Solution Architect Aws Cloud

LAEL EDEGBE

Washington DC Metro Area ***********@*****.*** 240-***-**** https://www.linkedin.com/in/laeledegbe/ https://www.credly.com/users/lael-olaojo

Profile Summary:

An experienced IT professional with over 18 years in daily support of organizations' IT systems. Including database management and administration, analysis, design, software testing, and architecture in client/server and web-based environments, including automation/deployments, emphasizing building secure cloud architecture conforming to FEDRAMP/NIStT compliant standards and offering solutions to cloud-based mission-critical systems.

An Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Solution Architect Professional with 12+ years of experience in AWS Configuration Management, Build and Release Management, System Administration

Professional Certifications

AWS Certified Developer Associate

AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional AWS Certified Security – Specialist

Microsoft Azure Administrator

CompTIA Security + Certified Jenkins Engineer

Oracle Certified Associate 11g/12c

Awards

NASA Agency Group Achievement Award 2023 (Ipv6 Implementation Team & GOES-R LZSS Cloud Migration)

Experience

NASA Goddard Space Center GOES-R

Lead AWS Cloud Operations Architect/Engineer (2021 – Present)

●Perform Linux System administration of RHEL and CENTOS Linux OS EC2 Instances, Monitor System Metrics Using AWS Systems Manager and CloudWatch

●Prepare to move GeoCloud Servers to AWS ATO environment while working with ISSO to attain NIST 800-53 compliant systems

●Develop SCA test cases for ST & E testing for security controls

●Assist in Preparing Cost Analysis and yearly budget for GOES-R GeoCloud services based on expected Monthly usage and AWS Trusted Advisor Recommendations

●Configure multi-factor authentication on virtual and hardware devices

●Configure Cloudtrail and manage data and management event notifications

●Deploy NIST conformance packs with AWS Config, manage AWS Inspector, Guardduty and Config findings

●Configured AWS Backup in multi region for High Availability

●Manage and Develop Cost savings via Cost Explorer, install application scheduler, amange billing and alerts

●Perform system administration of windows servers, including FSX and EFS storage

●Deployed AWS Infracstructure Using Cloudformation and Network Infrastructure using terraform

●Create IAM users and groups, write Identity and Resource based Policy JSON scripts integrating them with AD and AWS SSO, manage permission sets and ensure least privilege access to resources

●Perform Networking and Management of EC2 Instances using tcpdump, ipconfig,netstat to trace dropped packets along VPC, VPN and Direct Connect routes between Onsite servers and Cloud servers.

●Maintain the availability of critical AWS Cloud infrastructure. Including configuration changes to AWS Cloud Services, adhere to compliance requirements, development/testing/production environment as approved and directed

●Improve the operational capabilities of enterprise infrastructure as approved and directed

●Carry out project activities related to upgrades, new implementations, optimization, research and development, maintenance and long-term support of virtual environments, application systems, web systems, storage systems, hardware, servers, and cloud environments

●Install, deploy and configure EC2 instances using automation, cli or console as required

●Create Network Infrastructure, using terraform, Cloud formation templates

●Apply patches using AWS systems Manager and configure AWS Backup for Volumes on all accounts

●Configure VPC Endpoints to allow access to AWS Services Internally

●Create Metrics and Alerts for System and User based monitoring using cloud watch

●Create Lambda functions to implement automated User management protocols based on NIST Standards

●Lead the troubleshooting effort, analyze the root cause, identify trends for Known Errors, and coordinate actions to fix the errors.

●Participate in the Change Control Board (CCB) weekly meetings and responsible for representing the team in getting approval on change requests

●Create lambda functions to support automation of Level 0 data using SNS and SQS triggers, automate remediation of POAM’s

●Maintain high standards for consumer and customer service touchpoints affected by operations.

●Proactively identify, manage and mitigate risks associated with cross region data transfer

●Advice Senior Management on Architectural and Security Decisions and Plan for Mission critical solutions

Aurotech Corp (2019 – 2021) US HHS FDA

Innovation Lab

AWS Cloud Operations Engineer/Architect

●Supported the Innovation Lab Architects and DevOps engineering team to provision, build their operational designs according to standard operating procedures, down to a granular, detailed level

●Maintain and Operate AWS Cloud Infrastructure in Optimal Configuration from both technical and budgetary perspectives

●Refactored and rebuilding on-premises applications/infrastructure and migration to AWS Cloud

●Provide Functional Escalation Support and Expertise to the Incident Management Processes involving AWS Infrastructure or related issues

●Provide input and guidance to Personnel and Cloud Architects/SMEs to the overall AWS Architecture and Design tenets

●Compose and leverage AWS CloudFormation Templates for utilization, to ensure repeatable, sustainable AWS infrastructure is effectively managed

●Deploy, test and document development, pre-production, and production environments Train and mentor Junior Administrators and Engineers

●Create Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) resources such as subnets, network access control lists, and security groups and S3 Buckets for DevOps Team and Data Analytics Team

●Backup cloud and on-premises resources, including in a hybrid environment Leverage resource tagging to allocate costs and optimize resource planning

●Create gold images / AMIs and employ auto-scaling using AWS CLI for configuration tasks

●Lead the troubleshooting effort conduct an analysis of root cause and identify trends for Known Errors and coordinate actions to fix the errors.

●Maintain high standards for consumer and customer service touchpoints affected by operations.

Department of Health and Human Services

Office of Inspector General, Washington DC (2016 – 2019) AWS Cloud Engineer

•Supported the EGRANTS Project in infrastructure management by using tools like Terraform, Chef, etc. Great experience in DevOps, Configuration Management, Build Engineering and Release Management processes, including Building binaries, end-to-end code configuration, and deployments of artifacts for entire life cycle model in Enterprise Applications.

•Experienced in DevOps, Build & Release and Configuration Management on Linux and Windows platforms.

•Good understanding of the principles and best practices of Software Configuration Management (SCM) in Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall methodologies.

•Configured Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) tools like RTC to track the progress of the project

•Good exposure to Version control tools like Git, GitHub, AWS Code Commit etc

•Implemented Continuous Integration and Continuous deployment using various CI Tools like Jenkins.

•Integrated Jenkins with the version control tools to pull the latest pushed code.

•Experience in creating Jenkins Environment and configuring end to end build pipe lines.

•Experience with orchestration and configuration management tools like Chef.

•Implemented Chef Cookbooks for OS component configuration to keep sever classes template minimal.

•Achieved continuous delivery by constantly coordinating with testing and dev teams.

•Used Docker and Open Shift to manage micro services for development and testing.

•Experience with Bug tracking tool like JIRA/RTC. Created and wrote shell scripts (Bash), Ruby, Python and PowerShell for automating tasks.

•Continuous deployment using Chef, Packer, Terraform, etc

•Experienced in Administration of Production, Development and Test environments carrying different operating system platforms like Windows, Ubuntu, Red Hat Linux, HTTP, TCP.

•Experienced in Querying RDBMS such as Oracle, MY SQL and SQL Server by using SQL for data integrity.

•Experienced with Handling Cloud environments (AWS and OpenStack)

•Managed environments DEV, QA, and PROD for various releases and designed instance strategies.

•Expert in deploying the code through web application servers like Web Sphere/Web Logic/ Apache Tomcat/JBOSS and Jetty.

US Department of Transportation

Office of Airline Information, Washington DC (2015 – 2016) Cloud Systems Engineer/Oracle DBA

●Worked with IT team to Migrate Oracle 12c database warehouse to AWS Redshift database

●Strong experience in setting up the enterprise infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS) like Auto Scaling, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, DynamoDB, EBS, EC2, ELB, IAM, Redshift, RDS, S3, VPC, Route 53, CloudFront, security group and AWS lambda.

●Strong proficiency in supporting Cloud environments like Aws, Azure

●Extensively worked on creating assessment of existing applications and virtual machines on the VMware data center for migrating them to the AWS Cloud using AWS Server Migration Service (AWS-SMS).

●Strong working knowledge on the principles of Software Configuration Management (SCM) for tracking, controlling changes in Software in the SDLC methodologies like Agile, scrum, and Waterfall methodologies.

●Strong experience in setting up the enterprise infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS) like Auto Scaling, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, DynamoDB, EBS, EC2, ELB, IAM, Redshift, RDS, S3, VPC, Route 53, CloudFront, security group and AWS lambda.

●Strong proficiency in supporting Cloud environments like Aws, Azure.

●Proficient in DevOps culture through CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab, Maven and configuration management tools like Chef, Puppet, Ansible

●Hands on experience creating Manifests, Playbooks, Runbooks and Cookbooks to automate infrastructure maintenance & configuration.

●Experience in Designing and deploying AWS solutions using Cloud Formation, AWS Service Catalogue, Code Deploy, Code Pipeline

●Configure Jenkins build jobs for Continuous Integration and for regression testing.

●OEM Grid Control installation, configuration, and administration version 13C

Montgomery County Government, Rockville MD (2014– 2015) Sr. Oracle DBA/Cloud Engineer

●Responsible for planning the Oracle database software installation, administration, and maintenance for Oracle and applications software technologies and web-enabled services.

●Migrated Oracle databases to EC2.

●Develop and implemented solutions for automating deployment, configuration, and verification of legacy or early-stage technology to Cloud environments.

●Extensively worked on creating assessment of existing applications and virtual machines on the VMware data center for migrating them to the AWS Cloud using AWS Server Migration Service (AWS-SMS).

●I used automation tool called Terraform for creating the modules to launch the required client's infrastructure which includes VPC's, Subnet's, Security Group's, NACL's, NAT and IG gateway's

●Used Terraform modules to launch the EC2 instances from the AWS SMS generated AMI's into the client's infrastructure and automated this entire process by integrating Terraform with the Jenkins.

●Managed 4 Oracle database administrators’ personnel and technicians for the design and the development of DOT Enterprise Acquisition Service.

●Implemented packer-based scripts for continuous integration with the Jenkins server and deployed packer-based scripts on to the Amazon EC2 instances.

●Incorporated Ansible and Vagrant to provision testing environments and model network configuration changes.

●Managed central repositories: Implemented Stash along with GIT to host GIT central repositories for source code across products, facilitate code reviews and login audits for Security Compliance.

●Automated Nagios alerts and email notifications using python script and executed them through Chef.

●Responsible in implementation of new databases and database upgrades. Upgrades from 11G to 12C.

●Database build, refresh, restore, backup using RMAN. I am responsible to migrate 20 Terabytes of data.

●Good experience in Transportable Table spaces, SQL Tuning Advisor, Data Pump, Flashback Table, Table space Management and Materialized Views.

●Implemented and maintained database security requirements in accordance with Standard Technical Implementation Guides (STIG).

●Implementing scripts and alerts across all servers and databases as per Standards.

●OEM Grid Control installation, configuration and administration with versions 12c, 13C

State of Missouri Department of Mental Health (CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE) Kansas City MO (MAY 2011 - SEPT 2014)

Sr. Oracle DBA

●Organizing frequent calls with Business for our applications to know about current and future activities and in discussing any issues occurred.

●Regularly attending meetings with Client and customers.

●Created Oracle database on 12C, RAC & multi-tenant databases.

●Responsible for the administration of OID environments (10g &11g), system monitoring, troubleshooting, and problem resolution.

●Guide the team about the process for any specific work.

●All mails and tickets are acknowledged and worked upon.

●Coordinating work between onsite and offshore team.

●Performed capacity planning for production and test environments.

●Implemented of Standards, including ISO compliances.

●Developed, implemented and maintained Oracle scripts for monitors, jobs and backups.

●OEM Grid Control installation, configuration and administration, versions 9i, 10g, 11g, 13C.

●Troubleshot production issues, in 24x7 environments, including applications and Oracle Databases and environments.

●Standardized, organized, and documented databases administration and implementation procedures.

●Trained Oracle DBA staff on internal team processes, as well as Knowledge of Products Supported (Oracle Tools, third-party software, and Applications functionality).

Estnik Solutions Glen Burnie, MD (JUNE 2009 – APRIL 2011) Oracle DBA

•Manages daily backups of our data, and its validation.

●Manages the Footprint databases for ticketing services used by the Service Desks personnel.

●Manages Oracle Discoverer for the Help Desk Team.

•Manages RFMSS databases that supports Enterprise System Management.

•Developed database design skills including complex architecture designs of databases over 2TB.

●Experience in Configuration and implementation of Oracle database 10g and 11g R1/R2 including RAC and dataguard Administration.

•Experience in RMAN Backup and Recovery, database cloning, flashback technology,

●Enterprise Manager and Oracle OEM Grid Control and using TOAD, SQL Developer, Serena

●Version Manager and Business Manager

•Excellent personal, communication and organizational skills.

●I managed databases on different versions and architecture like 11GR2, 12C and RAC environments.

●Experience with LDAP and Single Sign on Technologies.

Cloud Management tools: Lambda, DynamoDB, Aurora, Kinesis, SNS, Step functions, S3, Batch, API Gateway, Cloud Watch, Pinpoint, EC2, EBS, Redshift, Ansible, terraform, chef, Jenkins, puppet, docker, aws rds, ec2, cloudwatch, cloud front, WAP, API Gateways, AWS Config, AWS Systems Manager, Network Manager, Control Tower, SSO, EKS,ECR

Languages/Scripting

Bash/Shell, Ksh, Boto3, AWS CLI, YAML, Python

Education

University of Greenwich London, United Kingdom

MSc. Natural Resources (Sustainable Environmental Technology) (2008) Lagos State University

BSc Geography and Spatial Planning (2001)

Security Clearance Public Trust(High Risk) Active Secret Clearance

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