Senior DevOps / Cloud Platform Engineer with Azure & AWS Expertise

Josiah Chuku

DevSecOps DevOps Site Reliability Engineer Platform Engineer Cloud Engineer System Engineer Cloud Architect

Tallahasse, Florida

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Certified Senior DevOps engineer with over 10+ years’ experience in Cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP), DevOps, Configuration management, Infrastructure automation, Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD). Experience in dealing with Unix/Linux and Windows server administration.

Hands-on Experience Administrating Microsoft Azure Services like Azure App Services, Azure Kubernetes, Azure SQL Database, Azure AD, Azure Blob storage, Azure Functions, Virtual machines, Azure Fabric controller, Azure Data Factory, Azure web applications, Azure Service Bus, and Notification hub.

Experience in working on AWS services like IAM, VPC, EC2, ECS, EBS, RDS, S3, Lambda, ELB, Auto Scaling, Route 53, Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, SQS, and SNS and experienced in Cloud automation using AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT, EC2 instances, ELB and Security groups.

Experience in AWS, creating, importing and launching volumes, EC2, RDS, Lambda, security groups, auto - scaling, load balancers (ELBs), NACL in the defined VPC to design cost effective, fault tolerant and highly available systems.

Experience in AWS instances spanning across Dev, Test and Pre-production and Cloud Automation through Open- Source DevOps tools like Ansible, Jenkins, and Docker & Kubernetes.

Expertise in Designing and implementing Continuous Integration (CI) throughout many environments utilizing Azure DevOps tools to provide an agile development process that is automated and repeatable, allowing teams to safely deploy code several times per day while ensuring Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) are supported.

Well versed in using Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Provisioning VMs, Virtual Networks, Deploying Web Apps, Microsoft SQL Server, using ARM Templates, and Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.

Extensive experience on GCP tools/services such as BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Google Kubernetes Engine, Data Fusion, Cloud balancing, Cloud SQL, Dataproc, and Stack Driver

Expertise in configuring the Monitoring and Alerting tools according to the requirement like Prometheus and Grafana, setting up alerts, and deploying multiple dashboards for individual applications in Kubernetes.

Implementing CI-CD pipelines with Jenkins, Azure DevOps and Containerizing the application and deploying it on to AKS Cluster using Helm Charts deployment.

Implemented a CI/CD pipeline using Azure DevOps pipelines, GitHub Actions and Jenkins in both cloud with GIT, Docker, Maven along with Jenkins’s plugins.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Title

Tools Used

Cloud Platforms

Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP

AWS Services

EC2, VPC, IAM, EBS, S3, ELB, Auto Scaling, Elastic Cache, API Gateway, Route 53, CloudWatch, SQS, SNS, SWF, AWS Database Migration Service, AWS Application

Migration Service, AWS Glue

Azure Services

App Services, Key vault, Function app, Blob storage, Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Service Bus, Azure Container Registry (ACR) and Azure Kubernetes service (AKS), Azure

SQL, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure RM templates, Azure Data factory, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Lake

Infrastructure as Code (IAC)

Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates

Source Code Management

SVN, Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure Repos and AWS CodeCommit

CI/CD

Jenkins, Azure Devops Pipelines, GitHub Actions, GitOps, Argo CD, GitLab Pipelines

Build Tools

Maven, Ant, Gradle, MS Build

Artifactory

JFrog, Nexus, Azure Artifacts

DevSecOps Tools

SAST: SonarQube, Veracode, Fortify

DAST: Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, Acunetix Netsparker

Container Orchestration

Docker, Kubernetes, Open-Shift, Helm, EKS, AKS

Configuration Management

Ansible, Chef, Puppet

Web Servers

Nginx, Tomcat, Microsoft Internet Information Service (IIS).

Application Servers

JBoss, Oracle WebLogic Server, IBM WebSphere Application Server.

Logging

Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Azure App Insights, Azure Monitor

Monitoring Tools

Nagios, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, New relic, Datadog, Dynatrace

Databases

Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure My SQL DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Cassandra

Scripting Languages

Python, Shell scripting, Groovy, Bash, YAML, Powershell

Operating Systems

Microsoft Windows, Linux, UNIX

Tracking Tools

Jira, ServiceNow & Remedy, Ruby

Programming Languages

C, C++, Java, Golang, ReactJS, Angular

WORK EXPERIENCE

Senior Azure DevOps Engineer DevSecOps October 2024 – Present

Leidos, Department of Defense, Eglin Florida

Implemented Azure services such as Azure Active Directory (AD), Azure storage, Azure cloud services, IS, Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Azure Blob Storage, Azure VM, SQL Database, Azure Functions, Azure Service Fabric, Azure Service Bus.

Built end-to-end CI/CD pipelines on Azure using Azure DevOps to automate build, testing and deployment processes for a high-traffic web application. Leveraged Azure Repos for source control, Azure Pipelines for workflow automation, and Azure Artifacts for package management.

Built various Azure services like Compute (Web Roles, Worker Roles), Caching, Azure SQL, NoSQL, Storage, and Network services, Active Directory (AD), API Management, Scheduling, Azure Auto Scaling, and PowerShell Automation.

Participated in agile Scrum teams focused on 2-week sprints, daily standups, retrospectives, and sprint planning.

Implemented a PowerShell script in Terraform modules to automatically add launched Windows servers into Active Directory. Enabled seamless AD integration for Windows infrastructure as code.

Deployed Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) and Cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure VNets and subnets and Implemented Terraform modules for deployment of various applications across multiple cloud providers and managing infrastructure. Have Provisioned the highly available EC2 Instances using Terraform and cloud formation and wrote new plugins to support new functionality in Terraform.

Performed data profiling, cleansing, standardization, and enrichment on diverse datasets in preparation for analysis using PySpark and Databricks Notebooks.

Incorporated SAML based SSO authentication in Azure DevOps and enforced 2FA policies to strengthen security around source code.

Integrated OWASP ZAP in Azure DevOps pipelines to perform static and dynamic application security testing as part of the CI/CD process. Analyzed and remediated findings pre-production.

Strategized Docker for setting Azure Container Registry with Docker and Docker-compose and actively involved in deployments on Docker using Kubernetes. Involved in on boarding and integration implementation of various micro services and web services repos on the SAST tool Checkmarx.

Created Jenkins pipelines to drive all microservices builds out to the Docker registry and then deployed to Kubernetes, created Pods, and managed using Kubernetes, also Developed microservice on boarding tools leveraging Python and Jenkins allowing for easy creation and maintenance of build jobs and Kubernetes deploy and services.

Implemented and maintained CI/CD harness for automation tests using Microsoft Test Management and Team Foundation Server as back end. Established infrastructure and service monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana.

Collaborated with other DevOps engineers to maintain a deployment and management strategy - Assisting with creating and maintaining an automation and monitoring framework - Developing automation using Shell scripting, Linux- Creating and implementing application monitoring and logging strategies using tools like New Relic, Dynatrace.

Designed and developed scalable data pipelines orchestrating data movement between Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure SQL Database, Azure CosmosDB, and other sources using Azure Data Factory. Created SSIS packages for data transformation.

Created YAML templates for declaring application configuration, Kubernetes manifests, and Azure DevOps pipelines enabling infrastructure-as-code.

Performed code review and using the SonarQube to validate the violation and created nightly builds with integration to code quality tools such as SonarQube, Veracode and created quality gates in SonarQube dashboard and enforced in the pipelines to fail the builds when conditions not met.

Lead Solution Architect & Cloud Migration Consultant January 2022 – October 2024

Accenture, San Francisco

Led agile development teams in delivering complex enterprise applications using Scrum and Kanban frameworks. Planned sprints, facilitated daily standups, reviews, retrospectives and tracked velocity.

Migrated on-premises Jenkins CI/CD pipelines to Azure Pipelines for increased scalability, availability and security. Integrated pipelines with Azure artifacts and repositories for end-to-end automation from build to deployment.

Designed and configured Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, Azure network settings, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, and Security policies & configured BGP routes to enable ExpressRoute and site to site VPN connections between on-premises data centers & Azure cloud.

Led implementation of Azure Active Directory for single sign-on and Authentication for Web Applications. Also configured Azure Role-based Access Control (RBAC) to segregate duties within our team and grant only the amount of access to users that they need to perform their jobs based on Roles defined.

Created and deployed VMs on the Microsoft cloud service Azure, created and managed the virtual networks to connect all the servers and designed ARM templates/Terraform for Azure platform.

Integrated code quality and security tools like SonarQube and Whitesource into CI pipelines to enhance quality.

Worked on Managing the Private Cloud Environment using Ansible and Enhanced the automation to assist, repeat and consist of configuration management using Ansible based YAML scripts.

Designed reusable declarative pipelines using YAML for configuring build tools like Maven, Gradle, MSBuild.

Automated build workflow for .NET Core web application using YAML pipelines in Azure DevOps with tasks for linting, compiling, unit testing, packaging and artifacts.

Worked on Kubernetes cluster creation and creation of Deployments, services, RBAC and Ingress.

Worked on using a GIT branching strategy that included developing branches, feature branches, staging branches, and master. Pull requests and code reviews were performed.

Migration of on-premises data (Oracle/ SQL Server/ MongoDB) to Azure SQL/CosmosDB using Azure Data Factory.

Integrated Docker container orchestration framework using Kubernetes by creating pods, and deployments.

Create CI/CD pipelines for the deployment of services and tools to the Kubernetes cluster hosted on Bare metal.

Wrote BASH scripts to increase efficiency of daily tasks including system administration, log parsing, file manipulation, and deployment automation on Linux servers.

Developed and maintained Continuous Integration (CI) using tools in Azure DevOps (VSTS) spanning multiple environments, enabling teams to safely deploy code in Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) using YAML scripts and HELM charts.

Cloud Architect Cloud Engineer Nov 2017 – Jan 2022

Amazon

Worked with Jenkins for continuous integration and for End-to-End automation for all builds and deployment.

Setting up full CI/CD pipelines so that each commit a developer makes will go through a standard process of the software lifecycle and get tested well enough before it can make it to production.

Managed cloud computing AWS using the AWS console and AWS CLI.

Configured and maintained an AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Public and Private Subnets, NACLs, Route Tables, Elastic Load Balancer, Security Groups, and EC2 instances.

Worked in container-based technologies like Docker, Kubernetes and OpenShift.

Worked with IAM to create new accounts, roles, and groups. Wrote Python scripts for pushing data from DynamoDB to MySQL Database.

Worked on functions in Lambda that aggregates the data from incoming events, and then stored result data in Amazon DynamoDB.

Worked on AWS Elastic Beanstalk for fast deploying various applications developed with Java, Node.js, and Python.

Designing and implementing data models within Snowflake, including working with various data types, defining primary and foreign key relationships, and optimizing performance through clustering and partitioning.

Created inventory in Chef for automating the continuous deployment and wrote recipes using YAML scripting.

Worked on Ansible and Ansible Tower to automate repetitive tasks, deploy critical applications quickly and proactively manage the changes.

Used Jira as the primary project management tool to track tasks, manage sprints, and coordinate team efforts throughout the development lifecycle of our AWS project.

Written Templates for AWS infrastructure as a code using Terraform to build staging and production environments.

Used Terraform for creating stacks of VPCs, ELBs, Security groups, SQS queues, and S3 buckets in AWS and updated the Terraform Scripts based on the requirement on a regular basis.

Managed Kubernetes charts using Helm. Created reproducible builds of the Kubernetes applications, managed Kubernetes manifest files, and managed releases of Helm packages.

Utilized Terraform modules to create EKS clusters and managed various Kubernetes resources such as pods, replication controllers, replica sets, services, deployments, labels, health checks, and ingress through YAML file configurations.

Site Reliability Engineer Platform Engineer Nov 2017 – Jan 2022

Lagos Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Ikeja

Architected and automated deployment pipelines across multiple environments including dev, test, staging, and production for a cloud native application on Azure App Service using Infrastructure-as-Code techniques.

Implemented a CI/CD pipeline using Azure DevOps (VSTS/TFS) in both cloud and on-premises with GIT, MS Build, Docker, Maven along with Jenkins pipeline builds & YAML/JSON.

Developed and maintained Continuous Integration (CI) using tools in Azure DevOps (VSTS) spanning multiple environments, enabling teams to safely deploy code in Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) using YAML scripts and HELM charts.

Worked on creating, configuring, and managing AKS clusters in Azure, including managing node pools, configuring networking, and setting up load balancing.

Integrated Azure Key Vault into CI/CD pipelines to securely inject secrets like connection strings, API keys into release pipelines for security best practices.

Developed standardized ETL processes using Azure Data Factory templates and self-hosted IRs for reusability across multiple pipelines.

Used integration with Azure Security Center to centrally track vulnerabilities and misconfigurations identified by security scanning tools.

Automated policy compliance checks in pipeline using Azure Policy for governance enforcement. Failed builds not adhering to security best practices.

Centralized security logging by forwarding tool logs to Azure Sentinel and created custom alerts and dashboards.

Created PowerShell scripts to manage Active Directory and Exchange on Windows Server. Debugged scripts efficiently using breakpoints and Write-Debug messages. Enabled automation of recurring IT tasks.

Worked Grafana to monitor and visualize system metrics, application performance, and other data sources.

Experienced with developing Ansible Playbooks, Modules and Kubernetes Nodes, Pods, Config Maps, Selectors, Services etc.,

Deployed and configured Azure Backups for Virtual machines and files & folders backups on Windows and Linux operating systems using Recovery Services Vault in Azure Resource Manager.

Configured Azure Encryption for Azure Storage and Virtual Machines, Azure Key Vault services to protect and secure the data for cloud applications.

EDUCATION

Masters in Computer Science Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, USA

Bachelors of Scicence Petrochemical Technology, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Diploma Statistics Yaba College of Technology, Nigeria

CERTIFICATIONS

Microsoft Certified Azure DevOps Professional AZ400

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals AZ900

AWS Certified Solution Architect AWS SAA C03

Certified Kubernetes Administrator CKA

AWS DEVOPS Certified Professional

Microsoft Certified Security, Compliance and Identity

Microsoft Certified: Azure Data

Google Cloud Architect

Microsoft 365 Certified

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