Devops Engineer Cloud
Resume:
JOSIAH CHUKU
Cloud /DevOps Engineer
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
Fort Walton Beach, Florida 352-***-****
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
I am an open-source technology enthusiast, Linux savy and a principled Infrastructure as a Code Engineer, using mostly Terraform and Helm, with solid experience and understanding of DevOps life-cycle. I enjoy designing and developing cutting-edge platforms using Azure/AWS/GCP. Building high availability infrastructure and applications with observability insights to health of the system, using Datadog and other monitoring tools. SKILLS:
• Over 5 years of experience as a System Engineer and DevOps engineer with extensive knowledge of various UNIX platforms, including Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, and Windows.
• Significant experience with System Administration, Installation, Upgrades, Patches, Migration, Configuration, Troubleshooting, Security, Backup, and Disaster Recovery
• Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure and GCP.
• Proven experience managing configurations for a variety of multi-layered applications using Ansible, as well as containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Proven expertise in Infrastructure as a Code mainly using Terraform and Helm.
• Experienced with deployments, maintenance and troubleshooting applications on AKS, EKS and GKE.
• Responsible for all administration tasks on UNIX (RedHat Linux) and documentation for completed projects.
• Installed, monitored, and supported Web and Application Servers on Linux platforms, as well as assisted in environment migrations.
• Proficient in monitoring tools such as Azure Monitor, CloudWatch, StackDriver, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog.
• Perform analysis like memory, thread, CPU to find root cause of run-time issues on applications running in the Kubernetes cluster.
• Working knowledge of vulnerability management tools, such as Checkovs, SonarQue, Triviy, kube- bench, kube-hunter.
• Monitoring tools: Azure Monitor, CloudWatch, StackDriver, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana. WORK EXPERIENCE
Leidos, Department of Defense, Eglin Florida
Azure Engineer October 14, 2024 – present
Passionate Azure Engineer dedicated to optimizing software delivery and building resilient, scalable cloud infrastructure. Proven success driving operational efficiency, enhancing security practices, and promoting innovation across diverse technical projects.
• Successfully created and deployed Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for multiple GitHub repositories, improving efficiency and significantly reducing build and deployment errors.
• Implemented proactive monitoring for automated builds, swiftly addressing integration and deployment failures.
• Applied best practices for data security and asset protection, ensuring compliance and safeguarding critical infrastructure.
• Documented comprehensive project designs to facilitate knowledge sharing and support future projects.
• Developed integration tools and scripts to fulfill diverse, cross-platform user requirements.
• Created standardized Terraform templates for repeatable deployments, adhering to defined configurations and naming conventions.
• Expertise in Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Functions, and Bash scripting to optimize and automate cloud operations.
• Enhanced operational productivity by automating repetitive tasks and deployment processes through Bash scripting.
• Proven ability to foster effective collaboration between development and operations teams, championing a robust DevOps culture aligned with business objectives. Accenture, San Franciso, US
DevOps and Cloud Migration Consultant, January 2022 – December 2023
• Enhance client's application performance by successful migration of a monolithic to Micro-Service architecture running on a large scale GKE/AKS cluster.
• Established strong standards and processes around DevOps. automation and deployment for all projects I was assigned as technical lead on.
• Demonstrated leadership qualities as the primary contact and technical leader with the clients I worked with, leading the technical direction and conversation of each project I was assigned to.
• Achieved over 50% improvement in deployment time by optimizing container docker images and using smaller images (alpine), base images, and muti stage Dockerfiles.
• Enhanced security of all pipelines by integrating DevSecOps practices and tools into pipelines for every project I worked on.
• Observability as a code, using terraform to create Datadog dashboard and alerting system to monitored channels.
• Develop automation for incident response.
• Assess the production readiness of services.
• Define and track operational metrics for production performance, reliability, scalability and availability.
• Architect, develop and maintain shared services and tools to improve reliability and reduce toil across the organization.
• Conducted discovery sessions to analyze the existing state of client environments and create reports to suggest solutions to issues found.
• Created CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps for large-scale environment deployment.
• Managed large scale customer Cloud infrastructure and deployment of our application for global multinationals clients.
• Improved infrastructure deployment time by over 50% by using Infrastructure as Code tools such as terraform and cloud formation.
• Delivered the infrastructure using the Azure Kubernetes services to host a containerized version of our application while ensuring a highlight available and fault-tolerant environment.
• Automate Network Configuration changes leveraging on Terraform.
• Upgrading an out-of-date EKS Cluster to the most recent version to fix vulnerabilities and improve performance.
Amazon Inc, USA
Cloud Engineer, November 2017 – January 2022
• Actively manage, improve, and monitor cloud infrastructure on including backups, patches, and scaling.
• Create and modify scripts or applications to perform a task
• Conducting security scans on AWS infrastructure and ensuring that appropriate recommendations are implemented.
• Deploy and run applications using Docker Containers, creating Docker images.
• Working with different automation tools to automate different stages of CI/CD Pipeline.
• Enhanced security of all pipelines by integrating DevSecOps practices.
• System performance tuning and monitoring, analyzing system and application logs, performing upgrades, and Patching.
• Managed physical, virtual, and network storage.
• Performed installation, configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• User/group administration, file/directory security, authentication, and access management (SSH, Firewalls).
• Security scanning of Kubernetes Clusters to identify vulnerabilities and apply patches in accordance with CIS Benchmarks standards.
• Deploy, configure, and manage servers using Ansible, Packer and Terraform.
• Installed and configured Prometheus to constantly monitor network bandwidth, memory usage, and hard drive status.
• Managed GitHub repositories and permissions, including branching and tagging.
• Automate Network Configuration changes leveraging on Terraform.
• Upgrading an out-of-date EKS Cluster to the most recent version to fix vulnerabilities and improve performance.
Lagos Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources,
Cloud Engineer, November 2013 – October 2017.
• Systems administration, maintenance, and monitoring various day-to-day operations.
• Collaborate with development, operations and infrastructure teams to ensure availability of services, and to work through implementation issues.
• Administered data backups.
• Deployment of Infrastructure on Azure, vnets, subnet, storage account, and other resources using terraform.
• Migration of onpremise infrastructure to Azure Cloud.
• Kubernetes Cluster security scanning to investigate vulnerabilities and apply fixes in accordance with CIS Benchmarks standards.
• Troubleshoot cloud services issues of failed instance deployments, restarts, network connectivity, storage and compute.
• Performed hardware and software installations, upgrades, and maintenance, patch administration, kernel modification/upgrades, file system management, performance and security analysis, and network configuration/tuning.
• Backing up and restoring files across the network.
• Analyzed, Strategized & Implemented Azure migration of servers to cloud.
• Maintained the monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers using cloud monitoring tools.
• Managed roles, users and groups using IAM.
• Automated processes using PowerShell and Bash scripting languages. PROFESSIONAL TRAINING/CERTIFICATION:
• Hash Corp Certified: Terraform Associate
• Microsoft certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Data
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
• Microsoft 365 Certified
• Cloud Computing Fundamentals: Security (Skillsoft)
• Google Cloud Architect: Security (Skillsoft)
• Infrastructure Security (Skillsoft)
• Securing AWS: Infrastructure Security (Skillsoft)
• Securing the Azure Environment (Skillsoft)
EDUCATION:
• B.S. Petrochemical Technology – University of Port-Harcourt (Port Harcourt, NRA) – Earned (2015)
• Statistics Diploma – Yaba College of Technology (Yaba Lagos, NRA) – Earned (2007)
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