CHIEDU OSEMENE, AWS Solution Architect certified.
*****************@*****.***, 832-***-****
www.linkedin/in/chiedu-osemene
Education and certifications.
• B.A. combined Arts University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria, June 2004.
• ITILV4 certification (in view)
• Certified Amazon Web Service solutions architect-associate.
• Hashicorp certified Terraform associate.
Objectives
I am an IT professional with over 7 years of experience in the design, development, build, deployment, and monitoring of web applications. Hands-on experience in system configuration and administration. A passionate team player and servant leader, always looking for groundbreaking well-organized, and pragmatic engineering solutions. Energetic self-starter, capable and constantly learning quickly with minimal guidance. A great communicator, with excellent interpersonal skills, and a negotiator capable of maintaining strong relationships. Well- organized, multi-tasking, and delegation skills, Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, Documentation management, and ability to use project management tools. Expertise
• Extensive experience in setting up CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Maven, Docker, Nexus, Artifactory, Slack, and AWS DevOps
• Extensive experience in distributed Agile and Scrum methodologies to develop best practices for software development and implementation.
• Strong experience in migrating applications to AWS cloud platforms.
• Carrying out a well-architected review of existing workloads with key stakeholders utilizing the AWS well-architected framework.
• Utilizing API Gateway and Lambda functions in creating APIs on AWS.
• Collaborate with others in provisioning service mesh resources on enterprise applications.
• Strong experience in working with version control systems such as Git, GitHub, and Bitbucket.
• Experience working with developing scripts and automation tools used for building, integrating, and deploying software releases to multiple environments.
• Strong hands-on experience in scripting languages such as YAML, JSON, Shell scripting
• Strong experience in code quality and code coverage tools such as SonarQube.
• Good knowledge of virtualization and container technology like Docker. Experience in creating Dockerfiles and working with Docker containers.
• Customizing base Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that includes all the necessary security patches and software building blocks needed to build world-class applications.
• Have good knowledge of setting up Kubernetes clusters using helm charts and Amazon EKS.
• Have a good knowledge of securing Kubernetes clusters.
• Strong exposure to configuration management tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Strong knowledge of practicing TDD, and automating unit tests using Maven in Jenkins.
• Strong knowledge of Tomcat, and WordPress servers on different Operating Systems like Windows, Linux VMware, and UNIX platforms.
• Participated in the release cycle of the product which involved environments like Development, QA UAT, and Production.
• Worked with project documentation and documented other application-related issues, and bugs on the internal wiki website.
Experiences
DevOps Engineer
Cisco,
San Jose, CA. 2021-present
Cisco is an American-based multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation. I manage AWS resources in the cloud and maintain Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline for a fast-paced robust application development environment.
• Set up repos on Git, merging code from develop branch to the master branch and making it ready for deployment.
• Customizing base Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that includes all the necessary security patches and software building blocks needed to build world-class applications.
• Automated deployment of EC2 WordPress application using Terraform.
• Utilizing event-driven architecture of running instances by utilizing Eventbridge and Lambda functions.
• Standardized AMI build process to be highly scalable and fully automated by utilizing AWS EC2 Image Builder.
• Manage deployment and lifecycle management of resources in Kubernetes cluster using helm.
• Automating inventory and patch management by utilizing AWS systems manager.
• Built and deployed Docker containers to break up monolithic apps into microservices, improving developer workflow, increasing scalability, and optimizing speed.
• Set up Kubernetes clusters using Amazon EKS.
• Set up Cloudwatch for application monitoring.
• Created quality gates in the SonarQube dashboard and enforced them in the pipelines to fail the builds when conditions were not met.
• Implemented Release management workflow for QA, UAT, and Prod environments.
• Create and perform many database upgrades.
DevOps Engineer
DR Financial Services,
Houston, TX, 2019-2021
DR Financial Services is a financial service provider based in Texas, United States. In this project, as a Cloud DevOps Engineer, I am responsible for migrating monolithic applications to microservices architecture, managing these resources in the AWS cloud, maintaining the Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline for a fast-paced robust application development environment.
• Rebuild the entire existing platform over to Docker containers.
• Integrated GitHub webhooks into Jenkins to automate the code check-out process.
• Customizing base Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that includes all the necessary security patches and software building blocks needed to build world-class applications.
• Carrying out a well-architected review of existing workloads with key stakeholders utilizing the AWS well-architected framework.
• Creating terraform modules for deployment and migrating the files to the private repository.
• Set up CI/CD pipelines for Microservices and integrated tools such as Maven, Bitbucket, SonarQube, Nexus, Docker, and Slack for providing immediate feedback to DEV teams after code check-in.
• Wrote Ansible playbooks from scratch in YAML. Installing, setting up & Troubleshooting Ansible, created and automated platform environment setup
• Set up Git repositories and SSH Keys in GitHub for Agile teams.
• Implemented the setup for Master slave architecture to improve the Performance of Jenkins.
• Created Dockerfile and automated docker image creation using Jenkins and Docker.
• Automated infrastructure provisioning on AWS using Terraform and Ansible.
• Created nightly builds with integration to code quality tools such as SonarQube.
• Created quality gates in the SonarQube dashboard and enforced in the pipelines to fail the builds when conditions were not met.
• Set up Kubernetes clusters using Amazon EKS
DevOps Engineer
Delarex LLC,
Cypress, TX 2017-2019
• Set up repos on Git, merging code from develop branch to the master branch and making it ready for deployment.
• Migrated legacy applications to AWS.
• Created Web Apps (PaaS solutions) on the AWS portal for deploying web applications using AWS DevOps pipelines.
• Created nightly builds with integration to code quality tools such as SonarQube, and Veracode.
• Helped teams to reduce defects rate by 30% by introducing TDD in first 3 months.
• Created quality gates in SonarQube dashboard and enforced in the pipelines to fail the builds when conditions were not met.
• Set up the SonarLint plug-ins in the developer’s workstation for detecting defects early during the development.
• Built and deployed Docker containers to break up monolithic apps into microservices, improving.
• Included broadly in validation and approval utilizing Spring Security
• Planned and created serene APIs and administrations utilizing best practices to cooperate inside the Microservices and with the front end.
• Utilized Spring XML setup for Dependency Injection.