in Azure platform.

Define cloud network architecture using Azure virtual networks, VPN, and express route to establish connectivity between on premise and cloud.

Assist leadership with the ongoing development of policies and procedures for the purpose of consistent product delivery.

Reduced process redundancies and learning curves by configuring business rules and transactions to fit each organization’s needs.

Deployment, administration and support of company Network infrastructure including WIF network, DMZ, VPN, access points, DNS and ISP

Responsible for setting and collaborating on cloud vision; providing thought leadership in cloud infrastructure and cloud services architecture to meet operational objectives for cloud solutions.

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