Devops Engineer Configuration Management

Abelard Agoruah

Baltimore, MD *****

Phone: 443-***-****, E-mail: ******.*******@*****.***

OBJECTIVE

Self-starter, highly motivated, and contributor to a dynamic work environment. Detail-oriented IT enthusiast with strong analytic, excellent communication skills, collaborative and problem-solving skills.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Platform: RHEL, CentOS, and Ubuntu

Webservers: Tomcat 7/8/9, Jboss

Cloud Computing: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Automation /Configuration Management: Ansible, Terraform

Container Orchestration Tool: Amazon EKS, Native Kubernetes, Docker

Open-Source Automation Tool: Jenkins, GitHub, Gitlab and Bitbucket

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

JP Associates - College Park, MD

Senior DevOps Engineer Mar 2024 – Present

Developed and maintained Ansible playbooks to automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment across multi-environment setups.

Integrated Ansible with Jenkins pipelines for seamless CI/CD processes, automating deployment workflows and reducing release cycle times.

Utilized Terraform to define and deploy cloud infrastructure as code (IAC) on AWS, ensuring scalability, repeatability, and compliance with organizational standards.

Authored Docker files and built Docker images to encapsulate application dependencies, ensuring consistency across development, testing, and production environments.

Monitored and troubleshot containerized applications running in Docker and Kubernetes environments, ensuring minimal downtime and optimal resource utilization.

Deployed and managed Kubernetes clusters, including self-managed installations and AWS EKS, to orchestrate containerized workloads and optimize application scalability.

Optimized Kubernetes configurations, including network policies, pod autoscaling, and persistent storage solutions, to enhance cluster performance and reliability.

Computer Science Cooperation

AWS Cloud/Linux Engineer Oct 2020 – Jan 2024

Provided authenticated access to AWS resources using MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) and managed users using IAM policies, and roles.

Implement Amazon Virtual private cloud (VPCs) and components, subnet, route table, internet Gateway.

Set up a content delivery system using AWS CloudFront to distribute content like html and graphics files faster.

Administered databases using Amazon Relational Database Services, MySQL, PostgreSQL and More

Setup/Manage Linux Servers on Amazon Elastic cloud compute (EC2-Instance).

Used Elastic load balancer to control application traffic hosted on multiple Ec2 instances

Setup S3 buckets and the required policies as well as lifecycle policy required to move infrequent access data to Amazon Glacier.

create and mount EBS on ec2 instance as a secondary volume and take snapshots.

Uses CloudWatch to monitor AWS service in general and set notification using SNS

Hands on experience administering continuous integration, delivery CI/CD and build automation tools GitHub, Jenkins.

Uses VPC peering to establish connection between two or more environments in separate VPC.

Comfortable in ansible installation and configuration, as well as writing ansible playbook for different tasks.

Development build and automation using Ansible.

Design, install, administer, and optimize company servers

Investigate and troubleshoot issues involving security group, NACL and route tables.

Created AWS Launch configurations based on customized AMI and used this launch configuration to configure auto scaling groups.

Experience upgrading server operating systems, tech refresh, imaging, patch management.

Utilize EBS to store persistent data and mitigate failure by using snapshots.

Supported migration project of Red Hat Servers to the Elastic Cloud.

Managed Password aging configuration on servers

Performed S3 buckets creation, policies and on the IAM role based polices

Performance tuning functions on RHEL servers

Monitoring System Performance of Virtual memory, Managing Swap Space, Disk utilization and CPU utilization

Setup SSH keys for secured key-based authentication

Implement NFS, Samba, FTP, DNS, and DHCP, on Red Hat Linux Servers

Jumia

Linux Engineer Apr 2015 – Oct 2020

Build Red Hat Linux servers

Configure and setup Netback-up/DDBR

LDAP configuration and management.

Experience with Physical and virtual Decommissioning of Linux servers

Logical volume partitioning and managements.

Red Hat Network configuration/networking protocols

Extended Experience with virtualization – KVM and VMware/vSphere.

Experience using YUM and RPM for package management.

Create Snaps for management approval required for server downtime/outage.

Experience with IBM Remedy ticketing system; able to Assign, open and close tickets.

Experience in Shell scripting (bash) to automate system administration jobs.

Monitoring the hosts and networks using NAGIOS

Performs moderately complex systems/database administration.

Installed, configured, secured, and patched Linux servers using the latest Linux platform software packages.

Created kickstart server for automatic system build

Managed user accounts and set user permission and privileges.

Installed web servers using Apache, PHP for web server scripting and html language for website pages.

Used bash and some Perl scripting for automated processes in managing disk space, deleting old logs, and cron jobs.

Help with troubleshooting software installation, application uptime and network connection issues.

Utilize firewall to control inbound and outbound traffic.

Set up cron jobs for automated processes

Installed and configured virtualization on Linux platforms using VMware, and KVM respectively.

Installed and setup of Logical volume management and RAID hardware/software for high availability and fault tolerance.

EDUCATION

B.sc Economics Imo State University 09/2008

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